Course
Course 15 credits • YIDC05
In this course, students will learn about and investigate the interrelationship between testimony, literature, film, and oral history.
Discussions and assignments will focus on the close analysis of written texts, films, and video testimonies that, in different ways, bear witness to experiences of extreme violence, destruction, and dispossession (including but not limited to the Holocaust). Throughout the semester, students will also engage with theoretical and interdisciplinary debates that have emerged about testimony and its role in shaping historical understanding, collective memory, and cultural production, as well as with questions of media specificity, transmission, and translation. The course puts particular emphasis on Yiddish-language sources (available in English translation), though it situates these sources in a broadly comparative framework, with additional attention, for example, to Arabic-, English-, French-, German-, Hebrew-, Russian, Spanish-, Swedish-, and Ukrainian-language sources. In their final written assignment, students will be encouraged to work with sources in the original, building on their different language skills and areas of interest.
Study period:
spring semester 2025
Study period:
2025-01-20 – 2025-06-08
Language of instruction:
English
Eligibility:
General requirements and 60 higher edication credits from studies in Humanities and/or Social Sciences.
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
distance course
Application code:
LU-75103
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
mixed
Application code:
LU-75102
Introductory meeting: Wednesday, 22 January at 15.15 – 17.00 in SOL:L602
Teachers:
Matthew Johnson
Introductory meeting
Spring semester 2025
Wednesday, 22 Januaryat 15.15 – 17.00
in SOL:L602
Second Admission Round
Nationell ansökningsomgång
Spring semester 2025
Late application
Open for late application