Veranstaltungsverzeichnis

Lehrveranstaltungen SoSe 2022

Kulturwissenschaft, B.A.

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Modul 1 - Ethnologie

12 Credit Points (2 Semester)
VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
09-50-M1-S5Seminar 5 zur Vorlesung "Geschichte, Schulen und Theorien" (in englischer Sprache)
Seminar 5: "Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology"

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Mi 16:00 - 18:00 SFG 1040 (2 SWS)
Prof. Dr. Andrea Mühlebach

Modul 6 - Methodenmodul 2

6 Credit Points
VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
09-50-M6-2Spoken Words: Creative Interviewing and Analysis (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Mi 10:00 - 12:00 SFG 2080 (2 SWS)

Interviewing is one of the most central and most commonly used methods in cultural research and nevertheless often underestimated regarding the knowledge, effort and skills which are needed in order to actually understand, conduct and analyse them properly.
The M5 seminar which you completed in the previous semester has provided you with a broad overview of different qualitative methods. This seminar gives you the opportunity to extend and deepen this knowledge. It is designed to enhance your research skills by exploring different forms of creative interviewing techniques on the one hand, and by focusing more on the actual analysis of interview data, something that often falls short in the M5 seminars. This seminar offers you the possibility to extend the research project you have conducted for your previous M5 seminar or to develop a new project.
This seminar serves to improve your interviewing skills by discussing theoretical and practical aspects, the difficulties and ethics of these different styles of interviewing. We will discuss creative techniques of ethnographic interviewing, such as narrative interviews, life history interviews, walking interviews as well as interviews animated by diaries, objects, photos and vignettes. The seminar also explores the forms of data which can be generated with each of these styles of interviewing and their specific characteristics, and provides you with hands-on training into how to code, interpret and write-up the material you gathered.
This seminar will be conducted in English. There are no requirements regarding the level of language proficiency needed. However, participants should be interested in doing the exercises in English.

Literature:
Agar, M. H. 1980. The Professional Stranger. San Diego: Academic Press
Andrews, M., Squire, C. and Tamboukou, M. (eds) 2008. Doing Narrative Research. London: Sage
Bernard, Russell H. 2011. Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (5th ed.), Plymouth: AltaMira
Burgess, R.G. 1990. In the Field. An Introduction to Field Research, London: Routledge
Gilham, B. 2005. Research Interviewing. The range of techniques. Maidenhead: Open University Press
Gubrium, T. et al. (eds.) 2012. Sage Handbook of Interview Research. The Complexity of the Craft (2nd ed.), London: Sage
Madison, D. Soyini. 2005. Critical ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance. Thousand Oaks: Sage Press
Mason, Jennifer 2002. Qualitative Researching. 2nd edition. London: Sage
Somekh, B. and Lewin, C. (eds.) 2005. Research Methods in the Social Scienes, London: Sage
Kvale, S. 2007. Doing Interviews, London: Sage
Roulston, K. 2010. Reflective Interviewing. A Guide to Theory and Practice. London: Sage

Dr. Ulrike Flader

Modul 7 BA - Regionale / Lokale Studien

6 Credit Points
VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
09-50-M7-2Mare Nostrum (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Mi 10:00 - 12:00 SFG 2010 (2 SWS)

Einzeltermine:
Mi 27.04.22 09:00 - 12:00 SFG 2010

Mare Nostrum (Latin, “Our Sea”) was the Ancient Roman term for the Mediterranean and later used also by Italian Fascists to mark their imperialist ambition. More recently, Pope Francis visited the Greek Island of Lesbos, evoking the phrase yet again. “The Mediterranean,” he noted before an assembled crowd, “which for millennia has brought different peoples and distant lands together, is now becoming a grim cemetery without tombstones … Let us not let our sea (mare nostrum) be transformed into a desolate sea of death (mare mortuum) … Let us not allow this place of encounter to become a theatre of conflict. Let us not permit this “sea of memories” to be transformed into a “sea of forgetfulness.” Please, let us stop this shipwreck of civilization.”

