McMicken College of Arts & Sciences
European Studies
Graduate Studies
For graduate students ES offers a year-long seminar consisting of one quarter of bi-weekly workshops (fall), a two-sequence graduate seminar (winter & spring), and a student conference as a capstone experience for the participating students.
Examples of the year-long topics that have fueled the intellectual exchange among graduate students and faculty are:
- Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
- Migration and Diaspora
- Cultural Exchange: The Movement of Peoples and Ideas
- Europe Old and New: Inclusions and Exclusions
- Europe: Traditions and Revolutions
- Visualizing Europe
Fall Workshop Series
During Fall 2008, graduate students and faculty from interested departments will come together on six Friday afternoons (3-5 for the first five Fridays, 3-6 for the last Friday) to discuss readings on the topic of "Memory and Meaning in 20th-Century Europe." We have five engaging speakers from four departments lined up to facilitate the workshops. Refreshments will also be provided.
| 26 September | Introduction |
| 3 October | Professor Jenefer Robinson (Philosophy), "Memory and Emotion"
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| 17 October | Professor Todd Herzog (German Studies), "History, Memory, Film"
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| 31 October | Professor Rebecca Williamson (Architecture, DAAP), "Ghosts of Paris"
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| 14 November | Professor Richard Schade (German Studies), "Günter Grass and Memory Culture in Post-War Germany"
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| 5 December | Prof. Alfredo Sosa-Velasco (Romance Languages and Literatures), "History, Memory, and Cultural Discourses of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism in Spanish Narrative and Film: The Case of Galicia"
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These workshops offer a unique possibility for graduate students and faculty from diverse departments and colleges to interact. The basis for discussion is typically a set of readings. Students write a short paper on each of these sets of readings (5) and a final, comparative paper at the end. If you have any questions, please contact the director of ES, Professor Willard Sunderland (Willard.Sunderland@uc.edu).
Graduate Seminar
The European Studies Graduate Seminar in 2008-09 will be taught by Professor Alfredo Sosa-Velasco (RLL) during Winter and Spring quarters.
Course Title: “The Politics of Remembering: Memory, History, and Power in Twentieth-Century Europe" (EUST 711/712)
This seminar will offer an interdisciplinary, comparative, and multimedia approach to the question of memory and history in twentieth-century Europe. We will begin by examining key theoretical approaches to the study of memory, analyzing concepts and practices such as collective memory; individual memory; and popular culture; monuments and memorials; memory and orality; and memory, postcoloniality, and narrative, among others. We will then explore the way in which memory shapes questions of nationality, transnationality, and modernity. To ground our study of memory we will take a close look at two different modes of memory representation -- in physical sites, such as monuments and museums; and in creative narratives, such as literature, photography, and film. The approach of the seminar is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Throughout the course, we will be drawing on a wide range of scholarship from fields as diverse as literary studies, architectural theory, history, sociology, and cognitive psychology.
The course consists of two sequences. During the first quarter, we will be reading theoretical scholarship as well as a range of literary, film, and other creative interpretations and expressions of memory. During the second quarter, students will work on a research paper on a topic of their choosing related to the seminar’s overall theme.
Time
F 3-5:20 p.m.
For Information, please contact
Prof. Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
717B Old Chemistry Building, ML 0377
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0377
Phone:(513) 556-1839
E-mail: alfredo.sosa-velasco@uc.edu
European Studies Graduate Student Conference
During the second quarter of the graduate seminar in European Studies, students will write a research paper. They will then have the opportunity of presenting their work at the ES graduate student conference, which will also feature a prominent expert on the seminar’s subject.
For Information, please contact
Prof. Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
717B Old Chemistry Building, ML 0377
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0377
Phone:(513) 556-1839
E-mail: alfredo.sosa-velasco@uc.edu
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