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Hauptseminar: Hauptseminar: Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling - Details
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Veranstaltungsname Hauptseminar: Hauptseminar: Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling
Veranstaltungsnummer 023 100 0010
Semester SS 2023
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 20
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl 20
Heimat-Einrichtung Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Hauptseminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin Montag, 17.04.2023 15:45 - 17:15, Ort: (D, 2122)
Online/Digitale Veranstaltung Veranstaltung wird in Präsenz abgehalten.
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch
ECTS-Punkte 8-10

Räume und Zeiten

(D, 2122)
Montag, 17.04.2023 15:45 - 17:15
(D, 2105)
Freitag, 30.06.2023 09:00 - 14:00
(D, 4056)
Donnerstag, 13.07.2023 12:00 - 18:00
Freitag, 14.07.2023 - Samstag, 15.07.2023 09:00 - 18:00
(D, 2104)
Freitag, 21.07.2023 10:00 - 14:00

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

How can writing and storytelling, a practice so intimately tied to the human perspective and thus presumably human-centered qua definition, provide adequate perspectives for an age in which humanity’s self-centeredness is considered the driving force behind ecological disasters and global climate change? Particularly in recent years, the adoption of the term "Anthropocene" was accompanied by a call to re-think and challenge the role of the human on Earth: not only in the Natural Sciences but specifically in the Humanities, anthropocentric understandings of humans’ allegedly unique subject position have rightfully come under scrutiny. The perhaps severest criticism in this regard has come from the fields of posthumanism and material ecocriticism, where scholars are interested in theorizing beyond the human as well as in critically assessing and dismantling the “exceptional” status that humans have continually attributed to themselves. Some go as far as to propose a philosophy that integrates humans with all kinds of animate and inanimate matter, as one species among many, without any prioritization.
This class aims to look at the above described tension, as "decentering" the human in writing/literature seems anything but intuitive, given the traditional understanding of the writer's/author's voice as the paradigmatic expression of the autonomous self as the sovereign of knowledge about oneself and one's world. Among other things, it will explore relationality as one potential literary means to enable more-than-human storytelling.


Please note: This course is in tandem with the international workshop "Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling", which will take place at the University of Augsburg from July 13 to July 15. Students who enroll in this class must be able to attend the workshop and the following additional meetings on campus: Monday, 17.04.2023, 10:00 - 12:00 Uhr (housekeeping / course introduction), Friday, 30.06.2023, 09:00 - 14:00 Uhr (theoretical discussion / workshop preparation), Friday, 21.07.2023, 10:00 - 14:00 Uhr (recap / term paper discussion)

Anmelderegeln

Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Hauptseminar: Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling".
Folgende Regeln gelten für die Anmeldung:
  • Es wird eine festgelegte Anzahl von Plätzen in den Veranstaltungen verteilt.
    Die Plätze in den betreffenden Veranstaltungen wurden am 12.04.2023 um 12:00 verteilt. Weitere Plätze werden evtl. über Wartelisten zur Verfügung gestellt.
  • Die Anmeldung ist möglich von 06.03.2023, 08:00 bis 10.04.2023, 12:00.