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German Cultures Today: Identity, Migration, Multiculturalism - JMM110

Title:	Německé kultury současnosti: identita, migrace, multikulturalismus
Guaranteed by:	Department of German and Austrian Studies (23-KNRS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual:	from 2018
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	6
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (15)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D.
Incompatibility :	JMM056

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Annotation -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

The aim of the course is to study the development of culture in Germany and Austria in the 20th century. The core interest is the affirmative and negative confrontation of culture with Nazi regime and the question of pro-regime (propagandistic) and counter-regime (exile, inner emigration, resistance) culture. The course is also dedicated to the conservative precursors of Nazi regime, left-wing intellectuals warning against the coming system and postwar reflexions and question of guilt.

Aim of the course -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

The course aims to introduce students to the culture of Germany and Austria in the 20th century as an essential factor of society, overleaping to politics, social and economic spheres of life.

Literature -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

- HOERDER, Dirk. "Migration and Cultural Interaction across the Centuries". In German Politics and Society, Vol. 26, No. 2, Summer 2008, p. 1-23.

- LE RIDER, Jacques. "Mitteleuropa, Zentraleuropa, Mittelosteuropa. A mental map of Central Europe". In European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2008, p. 155-169.

- BROWN, TIMOTHY S. „1968“ East and West – Divided Germany as a Case Study in Transnational History“, American Historical Review, February 2009, 69–96.

- CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH. “Praxis Exiled: Herbert Marcuse and the One Dimensional University”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2013, 537–547.

- EBENSHADE, RICHARD S. “Remembering to Forget: Memory, History, National Identity in Postwar East-Central Europe”, Representations, Vol. 39, Winter 1995, 72–96.

- EKMAN, J. and LINDE, J. "Communist Nostalgia and the Consolidation of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 21, No. 3, September 2005, 354–374.

- GANDY, MATTHEW. "Contradictory Modernities: Conceptions of Nature in the Art of Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter", Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(4), 1997, 636–659.

- HAYTON, JEFF. „Härte gegen Punk: Popular Music, Western Media and State Response in the German Democratic Republic”, German History, Vol. 31, No. 4, 523–549.

- LITTLEJOHN, J. T. and PUTNAM, M. "Rammstein and Ostalgie: Longing for Yesteryear", Popular Music and Society, Vol. 33, No. 1, February 2010, 35–44.

- PIOTROWSKI, PIOTR. “How to Write a History of Central-East European Art?,” Third text, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2009, 5–14.

- and all compulsive literature distributed for the seminars

Teaching methods -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

An active presence in the seminar based on reading, oral presentation and an oral exam based on seminar paper.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

Regular and active participation of students in the seminar, which encompasses proper reading of the mandatory texts to the covered topics (approx. 180 pages) and productive discussion based on this reader. Oral presentation (20 minutes) on a selected topic based on approx. 30 pages of texts. An oral examination based on the defense of small seminar paper (10 pages max.).

Syllabus -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

Selection of topics:

- singularity vs. plurality of culture

- definitions of identity - national, regional, local, religious

- dealing with the past (not only nazi and communist)

- migration and its shapes in context of history

- media reflexion of the today's world, the social construction of reality

Entry requirements -

Last update: PhDr. David Emler, Ph.D. (09.02.2018)

Knowledge of German and English language, a basic understanding of the contemporary history of Germany.