Meets with CAS IR 452. Explores European politics through the lens of culture, using materials from literature, film, and the social sciences, including live sessions with European writers/artists. Topic for Spring 2013: Critical Moments and Memory in Europe. Includes the shadows cast by the Holocaust, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, and post-Communist transitions, as well as economic dislocations and immigrations. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 584.