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240517 SE MM3 Violence and (dead) bodies. Experiences from (post)conflict scenarios (2025S)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Participation at first session is obligatory!The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used.
The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor.
The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor.
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Sa 01.02.2025 00:01 bis Mo 24.02.2025 23:59
- Abmeldung bis Mo 17.03.2025 23:59
Details
max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- N Mittwoch 05.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Montag 10.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 02.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 09.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 30.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 07.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
- Mittwoch 14.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
For a positive completion of the seminar, the students must provide the following partial achievements:
• Text reading, active participation in discussions: 25 points
• One written examination. In the essay, students must develop an argument and engage and discuss with the literature discussed during the course (at least 3 references): 25 points
• Individually selected empirical paper on the topic of the SE course: 25 points.
• Presentation of the literature will be assessed, and it will correspond to the 25 points.
• Text reading, active participation in discussions: 25 points
• One written examination. In the essay, students must develop an argument and engage and discuss with the literature discussed during the course (at least 3 references): 25 points
• Individually selected empirical paper on the topic of the SE course: 25 points.
• Presentation of the literature will be assessed, and it will correspond to the 25 points.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The course will be taught in English and examinations will also be in English.
Students are expected to have read all the texts to be discussed in the course before the respective session. The reading of English-language texts is a prerequisite.Prerequisites for a positive completion of the course are:
• Thorough reading of the literature
• Comprehensive presentation of the literature (in groups)
• Active and continuous participation during the sessions
• Participation in discussions and group work
• Punctual submission of the written work
1 (sehr gut) > 100-89 points
2 (gut) > 88-76 points
3 (befriedigend) > 75-63 Punkte
4 (genügend) > 62-50 points
5 (nicht genügend) > 49-0 points
Students are expected to have read all the texts to be discussed in the course before the respective session. The reading of English-language texts is a prerequisite.Prerequisites for a positive completion of the course are:
• Thorough reading of the literature
• Comprehensive presentation of the literature (in groups)
• Active and continuous participation during the sessions
• Participation in discussions and group work
• Punctual submission of the written work
1 (sehr gut) > 100-89 points
2 (gut) > 88-76 points
3 (befriedigend) > 75-63 Punkte
4 (genügend) > 62-50 points
5 (nicht genügend) > 49-0 points
Prüfungsstoff
There will be no exam
Literatur
Tentative reading list
Laketa, S. (2021). (Counter)Terrorism and the Intimate, Conflict and Society, 7(1), 9-25. Retrieved Aug 31, 2021, from https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/conflict-and-society/7/1/arcs070102.xml
Engelke, M. (2019). The Anthropology of Death Revisited. Annual Review of Anthropology, 48(1), 29–44. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011420
Toom, V. (2016) "Whose body is it? Technolegal materialization of victims’ bodies and remains after the World Trade Center terrorist attacks." Science, Technology, & Human Values 41, no. 4: 686-708.
Rousseau, N. (2015). Identification, politics, disciplines: missing persons and colonial skeletons in South Africa. Human Remains and Identification: Mass Violence, Genocide, and the ‘Forensic Turn, 175-202.
Anstett, É., & Dreyfus, J. M. (2017). Introduction: Why exhume? Why identify?. In Human remains and identification. Manchester University Press.
Bjarnegård, E., Melander, E., Bardall, G., Brounéus, K., Forsberg, E. et al. (2015) Gender, peace and armed conflict. In: Ian Davis (ed.), SIPRI Yearbook 2015: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (pp. 101-109). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kruse, C. (2012). Legal storytelling in pre-trial investigations: Arguing for a wider perspective on forensic evidence. New Genetics and Society, 31(3), 299-309.
M’charek, A., Hagendijk, R., & Vries, W. D. (2013). Equal before the law: On the machinery of sameness in forensic DNA practice. Science, technology, & human values, 38(4), 542-565.
Baby, S., Nérard, F. X., & Ferguson, C. (2017). Objects from the missing. Exhumations and uses of the material traces of mass violence. Les Cahiers Sirice, (2), 5-20.
Moon, C. (2006). Narrating political reconciliation: Truth and reconciliation in South Africa. Social & Legal Studies, 15(2), 257-275.
