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Recommended Readings for HI Open House with Drs. Georg and Wilma Iggers Wednesday, November 15, 2007

Georg and Wilma Iggers Two Lives in Uncertain Times: Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century As Scholars And Citizens (Studies in German History) NY: Berghahn Books, 2006 Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students.  As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements.

Recommended Readings for Kindertransport Panel Discussion Thursday, November 15, 2007

• For educational materials relevant to Kindertransport, see the "Bibliographic Essay and Sources" pp 247-251 of Maxine Schwartz Seller's book, We Built Up Our Lives: Education and Community among Jewish Refugees Interned by Britain in World War II (Contributions to the Study of World History) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. This book can be found in UB's Lockwood Library Book Collection | DS135 .E5 S45 2001

 

• http://www.kindertransport.org/

This web site has an extensive list of memoirs, historical documents, novels, videos, children's books and other materials. It is the official website of the Kindertransport Association.

New Faculty Seminar Series Reading List

For those wishing to prepare for the talks, the following texts are available for download:

Friday, April 25 1:00-3:00 p.m. (830 Clemens Hall)

William Solomon, Associate Professor, Department of English

The Origins of Slapstick Moderninsm

 

Friday, February 29 1:00-3:00 p.m. (830 Clemens Hall)

Cultural Policy and the Life of the Humanities in Communities

Carole Rosenstein, Assistant Professor, Arts Management Program; Affiliated Scholar, The Urban Institute

Cultural Policy and Living Culture in New Orleans after Katrina Carole Rosenstein

Forthcoming in Koritz, Amy and George Sanchez (eds.), Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (University of Michigan Press)

How Cultural Heritage Organizations Serve Communities - Priorities, Strengths, and Challenges Carole Rosenstein

Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Nonprofits in Focus. Urban Institute Policy Brief No. 3 Oct. 2006

Diversity and Participation in the Arts: Insights from the Bay Area  Carole Rosenstein

Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Urban Institute Policy Brief Oct. 2005

 

Friday, November 9 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (280 Park Hall)

Between the Law and the Lash: Race, Violence, and American Citizenship in the Age of Slave Emancipation
Carole Emberton, Assistant Professor, Department of History

The Limits of Incorporation: Violence, Gun Rights, and Gun Regulation in the Reconstruction South Carole Emberton Stanford Law and Policy Review 17, no. 3 (2006): 615-34.

 

Friday, September 21 1:00 - 3:00  p.m. (904 Clemens Hall)

Freedom from Transculturation

Alberto Moreiras, Regular Visiting Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 

Chapter 6: The End of Magical Realism: José Maria Argueda's Passionate Signifier, The Exhaustion of Difference: the Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Alberto Moreiras

Click here to view the lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQ3th1vZBw

 

A Critique of Moreiras' Work by Priscilla Archibald, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL. This essay, along with Moreiras' response, will be printed in an upcoming issue of the journal Social Text

 

Further Optional Reading:

• Thinking Politically - Introduction Alberto Moreiras The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 104 Issue 4 ( Fall 2005): pp.609-612

• Beyond the Line: On Infinite Decolonization Alberto Moreiras American Literary History , Vol. 17, No. 3, Symposium Issue: Race, Ethnicity, and Civic Identity in the Americas. (Autumn 2005): pp. 575-594

•  Against Cultural-Political Closure Alberto Moreiras The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 104 Issue 2 ( Spring 2005): pp.263-275

 

AMS 500 Seminar: Human Trafficking Required Readings List

Thursdays, 12:30-3:10 p.m. (1004 Clemens Hall)

Taught by Dr. Kari Winter in conjunction with the Humanities Institute Annual Conference being held October 26-27, 2007.

Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man

Kari J. Winter, ed. The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace

Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

Emma Christopher, Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807

Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Dominick LaCapra, History and Memory after Auschwitz

Julia O'Connell Davidson, Prostitution, Power and Freedom

Michele Goodwin, Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts

Essays by Sandra R. Joshel, Aamir Mufti, and David Blight

Reading Between the Lines Discussion Book List

Fall 2007

Wasting Away: Contemporary Writing on Environmental Crises

To Be Led By Mary C. Foltz, Graduate Student, UB Department of English

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte (NY: Little Brown, 2005)

White Noise by Don DeLillo (NY: Penguin Books, 1998)

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit by Vandna Shiva (Cambridge MA: South End Press, 2002)

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (NY: Warner Books, 2000)

UB Reads Program

The UB Reads Program is the University at Buffalo's summer reading program, which seeks to build a sense of community among first-year students and to introduce them to the academic life of the University at Buffalo.

2007 UB Reads Book Selection

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

In A Long Way Gone , Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.

A gripping story of a child's journey through hell and back.

There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.

Visit this link for more information about The UB Reads Program

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 ISHMAEL BEAH WILL BE THE SPEAKING AT UB AT 8:00 PM IN THE ALUMNI ARENA AS PART OF THE UB DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER'S SERIES.  CLICK HERE FOR TICKET INFORMATION

 

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