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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Britische und Amerikanische Kultur >>
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Seminare im Vertiefungsmodul (inklusive MA-Module)
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Annotation as Cultural Activity -
- Dozent/in:
- Christa Jansohn
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Hauptseminar, 3 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)
- Termine:
- Fr, 8:00 - 10:15, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies
Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .
- Inhalt:
- As students and scholars of literature and culture, we encounter explanatory notes almost every day – but do we ever think about them? Do we reflect on what, why and how we annotate? In this seminar, we will focus on the practice and the principles of explanatory annotation both in German and English Shakespeare editions.
N.B.: Students attending this seminar must be fluent in German and English and will also need to attend an excursion. There will be a „Vorbesprechung“ (date tba).
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Secondary literature:
Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia, Annotation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021).
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Digitalisierung von Kulturgütern -
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten:
- Christa Jansohn, Claudia Bamberg
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)
- Termine:
- Mo, 12:00 - 14:00, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies
Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .
- Inhalt:
- N.B. Dieser Kurs findet in deutscher Sprache statt.
Ziel dieser berufsorientierten Veranstaltung ist es, einen Überblick über theoretische und methodische Grundlagen der Retrodigitalisierung verschiedener Objekttypen zu geben. Anwendungsorientierte Sitzungen und ein Studienprojekt mit selbstgewähltem thematischem Schwerpunkt ermöglichen eine Sensibilisierung für objektspezifische Besonderheiten und Herausforderungen von Digitalisaten. Zudem werden ein Ausblick über die Verwendungsmöglichkeiten dieser Digitalisate erarbeitet sowie Strategien und Praktiken der Langzeitarchivierung beleuchtet, um eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik anzuregen.
Zu einem früheren Projekt vgl. das digitale DH-Museum: https://dhmuseum.uni-trier.de/node/2
Durchgeführt wird diese Veranstaltung zusammen mit Dr. Claudia Bamberg, die sich mit Dr. Thomas Burch die Geschäftsführung des "Trier Center for Digital Humanities" teilt und den Forschungsbereich "Digitale Edition und Lexikographie" leitet.
Lernziele:
• Kenntnis geeigneter Retrodigitalisierungsstrategien für verschiedene Medien
• Fähigkeit geeignete Digitalisierungs- und Archivierungsmethoden situationsbezogen auszuwählen
• Erlernen des Umgangs mit Software zur Texterschließung
• Erwerb fachspezifischer Terminologie
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N.B. This course will be conducted in German.
The goal of this vocationally oriented seminar is to give you an overview of the theoretical and methodical foundations of the process of "retro-digitization" of various kinds of cultural artifact. Through a number of practically oriented seminar sessions, as well as a study project with an individually chosen thematic emphasis, the seminar will help develop a detailed awareness of the particular requirements and challenges associated with different kinds of digital copy. In addition, you will develop an appreciation of the research uses and possibilities for digitally produced copies and editions, as well as an insight into strategies and practices of long-term archiving. As such, you will learn how to approach the issues and possibilities of digitization in an informed and critical manner.
For details of an earlier digitization project, please see the website of the virtual "Digital Humanities Museum": https://dhmuseum.uni-trier.de/node/2
The seminar will be co-led by Dr Claudia Bamberg, who along with Dr Thomas Burch currently serves as Co-Director of the "Trier Center for Digtital Humanities" and leads the Research Cluster "Digital Editing and Lexicography".
Learning outcomes:
• An awareness of appropriate strategies of retro-digitization for various different kinds of media;
• The ability to select suitable methods of digitization and archiving, as tailored specifically to particular text and/or cultural artifacts;
• A working familiarity with digital text-production software;
• A working familiarity with specialist terminology.
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‘Writing back?’ Legacies of Empire in Postwar Britain -
- Dozent/in:
- Robert Craig
- Angaben:
- Seminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)
- Termine:
- Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation
B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
B.A / LA GY Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability
I. Literaturwissenschaft:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar); NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul.
Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.
II. Kulturwissenschaft:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer M.A.: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Kulturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
M.A. Literatur und Medien: Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie, Erweiterung Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturtheorie
LA (alt) alle, Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Kulturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects and Restricted Electives: Mastermodul Cultural Studies
Restricted Electives: Profilmodul Cultural Studies
The Vertiefungsmodule and Mastermodule will be examined by a term paper (3,500-4,500 and 4,500-6,000 words respectively); the Consolidation Modules will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .
- Inhalt:
- “My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost. I am often considered to be a funny kind of Englishman, a new breed as it were, having emerged from two old histories.” Thus begins Hanif Kureishi’s picaresque novel of identities lost and identities re-forged, The Buddha of Suburbia: a state-of-the-nation snapshot of 1970s Britain, certainly, but also a wry portrait of the myriad challenges of location and adaptation faced by first- and second-generation migrants in a ‘mother country’ that was by turns indifferent and hostile. In 2021, a tolerant and multicultural Britain may be a mixture of fantasy and reality – but even the ‘reality’, as we have recently seen, has surprisingly shallow historical roots.
One the basis of the theoretical framework supplied by Edward Said, Stuart Hall, and Homi K. Bhabha, we will be reading some of the finest literary work to have emerged from the problematic legacy of Empire. We start with Sam Selvon’s classic novel, The Lonely Londoners (1956), an exploration of the struggles of belonging and discrimination faced by the first generation of immigrants from the West Indies. Andrea Levy’s epic bestseller, Small Island (2004) intertwines multiple stories and perspectives in a tale of love, loss, new homes, and new identities. The Buddha of Suburbia traces out Karim’s attempts, as the mixed-race son of an Indian immigrant, to find his own path. Finally, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) crosses cultures, generations, and much else besides in a multi-stranded account of Britain’s complex attitude towards its Commonwealth.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- I. Primärliteratur:
Please buy and read all the novels in the exact editions stated here. If you buy Kindle versions, or the like, you need to make sure that they include the exact (corresponding) page numbers.
Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 2004).
Stuart Hall, ‘Culture, Community, Nation’ (1993), and ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ (1990).
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).
Andrea Levy, Small Island (London: Tinder Press, 2004); John Alexander (dir.), Small Island (2015).
Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2003).
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2006).
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (London: Penguin, 2000).
Hall’s essays, as well as extracts from Bhabha and Said, will be made available on the VC.
II. Sekundärliteratur:
A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first few weeks of the semester.
Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).
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"Jump at de Sun": Women of the Harlem Renaissance -
- Dozent/in:
- Christine Gerhardt
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung
- Termine:
- Einzeltermin am 25.10.2021, Einzeltermin am 15.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 29.11.2021, Einzeltermin am 13.12.2021, Einzeltermin am 10.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 17.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 24.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 31.1.2022, Einzeltermin am 7.2.2022, 18:00 - 21:00, U5/00.24
Biweekly sessions: Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 15, Nov 29, Dec 13, Jan 10, Jan 24, Feb 07 (flexible dates: Jan 17 + 31)
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocation:
All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS) (and equivalents in other subjects)
- Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
3. FlexNow-Registration:
- Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
- ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022
Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
- Inhalt:
- The Harlem Renaissance marks one of the most significant moments in the history of American literature: Between the end of World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, writers in this movement connected with the African American cultural tradition and participated in creating American modernism. The Harlem Renaissance was a social, political, and aesthetic movement as well as an artistic revolution, and is inseparable from the social context of Harlem in the 1920s which included high-brow literary saloons, rent parties, Jazz clubs, ball rooms, theaters, journals, and book stores.
In this seminar, we will talk about the literature of this movement in the context of its music and art, and with special emphasis on the women who shaped it. We will read Georgia Douglas Johnson s play Plumes (1927), Nella Larsen s Quicksand (1928), Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and some of her short stories, as well as poetry by Angelina Weld Grimké, Anne Spencer, and Gwendolyn Bennet, in relation to texts, songs, and art by other players of this movement (including W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Bessy Smith, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Alaine Locke, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer). More information and readings will be available on the Virtual Campus soon.
This class will be taught in a blended format, combining asynchronous assignments with in-class-room meetings (on Zoom or, COVID permitting, in the lecture hall). The first meet-ing will take place on Zoom.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- Please purchase:
1. Nella Larsen s Quicksand (1928), ideally the Norton critical edition with footnotes, ed. by Carla Kaplan
2. Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
You should get and start reading both novels immediately. The overall reading load in this seminar is heavy, so to get a head start, read the novels during the semester break.
Further readings will be made available via the VC.
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Racism and American Environmentalism -
- Dozent/in:
- Johanna Feier
- Angaben:
- Proseminar/Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung
- Termine:
- jede 2. Woche Di, 18:00 - 21:00, Raum n.V.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- 1. Module Allocations:
(A) PROSEMINAR CULTURAL STUDIES (6 ECTS):
All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
- BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
- Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)
>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ CULTURAL studies!
(B) HAUPTSEMINAR CULTURAL STUDIES (8 ECTS):
All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS) (and equivalents in other subjects)
- Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
>> Open for consolidation module CULTURAL studies!
