Lecture and Seminar Programme
Week |
Lecture and Seminar Topic |
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| Autumn Term | 1 |
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Introduction: New Politics |
| 2 |
Preparing the Terrain: Subversive Politics before 1968 |
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| 3 |
A Year of Revolt: 1968 Across the Iron Curtain |
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| 4 |
Radical Politics in the 1970s: Between Grass Roots Social Movements and Terrorism |
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| 5 | Politics of the Body: Sexual Politics and Feminism | ||
| 6 | Reading Week - no seminar | ||
| 7 |
Politics Across Borders: Transnational Activism and International Solidarity |
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| 8 |
Consumption and Politics: Transnational Counter Cultures |
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| 9 |
Protests Under Communism |
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| 10 |
The Fall of the Wall |
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| Spring Term | 1 |
Protests from the 1960s to the 1980s: Key Themes. Session will also be devoted to discussing long essays and dissertations. |
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| 2 |
The Spirit of an Age: Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976. |
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| 3 |
Rescuing May ’68 from Its Interpreters: Kirstin Ross, May '68 and Its Afterlives. |
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| 4 |
Transnational Politics: Quinn Slobodian, Foreign Front. Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany. |
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| 5 |
Democracy and Terrorism: Karrin Hanshew, Terror and Democracy in West Germany. |
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| 6 | Reading Week - no seminar | ||
| 7 | Subjective Politics: Joachim C. Häberlen, The Emotional Politics of the Alternative Left: West Germany, 1968-1984. | ||
| 8 |
An Intellectual Dissident: Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless. Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe. |
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| 9 |
Carnivals Across Borders: Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989. |
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| 10 |
Narratives of Revolution: James Krapfl, Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992. |
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| Summer Term | 1 | Revision | |
| 2 | Revision |