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| − | *(In der Regel) Dienstags 18:15, Raum A6 2-212 | + | *[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/index.html Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Oldenburg] |
| − | *Veranstalter: [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/index.html Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Oldenburg]
| + | *Organisation: [[User:Holger Limberg|Dr. des. Holger Limberg]] and [[User:Annika McPherson|Dr. des. Annika McPherson]] |
| − | *Organisation: [[User:Olaf Simons|Dr. Olaf Simons]] und [[User:Christina Meyer|Dr. Christina Meyer]] | + | |
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| − | =Summer 2009=
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| − | * 5.5.2009: Annika McPherson "The Role of Cultural Studies in the English Studies Curriculum"
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| − | * 19.5.2009: Julia Meier
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| − | Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"
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| − | <big>'''Forschungskolloquium des Seminars<br>für Anglistik und Amerikanistik'''</big><br><br> | + | <big>'''Research Colloquium of the English Department'''</big><br><br> |
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| | + | Our colloquium addresses a broad variety of research topics in English |
| | + | and American Studies and offers up-and-coming as well as established scholars a |
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| | + | research include ''literary'' and ''cultural studies'', ''didactics'', and ''linguistics''. |
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| | + | The colloquium takes place on selected days during the term. A 45-minute lecture |
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| | + | All interested students and colleagues, also from other fields of study, are |
| | + | welcome to experience research outside the classroom and to engage in critical |
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| | + | If you are interested in presenting a paper in our research colloquium or for |
| | + | futher questions, please contact the organizers: |
| | + | Dr. des. Holger Limberg (Linguistics/Didactics), h.limberg@uni-oldenburg.de |
| | + | or Dr. des. Annika Pherson (Literary and Cultural Studies), annika.mcpherson@uni-oldenburg.de |
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| | + | == Schedule for the summer term 2010: == |
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| − | Das Kolloquium ist eine außerhalb des Vorlesungsverzeichnisses laufende Veranstaltung mit interdisziplinärer Ausrichtung. Sie soll im Seminar - unter Oldenburgs AnglistInnen und AmerkanistInnen - fachorientierten Diskussionen Raum bieten. Der Austausch mit Gästen, ob Vortragende oder Zuhörende, steht dabei immer wieder im Vordergrund.
| + | '''09 June 2010:'''<br> |
| | + | '''Dr. Beril Saydun (University of Oldenburg)'''<br> |
| | + | '''"Construction of Nationalism and Gender in Halidé Edib’s Autobiographical Writings"''' |
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| − | Die Veranstaltung findet meist Dienstags (im Seminarratsraum A6-2-212) statt. In der Regel steht ein Vortrag von 45 Minuten bis einer Stunde im Zentrum einer offenen Diskussion. Interessierte alle Fächer sind zu jeder dieser Veranstaltungen herzlich eingeladen. Ansprechpartner für Ideen und Organisation (wie etwa die Aufnahme in die Mailinglist) ist
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| − | [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]].
| + | '''24 June 2010:'''<br> |
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| − | =Winter 2008/09=
| + | '''Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (Bremen/Berlin)'''<br> |
| | + | '''"Early Modern Afro-European Encounters in North Central Europe"''' |
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| − | ==Tue. Nov. 4, 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma Theory and the Candidacy of John McCain"==
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| − | :John McCain's war experiences and political career provide an excellent example for measuring the interaction between personal experience and national mythology. The psychological and personal reality of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder intersect with popular culture mythology about Vietnam war veterans and POWs. In McCain's career, this trajectory can be measured by his personal responses to difficult moments in his life and the way they match or contrast with changing U.S. opinions about Vietnam war veterans and about the POW-MIA controversy. Looked at through this lens, the current U.S. election can be seen as not only a political choice, but a narrative choice on the part of the American people. | + | '''28 June 2010:''' <br> |
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| − | ==Tue. Dec. 2, 2008: Isabel Karremann: "The Art of Forgetting in Literary and Cultural Studies" ==
| + | '''Dr. Lisa King (University of Kansas)''' <br> |
| | + | '''"The Imagined Indian: The Rhetoric of American Indian Representations in Euro-American Media"''' |
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| − | :When Umberto Eco raised the question whether there might be an art of forgetting, he dismissed the very possibility from the start: "An ''ars oblivionalis''? Forget it!" (1988). His rejection was based on the strictly semiotic assumption that it is impossible to represent what has been forgotten because each use of signs makes the signified present, conscious and hence remembered/memorable. This model can only think forgetting as a negative power, as an absence, a destructive force of nature against which an inherently positive ''ars memorativa'' is pitched. However, the relation between memory and forgetting is more complicated than this dichotomous model of presence and absence, of compensation and loss, of culture and nature suggests. Today's talk will give a systematic survey of the cultural techniques and practices available for consigning a specific memory content to oblivion, as well as the hermeneutic tools available for studying forgetting.
