2024 AM Australian Expedition Narratives

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• Modul: ang614 (Genres: Cultural, Historical and Theoretical Perspectives); ang622 ('Akzentsetzung'); pb113, pb114, pb331, pb332
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik

• Course: 3.02.140
• Time and Venue: Thursday 14:00-16:00, A10 1-121 (Hörsaal F)

• Course Description:

Please, buy and read the following novels:

• White, Patrick. Voss. London: Vintage, [1957] 1994. (ISBN-13: 978-0099324713)
• Grenville, Kate. The Lieutenant. Edinburgh: Canongate, [2008] 2022. (ISBN-13: 978-178689602)

In addition, we will analyse and discuss the following film:

• Etched in Bone (2018, dir. Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon)

PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of the novel and the short story anthology. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.

Introduction and Outline: 4 April

• Looking ahead: Introduction to topic, primary sources, syllabus, examination (three steps: input presentation, RPOplus and research paper)

Reading Week: 11 April

• Contexts

• Thomas, "What is an Expedition" (2015)

Film Analysis: 18 April

• Primary Source: Etched in Bone
• Context: Thomas and Harris, "Anthropology and the Expeditionary Imaginary" (2018)

Guest Talk: 25 April

• Primary Source: Etched in Bone
• Context:

Textual Analysis I: 2 May

• Reading and discussion: tba

Reading Week: 9 May

• Reading:

Textual Anlaysis II: 16 May

• Reading and discussion: tba

Discussion Session: 23 May

• Reading and discussion: tba

Discussion Session: 30 May

• Reading and discussion: tba

Discussion Session: 6 June

• Reading and discussion: tba

Reading Week: 13 June

• Reading: tba

Short Presentations: 19 June

• Reading and discussion: tba

Short Presentations: Session: 26 June

• Reading and discussion: tba
• evaluation

  [Hand in your RPOs until 27 June 2024]

Concluding Session: 3 July

• Looking back
• discussion of research papers

  [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2024]

Tools

• Handout Narratology
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture and Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Discourse
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Identity
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Media
• Handout Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout (Non-)literary texts
• Handout Excerpt
• Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies

Primary Reading

• see above

Links

• 2023-09-28: https://epic.uchicago.edu/insights/david-keith-on-why-carbon-removal-wont-save-big-oil-but-may-help-the-climate/
• 2023-07-04: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/nachhaltigkeit-strategien-internationales/umweltrecht/umweltvoelkerrecht/geoengineering-governance
• 2023-06-30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/06/30/congressionally-mandated-report-on-solar-radiation-modification/
• 2022-12-25: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis
• 2021-05-12: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01243-0
• 2021-03-25: https://www.science.org/content/article/us-needs-solar-geoengineering-research-program-national-academies-says
• 2021-03-11: https://www.mpg.de/16569676/geoengineering
• 2018-07-12: https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/presse/hib/2018_07/564188-564188
• 2017-10-19: https://theconversation.com/geostorm-movie-shows-dangers-of-hacking-the-climate-we-need-to-talk-about-real-world-geoengineering-now-85866
• 2010: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg53007/html/CHRG-111hhrg53007.htm
• geoengineering, n.: first used in the early 1960s acc. to OED