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240527 SE Chaos, Anarchy, Catastrophe - Social Structure and Images of Change (P4) (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work
ON-SITE

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 for courses with continuous assessment.
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

If possible, the course is to be conducted in presence. Due to the respective applicable distance regulations and other measures, adjustments may be made.

  • Tuesday 11.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 25.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 15.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 29.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 13.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 17.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Tuesday 31.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

“The center does not hold”, the ‘status quo’ comes apart and change is inevitable – whether the cause is the outbreak of a volcano or a world economic crisis. The seminar explores how and why social changes and natural disasters share common intertwined modes of representations.

Assessment and permitted materials

Continuous assessment.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Marking is based on active participation including collective and peer-group discussion and short written work (30%), 10 minutes presentation (25%), and final paper (aprox. 20000 characters; 45%).
Closing date for final paper delivery: 27.02.2023

Examination topics

The assessment load is constituted by notions, concepts and approaches that were presented, examined and debated in the course as well as the discussed ethnographic case studies; all work done by the participants, whether collectively or independently.

Reading list

William Butler Yeats:‘The Second Coming’ (Poem)

Ächtler, Norman (ed): Ikonographie des Terrors. Formen äesthetischer Erinnerung in der Bundesrepublik 1978 – 2008. Carsten Gansel: Heidelberg.

Feldman, Allen: "The Actuarial Gaze: From, 9/11 to Abu Ghraib." Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 March 2005.

Fiske J.; Myths and Myth-Makers (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1061).

Grosz, Elisabeth: Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth. University Press Group, 2008.

Hall, Stuart,1997, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: SAGE.

Taussig, Michael 1987: Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man. A Study in Terror and Healing. The University of Chicago Press; Chicago and London.

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