Undergraduate - UnitATS4290 - Holocaust memories: Landscape, mourning, identity

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Offered	Not offered in 2013
Coordinator(s)	Assoc Prof Mark Baker

Notes

Previously coded HSY4290

Synopsis

This unit will trace the changing contours of Holocaust memory from its inception to the present day. Topics include witnessing, survivor testimony, second-generation memoirs, representations of the Holocaust in cinema, photography, museums, literature and online, the practices of 'death camp tourism', the memory debates of Germany and Poland and the globalising of Holocaust memory, the relationship that remembering the Holocaust has to Jewish identity and to Jewish political existence, questions of ethics 'after Auschwitz', and the rise of Holocaust denial.

Outcomes

Students completing this unit will have the ability to:

understand differences between individual, collective, and official memories of the Holocaust
have researched different mediums in which Holocaust memory is transmitted including testimony, literature, memorials, cinema, museums, annual days of remembrance
have engaged with theoretical debates about the relationship between history and memory and modern participation in remembrance practices
understand some of the ways in which memory informs personal and national identities
have formulated their own arguments on key issues of Holocaust memory, informed by the relevant primary sources and secondary readings.