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| Semester | spring semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Christiane Schlote (christiane.schlote@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | From Sydney's Anzac Memorial, London's Cenotaph, Warsaw's Ghetto Heroes Monument, Berlin's Holocaust Memorial and New Delhi's India Gate to Lucerne's Lion Monument, Montgomery's National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park and Jerusalem's Yad Vashem, war memorials and public monuments are "sites of intense ideo-logical negotiation" (Palmer and Minogue 2010). In the wake of recent anti-racism protests, the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and thrown into the harbour in Bristol, statues of King Leopold II have been taken down in Belgium and protests across the US have led to the removal of contentious statues and Confederate monuments. In this course and drawing on a wide variety of genres and media, we will go beyond the oft-quoted question of 'to topple or not to topple?' and explore commemorative strategies and politics, trans-national memory and cultural histories about monuments, from the Kigali Genocide Memorial and the Canadian National Vimy Memorial to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Irish Famine memorials. |
| Learning objectives | Students will be introduced to the politics of commemoration and to the field of memorial studies. |
| Bibliography | Students should acquire the following texts: Boubacar Boris Diop, "Murambi. The Book of Bones" (2000), Sigrid Nunez, "For Rouenna" (2001) and Jane Urquhart, "The Stone Carvers" (2001). Theoretical and additional primary texts will be made available on ADAM. |
| Comments | This course will be conducted online during the designated time slot and will also include asynchronous components. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | For MA and PhD students only |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Wednesday | 12.15-14.00 | - Online Präsenz - |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 03.03.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 10.03.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 17.03.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 24.03.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 31.03.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 07.04.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 14.04.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 21.04.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 28.04.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 05.05.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 12.05.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 19.05.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 26.05.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Wednesday 02.06.2021 | 12.15-14.00 | --, -- |
| Modules |
Modul: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) Modul: Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular and active participation, reading assignments, oral presentation, optional seminar paper |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |