| Termin/e |
Di, 19.02.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 26.02.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 05.03.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 12.03.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 19.03.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 26.03.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 02.04.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 09.04.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, Externer Standort 2.OG:, PH: 2.B30
Di, 16.04.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 30.04.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 07.05.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 14.05.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 21.05.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14
Di, 28.05.2019, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 14 |
| Inhalt |
"In August 2017, the attempt to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee, who had defended the slave-owning Confederacy, led to violent clashes between right wing and liberal protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president of the USA, Donald Trump, publicly responded, urging that the statue of Lee and similar statues not be removed. In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, successfully protested for the removal of a statue of colonial exploiter Cecil Rhodes, while similar protests at the University of Oxford, UK in 2016 failed as some of the largest donors of Oriel College, which housed the statue, threatened to withdraw their donations to the College if the statue was removed. For some years now CARICOM, a community of fifteen Caribbean states, has unsuccessfully demanded reparations for the triangular slave trade from several European governments, including the UK and the Netherlands. The Herero and Nama peoples of Namibia have (in some cases successfully) called for the restitution of ancestral skulls and artifacts from several German universities, which were taken after the genocide of the Herero and Nama people at the hand of German colonial troops in 1904 and 1905. Compensation for past injustice, restitution of stolen artifacts, the removal of statues or the change of street names, all of these are means to address historical injustice. This seminar will look at such demands from a normative perspective. Are they legitimate and if so why? This seminar will be divided into two thematic blocks. The first block addresses the virulent debate on reparations, between those who defend the idea of compensation for historical injustice and those that criticize it, arguing that where the perpetrators and victims of past crimes are no longer alive no one can be held responsible. The second block will look at the present day social and political effects of addressing and representing the past in certain ways. It will look into the claim that “memory” is always “political”, that the ways in which we represent the past always serves present day interests and that such representations form a significant part of existing political struggles. It will also look into the question what it means to "work through the past" (Vergangenheitsbewältigung).
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