Ferrándiz, F. 2013. Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st-century Spain. American Ethnologist 40 (1): 38-54
Bennett, C. (2014). Who knows who we are? Questioning DNA analysis in disaster victim identification. New Genetics and Society, 33(3), 239-256.
Smith, L. A., & García-Deister, V. (2017). Capturing Los Migrantes Desaparecidos: Crisis, unknowability, and the making of the missing. Perspectives on Science, 25(5), 680-697.
Gatti, G. (2020). The social disappeared: Genealogy, global circulations, and (possible) uses of a category for the bad life. Public Culture, 32(1), 25-43.
Irazuzta, I. (2020). Social Disappearance: Notes from the Experience of Migration in Transit through Mexico. In Schnidel and Gatti (2020) Social Disappearance Explorations Between Latin America and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Forum Transregionale Studien.
Gatti, G., & Blanes, J. P. (2020). The leftovers. The dead in life and social disappearance. Death Studies, 44(11), 681-689.
Laketa, S. (2021). (Counter)Terrorism and the Intimate, Conflict and Society, 7(1), 9-25. Retrieved Aug 31, 2021, from https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/conflict-and-society/7/1/arcs070102.xml
Engelke, M. (2019). The Anthropology of Death Revisited. Annual Review of Anthropology, 48(1), 29–44. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011420
Toom, V. (2016) "Whose body is it? Technolegal materialization of victims’ bodies and remains after the World Trade Center terrorist attacks." Science, Technology, & Human Values 41, no. 4: 686-708.
Rousseau, N. (2015). Identification, politics, disciplines: missing persons and colonial skeletons in South Africa. Human Remains and Identification: Mass Violence, Genocide, and the ‘Forensic Turn, 175-202.
Anstett, É., & Dreyfus, J. M. (2017). Introduction: Why exhume? Why identify?. In Human remains and identification. Manchester University Press.
Bjarnegård, E., Melander, E., Bardall, G., Brounéus, K., Forsberg, E. et al. (2015) Gender, peace and armed conflict. In: Ian Davis (ed.), SIPRI Yearbook 2015: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (pp. 101-109). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Kruse, C. (2012). Legal storytelling in pre-trial investigations: Arguing for a wider perspective on forensic evidence. New Genetics and Society, 31(3), 299-309.
M’charek, A., Hagendijk, R., & Vries, W. D. (2013). Equal before the law: On the machinery of sameness in forensic DNA practice. Science, technology, & human values, 38(4), 542-565.
Baby, S., Nérard, F. X., & Ferguson, C. (2017). Objects from the missing. Exhumations and uses of the material traces of mass violence. Les Cahiers Sirice, (2), 5-20.
Moon, C. (2006). Narrating political reconciliation: Truth and reconciliation in South Africa. Social & Legal Studies, 15(2), 257-275.
Ferrándiz, F. 2013. Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st-century Spain. American Ethnologist 40 (1): 38-54
Bennett, C. (2014). Who knows who we are? Questioning DNA analysis in disaster victim identification. New Genetics and Society, 33(3), 239-256.
Smith, L. A., & García-Deister, V. (2017). Capturing Los Migrantes Desaparecidos: Crisis, unknowability, and the making of the missing. Perspectives on Science, 25(5), 680-697.
Gatti, G. (2020). The social disappeared: Genealogy, global circulations, and (possible) uses of a category for the bad life. Public Culture, 32(1), 25-43.
Irazuzta, I. (2020). Social Disappearance: Notes from the Experience of Migration in Transit through Mexico. In Schnidel and Gatti (2020) Social Disappearance Explorations Between Latin America and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Forum Transregionale Studien.
Gatti, G., & Blanes, J. P. (2020). The leftovers. The dead in life and social disappearance. Death Studies, 44(11), 681-689.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Do 16.01.2025 14:06
The course is intended as a space for debate that arises from the careful reading of the material required for each week. Each session consists of a). Discussion of the literature, b). Presentation of a case study, c). class exercises. To enhance discussions, students are to present the literature meant for each session.Students will submit two (2) essays on the literature discussed.Likewise, each student must hand in an individually selected empirical paper on the topic of the SE.