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On the other hand: Why not make Civil Rights struggles the focus of the tutorial? We could look at different forms of resistance/activism. Who fights how when where against or for what or whom? E.g. AIDS activism in the US (coalition of gays, lesbians, women's rights groups and others against US health system and pharmacy companies. Forms: die-ins etc. "Fight dangerous sexual practices, not male homosexuality") | On the other hand: Why not make Civil Rights struggles the focus of the tutorial? We could look at different forms of resistance/activism. Who fights how when where against or for what or whom? E.g. AIDS activism in the US (coalition of gays, lesbians, women's rights groups and others against US health system and pharmacy companies. Forms: die-ins etc. "Fight dangerous sexual practices, not male homosexuality") | ||
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== Religion (Simons) Nov. 12, 2008 == | == Religion (Simons) Nov. 12, 2008 == |
Revision as of 15:29, 3 November 2008
Tutorial Times:
Sorry there might be some confusion. Here are the official places and times.
Michaela Koch (starting on Friday 24th, October)
Fr 12 - 14, A10 1-121a
Florian Gubisch (starting on Monday 27th, October)
Mo 12 - 14, A01 0-004
Tutorials are optional. You don't have to sign up.
Contents
- 1 Introduction (Meyer) Oct. 15, 2008
- 2 Diasporas (Meyer) Oct. 22, 2008:
- 3 From Anglo Saxon Raids to Global Anglophone Culture (Simons) Oct. 29, 2008
- 4 Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights? (Simons) Nov. 05, 2008
- 5 Religion (Simons) Nov. 12, 2008
- 6 An Economic History of the English Speaking World (Simons/McPherson) Nov. 19, 2008
- 7 Technology and Knowledge (Simons/McPherson) Nov. 26, 2008
- 8 Media and the Public (Meyer) Dec. 3, 2008
- 9 Representations of Justice (Simons) Dec. 10, 2008
- 10 Key Concepts of Cultural Studies (McPherson) Dec. 17, 2008
- 11 The Construct(edness) of Traditions (McPherson/Meyer/Simons) Jan. 07, 2009
- 12 Written Exam, Jan. 14, 2009
- 13 Cultural Icon(s)/Iconology (Meyer) Jan. 21, 2009
- 14 Round-up, Evaluation, New Perspectives (McPherson) Jan. 28, 2009
- 15 Considerations
Introduction (Meyer) Oct. 15, 2008
- Christina Meyer. Course outline, ppt file
Diasporas (Meyer) Oct. 22, 2008:
- Christina Meyer. Diasporas, ppt file
From Anglo Saxon Raids to Global Anglophone Culture (Simons) Oct. 29, 2008
- Olaf Simons. The Expansion of the Anglophone Sphere, pptx file, ppt file
- BM2-3 Anglophone Expansion:Timeline - A page you can expand with hits at good information.
Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights? (Simons) Nov. 05, 2008
I have no idea about the New Zealand-Maori-Topic, ...sounds interesting.
My lecture will give an overview of forms of government, it might touch the question of conspiracy theories. Why is it that the Americans feel they should have a president who can distance himself from Washington? They live in the country they celebrate as the harbinger of civil rights, freedom and liberty, yet they feel that their capital is corrupt and their government a cheat, a mere facade. Are the conspiracy theories a mark of a nation defending its liberties? Is it that the propaganda leaves them with a taste of being cheated by the same propaganda?
Topics on the US could hence be: The role of lobbying and attempts to curb it. The UK is a peculiar structure with several initiatives to introduce proportional representation. Topics otherwise the stages of the enfranchisement: Blacks, Women etc. why so late?
Classical option: Hobbes and Locke - yet not necessarily my choice here --Olaf Simons 14:45, 3 November 2008 (CET)
New Zealand-Maori/Oz-Aborinies --> too closely linked to last weeks lectures for my opinion (when was citizenship granted to whom? e.g. Chinese immigrants, Native Americans in the US. And I guess they all know by now that fairness is rarely part of colonialism/imperialism.)
