{"id":35454,"date":"2017-10-23T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=35454"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T15:51:47","slug":"reading-develop-empathy-ku-professor-marike-janzen-presents-case-study-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/reading-develop-empathy-ku-professor-marike-janzen-presents-case-study-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Does reading develop empathy? KU professor Marike Janzen presents a case study from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marike\u00a0Janzen presents \u201cReading about Refugees in Germany: A National Project to Become World Citizens\u201d as part of 91短视频\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/language-and-literature\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read<\/a> series. The reading is Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in Martin Chapel at Eastern Mennonite Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>Janzen is assistant professor of humanities in the Humanities Program and coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at University of Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>From 2004-07, she was assistant professor of German at 91短视频 and from 2003-04, an instructor of Spanish at Bridgewater College.<\/p>\n<p>Janzen offers the following summary of her lecture:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Books and reading are commonly noted to allow readers to transcend borders and thus develop empathy for those very different from themselves. In Germany, the educated class\u00a0has historically understood reading as the means for cultivating a sense of world citizenship. Paradoxically, this view of reading also serves as the hallmark of a specific kind of German national identity, the <em>Bildungsb\u00fcrger<\/em>, or educated citizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">The arrival of over a million refugees in Germany over the past two years poses challenges to German conceptions of citizenship and national identity, including the role of reading in shaping citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">In my talk, I will examine two recent German novels that show how books and reading actually limit educated Germans\u2019 capacity to connect with refugees, thereby arguing for the need to rethink how books are able to create a feeling of one\u2019s belonging in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Janzen\u00a0earned her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and her MA in comparative literature, also from University of Texas at Austin, in 1999. She earned her BA in German and English at Bethel College in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Her research and teaching interests focus on world literature, human rights literature, and notions of solidarity. She has published on the authors\u00a0Alejo\u00a0Carpentier, Anna\u00a0Seghers and Bertolt Brecht, as well as teaching human rights through service learning.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2016, she participated in a two-week seminar on Germany\u2019s literature industry in Berlin. Janzen\u2019s newest publication is<em> Writing to Change the World: Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century<\/em> (Camden House, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marike\u00a0Janzen presents \u201cReading about Refugees in Germany: A National Project to Become World Citizens\u201d as part of 91短视频\u2019s Writers Read series. 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