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090101 PS Greek civil war (1945-1949) (2016W)

7.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 11 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 13.01. 09:15 - 12:30 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 20.01. 09:15 - 12:30 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)
  • Wednesday 25.01. 10:45 - 14:00 (Seminarraum d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 L3-05)
  • Friday 27.01. 09:15 - 12:30 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Wednesday 01.02. 11:00 - 14:15 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)
  • Friday 03.02. 09:15 - 16:15 (Hörsaal d. Inst. f. Byzantinistik u. Neogräzistik, Postg. 7/1/3 3.Stock)

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Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar will address the main questions concerning the impact of the civil war in Modern Greek History as well as in contemporary Greek and political culture. At the same time, we will adopt a transnational and comparative perspective, trying to determine the position of the Greek civil war in the long process of dissolution of European multiethnic empires and the making of postwar republican regimes. Thus, approaching the Greek 1940s as a joint process of revolution and counterrevolution, nation- and state-rebuilding, we will develop three main thematic axes:
(a) a factual one, concerning the outbreak of a civil conflict already under the Axis Occupation, the integration of former Nazi-collaborators into the state apparatus after Liberation, the White Terror and the civil war that took place between 1946-1949.
(b) an interpretational one, concerning the opposing narratives of the winners and the vanquished of the civil war during the Cold War and thereafter.
(c) a memorial one concerning the memories and silences of traumatic events that found their way through cultural or political practices in the postwar period.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students will be required to familiarize themselves with some of representative texts on the subject matter. Evaluation will be based on participation, one short oral presentation and a short final essay (ca. 3000 words).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Reading comprehension in English. Working languages will be German and English but students will be required to read texts in English.

Examination topics

Reading list

- Philip Carabott and Thanasis D. Sfikas (eds.), The Greek Civil War : essays on a conflict of exceptionalism and silences, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004.
- Lars Baerentzen (ed.), Studies in the history of the Greek civil war : 1945 - 1949, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1987.
- Chr. Kambas and Mar. Mitsou (eds.), Die Okkupation Griechenlands im Zweiten Weltkrieg : griechische und deutsche Erinnerungskultur, Köln , Böhlau, 2015.

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