Reading questions related to assigned readings can be found in the study materials section. Detailed citations can be found in the readings section.
| Week # | READINGS / SCREENINGS | Key Dates |
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| 1 |
Documentary Film (in-class screening): Gédéon and Jules Naudet. 9/11. Halbwachs, Maurice. “Individual and Collective Memory,” and “Space and the Collective Memory.” Huyssen, Andreas. “Twin Memories: After-Images of 9/11.” Boyer, M. Christine. “Meditations on a Wounded Skyline and Its Stratigraphies of Pain.” |
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| 2 |
Hobsbawm, Eric. “The Age of Total War.” Yoneyama, Lisa. “Introduction,” “Tropes of the Nation, Peace, and Humanity,” “Memories in Ruins,” and “On the Politics of Historical Memory.” |
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| 3 | Excursion to New York City | |
| 4 |
Performance (in-class screening): Hijikata, Tatsumi, Taka Iimura, and Eiko Hosoe. Navel and Atomic Bomb. Munroe, Alexandra. “Revolt of the Flesh: Ankoku Butoh and Obsessional Art.” Viala, Judith. “The Return of Hijikata.” Foreword and Introduction. Hein, Carola. “Hiroshima: The Atomic Bomb and Kenzo Tange’s Hiroshima Peace Center.” |
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| 5 |
Film (in-class screening): Resnais, Alain. Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Caruth, Cathy. “Literature and the Enactment of Memory: Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima, Mon Amour.” |
First essay due (500-750 words) |
| 6 |
Sebald, W. G. “Air War and Literature.” Ladd, Brian. “Nazi Berlin.” |
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| 7 |
Levi, Primo. “Argon,” “Carbon,” and “Hydrogen.” Agamben, Giorgio. Preface, and “The Witness.” Young, James. “Germany’s Holocaust Memorial Problem – And Mine.” |
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| 8 |
Film (in-class screening): Rossellini, Roberto. Germany in Year Zero. Brockmann, Stephen. “German Literature, Year Zero: Writers and Politics: 1945-53.” |
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| 9 |
Recording (in-class play): Einstürzende Neubauten. Strategies against Architecture. Sarig, Roni. “The Postindustrial Wasteland,” and “Einstürzende Neubauten.” Documentary Film (in-class screening): Siegert, Hubertus, and Ralph Stern. Berlin Babylon. Ladd, Brian. “Capital of the New Germany.” |
Second essay due (750-1000 words) |
| 10 |
Page, Max. “Creatively Destroying New York: Fantasies, Premonitions, and Realities in the Provisional City.” Lentricchia, Frank, and Jody McAuliffe. “Groundzeroland.” Harvey, David. “Cracks in the Edifice of the Empire State.” |
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| 11 |
Wigley, Mark. “Insecurity by Design.” Darnton, Eric. “The Janus Face of Architectural Terrorism: Minoru Yamasaki, Mohammed Atta, and Our World Trade Center.” Wallace, Mike. “New York, New Deal.” |
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| 12 | Review |
