Elke Heckner

The University of Iowa, German, Faculty Member

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Berlin Remake: Building Memory and the Politics of Capital Identity

Germanic Review, 2002

Produktive Differenz. Leserinnen treten aus dem weiblichen Spiegelbild

The German Quarterly, 2002

... Würzburg 1998 Gedruckt auf säurefreiem, alterungsbeständigem Papier Umschlag: Hummel / Lang, ... more

Fascism and its Afterlife in Architecture

museum and society, Jun 9, 2017

The recent opening to the public of large-scale National Socialist installations in Germany-like ... more The recent opening to the public of large-scale National Socialist installations in Germany-like the Denkort Bunker "Valentin" in Bremen-Farge-has prompted questions on how to address the legacy of Nazi advances in science and technology in musealized spaces, and, more generally, how to curate inconvenient military history. To tackle these questions, the issue of affect is crucial. Curation must be able to confront articulations of right-wing extremist "reactionary" affect in and beyond the museum setting. This has been a challenge for Dresden's newly redesigned Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, whose anti-militaristic message is being drowned out by right-wing xenophobic demonstrations in Dresden's streets. This paper seeks to counter current curatorial strategies that displace and suppress affect. By considering affect's productive potential without ignoring the record of Nazi manipulations of affect, it proposes the concept of an 'upstander' museum and delineates a new methodology for rethinking affect in curatorial settings.

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Zeitlose Ansprüche: Sunset Boulevard und die gefallene Diva

Die Philosophin, 2000

An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s ShoahJennifer Cazenave

Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nov 2, 2022

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Zeit / Alter

Die Philosophin, 2000

Screening the Armenian Genocide: Atom Egoyan's Ararat between Erasure and Suture

Shofar, 2010

Televising Tainted History: Recent TV Docudrama (Dresden, March of Millions, Die Gustloff) and the Charge of Revisionism

New German Critique, 2011

Recently, three blockbuster television docudramas-Dresden (2006), March of Millions (Die Flucht, ... more Recently, three blockbuster television docudramas-Dresden (2006), March of Millions (Die Flucht, 2007), and Die Gustloff (2008)-have inaugurated new rules for engaging with the tainted war experience of German civilians at the end of World War II. 1 Representing the latest effort to reclaim Germany's haunted experience of displacement and bombardment at the end of the Nazi period, these three docudramas break with a cinematography infused by the guilt-and-shame paradigm. 2 This paradigm-exemplified by

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Unemployment and health in the context of economic change

Social Science & Medicine, 1983

Evidence relating unemployment to health is found at every level of social science analysis from ... more Evidence relating unemployment to health is found at every level of social science analysis from national population rates to individual psychophysiological stress response. At the population level of analysis. increase in the unemployment rate indicates recession and/or structural economic decline. At the individual level. unemployment is interpreted as a stressful life event. In both cases, inverse associations are found between measures of unemployment and indicators of health. We identify social science literatures associating health indicators with each of the following: economic growth, socioeconomic status. sociocultural change, economic instability, the status of being unemployed, social stress and work stress. Outstanding research issues include the requirements to identify and measure the effects of conditional factors and control variables in multivariate analysis and to examine a broader range of both severity of unemployment and severity of health outcomes. A research agenda proposes studies at the macro, meso and micro levels of analysis. We urge such research for its potential contribution both to analytic social science and to economic and social policy.

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Global Life Expectancy and Sustainable Economic Growth: the Paradox of International Recession

Throughout the industrialized world (including Western and Eastern Europe, the CIS and remainder ... more Throughout the industrialized world (including Western and Eastern Europe, the CIS and remainder of OECD countries), the most consistent and widespread finding in epidemiol- ogy has been the relationship between comparatively high socioeconomic status (especially in- come) and relatively low mortality - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnicity, and medical diagnosis. This general principle applies to comparisons among individual persons, but the general thesis should apply as well to nations. In that case the higher the national in- come and wealth, the lower would be the mortality rates, and thus the higher the levels of life expectancy. We should thus be able to infer that, with large scale international recession, as in the current experience, decline in real per capita national income and wealth should predict lower life expectancies across the countries of the world. While this inference is generally ac- cepted for developing countries, in recent years it has not been ...

Unemployment and health

BMJ, 1984

casualty officer at our local hospital, although most attenders bypass their GPs, they are usuall... more casualty officer at our local hospital, although most attenders bypass their GPs, they are usually right to do so-for example, after accidents. Of course, if a GP works all night he should have the next day free. As Dr Archer states this would mean his own patients would be unable to consult him-just like and for just as long a period annually as if he were away on a week's course. How many GPs refuse to go on courses because they consider continuity of care more important ? I believe doctors' differing views on this subject originate from the way they cope with on call and thus their varying personalities. As a well known psychologist has said: "The same fire that melts the butter hardens the egg."

