Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Credits: 8,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 512
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This graduate seminar examines the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth colony. We will discuss the forging of a national master narrative and how it has been promoted by the arts, literature, movies and institutions (i.e. museums, schools, etc.). In doing so, we reassess commemorative practices in the U.S. and compare it to other recent public events, like the 1619 project an ongoing initiative from the New York Times Magazine or the Founders' chic, the excessive veneration of the Founding Fathers. We will also study the role of these national commemorations in the context of North America's colonial past, especially the history of slavery, settler-colonialism, and Native Americans. Besides, this seminar will offer you the opportunity to discuss the changing functions of Puritanism in national thought with a number of leading scholars, like David Hall (Harvard; The Puritans: A Transatlantic History, 2019) and Abram van Engen (Washington University in St. Louis; City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism, 2020), who will present their current research to us. A reader will be posted on ILIAS at the beginning of the term.
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