On the other hand: Why not make Civil Rights struggles the focus of the tutorial? We could look at different forms of resistance/activism. Who fights how when where against or for what or whom? E.g. AIDS activism in the US (coalition of gays, lesbians, women's rights groups and others against US health system and pharmacy companies. Forms: die-ins etc. "Fight dangerous sexual practices, not male homosexuality")
Not up to date with conspiracy theories. But why not. Is there sth. we could use from Star Trek? Or what was this novel again a couple of years ago ... Michaela Koch 15:29, 3 November 2008 (CET)
Religion (Simons) Nov. 12, 2008
An Economic History of the English Speaking World (Simons/McPherson) Nov. 19, 2008
Technology and Knowledge (Simons/McPherson) Nov. 26, 2008
Media and the Public (Meyer) Dec. 3, 2008
Representations of Justice (Simons) Dec. 10, 2008
Key Concepts of Cultural Studies (McPherson) Dec. 17, 2008
The Construct(edness) of Traditions (McPherson/Meyer/Simons) Jan. 07, 2009
Written Exam, Jan. 14, 2009
Cultural Icon(s)/Iconology (Meyer) Jan. 21, 2009
Round-up, Evaluation, New Perspectives (McPherson) Jan. 28, 2009
Considerations
Maybe: Julia Ward Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", set to William Steffe's already-existing music, was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War. In 1870 Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation. After the war Howe focused her activities on the causes of pacifism and women's suffrage. From 1872 to 1879, she assisted Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell in editing Woman's Journal. [1]
4 Oct. 29, 2008 Harbingers of Freedom, Democracy and Civil Rights?
Material: Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman?" --> Intersectionality: Human Rights + Women's Rights + Afro-American Rights
another idea: colonialism in Oz (and NZ). treatment of Aboriginals (Maori). Who was counted as "human", given citizen status and right to vote? 1967 referendum in Oz.
5 Nov. 05, 2007 Religion
Maybe: Intelligent design / creationism vs. Darwinism / evolutionary theory. Compare prominent examples. Methodology: devil's advocate
6 Nov. 13, 2008 An Economic History of the English speaking World
Material : maybe caricatures/posters etc. from different eras commenting on the economic development like [2] --> economic development for whom? And who's excluded? (Social) consequences of industrial revolution, globalization ...
7 Nov. 19, 2008 Technology and Knowledge
Maybe sth. on the emergence of natural sciences: L. Daston/K. Park (1998) "Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750". Or a little different: L. Schiebinger "Why mammals are called mammals"
8 Nov. 26, 2008 Media and the Public
Maybe sth on sports? (We might not do it in the VL, but the tutorial could be a place...) Cricket?
or sth. related to music: Trumpet player Billy Tipton comes to mind. Hir story served as a background for "Trumpet" by British novelist Jackie Kay. Although Kay changed it considerably: Placed in GB not US, from white to black skin, from piano to trumpet. Full media attention: newspaper articles, songs, shows, a biography etc.
Noam Chomsky "Democracy and the Media"
9 Dec. 03, 2008 Representations of Justice
Maybe a text by Angela Davis? (Against "prison-industrial complex" in the US, Black feminist, academic, communist, Civil Rights leader, "Free Angela Davis" campaign in early 1970's)
Maybe something on "Hate Crimes"?
e.g. Brandon Teena (see Sloop: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity" in Disciplining Gender) --> documentary + Hollywood + print media: Which stories are told by whom? (Could also work for one of the Media sessions 7/8 or Academy Awards (2)) Media Audiences
Maybe something on theater actors and actresses: Who is when allowed to play which (gender) role. From all-men to all-women casts in English theatres in the 17th century (cp. Straub and Trumbach in Epstein/Straub: Guarded Bodies, also Greenblatt "Fiction and Friction")
10 Dec. 17, 2009 New Topic: Key Concepts in Cultural Studies (a) gender, race, class, ability etc. --> concepts as socially constructed and interdependent categories. b) What is a 'text'? --> movies, literature, art, clothing etc. as material in Cultural Studies)
ad a) Maybe sth. with Thomas Laqueur: Making sex. --> from one sex model to two sex model (and where it might or might not end...) ad b) connected to a): medical, juridical, religious texts and documents
11 Jan. 07, 2009 The Construct(edness) of Traditions
Paul Auster "Music of Chance", also: copies of villages from the black forrest in Japan
Scotland (kilt, Ossian, etc.)
12 Jan. 14, 2009 Written Test
13 Jan. 21, 2009 Cultural Icon(s)/Iconology
14 Jan. 28, 2009 Feedback on Test and Look Ahead