An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2020

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Social class and mental health

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health

The Great Depression saw increasingly higher rates of mental disorder at successively lower socia... more The Great Depression saw increasingly higher rates of mental disorder at successively lower social class levels. These findings have been repeated over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dynamic interpretations of these relations have concentrated on vulnerability to economic crises, resulting in major increases in mental hospitalization and suicide. These studies have shown psychological morbidity and suicide to be strongly influenced by employment and income loss. Did the Great Recession re-enact the Great Depression’s mental health crisis for world societies? Recent literature shows substantially elevated psychological disorder in the Great Recession across industrialized societies. New multivariate analyses, using gross domestic product declines and unemployment increases as the main recessional indicators, find that world suicide and industrialized country overall mortality rates increased owing to the Great Recession and government austerity. A paradigm is presented of ...

Profound Unhappiness in the International Recession: The Case of Suicide in Industrialized Countries

Regulating Competition in Stock Markets, 2015

The impact of unemployment on heart disease and stroke mortality in European Union Countries

This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of... more

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Impact of race and socioeconomic status on breast cancer mortality in USA: A cross-sectional time-series analysis

Industrialization and Economic Growth: Estimates of Their Effects on the Health of Populations

Assessing the Contributions of the Social Sciences to Health, 2019

[Postgraduate qualifications in epidemiology in Germany. Experiences in Berlin, the current situation and future prospects]

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 2005

The postgraduate Masters Program in Epidemiology (MSc) was established in 2001 in Germany in Biel... more The postgraduate Masters Program in Epidemiology (MSc) was established in 2001 in Germany in Bielefeld, Munich and Berlin. The study program is conducted with a common curriculum. Its aim is the qualification of new scientists for jobs in the field of epidemiological research, as well as the training of scientists working in this area. This article reports the experiences of 3 years of classes at the Berlin center. It shows the structure of the program and gives a vision for the future of epidemiological education in Europe.

Assessing the Contributions of the Social Sciences to Health. M. Harvey Brenner, Anne Mooney and Thomas f. Nagy

Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 1981

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Screening the Armenian Genocide: Atom Egoyan's Ararat between Erasure and Suture

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2010

While some sci-fi epics such as Avatar draw on issues of genocidal conflict, their presentation o... more While some sci-fi epics such as Avatar draw on issues of genocidal conflict, their presentation of the genocidal scenario is packaged as sutured family entertainment, thus sparing the audience feelings of discomfort and alienation that cinematic representations of historical genocides tend to elicit from them. This article argues that the post-Spielberg saturation of popular culture with risk-free genocidal narratives calls for a critical analysis of how hi/stories about genocide are produced, reenacted, and transmitted. Atom Egoyan's Ararat (2002), a film about trans-generational responses to the memory of the Armenian genocide and the ongoing struggle for its recognition, is uniquely suited to exploring these concerns. Ararat stages the epistemological conundrums and familial psychodramas that accompany protagonists' multi-faceted attempts to capture and represent historical memory. By showing how the denial of the Armenian genocide lives on in the seemingly safe spaces of the diaspora, Ararat investigates the complicated racial and sexual dynamics that inform the struggle for recognition.

Berlin Remake: Building Memory and the Politics of Capital Identity

Germanic Review, 2002

Produktive Differenz. Leserinnen treten aus dem weiblichen Spiegelbild

The German Quarterly, 2002

... Würzburg 1998 Gedruckt auf säurefreiem, alterungsbeständigem Papier Umschlag: Hummel / Lang, ... more

Fascism and its Afterlife in Architecture

museum and society, Jun 9, 2017

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Zeitlose Ansprüche: Sunset Boulevard und die gefallene Diva

Die Philosophin, 2000

An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s ShoahJennifer Cazenave

Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nov 2, 2022

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Zeit / Alter

Die Philosophin, 2000

Screening the Armenian Genocide: Atom Egoyan's Ararat between Erasure and Suture

Shofar, 2010

Televising Tainted History: Recent TV Docudrama (Dresden, March of Millions, Die Gustloff) and the Charge of Revisionism

New German Critique, 2011

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Unemployment and health in the context of economic change

Social Science & Medicine, 1983

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Global Life Expectancy and Sustainable Economic Growth: the Paradox of International Recession

Unemployment and health

BMJ, 1984

An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2020

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Social class and mental health

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health

Profound Unhappiness in the International Recession: The Case of Suicide in Industrialized Countries

Regulating Competition in Stock Markets, 2015

The impact of unemployment on heart disease and stroke mortality in European Union Countries

This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of... more

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Impact of race and socioeconomic status on breast cancer mortality in USA: A cross-sectional time-series analysis

Industrialization and Economic Growth: Estimates of Their Effects on the Health of Populations

Assessing the Contributions of the Social Sciences to Health, 2019

[Postgraduate qualifications in epidemiology in Germany. Experiences in Berlin, the current situation and future prospects]

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 2005

Assessing the Contributions of the Social Sciences to Health. M. Harvey Brenner, Anne Mooney and Thomas f. Nagy

Medical Anthropology Newsletter, 1981

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Screening the Armenian Genocide: Atom Egoyan's Ararat between Erasure and Suture

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2010

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