| RC Hums 333, 003: Cultures in Dialogue:Crossing External and Internal Borders course instructors: janet hegman shier & olga lópez cotín |
| Syllabus(. . .under ongoing construction. Last update: April 1, 2006) 2006) | |||
| Date | Topic | in the news, & events | Assignments (by due date) |
| Jan.5 | intro to course | none | |
| Jan.10 | the great migration | Enzensberger: The Great Migration | |
| Jan.11 | Film: Bread and Chocolate 7:10pm in 124 EQ |
MigMap-Governing Migration Link to UNHCR |
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| Jan.12 | A New Cosmopolitanism or European Values? Where are we in our thinking? | "Europe has no heart. . ." | • Appiah. “Toward a New Cosmopolitanism” The NYT Magazine, Jan. 1, 2006/ Sec. 6 • Todorov, “European Values,” The New World Disorder (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005) |
| Jan.17 | Diaspora & the concept of the "Stranger"
Maps & Terms. . . |
Dutch to ban burqa? |
• Brah, “Diaspora, Borders, and Transnational Identities,” Carto-graphies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (1/2 of group reads). • Clifford, James."Diasporas," Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1994, 302-338 (1/2 of group reads) •Levy, D. and Natan Sznaider. "How much Diaspora is Bearable?"GOLEM (All read) |
| Jan.18 | theater workshop (AUD) | honor killings on rise in Europe
Talk at 11:30:am Europeanizing Geography |
come dressed comfortably; start time is 7:10 on the dot; try to eat at least 1 hour before workshop; absolutely no food in aud. Good idea to bring water, though. |
| Jan.19 | Split section:
German in Aud/ Spanish in 2 Ty |
Event: Conference on Immigration
"Easier said than done" Article from The Nation, a response to Appiah |
• Spanish: Goytisolo, "Tierras del sur" en Furgón de cola; "Abandonemos de una vez el amoroso cultivo de nuerstras señas \" en Pájaro que ensucia su propio nido' "Landscapes after the Battle" /"Paisajes después de la batalla"
• German: Text aus GOLEM (Bodemann-auf Engl. u. Dt.) und Gedichte von Esther Dischereit Please turn your journals in on Friday, Jan. 20 by noon. |
| Jan.24 | "Fremd ist der Fremde nur in der Fremde" --K. Valentin The stranger is only strange in a foreign country. |
Profile of Turkish Women in 21st Century
Europe is no longer = to EU Event: "Heimat in German Cinema" |
Essay 1 (due Jan. 30)
• Broder: "Heimat, nein Danke." (Home, no thanks!) in: A Jew in the New Germany. •Chambers, I. A Stranger in the House," Culture after Humanism: History, Culture, Subjectivity. •Flusser, V. "On the Alien," "To be settled one first has to be unsettled," "From Guest to Guest Worker," "Thinking about Nomadism," "Nomads," "Building Houses" |
| Jan.25 | Theater workshop (AUD) | "Naturalization. . .it's not easy to become German" | |
| Jan.26 | Split section
(Response paper due 1/30 at 10am) |
Arab Holocaust Center reaches out | • German: "Heimat-Texte"
• Spanish: Testimonies |
| Jan.31 | "Myths and Identity: Roma,Gypsies" | Event: "Bizet's Carmen and her Legacy: Spanish Gypsy..." | • Roma in an Expanding Europe (excerpts)
•Liégeois, J-P, Roma, Gypsies, Travellers (excerpts) |
| Feb. 1 | Film (124 EQ) | Latcho Drom (Tony Gatliff, 1993, 103 min.) | |
| Feb. 2 | Plenary Session in 3 Ty | Event:"Immigra- tion:A never-ending debate." |
• Carnon-Deutsch, L. "Introduction" and excerpts from The Spanish Gypsy
• Palomo, G. y Blaso, Gypsies in Madrid (excerpts, chap4, chap5) |
| Feb. 6 (guests) | Extra Sessions (see handout) | news: caricatures of Muhammed | Talk and Workshop by Flamenco artists (Ethan Margolis). |
| Feb. 7 | CLASS CANCELLED | Flamenco perf. at Ark | |
| Feb. 8 | Theater workshop(AUD) | From the page to the stage. | |
| Feb. 9 | Split session
German in Aud |
Workshop:After the racial state. Difference and democracy in Postfascist Germany. | German: • Heimat-Texte vom 26. Jan. bitte! Spanish: |
| Feb.14 | Memory & Imagined Identities, Jews in Germany--The Wall Between; The Wall Between; The Wall Around |
Film, Feb. 13 Europa,Europa Webpage: Israel-Diaspora Relations/social seismograph of Jews in Germany Webpage: The new anti-semitism in Germany, J. Peck. |
• Fisher, M. "The Wall Within: Fault Lines" and "The Wall Between Germans and Others: Germans and Jews," in After the Wall: Germany, Germans, and the Burdens of History.