This course thinks about the Mediterranean not from the vantage point of the land, and not from the vantage point of regions (“The Middle East,” “Southern Europe,” “Northern Africa”). Rather, it asks would it means to think of this space as one of connection – of connected fates and forms of violence, imperialist ambitions, forms of forgetting and erasure, but also of internationalist politics, resistances, and familial ties and kinship-making. The Mediterranean, as much as it is often conceptualized as a space of death and mourning, must be one of the grounds upon which we rethink solidarity and the human condition.

We will read and discuss texts ranging from shorter works on the Black Mediterranean and solidarity ships, forensic anthropology and histories of the region (Braudel). In addition, and in the spirit of slow-reading, we will also read a whole ethnography by the anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada, whose book The Mediterranean Incarnate explores Mediterranean fishermen and their making of kinship and a region. Class discussions will be seminar style – all students are expected to have read readings for all classes and to contribute to class discussion. This class is open to both undergraduate and M.A. students but will be held in English (though writing can be German). All welcome!

Prof. Dr. Andrea Mühlebach

Modul 8/9 - Schwerpunkt

2 x 9 Credit Points (M 8 u. M 9 je 9 CP bei 4 SWS) für Profilfach & Komplementärfach

A) Ethnologie

VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
09-50-M89-A2More Than Just Feelings: The Politics of Emotions (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Di 16:00 - 18:00 SFG 1080 (2 SWS)

Einzeltermine:
Di 28.06.22 16:00 - 18:00 SFG 2020
Dr. Ulrike Flader
09-50-M89-A3Rights of Nature (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Do 08:00 - 12:00 GW2 B1700 SFG 0150 (4 SWS)

Courts all over the world are granting rights to nature – especially to rivers. In India, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, rivers and other ecological entities and ecosystems have become legal subjects or persons. This means that environmental entities have been conferred “standing before the law.” The paradigmatic case was the Whanganui River in New Zealand, which is a legal person and can be represented in court. Other rivers that have been granted standing are, for example, the Atrato River in Colombia, the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, and the Yarra River in Australia. These rivers are now legal persons with all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person. They can, for example, have someone sue on their behalf for their own preservation. They can be represented by prosecutors who “speak” for them.

This class is a research-intensive experiment in legal anthropology and collaborative learning as well as a hands-on introduction to the rights of nature phenomenon. Why has it emerged at this moment, where, and who is driving these developments? Why have rivers especially been granted rights, and what kinds of law is being created here? Who can represent nature in court if nature cannot “speak” or defend itself? And what are the effects of these novel frontiers for international, national, but also local law-making? We will try and answer these questions through the tools of historical ethnography, meaning that all students will contribute concretely to answering these questions. We will do so by collectively conducting interviews with legal scholars, oral histories with indigenous activists, archival work, media analysis as well as analyses of court rulings. We will analyze the data in class and produce a collective publication. In the process, students will be introduced to the interpretive methods of anthropology, the anthropology of law, and the study of the frontiers of the political and legal imagination. This class is open to undergraduate students and M.A. students. Class will be conducted in English, but I will accomodate all levels of language-competence. All welcome!

Prof. Dr. Andrea Mühlebach
09-50-M89-A4Multimodal Anthropology (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Einzeltermine:
Fr 06.05.22 14:00 - 16:00 GW1-HS H1010
Sa 07.05.22 10:00 - 12:00 SFG 0140
Fr 20.05.22 14:00 - 18:00 GW1-HS H1010
Sa 21.05.22 10:00 - 14:00 GW1-HS H1010
Fr 10.06.22 14:00 - 18:00 GW1 A0010
Sa 11.06.22 10:00 - 14:00 GW1-HS H1000
Fr 24.06.22 14:00 - 18:00 GW1-HS H1010
Sa 25.06.22 10:00 - 14:00 SFG 0140

2 SWS

Kurzbeschreibung:

In recent years, anthropology has embraced multimodal methods and innovative forms of representation—a shift we might call anthropology’s “creative turn.” Although this experimental and playful approach to form and method has historical precedent, today’s creative turn is part of a self-conscious and deliberate effort to inhabit the present differently, and to keep alive the possibility of an ethical and political otherwise. And yet attention to how multimodal forms achieve their effects remains underdeveloped. This seminar thus aims to explore the increasing popularity of multimodality while also developing a conceptual approach that can account for its social and political effects. It investigates the possibilities and limits of more-than-textual anthropology in conducting and communicating research, but also as a way to intervene into the social world. Examples of such multimodality include sequential art (comics), drawing, diverse audio/visual artefacts, games, and performances. The seminar will combine mini-lectures, analysis of text and other media, as well as practical exercises. Reading and discussion will be in English.



Literatur:

Full list of course materials provided at the start of the semester

Dr. Andrew Gilbert
09-50-M89-A6Clandestine Publics (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Einzeltermine:
Do 21.04.22 10:00 - 14:00 FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Do 28.04.22 10:00 - 14:00 FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Do 05.05.22 10:00 - 14:00 FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Do 12.05.22 10:00 - 14:00 FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Fr 27.05.22 10:00 - 14:00 GW1 A0160
Sa 28.05.22 10:00 - 16:00 GW1 B0080
Fr 03.06.22 10:00 - 14:00 GW1 A0160
Fr 03.06.22 14:00 - 18:00 GW1 B0080
Sa 04.06.22 10:00 - 16:00 GW1 B0080
Do 16.06.22 10:00 - 14:00 FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)
Do 14.07.22 10:00 - 14:00 FVG O0150 (Seminarraum)

This course explores secret publics, using ideas from ethnography and art! It is practical, meaning: you will develop your own projects. NEW: Some of you will present the course's ideas on the FUSION Festival.

What are clandestine publics? Here is an example: In 2015, the American TV series 'Homeland' featured a secret art project, unknown to the makers of the series and most of the viewers. Some of the scenes were set in a Syrian refugee camp, covered for decorative purposes in Arabic graffiti. Inaccessible by non-arabic-speaking viewers, this background graffiti said things like "HOMELAND IS RACIST" and "#BLACKLIVESMATTER". This was the work of artist Heba Y. Amin and The Arabian Street Artists, who had been asked to help out as set designers, and used this possibility for a clandestine public.

In this course, we will look at many more examples of such clandestine and often subversive publics, and conduct experiments into how to set them up. Clandestine Publics can be an important means to spread messages in places where they are not supposed to be; they can be a way of allowing and protecting secret communication; they can be an important part of activism; thesy can be part of everyday life; they can also add to a new forms of Public Anthropology that leaves the university and addresses new audiences ... and they can be fun!

Artists have explored such clandestine public with cunning creativity. In the course you will discuss artworks, explore theories, conduct inquiries and experiments, and, most importantly, develop your own clandestine public with your fellow students. The course is taught by London-based artist Simon Farid, who has developed many clandestine publics, as well as Götz Bachmann from Bremen. Together, we will embark on an adventure of experiment, ethnography, theory and art!

NEW: We got invited to the FUSION Festival. A group of up to 3 students will take the ideas of the course to the FUSION (June 29-July 3). This includes tickets and backstage access. It is obviously not obligatory. If we have too many candidates, we will decide together who will represent our ideas on Fusion.

This course is a 4 SWS course and gives you access to 9CP.

Example: https://www.hebaamin.com/arabian-street-artists-bomb-homeland-why-we-hacked-an-award-winning-series/

Fusion Festival: https://www.fusion-festival.de/de/2022/start

Prof. Dr. Götz Bachmann

B) Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft

VAKTitel der VeranstaltungDozentIn
09-60-M8/9-NHuman Rights in the Digital Age (in englischer Sprache)

Seminar

Termine:
wöchentlich Di 14:00 - 16:00 GW1 B0100 (2 SWS)

Einzeltermine:
Mi 20.04.22 13:00 - 15:00 Online
Do 28.04.22 13:00 - 15:00 Online
Di 07.06.22 16:00 - 18:00 SFG 2020
Di 14.06.22 16:00 - 18:00 GW2 B1216
Di 28.06.22 14:00 - 18:00 Online


Dennis Redeker