All interested undergraduates', graduate students, and faculty are welcome
UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM IN GERMAN HISTORY --
HISTORY 197W
SPRING 1994
PROFESSOR DAVID SABEAN
The Colloquium will examine a series of issues having to do with selfhood and identity in Central Europe from the Biedermaier period to the Third Reich. Urbanization, modernization, class formation, revolution, and political conflict posed essential problems of selfhood and spawned continuous reflection about subjectivity. The Colloquium offers UCLA undergraduates an opportunity to examine key points in the process of modernity in Germany by discussing a set of fundamental texts together with new work on the subject with a number of invited scholars.
April 4 Introduction to "Modernity," "Modernism," and "Modernization" (Bunche 3165)
April 11 Discussion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, On religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (Bunche 3165)
April 18 Paper presentation: John Toews, Professor of History, University of Washington: "The Critique of Romantic Historicism" (Bunche 6275)
April 25 Discussion: Wagner's "Parsifal" (Bunche 3165)
May 2 Paper presentation: Michael Steinberg, Professor of History, Cornell University: "Ideologies of Redemption" (Bunche 6275)
May 9 Discussion: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (Bunche 3165)
May 16 Paper presentation: Marc Weiner, Professor of German Literature, University of Indiana: "Music in the Modern Imagination: Musical Polemics in Early Twentieth-Century Germany* (Bunche 6275)
May 23 Discussion: Georg Simmel, "Metropolis and Mental Life" and "The Stranger" (Bunche 3165)
May 30 Paper presentation: Anthony Vidler, Professor of Art History, UCLA: "The Sociology of Estrangement" (this meeting will be rescheduled due to Memorial Day Holiday) (Bunche 6267)
Week of May 30 View film: "Mfinchhausen" (Germany, 1943)
June 6 Paper presentation: Eric Rentschler, Professor of Film Studies, UC Irvine: "Fascism, Modernity, and Post-Modernity" (Bunche 6275).
Published readings are on reserve in Towell. Papers for April 18, May 2, 16, 30, and June 6 will be on reserve one week in advance in the History Department library, the Art History library, and the Graduate Reserve Room in the University Research Library, and should be read in advance.
Undergraduates may take the course for credit