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Final Frontiers: Exploring, Discovering, Conquering in the Age of Enlightenment (LAPASEC Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference)- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka, Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben
- Oberseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Blockveranstaltung 27.9.2019-29.9.2019 Mo-Fr, Sa, So, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Module allocation
To take part, students need to register via e-mail until 20 September, 2019: lapasec2019.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
MA English and American Studies: Master Module Literature /Culture : Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
Profile Module I-III Literature / Culture: Seminar 8 ECTS OR Übung 2 ECTS
- Inhalt
- This conference also serves as an Oberseminar specifically for students intending to pursue an academic career after their current course of studies.
With the eighteenth century, the so-called Age of Discovery, or Age of Exploration, in
European history reached its fulminant peak. Apart from professional geographic exploration,
such as the travels around the world of James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville,
travelling to Continental Europe (e.g. the Grand Tour) and further abroad had become
fashionable for many people of independent means. The literature of the time is thus replete
with travel writing, ranging from scientific reports following exploration tours, via observations
of countries and their people, such as Lady Mary Wortley Montague’s letters, to satiric “travel
reports” such as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. (British) people had taken to roaming the
earth and sharing their adventures and opinions by publishing their experiences.
As Book III of Gulliver’s Travels and Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins suggest, the eighteenth
century saw a lot of speculation (in scientific, pseudo-scientific and fictional writing) on
technical innovation, travels into outer space, and trans-human development. While Swift drew
on previous and contemporary speculation that was to culminate in Science Fiction, Paltock
exploited (among other sources) the serious discussion in Mathematical Magick of John
Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, of the question whether man could acquire the art of flying.
Yet, the eighteenth century was also an Age of Discovery within. Doctors and scientists
rendered the fields of surgery, obstetrics and pathology socially acceptable and the development
within medicine gained much momentum. Exploring what lies underneath or within through
medicine or early psychology widened the scope of human understanding and changed the
perception of the human being within the world.
Exploring and discovering is thus a core motivation of professional and non-professional
persons in the long eighteenth century. The conference aims at bringing together a variety of
approaches and results addressing the following questions: How was exploration motivated?
How did scientific, medical or other discoveries change human understanding? Which effects
did spatial or medical discoveries have on politics and society? Or quite basically, how was
exploration made possible? Who ordered explorative voyages or anatomical studies? Who
wrote about discoveries and to what purpose? These questions are certainly only a fraction of
the plethora of questions scholars could ask about this Age of Discoveries.
Financed by Deutsch-Französische Hochschule / Unversité Franco-Allemande
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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