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Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type:
online: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.314
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
THIS IS THE LECTURE AND NOT THE CULTURAL STUDIES COURSE: You can only attend one of the two. DO NOT REGISTER FOR BOTH!
Contents:
Ever since the U.S. was founded, those who did not seem to share the assumptions of a consensual republic/democracy have frequently been considered Un-American”. Examples from history include the “Alien and Sedition Acts” of the 1790s, xenophobic nativism of the of the mid-19th century. The “Red Scare” after WWI, the hearings of the Dies Committee in the 1930s, and McCarthyism in the 1950s. What were the reasons and strategies employed to declare some people “un-American”? Who had the power to do so, and what ideas of the meaning of “American” thus came to the fore? “Un-American” must be distinguished from “Anti-American,” as the lecture course hopes to show.
Additional information:
Active participation may require response papers.
Digital teaching:
If necessary, classes will be on-line.
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