Compact Courses supported by Erasmus+ Program

Compact Courses supported by Erasmus+ Program:

Held in in School of Marxism, ZJU

Taught by Professors from Siegen University

Detailed Introduction and Arrangement of two courses:

Attachment 1: Migration and collective identities in Europe

Attachment 2:Religion in Socialism using the example of East Germany (1945–1961)

Attachment 1:

Compact Courses supported by Erasmus+ Program held in School of Marxism: Course I:

Migration and collective identities in Europe

Abstract、Syllabus and Timetable

Prof. Dr. Raphaela Averkorn (Department of History, University of Siegen)

Prof. Dr. Sigrid Baringhorst (Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen)

Abstract

In this interdisciplinary course the topics of migration and collective identities in Europe from the 5th century until today will be discussed. The transcultural history of Europe shows that it was formed by a great number of different cultures and religions. Europe is a continent of immigration and emigration since ever. Collective identities were shaped and reshaped during the centuries. This course will concentrate on different case studies taken from different centuries and different European countries. Different types of migration like e.g. forced migration, religious migration, labour migration, return migration will be discussed. The economic, political and socio-cultural contexts will be analysed, too. Various sessions will be dedicated to the actual situation of Europe which faces a huge migration crisis since 2015. Problems, challenges, different policies and future perspectives will be presented.

Syllabus: Migration and collective identities in Europe

Time Table:

Course „Migration and collective identities“, Part I

Sunday, 15th September 2019

10.00 - 11.30 Unit 1: Theoretical concepts of collective identities and citizenship

11.30 - 13.00 Unit 2: Transnational migration in pre-modern Europe

Lunch Break

14.30 -16.00 Unit 3: Religious immigrant minorities and state responses in the Early Modern Europe: Protestants vs. Catholics

Tea Break

16.30 – 18.00 Unit 4: Religious immigrant minorities and state responses (20th and 21t century) in Europe: Islam

Course „Migration and collective identities“, Part II

Saturday, 21st September 2019

10.00 - 11.30 Unit 5: Different types of migration in Europe: 19th century and early 20th century

11.30 - 13.00 Unit 6: Different types of migration in Europe: 20th and 21st centuries

Lunch Break

14.30 -16.00 Unit 7: Anti-immigrant movements and parties in the United Kingdom and Germany

Tea Break

16.30 – 18.00 Unit 8: Europe and migration since 2015  

Attachment 2:

Compact Courses supported by Erasmus+ Program held in School of Marxism: Course II:

Religion in Socialism using the example of East Germany (1945–1961)

Abstract、Syllabus and Timetable

Dr. des. Stefanie Siedek-Strunk (Department of History, University of Siegen, Germany)

Abstract:

Religion in Socialism using the example of East Germany (1945–1961)

After World War II Germany was a country without functioning institutions, with absence of police and justice. There weren’t functioning governments anymore, either on a national scale or even a local one. Many schools, universities, libraries and archives were destroyed. Railway networks, bridges, roads and most cities lied in rubble and ashes. Often there was no electric power, no gas, no water, and no fuel. The same applied to the availability of food and medicines. Millions of people had lost their homes and houses. Liberated prisoners of the concentration camps, freed forced labourers and prisoners of war and even German soldiers filled the streets and tried to reach their home countries. Death and violence were omnipresent.

This course will show how this chaos was eliminated and how new structures were created, how civil society was built up again. We will focus on Germany and examine the processes which lead to the division of the country in two independent states: the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), two states and structures which couldn’t be more different. Another focus of our attention is the role of the Protestant Church, especially in the socialist GDR, which naturally requires a critical perspective on the behaviour of religious groups by the state and a certain tendency to control their activities. To achieve results we will read and discuss essays and even written and pictorial sources.

Syllabus:

1st part: The political situation in Germany during the early post-war years (1945–1949)

2nd part: The situation of the Protestant Church in East Germany (1945–1961)

Timetable :

Course “Religion in Socialism using the example of East Germany (1945-1961)“, Part I: The political situation in Germany during the early post-war years (1945–1949)

Friday, 20th September 2019

10.00 - 11.30 Unit 1: The end of war in April/May 1945

11.30 - 13.00 Unit 2: Germany after the war

Lunch Break

14.30 -16.00 Unit 3: The division of Germany into occupation zones

Tea Break

16.30 – 18.00 Unit 4: The Two-State Solution

Dr. des. Stefanie Siedek-Strunk (University of Siegen, Germany)

Course “Religion in Socialism using the example of East Germany (1945-1961)“, Part II: The situation of the Protestant Church in East Germany (1945–1961)

Sunday, 22nd September 2019

10.00 - 11.30 Unit 5: The position of the Protestant Church in East Germany after the War

11.30 - 13.00 Unit 6: The Socialist Unity Party (SED) and the Protestant Church

Lunch Break

14.30 -16.00 Unit 7: State-Church relations in the GDR

Tea Break

16.30 – 18.00 Unit 8: The Protestant Church in the GDR – Follower or enemy?