070273 UE Reading Course Contemporary History and Media (2022W)

Political Epistemologies (20th/21st Cent.)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Anmeldung von Mo 12.09.2022 09:00 bis Mo 26.09.2022 14:00
Anmeldung von Mi 28.09.2022 09:00 bis Fr 30.09.2022 14:00
Abmeldung bis Mo 31.10.2022 23:59

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Friedrich Cain

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Dienstag 11.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 18.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 25.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 08.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 15.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 22.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 29.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 06.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 13.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 10.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 17.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 24.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Dienstag 31.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this reading course we will discuss theoretical approaches to study “epistemologies” as systematic contexts of explaining the world. These contexts can (but do not have to) link very different areas from politics to ideology, cultural knowledge, nature, science, technology, the body and others to form specific modes of making sense of what surrounds us.
The course is based on critical readings of theoretical texts from cultural studies and adjacent fields. We will discuss how these approaches may (or may not) help to study “epistemologies” and the especially political or ideological factors they bear. Can they help to describe intrinsic qualities and specific, often hardly questioned demarcations or boundaries of these attempts to explain the world? We will reflect on the genuine heterogeneity of knowledge constellations and their historical indices rather than discredit politics and ideology from the outset as external, after-the-fact elements of knowledge.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Seminar discussion based on regular, thorough reading; two written assignments during the semester (drafting, presentation and discussion).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Regular attendance (basis); thorough preparation (reading, background research) and active participation in class (25%); introduction to one session (15%), two written papers submitted on time (60%).

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur