SESSION 4 May 15, 2008 Politics of Memory and Identity in a Post-Socialist Context The Emergence of Nationalism (Lecture and Discussion, 14.30­15.50) Memory and Forgetting: Rethinking the Past and the Authentic (Discussion, 16.05­17.25) The Politics of Identity: Discourses of Exclusion and Inclusion (Lecture and Discussion, 17.40­19.00) Assigned reading: * Gal, Susan (1991) Bartók's Funeral: Representations of Europe in Hungarian Political Rhetoric. American Ethnologist, Vol. 18, No. 3, Representations of Europe: Transforming State, Society, and Identity (Aug. 1991), 440­458. * Borneman, John (1993) Uniting the German Nation: Law, Narrative, and Historicity. American Ethnologist, Vol. 20, No. 2 (May 1993), 288­311. * Holy, Ladislav (1994) Metaphors of the Natural and the Artificial in Czech Political Discourse. Man, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec. 1994), 809­829. * Brubaker, Rogers (1996) National Minorities, Nationalizing States, and External National Homelands in the New Europe. In Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 55­76. * Hayden, Robert M. (1996) Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia. American Ethnologist, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Nov. 1996), 783­801. * White, Jenny B. (1997) Turks in the New Germany. American Anthropologist, Vol. 99, No. 4 (Winter 1997), 754­769. * Hann, Chris (1998) Postsocialist Nationalism: Rediscovering the Past in Southeast Poland. Slavic Review, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Winter 1998), 840­863. * Wolfe, Thomas C. (2000) Cultures and Communities in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 29 (2000), 195­216. * Lemon, Alaina (2002) Without a `Concepť? Race as Discursive Practice. Slavic Review, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring 2002), 54­61.