Syllabus for Roster(s):
- 15Sp HIEU 3559-001 (CGAS)
Schedule and Readings
Schedule and Readings
1/12 Welcome! Course Introduction
Homework: Memorize the map of Europe (2014), countries and capitals. To practice you can use: http://lizardpoint.com/geography/europe-quiz.php
Michael suggested this link for more variety: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/European_Geography.htm
1/14 Where is Eastern Europe?
1/19 Martin Luther King Day
1/21 Europe of Empires
Please look at these maps (no quiz on that, promise)
Map of Europe in 1815 (topographical)
Map of Europe in 1815 (political)
1/26 Revolutionary Europe (Poland)
In class:
Poem Mickiewicz
Chopin's "Revolutionary" Etude (op. 10, no. 12) written in 1831
and the Wikipedia Article about it
1/28 Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Sándor Petőfi: Nemzeti dal (National Song)
Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present (Third Edition). Third Edition. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. - The Revolutions of 1848
Assignment due Saturday, midnight (in groups of 4)
One person uploads in drop box, please mention all collaborators.
2/2 Crimean War 1853-1856
Leo Tolstoy, Sevastopol Sketches (1855)
Read only: Sevastopol in May
https://archive.org/details/sevastopol00tolsrich (You can read online or download the pdf here, but careful, it's large)
or you can use http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47197
No need to print the reading this time.
Assignments due Saturday, midnight, in drop box (word doc, don't forget your name and a title):
1. Write down three possible research questions that derive from the course material so far. (You are NOT limited to them for your paper. This is just an exercise.)
2. In the context of what we talked about in class last week (uprisings in Poland and Hungary) - what was the Crimean War about? Write a short essay (not much more than one double-spaced page) with an argument (that is a claim and two pieces of supporting evidence as well as one counter-argument/discussion point). Have a clear structure of introduction, discussion, and conclusion.
2/4 Serfdom in Russia
2/9 Rise of Nationalism
Ernest Renan, What is a Nation?
2/11 Rise of Nationalism in Poland and Hungary
No extra reading. Remind yourself of what we read and talked about on Poland and Hungary.
Work on your topic proposals.
2/13 11:59pm, Deadline Topic Proposal, in your Collab Dropbox
2/16 Topic Proposals
2/18 Polish Nationalism
2/23 Fin de siècle
Texts we discussed in class:
Arthur Schnitzler, Lieutenant Gustl (full version)
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (full version of first three chapters)
2/25 World War I
2/25 6:00 PM New Cabell Hall 323, Film Screening of Franz Kafka's The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962), Introductory Remarks: Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, Mary Washington University
2/26-2/27 Conference on Kafka at UVA: Program
3/2 Finish Schnitzler/Zweig and Kafka
3/4 How to make an argument
3/9 Spring Recess
3/11 Spring Recess
3/13 11:59pm, Deadline Argument Proposal, in your Collab Dropbox
NEW DEADLINE 3/20
3/16 World War I
3/18 Russian Revolution
Marx/Engels, Communist Manifesto
3/20 11:59pm, Deadline Argument Proposal, in your Collab Dropbox
3/23 Fascism (Germany)
In class: Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
3/23 Opening of Exhibit in Nau Hall on Jews in the Red Army (Blavatnik Archive), time tba
3/25 Fascism (Eastern Europe)
Merriman,Economic Crisis and Fascism
3/30 World War II
Mazower, The Final Solution: the Jewish Question, p. 368-415.
4/1 Holocaust
Partisan Songs
YIVO Encyclopedia Armed Jewish Resistance
4/6 Postwar Period/Cold War
4/8 Real Socialism
Sandor Horvath. Urban Socialism and Everyday Life in Sztalinvaros, in: http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/publikationen/boi/boi_23/forum/06_horvath.html (accessed 04/01/2015)
4/13 Guest Seminar with Brian Bartoldus on Music in the Soviet Union
4/15 Critique on Communism 1968 to 1989 (Prague Spring)
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
4/20 Instead of class: Lecture by Zvi Gitelman "The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Soviet Jewish Veterans Remember World War II", 5:00 to 6:15 in Nau 101, reception to follow
4/22 Editing Workshop
In class: Deadline Full Draft Paper - bring two printed copies to class for workshopping. Printed, page numbers, with your name on every page, stapled.
4/27 Wrapping up
no homework
4/27 11:59pm, Deadline Final Paper, in your Collab Dropbox
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