•Kolinsky, E. After the Holocaust:Jewish Survivors in Germany after 1945 (London: Pimlicka, 2004),228-240. •Klein, Germany's long national coma. Recommended Rdg: "Fire and Ash" and "Ausländer" (Fisher238-272) |
| Feb.15 | Workshop (AUD) | Interviews from: Peter Sichrovsky, Strangers in Their Own Land. Basic Books 1986
& Sichrovsky, Born Guilty, Harper Books 1988 |
A little bit of Brecht: Working with narration, using texts by children of Nazis, and by second-gen. Grm. Jews. Incorporating: "Gestus" Gesture/ Gist |
| Feb.16 | split session | Website:Juden in Berlin | German:dt.-israelische Beziehungen |
| Feb. 21 | Whole group | Alliance may calm cartoon unrest | • Hoffman, E. "From Morality to Memory" After Such Knowledge. (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). |
| Feb.22 | Theater workshop | Continuation of last week's scene work. | |
| Feb.23 | Whole group | Website: Berlin memorials
Recommended Article: Memory, Counter-Memory,&the end of the monument |
PBS Documentary: "A Jew Among the Germans" Info online |
| Spring Break | CiDglossary and links | ||
| Mar.7 | "Historical / Economic Context"
Plenary session |
• Collective memory, • Race, Immigration. . . • Spain after the 60s Jordan, Barry. Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies. London: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
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| Mar.8 | Meet in 124 EQ at 7:10 pm Paper#2 due on Friday at 2 pm |
Intercultural Communication Workshop: "Synthetic Cultures" | |
| Mar.9 | "Roots and Routes:Migration"
Plenary session place t.b.a. Paper#2 due on Friday at 2 pm |
Migration Terminology
Recommended Reading |
Readings: •Int'l.Mig.Facts&Figures; • Senocak,Z.,Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998 (Excerpts); • Guest Faces (Özdamar). Writing Europe, U.Keller & I. Rakusa, eds. Budapest:CEU Press, 2004. Optional rdg.(Mig. to Spain) (Mig. to Germany) |
| Mar.14 | "Literature of Displacement or Hybridity?"
Split sessions |
controversial Holocaust remembrance: |
Spanish: “La otra orilla” (RTVE, 2001) (Documental Radio Television Española, 2001) García Benito, Nieves, “Cailcedrat.” Por la vía de Tarifa. Madrid: Calambur, 2000.
German: Lest bitte die Kaminer Kurzgeschichten (Kurspaket). |
| Mar.15 | AUD | ||
| Mar.16 | Split sessions, cont'd. (Lit.) |
(German)
www.einfamilienalbum.de Multimediaprojekt Familienalbum 1888-1999 von Deutschen und Einwanderern über die deutschen und kurdischen Vorfahren der Familie Hackenberg Hediye. |
Spanish: “Desaparecidos” (RTVE, 2001) García Benito, Nieves, “Punta Marroquí.” Por la vía de Tarifa. Madrid: Calambur, 2000. German: HEFT/Tagebuch bitte einreichen. Besprechung: Fortsetzung (Kaminer);Schami (Auszüge: S 119 ,,ich weiss nicht" bis 126 ,,Die Schule" und S. 137- ,,Kein Wunder" bis 139 ,,Er war ein grosses Kind"). |
| Mar 17/18 | Theater Workshops (AUD)
Fri 4:30-7 pm Sat. 12-4?? |
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| Mar.21 | Split sessions, cont'd. (Lit.)
