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  • Academic Year 2025-2026
  • By Julian M Hoerner, Yi Wang
  • Created  Updated 
This list relates to the term Academic Year 2025-2026 which does not start until 01/09/2025

Week 1: Introduction to the module: Why study the politics of the past?

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Week 2: Memory, Identity, and Nationalism

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Chapter 6 'Memory and Identity'

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Week 3: Actors, Places and Practices of Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Testimony

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Week 4: Remembrance, Guilt, and Regret: Germany’s culture of memory as a model?

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Week 5: The Long Shadow of the Past: The Legacies of Fascism and Communism in Europe

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Week 7: Multidirectional Memory and Entangled Pasts: Remembering Colonialism and Empire in Europe

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Week 8: Nationalism, Communism, and Chinese Memory

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Week 9: Memory and Identity in Postwar Japan

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Week 10: History Disputes in East Asia

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Week 11: Wrap up session/outlook

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