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Department of English Department of English

Mag. Dr. Ulla Baumgartner Mag. Dr. Ulla Baumgartner, +43 512 507 41410
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Singer Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Singer, +43 512 507 41419

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PS Critical Area Studies: British and Anglophone Cultures: Remembering the Holocaust: Transcultural Perspectives

PS 2

2,5

weekly

each semester

English

Students will learn to…

• use theories and methodologies for an in-depth analysis and interpretation of cultural texts;
• consolidate their knowledge to discuss and analyse cultural texts in situ with the help of relevant terminology and critical categories;
• hone their research communication skills.

How we think about and commemorate the Holocaust in the present depends on a variety of factors. These are linked to specific local remembrance cultures, personal connection (as to whether or not family members were affected as victims, implicated as perpetrators or complicit), national and institutional memory, and the educational system one grew up in – to name but a few.

In the course of this proseminar we will trace and compare these localised forms of remembering the Holocaust in various cultural texts and practices such as literary memoirs, Holocaust memorials, and Holocaust Memorial Day with a particular focus on the UK. For this purpose, the course includes a field trip to London in January, just ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. Over the course of the seminar, we will explore how the memory of the Shoah is constituted in a trans-cultural context.

 

We will focus on cultural texts that focus on Austro-British relationships, such as Meriel Schindler's The Lost Café Schindler, Tom Stoppard’s play Leopoldstadt and narratives that remember the Kindertransporte in 1938/39.

·      input lectures

·      discussions

·      field trip

·      self-study

·      field trip diary

·      active class contribution

·      written paper

 

04.10.2024