The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

This seminar examines the largely under-researched social, legal, and cultural status of musicians of sub-Saharan African descent in early modern Europe. Through case studies, we explore Black musicians at the courts of Portugal and Spain, Black trumpeters and kettledrummers in the Holy Roman Empire, Black singers in seventeenth-century Florence, and Black composers and performers in the urban musical cultures of France and England. The course also analyzes musical constructions of Blackness in different musical genres, such as the villancicos de negros from early modern Iberia and its colonies, and the figure of Monostatos in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Situating these examples within broader histories of race-making, enslavement and freedom, mobility, and labor, we consider musical performance as both exploitation and potential agency within courtly and colonial power structures. Drawing on key English-language works on critical race, postcolonial, and court studies, students learn to interpret the biographies and sonic practices of Black musicians as part of Europe’s entangled histories of music/sound, power, race, and empire.

Biologische Vielfalt ist die Grundlage gesunder Ökosysteme, nicht nur im tropischen Regenwald oder in den Polarregionen, sondern auch direkt vor unserer Haustür. Artenvielfalt sichert unsere Lebensgrundlagen, stabilisiert ökologische Kreisläufe und trägt zu Lebensqualität bei. Doch aktuell erleben wir weltweit und auch in Deutschland einen massiven Rückgang an Biodiversität. Ursachen sind unter anderem Lebensraumverlust durch Bebauung und Intensivlandwirtschaft, Umweltverschmutzung, Klimawandel und die Ausbreitung invasiver Arten. Aus diesen Entwicklungen erwachsen dringende Notwendigkeiten für Schutz- und Erhaltungsmaßnahmen – lokal wie global.
In diesem Projektseminar erkunden wir zentrale Orte urbaner Biodiversität in Bremen: von naturnah gestalteten Gärten über innerstädtische Naturschutzgebiete bis hin zu ökologisch wertvollen Brachflächen. In Zusammenarbeit mit Praxispartner*innen wie dem BUND, NABU, der Landesjägerschaft Bremen und weiteren Initiativen lernen die Studierenden die Rolle und Bedeutung dieser Orte kennen, diskutieren aktuelle Herausforderungen im Artenschutz und setzen sich mit konkreten Maßnahmen auseinander. Bei praktischen Pflegearbeiten und Forschungsaufgaben packen die Teilnehmenden selbst mit an und erfahren, wie Schutzstrategien vor Ort umgesetzt werden können.
Das Seminar verbindet fachliche Einblicke, Exkursionen und praxisorientiertes Lernen mit der Reflexion über die eigene Rolle im gesellschaftlichen Engagement für Biodiversität – und trägt so zum Erwerb zentraler Kompetenzen im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit bei.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

The sonnet is a short, ubiquitous poetic form of 14 lines that every student will have come across. In this seminar, we will use the history of the sonnet in English to discuss Anglophone literary and cultural history, as well as developments in themes, structure and subjectivity. Although this form has at times been called "a narrow room", "a panic closet", or even "a coffin", we will acquaint ourselves with the productiveness of this formal corset and its rich thematic scope, from Renaissance love sonnets to Victorian science sonnets, from World War I sonnets to contemporary sonnets about the experience of using dating apps. We will frame our study of the sonnet with an explicit interest in the history and productivity of "close reading", a literary studies technique first popularized by the New Critics in the US in the first half of the 20th century, but which has seen a renewed debate in the first decades of the 21st century.

This seminar examines the largely under-researched social, legal, and cultural status of musicians of sub-Saharan African descent in early modern Europe. Through case studies, we explore Black musicians at the courts of Portugal and Spain, Black trumpeters and kettledrummers in the Holy Roman Empire, Black singers in seventeenth-century Florence, and Black composers and performers in the urban musical cultures of France and England. The course also analyzes musical constructions of Blackness in different musical genres, such as the villancicos de negros from early modern Iberia and its colonies, and the figure of Monostatos in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Situating these examples within broader histories of race-making, enslavement and freedom, mobility, and labor, we consider musical performance as both exploitation and potential agency within courtly and colonial power structures. Drawing on key English-language works on critical race, postcolonial, and court studies, students learn to interpret the biographies and sonic practices of Black musicians as part of Europe’s entangled histories of music/sound, power, race, and empire.

Biologische Vielfalt ist die Grundlage gesunder Ökosysteme, nicht nur im tropischen Regenwald oder in den Polarregionen, sondern auch direkt vor unserer Haustür. Artenvielfalt sichert unsere Lebensgrundlagen, stabilisiert ökologische Kreisläufe und trägt zu Lebensqualität bei. Doch aktuell erleben wir weltweit und auch in Deutschland einen massiven Rückgang an Biodiversität. Ursachen sind unter anderem Lebensraumverlust durch Bebauung und Intensivlandwirtschaft, Umweltverschmutzung, Klimawandel und die Ausbreitung invasiver Arten. Aus diesen Entwicklungen erwachsen dringende Notwendigkeiten für Schutz- und Erhaltungsmaßnahmen – lokal wie global.
In diesem Projektseminar erkunden wir zentrale Orte urbaner Biodiversität in Bremen: von naturnah gestalteten Gärten über innerstädtische Naturschutzgebiete bis hin zu ökologisch wertvollen Brachflächen. In Zusammenarbeit mit Praxispartner*innen wie dem BUND, NABU, der Landesjägerschaft Bremen und weiteren Initiativen lernen die Studierenden die Rolle und Bedeutung dieser Orte kennen, diskutieren aktuelle Herausforderungen im Artenschutz und setzen sich mit konkreten Maßnahmen auseinander. Bei praktischen Pflegearbeiten und Forschungsaufgaben packen die Teilnehmenden selbst mit an und erfahren, wie Schutzstrategien vor Ort umgesetzt werden können.
Das Seminar verbindet fachliche Einblicke, Exkursionen und praxisorientiertes Lernen mit der Reflexion über die eigene Rolle im gesellschaftlichen Engagement für Biodiversität – und trägt so zum Erwerb zentraler Kompetenzen im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit bei.