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| − | ==Tue. Dec. 9, 2008: Angela Baier: "I feel, I feel the Deity within" - Georg Friedrich Händels Oratorien und der whiggistische Enthusiasmus ==
| + | '''01 July 2010:''' <br> |
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| − | :Was die Entstehung von Georg Friedrich Händels Oratorien in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts angeht, hält sich in der Händelforschung hartnäckig die Meinung, Händel habe seine nun englischsprachigen und religiösen Werke für eine aufsteigende bürgerliche Mittelklasse komponiert, während die italienische Opera seria als typisch „aristokratische“ Kunstform zunehmend in Vergessenheit geriet. Das Oratorium wird also, quasi als „Handelian variation on Habermas“, zum einem der wichtigsten Instrumente bei der Verbürgerlichung der hohen Kunst und damit auch der Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen. Die Verbürgerlichungsthese gehört – trotz Originalklangbewegung – nach wie vor zu den Heiligtümern der Händelforschung, die anzugreifen dem Sakrileg gleichkommt. Sie ist zugegebenermaßen praktisch in der Handhabung und liefert eine simple Erklärung für den Aufstieg einer neuartigen Kunstform. Sie hat nur einen einzigen Fehler: mit der historischen Realität hat sie wenig zu tun. | + | '''Dr. Thorsten Huth (Southern Illinois University)''' <br> |
| | + | '''"Translating Cultures: Requests in Learner Interaction"''' |
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| − | :Als theoretisches Konstrukt, das Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland entstand, kann die Verbürgerlichungsthese nicht weiterhelfen bei der Ermittlung des tatsächlichen Zielpublikums und der realen politischen und religiösen Aussagekraft der Werke. Mein Vortrag wird in einem interdisziplinären Ansatz versuchen, das englische Oratorium in ein ungewöhnliches, aber historisch akkurateres Licht zu rücken.
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| − | ==Tue Dec. 16, 2008: Christina Meyer, "Trauma Frames"== | + | == Forthcoming talk== |
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| − | :Ever since he published his book ''Maus'' (1991), Art Spiegelman has established himself as a well-known author all over the continents, and has become a challenge (not only) for literary scholars. In ''Maus'' Spiegelman chooses the medium “comix” as a mode of inquiry and as a means to convey the events of the past. In his recent publication on the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 with the stirring title ''In the Shadow of No Towers'', Spiegelman has once again picked up the pen to narrate/draw the events of that day. Whereas he created a monochromatic montage full of silhouettes, black lines and shadings in ''Maus'', he now produces a collage of color images flickering on the paper-screen in front of the reader’s eye.
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| − | :The attacks on the WTC in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 are probably the most well documented events (be that in photographic images, in VHS-video images, official TV reportage, or any kind of digitalized pictures). All over the world, people would/could watch what was shown on TV (and on the Internet). In years to come, everybody will have a personal story at hand to tell where s/he was and what s/he did on that particular day. | + | |
| − | :Spiegelman’s graphic text is his personal response to immense shock, disbelief, disorientation and incomprehension – feelings he shares with so many other people. The syntax of his text is built of framed images that capture all kinds of sensations (in words and images), only to be subverted in the next instance. Frames no longer hold the picture. Buildings and figures become elastic, they transgress borders. The only border then is the limited space available on a given page of the book. Content and form of Spiegelman’s ''In the Shadow of No Towers'' (and their interdependency) will be the center of attention in my talk. His work represents an aesthetic challenge in the frame of postmodern strategies so widely discussed these days.
