GM4057 Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged

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Module coordinator

Dr D E Osborne

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Module Staff

Dr D Osborne

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Module description

The aim of this module is to familiarise students with debates around Holocaust memory and memorialisation in Germany since 1990 and to introduce them to critical responses and interventions by authors, filmmakers, and artists. Using insights from memory studies and Holocaust studies, it will set out why German memory culture (Erinnerungskultur), although an established part of political and cultural life in the Berlin Republic, remains such a controversial issue. The module will examine how and why the landscape of memory has changed in Germany in the last two to three decades (generational shifts, demographic shifts, the growing significance of media, museums, and the archive), and it will analyse a range of primary material that engages with Holocaust memory culture and the 'unease' (A. Assmann) that this continues to produce. These sources will encourage students to work across media and genres and will include memorials, documentary and feature film, as well as prose narrative.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE GERMAN HONOURS ADVISER

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

3-hour written examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

Introductory lecture (1 week), weekly 2hr seminars (10 weeks). Optional module surgery hour (10 weeks)