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Spanish: Ignacio del Moral, La mirada del hombre oscuro, pp9-38
German: Senocak: Territorien, mein Europa, Die Heimat.trägt der Mensch in sich ,der Bart, Jenseits der Landsprache." |
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| Mar.22 | AUD (all students) | Movement workshop with Michael Lee | |
| Mar.23 | Split sessions, cont'd. (Lit.) By Mon. you should propose a topic (via email or in person) for your 3rd paper, due April 3 at noon. |
Spanish: del Moral, Ignacio, La mirada del hombre oscuro. Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores de España, 1992. pp39-63
German:Güngör Kurz-geschichten aus Unter uns... |
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| Mar.28 | "Islam & Muslims in Europe"
Plenary session |
News article: New US Immigration Law Qantara website: Dialogue with the Islamic World (in German and Eng.) Article online today: Tighter EU Borders Forcing Refugees to Take Bigger Risks. |
Albet I Mas, Lluís Riudor-Gorgas, “The Moor: A Neighbour under Suspicion. Maintenance of Colonial Ambigous Stereotypes in the Relations between Spain and Morocco.” AA i Mas, L Riudor-Gorgas - inhouse.lau.edu.lb
Dietz, Gunther, “Frontier Hybridisation or Culture Clash? Transnational Migrant Communities and Sub-National Identity Politics in Andalusia, Spain,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Stuides, vol 30, no. 6, November 2004: 1087-1112 |
| Mar.29 | AUD-End-of-term show group | ||
| Mar.30 | "Islam& Muslims in Europe"
Split session |
Talk: The Dilemma of EU Integration
Dossier:Feminist Approaches to Islam (various views) |
Spanish: Sorel, Andrés, Voces del Estrecho. Barcelona: Muchnik editores, 2000 German: Kemal (2005), Die fremde Braut (Auszüge), Ayse (2005). Mich hat keiner gefragt (Auszüge--Handout in class) |
| Apr. 4 | "Women's issues..."Plenary session | News article (Economist): France faces the future.) Headscarf surveys (Grm): Kopftuch im Staatsdienst? Kopftuch unerwünscht. |
Readings on the Headscarf Debate:on-line dossier; also: Soyinko,"The Headscarf Controversy" NPQ, Sp.2004(from class last wk.; Munoz,"Islam's Women under Western Eyes" (www.opendemocracy.com); E.Tarlo, "Reconsidering Stereotypes:Anthropological reflections on the jibab controversy." Anthropology Today, Vol. 21,No. 8, Dec.05.; & Schneider's New Berlin Wall (sent as attachment), NYT
Excellent and recommended, but not required: Mandel, Turkish Headscarves and the "Foreigner Problem": Constructing Difference through Emblems of Identity. In NGQ, No. 46, Winter 89, 27-46. |
| Apr. 5 | 124 EQ | Film: Flowers from Another World | |
| Apr. 6 | Split sessions | Spanish:“Cubrir un hueco” (RTVE, 2003) Ruiz Olabuenaga, J.I. et al., Los inmigrantes irregulares en España: La vida por un sueño. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 1999. German: Lest einige der Artikel auf dieser Website über den Kopftuchstreit (schreibt wichtige Ideen dazu auf). |
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| Apr.11 | "Racism, Xenophobia,Anti-discrimination" Youth culture. Plenary session |
Websites: Mut gegen Rechte Gewalt; Städte gegen Rassismus;Aktioncourage |
A.Kaya,Aesthetics of diaspora: contemporary minstrels in Turkish Berlin, JEMS, vol.28,No.1, 2002.
German speakers: Schaut euch bitte auch Links auf dieser Website und auf dieser Website an! |
| Apr.12 | t.b.a. | ||
| Apr.13 | Split sessions | El Federación Estatal de Asociaciones de SOS Racismo, “El Ejido: Racismo y explotación Laboral.” SOS Racismo, Informe annual 2001 sobre el racismo en el estado español. Barcelona: Icaria, 2001. German: (Film: Zwischen Rap und Ramadan); Auszüge aus: Ghettokids; Musik: Rap vs. Rechtsradikale Musik; ProAsyl (Texte u. Websites) |
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| Apr. 14/15 | OPTIONAL: Theater of CiD |
End of term show on Sat.nt. by interested participants | |
| Apr. 18 |
Wrap up Plenary session |
Optional (recommended) rdgs: Amin,"Shared Space: Multi-ethnicity & the Idea of Europe"
"Heading for Europe" (handout in box by Janet's door) |
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May 4-17 CiD Program in Granada and Berlin