Some upcoming events you may be interested in

Ruth Kluger's book signing (author of Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered)
Krieger Hall 400, Tuesday, April 7th, 3-4:30.

Hart says: "Students (or instructors) can bring their books and Ruth will sign."

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Ursula Mahlendorf, reading from The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood
Friday, april 3rd at 2pm in the German Dept Seminar Room (Krieger Hall 400D).

Extra credit if you go to this and write a moderately long blog post about it

Hart says: "The book just came out with U of Pennsylvania Press and this is her first reading. I've read it --it's excellent, especially on the last days of the war. It features deserters strung up from lampposts (Brecht) and the Nazi propaganda about the miracle weapon that was soon to be ready and would defeat all enemies. Mahlendorf notes that there was no evacuation plan on the Eastern Front--they were just going to win. also good stuff on the Hitler Youth organization and education. We'd love to see you there."

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University of California Irvine Critical Theory Institute presents

AbdouMaliq Simone, "Urban Intersections and Provisional Publics"

Monday, April 13, 2009, 3:00-5:00PM, Humanities Instructional Building Room 135

Extra credit if you go to this and write a moderately long blog post about it

AbdouMaliq Simone is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to this he taught at several universities across Africa, in the US, and spent many years working for NGOs and applied research institutions. He is the author of For the City yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities (Duke, 2004).

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Random tidbit: Someone has reinterpreted the Oedipus trilogy using a gospel choir

Class #1 post-game

REMINDERS:

Take this EEE quiz on information literacy / academic honesty. I don't care if you did it earlier this year; do it again.

Read the first half of the Sophocles version of Antigone (59-90). I don't recommend the introduction to the play on 39-53, but you might find the introduction to Greek theater on 13-30 pretty helpful.

Answer the Hart study question that was assigned to your row. Post your answer as a comment reply to this message so I know the blog is working for you... if you're having any problems getting the blog to work, please email the listserv or see me in office hours. I would appreciate that blog homework be posted the afternoon/night after class, or sometime the next day, rather than the morning before the next lecture. It's more helpful to the rest of the class that way.

I also assigned one of you to ask me a question at the start of Wednesday's class about the Antigone reading, and another one of you to ask me a question about Hart's Wednesday lecture. So don't forget.

Send a test message to the listserv (rosie-s09@classes.uci.edu) so I know it's working for you. To kill two birds with one stone, make your comment a question/clarification/confusion about the syllabus.