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
PROSEMINAR CULTURAL STUDIES
HAUPTSEMINAR CULTURAL STUDIES
3. FlexNow-Registration:
- Course (de)enrollment: September 1st – November 1st, 2021
- ECTS (de)registration: January 1st – February 1st, 2022
Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
- Inhalt:
- U.S. environmental thought has long been characterized by a history of discriminatory, exclusionary, and elitist concepts. Its inception was marked by white male ideals about human engagement with nature at the expense of less privileged, marginalized population groups and their experiences with the environment. This tradition of capitalizing on a very particular, non-inclusive perspective led to racist notions being ingrained in the very essence of environmental thinking. In this course, we will address the following questions (among others). How are racism and environmentalism inherently connected? What are the cultural, socio-political roots and ramifications of this interlinkage? How does the legacy of racist environmental practices impact more recent ecological developments, such as the ever-escalating climate crisis? We will examine how African American, Latinx, and indigenous writers/activists from across the country have questioned the conventional, discriminatory maxims of U.S. environmental discourses and redefined American environmentalism as quintessentially intersectional.
- Empfohlene Literatur:
- A digital reader will be made available at the beginning of the semester.
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HS Cults, Sects, and Fringe Movements -
- Dozent/in:
- Pascal Fischer
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Mi, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/00.24
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English an American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
- term-paper according to the style-sheet
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
- Inhalt:
- After being widely discussed in the 1970 and 80s, new religious movements, cults and sects gradually faded from the attention of the general public and the academy in following decades. Recently, however, there has been a new interest in religious minority groups and social movements centered on charismatic leaders – as evidenced by Netflix’ documentary Wild, Wild Country (2018) or the reporting on the 2019 trial of NXIVM members.
The seminar tries to understand cults, sects and fringe groups against the backdrop of American cultural history and a number of theoretical approaches. In the historical part of the class, we will study the reasons why religious minorities could flourish in America and why certain areas, namely the “Burned-over District” of western New York State, were particularly gripped by revivalist religious fervor in the nineteenth century. The origins of the Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses will thus be highlighted.
The focus of the seminar will be on religious fringe groups in the second half of the 20th century and the present. We will look at ways the counterculture of the 1960s prepared the ground for alternative spiritualties and communal lifestyles in the 1970s and 80s, e.g. in the Peoples Temple or Rajneesh Movement. We will also take the impact of science (fiction) and UFO beliefs on religious groups into consideration, e.g. in Scientology, Heaven’s Gate or the Nation of Islam.
Apart from studying individual cults and sects, the seminar will pay attention to overarching issues that are widely discussed in the academic literature on new religious movements: Are the distinctions between mainstream religions on the one hand and sects and cults on the other really expedient and what are the advantages and disadvantages of these terms? How can we understand the psychology of cult membership? Does the term brainwashing have any explanatory power? What are the motives of the anti-cult movement? How have eschatological ideas transformed over time? What is the role of women in cults? Assuming a meta-perspective on the study of new religious movements, we will also look at the controversies between cult apologists and cult critics, sometimes called the “cult wars.”
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HS Darwinism in British and American History and Culture -
- Dozent/in:
- Pascal Fischer
- Angaben:
- Hauptseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 8, Erweiterungsbereich
- Termine:
- Di, 12:00 - 14:00, U2/00.26
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English an American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
- term-paper according to the style-sheet
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
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- The word Darwinism is often used to refer to concepts and trends in science, philosophy, society and culture that go beyond the more narrowly subscribed object of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. This seminar indeed pursues a wide approach and looks at several ramifications of evolutionary theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After studying William Paley’s arguments for the creation of the world in his Natural Theology (1802), we will throw glances at a few early proponents of the “transmutation of species”, particularly Erasmus Darwin, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Robert Chambers and also consider the impact of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-1833). In order to fully appreciate the development of Charles Darwin’s ideas, we will read excerpts of his most important publications, i.e. The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), The Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). A major emphasis will be on the controversies these publications triggered – like the clashes between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce at Oxford or the debates between Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at Harvard. In a further step, we will ask how evolutionary ideas were appropriated by other branches of knowledge and how they were treated in literary texts, e.g. by Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. The term social Darwinism, popularized by the American historian Richard Hofstadter, is generally used to refer to branches of laissez-faire capitalism, specific notions of racial superiority and the support for eugenics. Texts by Francis Galton and Karl Pearson from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries illustrate some of these aberrations. In the later part of the semester, we will learn more about the controversies regarding the teaching of evolution or creationism in schools, particularly in the US. At the end of the semester, we will critically discuss the almost hagiographic reverence Darwin enjoys in certain parts of the scientific community in Britain and the US.
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