Mon. Nov. 9 Europe After Versailles Wilson’s Fourteen Points Grayzel, pp. 128-49. The First World War, Thu. Nov. 12 Culture and Crisis of the 1920s and 1930s ESSAY 2 DUE; Dada Poetry (selections) FILM: (1927) Metropolis Mon. Nov. 16 The Rise of Fascism and Nazism: Italy and Germany Benito Mussolini, is Fascism?” (online) “What Adolf Hitler, (excerpts) Mein Kampf FILM: (1934) Triumph of the Will Thu. Nov. 19 World War II FIRST DRAFT DUE; Hannah Arendt, (excerpts) Eichmann in Jerusalem Mon. Nov. 23 Genocide and Memory Primo Levi, (excerpts) Survival in Auschwitz Hanna Levy-Hass, (excerpts) Diary of Bergen-Belsen Thu. Nov. 26 THANKSGIVING BREAK; NO CLASS Unit 6 Postwar Europe Mon. Nov. 30 Decolonization Samuel Selvon, (entire book) The Lonely Londoners Thu. Dec. 3 The Cold War in Europe Béla Lipták, (excerpts) Birth of MEFESZ Mon. Dec. 7 The Fall of Communism Timothy Garton Ash, pp. 131-67. The Lantern, FILM: (2003) Good-bye, Lenin! Thu. Dec. 10 The European Union: Promise and Problems LONG PAPER DUE; Peter Hervik, End of Tolerance,” from The Annoying Difference: The “The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism and Populism in the pp. 73-90. Post-1989 World, FINAL EXAM: TBD
Mon. Nov. 9 Thu. Nov. 12 Europe After Versailles Wilson’s Fourteen Points Grayzel, The First World War, pp. 128-49. Culture and Crisis of the 1920s and 1930s ESSAY 2 DUE; Dada Poetry (selections) FILM: Metropolis (1927) Mon. Nov. 16 Thu. Nov. 19 The Rise of Fascism and Nazism: Italy and Germany Benito Mussolini, “What is Fascism?” (online) Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (excerpts) FILM: Triumph of the Will (1934) World War II FIRST DRAFT DUE; Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (excerpts) Mon. Nov. 23 Thu. Nov. 26 Genocide and Memory Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (excerpts) Hanna Levy-Hass, Diary of Bergen-Belsen (excerpts) THANKSGIVING BREAK; NO CLASS Unit 6 Mon. Nov. 30 Thu. Dec. 3 Postwar Europe Decolonization Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (entire book) The Cold War in Europe Béla Lipták, Birth of MEFESZ (excerpts) Mon. Dec. 7 Thu. Dec. 10 The Fall of Communism Timothy Garton Ash, The Lantern, pp. 131-67. FILM: Good-bye, Lenin! (2003) The European Union: Promise and Problems LONG PAPER DUE; Peter Hervik, “The End of Tolerance,” from The Annoying Difference: The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism and Populism in the Post-1989 World, pp. 73-90. FINAL EXAM: TBD
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