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080080 SE Seminar: Sex, Gender and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Iranian and Ottoman Photography (nst./au.K.) (2014W)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle

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max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

November 5, 2014: Opening of "Eyes on Iran" exhibition at the Hinterland Gallery; and November 19, 2014: Discussion Panel on "Eyes on Iran" exhibition at the Hinterland

  • Donnerstag 06.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 13.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 20.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 27.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 04.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 11.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 18.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 08.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 15.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 22.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25
  • Donnerstag 29.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Seminarraum 3 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-25

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This seminar explores how beauty, gender, and desire were constructed and represented in nineteenth-century Iranian and Ottoman photography. We examine indigenous photographs from the nineteenth century that depict Iranian and Ottoman men and women of different social strata, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds and explore their aesthetics, disentangling the sociological functions of photography in changing, creating, or perpetuating notions of gender, beauty, desire, and sexuality. Besides the differing social standards of beauty, these photographs also show how the cultural and colonial negations between Europe and dynastic rulership were reflected in the bodies of men and women through their beauty, dress, and desirability. Notions of beauty and desire changed through increased European contact and the invention of the camera, resulting in diverse modern representations of both Iranian and Ottoman manhood and womanhood.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

10-page or more, thesis-driven paper due June 30, 2015, with five or more cited sources, as well as full bibliography; 10-minute, in-class presentations on preliminary research on January 15 & 22, 2015; initial research paper proposal and bibliography due December 18, 2014; attendance and participation; required reading and discussion every week. First-week readings should be prepared to discuss on the first day of seminar, November 3, 2014.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

For graduate students and advanced, upper-division Art History students, as the reading schedule and final paper will be labor-intensive.

Prüfungsstoff

We will compare and contrast gendered and sexualized representations in nineteenth-century Iranian and Ottoman photography and painting to note if there are any striking differences. Recent scholarship has suggested that many nineteenth-century Iranian and Ottoman photographs were constructed realities based on indigenous paintings or demonstrate a particular visuality, thus depicting different realities and motifs than in European Orientalist photographs, but perhaps Iranian and Ottoman photographs and paintings from the nineteenth century also depicted different realities in of themselves and from each other, especially in representing gender, beauty, desire, and sexuality, particularly through the bodies of the sitting subjects. Thus, we will contextualize our findings within the current scholarship to validate or challenge our findings.

Literatur

Dror Ze?evi, Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourses in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006); Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); readings on Moodle

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Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:31