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1. “Multicultural
Europe on Film—The Case of Germany and Austria.”Code
R1
Instructor: Fatima
Naqvi, Rutgers University, Germanic, Russian and East European
Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University
In this workshop, we will
discuss the representation of national identity and transnational
migration in films from Germany and Austria. After the Fall
of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the Iron Curtain,
contemporary filmmakers have increasingly turned their attention
to the influx of peoples from the former East. Their films
question many Europeans’ sense of belonging to one
country. Is being native tied to one’s language, cultural
background, economic status, or education level? After a
brief introduction, we will look at clips from a number
of films that explore these issues. This seminar aims to
introduce participants to the basics of film analysis.
Fatima Naqvi (PhD, Harvard
University 2000) is assistant professor of German Studies
at Rutgers University. Her areas of specialization are twentieth
century literature and film, with an emphasis on the post-1945
period. She has written articles on melancholic loss and
film adaptation, the sublation of history and cosmology
in Christoph Ransmayr’s and Anselm Kiefer’s
works, director Michael Haneke’s poetics of violence,
as well as dilettantism and pedagogy in Thomas Bernhard’s
novel Old Masters. She has also published on Bernhard’s
controversial drama Heldenplatz and its discourse of victimhood,
El Greco’s influence on Rainer Maria Rilke’s
poetry, laughter as a means of social action in Roberto
Benigni’s comedy La vita è bella, and Catholicism’s
continuing influence on contemporary Austrian literature.
Her book manuscript, “Guilty Victims: The Contemporary
Culture of Victimhood,” explores the current fascination
with victimhood and the desire for victim status in Western
European culture.
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2. Does
Africa Begin in the Pyrenees?” Contemporary Spanish
Culture and the Interrogation of “European” Identity.
Code R2
Instructor: Susan Martin-Márquez, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, Rutgers University
Spanish
national identity, and Spain’s position within Europe,
have always been complicated by the legacy of eight centuries
of North African/Muslim rule in large portions of the Iberian
Peninsula (al-Andalus) during the Middle Ages. Northern Europeans
have oftentimes constructed Spaniards as “exotic others,”
and Spaniards themselves have vacillated between celebrating
and disavowing their presumed “difference.”
This workshop will focus on the ways in which contemporary
cultural forms in Spain, and most particularly music, have
contributed to this ongoing questioning of European and Spanish
identity. On the one hand, there has been a notable trend
within both classical and popular music to “recuperate”
the medieval tradition, including efforts to excavate musical
forms from the era of al-Andalus (undertaken, for example,
by Begoña Olavide and Eduardo Paniagua) ,as well as
to provide modern-day fora for collaboration across the Straits
of Gibraltar (Radio Tarifa; Al Tall and Muluk El-Hwa, etc.).
These musical developments function alongside academic and
trade publications (such as María Rosa Menocal’s
recent The Ornament of the World) to problematize the notion
of a European identity opposed to the Islamic/Oriental/African
“other.” On the other hand, popular musicians
(such as the group Amistades Peligrosas), some of whom have
personal ties to immigration (Manu Chao, the son of Spanish
immigrants to France; Las Hijas del Sol, the Equatorial Guinean
aunt-niece duo who reside in Spain), tend to highlight the
“European-style” racism to which newcomers are
subjected—even, or perhaps most especially, in Spain.
Professor Martin-Márquez specializes in modern Peninsular
novel, cinema and cultural studies. Her book Feminist Discourse
and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen was published in 1999 by
Oxford University Press, and she has published articles on
the interconnections of gender, power and the visual in twentieth-century
novels and films. Her current book project explores neo-colonialist
representations of North Africa and Equatorial Guinea, and
she is also working on a collaborative oral history of cinema-going
in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s.
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3. “Where
is the Center of Europe? Teaching the Expanding European Union
Using Mucha’s Film Die Mitte.”
Code R3
How
do teachers of World Languages and Social Studies at American
secondary schools bring students to enduring understandings
of the power of European identity in a changing European political,
economic and cultural landscape? Teachers can achieve success
in this endeavor using the film Die Mitte (The Center) by
Stanislaw Mucha as a base text to explore issues of place
and identity in the EU and beyond. The film provides strong
points of departure for studying and discussing the EU in
World Languages and Social Studies classrooms. This interactive
session will guide teachers in developing solid teaching units.
Instructor: Christopher Gwin, German and Social Studies teacher
Mr.
Christopher Gwin, Teacher of German/Social Studies at Haddonfield
Memorial School, Camden, NJ, was awarded the Mandel Fellowship
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Talk and
Discussion: "Inside Europe: Dynamics and Developments
- What They Mean When Teaching European Studies"
Michaela
C. Hertkorn, Ph. D. John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy
and International Relations, Seton Hall University. Adjunct
Professor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University
This
talk and discussion will deal with some of the following European/EU
issues:
a)
EU institution-building: an overview of a process (with a
special emphasis on the constitution)
b) The future of a common EU foreign and security policy
c) The challenge of enlargement: where does it stop?
d) A common European (Union) identity?
e) Islam and Europe
f) Russia' s ties with the EU
g) Turkey: A nation between occident and orient.
h) Germany: Europe' s powerhouse?
i) France: La grande nation apres Chirac?
j) The (growing) influence of mid-size countries in Europe:
the cases of Spain and Italy
Dr. Hertkorn is an expert on European, security and conflict
and peace studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science
from the Institute of International Relations and Regional
Studies with Free University Berlin. Her dissertation Conflict
Prevention: A Comparative Analysis of Actors and Theory focused
on preventive diplomacy. Most of her doctoral research was
conducted as a visiting scholar of the Center for German and
European Studies at Georgetown University and the German American
Center for Visiting Scholars in Washington DC in 1999 and
2000. The revised English version was published by Mensch
& Buch Verlag in Berlin in December 2002. From 2000 -
2001, Dr. Hertkorn completed a post-doctoral fellowship with
the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of
Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC focusing on the
common European foreign and security policy. Her research
on transatlantic relations continued when she was a visiting
scholar with the Center for European Studies of New York University
from September 2001 to August 2004. Dr. Hertkorn has been
an invited lecturer and speaker to numerous national and international
conferences. She currently is the Director for Transatlantic
Relations with the Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and
Security Policy, a German think tank established at the University
of Düsseldorf. Michaela Hertkorn is on the faculty of
the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International
Relations and is also an adjunct professor at the Center for
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