Week 1 - in class

Merkel's New Year's Address to the Nation: Merkel (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Trump's Inaugural Address 2017 (Links to an external site.)) and this address (Links to an external site.) to congress after Black History Month.

Discuss: Languages in speech related to citizenship, immigration, national policy, national identity formation, nation vs. state, globalization, etc. 

Discuss: Understand how Merkel’s message to refugees and asylum seekers, i.e. “Welcome culture” speech in 2016, has been contested and changed to include a message of “integration”.