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| − | ==Tue Jan. 13, 2009: Holger Limberg, "Teacher-Student Interaction at University: The Discourse of Academic Office Hours"==
| + | 2:15pm (A13 0-028)<br> |
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| − | :Gleich et al. (1982: 44) have described academic office hours “as an institutionalized form of ‘taking time’ for the student”. While both sides involved in this interaction generally agree on the importance of these encounters, the participants seldom reflect on the possibilities and difficulties that these interactions entail (especially for students). Ethnographic studies have pointed out the necessity for an improvement of teacher – student contact outside of class (e.g. Gleich et al. 1982; Boettcher and Meer 2000). In the research field of academic discourse analysis, very little is known about how teachers and students mutually construct these consultations and how they design their verbal actions to achieve a (successful) outcome. The features of this academic talk (i.e. face-to-face, interactive, student-driven, non-evaluated, institutionally-bound, task-oriented, asymmetrical, etc.) make it a multifaceted and interesting form of interaction for discourse analysis.
| + | '''Dr. Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov (Bremen/Berlin)''' <br> |
| − | :This study includes both an ethnographic account of academic interactions between teachers and students within the culturally-situated context of a German university as well as a more detailed analysis of the interactional organization of this speech event. Drawing on naturally-occurring data from two German universities, the overall structural organization of these interactions is investigated using a micro, CA-type analysis of participants’ actions. The analytical focus is put on the sequential activities teachers and students engage in during the different phases of the consultation. This includes, e.g., how participants open office hour talk, how they establish an agenda, how they manage advice-giving, and, finally, how they close the consultation. Implications are drawn regarding the interactional effectiveness as well as the socio-academic importance of this talk. Furthermore, suggestions are made as to how these findings might be implemented in an academic setting.
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| − | ==Tue Jan. 20, 2009: Megan Macdonald, "Liturgical Lens: Performance Art and Christianity"==
| + | '''"Early Modern Afro-European Encounters in North Central Europe"''' |
| − | :[http://www.drama.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profiles/Macdonald.html Megan Macdonald at the Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London]
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| − | :What influence do western spiritual practices have on how we understand religion and spirituality? Through examples from contemporary performance practices and a comparison between academic analyses of Marina Abramović's The House With the Ocean View this talk will open up questions surrounding how we use language to discuss and write about the spiritual. | + | Abstract:<br> |
| | + | The Early Modern European imagination of the world was spurred and challenged by the encounter with several non-European cultures. The alphabetized public was aware of the learned treatises of scholars and shared travelers' experiences through cosmographies and travel reports. Later, the rise of the encyclopedia offered a new form of alphabetically organized knowledge. |
| | + | However, encounter with other cultures was not limited to the written word and cultural contact with non-Europeans took place also in Europe itself. Unlike the first people of America 'discovered' after 1492, the notion of people of black African descent was not entirely new to Europeans. Much earlier, Greek and Roman writing, but also the Bible and later reports on the crusades to the 'Holy Land' had informed about the existence of black- or dark-skinned people on the African continent. Since the Ethiopian church was regarded as being part of the Christian church, people of African descent were seen as potential allies of the Christian armies. |
| | + | This image of Africans as part of the Christian world was visualized in religious images like 'The three Magi,' 'Bathseba,' 'The Baptism of the Eunuch' and others, and Black Africans became a sizable part of European societies in the fifteenth century, when Portuguese ships reached out to the West African coast. |
| | + | This lecture will examine the presence of people of African descent in the social networks of a North German noble house, the East-Frisian princely family of the Cirksena and will trace their paths and life-courses in this social environment, trying to assess their positions in the subtly scaled hierarchies of the courtly world. Originally coming to the German lands as slaves at an early age, they became part of the court and wider society through cultural practices such as religious conversion, which can be regarded as the ultimate prerequisite for social integration, but also as a first step towards a (limited) emancipation from lingering dependencies. |
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