124184 VK BEd 08b.3: VK Cultural Studies and Language Education (2023W)
Queer Representation Revisited
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 11.09.2023 00:00 bis Mo 25.09.2023 12:00
- Abmeldung bis Di 31.10.2023 23:59
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
On Friday, 10.11.2023 the class will not take place at the University Campus. Instead, we will meet at the Semmelweisklinik, Hockegasse 37, Haus 4, at 17:00 to attend a lecture by Elahe Haschemi Yekani from HU Berlin.
On Friday, 17.11.2023 the class will meet again at Semmelweisklinik, Hockegasse 37, Haus 4, for a guided tour through the exhibition. This time we will meet at our regular class hour at 10:15.Students have to attend these sessions, because they have to engage with the art works exhibited for their final essay or paper. If someone cannot attend these excursions, the student will have to go to the exhibition on their own time to do the research for the final essay or paper.AI tools may not be used in this course for completing the any of the required writing tasks. Their reproduction of biases and suggested connection to "data colonialism" (Couldry and Mejias) renders them inappropriate for a usage in the context of our course.
Freitag
13.10.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
20.10.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
27.10.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
03.11.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
10.11.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
17.11.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
24.11.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
01.12.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
15.12.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
12.01.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
19.01.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag
26.01.
10:15 - 11:45
Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Regular attendance (max. 2 absences); class participation, a presentation that connects the analysis of art to a theoretical concept (based on the class readings), and minor tasks throughout the semester; Students can either write a short essay or a BEd thesis. If the students intend to write a BEd thesis, they have to submit a research proposal in advance.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Class participation, and minor tasks throughout the semester (25%)
presentations (25%)
BEd thesis or essay (50%)
You need to complete all requirements to complete the course.
The overall grading scheme is (1) 100-91%, (2) 90-81%, (3) 80-71%, (4) 70-61%, (5) 60-0%Each student must read all the obligatory readings, write short comments (150 words) about each reading and post them in the forum.Each student must engage in meaningful ways with the exhibits of the art exhibition “Close[t] Demonstrations: an exhibition on the multitudes of queer invisibility,” present on their observations and experiences during the exhibition and write an essay about it.
presentations (25%)
BEd thesis or essay (50%)
You need to complete all requirements to complete the course.
The overall grading scheme is (1) 100-91%, (2) 90-81%, (3) 80-71%, (4) 70-61%, (5) 60-0%Each student must read all the obligatory readings, write short comments (150 words) about each reading and post them in the forum.Each student must engage in meaningful ways with the exhibits of the art exhibition “Close[t] Demonstrations: an exhibition on the multitudes of queer invisibility,” present on their observations and experiences during the exhibition and write an essay about it.
Prüfungsstoff
Students will explore how representation and visibilities as well as invisibility are informed by and inform agency and empowerment for minoritarian subjects, and will develop an extensive vocabulary of theoretical terms from the four main disciplines (Gender, Queer, Postcolonial Studies, and Arts & Culture).
Moreover, the students will have the chance to critically reflect on scientific research, and especially research that focuses on queer and trans*minorities of color and other marginalized communities, as a form of creating in_visibility. Collectively, and drawing on scholarly literature and analysis, we will discuss what it means to make subjects and groups in_visible through our own academic research, activism, or artistic practice. In connection with this, we will analyze in detail the complicated relationships between power, agency, acknowledgement and visibility etc. The students will become equipped with tools to analyze cultural texts (including images, films, and art objects) and be able to synthesize theory, while focusing on questions of in_visiblity intersectionally, considering gender, sexuality, class, race, ability and cultural contexts. Most importantly, they will investigate forms of invisibility and opacity not only as theoretically potent concepts and theories, but as scholarly and artistic forms of knowledge production.
The course introduces students to methodological approaches which they will be able to apply critically in their own work (e.g. research for their essays or BEd papers).
Moreover, the students will have the chance to critically reflect on scientific research, and especially research that focuses on queer and trans*minorities of color and other marginalized communities, as a form of creating in_visibility. Collectively, and drawing on scholarly literature and analysis, we will discuss what it means to make subjects and groups in_visible through our own academic research, activism, or artistic practice. In connection with this, we will analyze in detail the complicated relationships between power, agency, acknowledgement and visibility etc. The students will become equipped with tools to analyze cultural texts (including images, films, and art objects) and be able to synthesize theory, while focusing on questions of in_visiblity intersectionally, considering gender, sexuality, class, race, ability and cultural contexts. Most importantly, they will investigate forms of invisibility and opacity not only as theoretically potent concepts and theories, but as scholarly and artistic forms of knowledge production.
The course introduces students to methodological approaches which they will be able to apply critically in their own work (e.g. research for their essays or BEd papers).
Literatur
Anzaldúa, G. (2012) ‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue’, in Borderlands: la frontera: the new Mestiza. 4th ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, pp. 53–64.De Villiers, N. (2012) ‘Introduction: Opacities: Queer Strategies’, in Opacity and the closet: queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1–35.Fiedor, B. (2013) ‘Nicholas De Villiers, “Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol” (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)’. (New Books in Critical Theory). Available at: https://newbooksnetwork.com/nicholas-de-villiers-opacity-and-the-closet-queer-tactics-in-foucault-barthes-and-warhol-university-of-minnesota-press-2012/.Glissant, É. and Wing, B. (1997a) ‘For Opacity’, in Poetics of relation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 189–194.Glissant, É. and Wing, B. (1997b) ‘Transparency and Opacity’, in Poetics of relation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 111–120.Gossett, R., Stanley, E.A. and Burton, J. (eds) (2017) Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production And The Politics of Visibility. (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture).Haschemi Yekani, E., Nowicka, M., Roxanne, T. Revisualising Intersectionality. Springer Nature, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93209-1.Hutta, J.S. (2013) ‘Beyond the politics of inclusion: securitization and agential formations in Brazilian LGBT parades’, in Haschemi Yekani, E., Kilian, E., and Michaelis, B. (eds) Queer futures: reconsidering ethics, activism, and the political. Burlington, VT: Ashgate (Queer interventions), pp. 67–79.Koch-Rein, A., Haschemi Yekani, E. and Verlinden, J.J. (2020) ‘Representing trans: visibility and its discontents’, European Journal of English Studies, 24(1), pp. 1–12. doi:https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730040.Moore, M. (2015) ‘Gurl! On Code Switching When You’re Black And Gay’, Thought Catalogue, 3 December. Available at: https://thoughtcatalog.com/madison-moore/2015/12/gurl-on-code-switching-when-youre-black-and-gay/.Mieszkowski, S. “Transparent and the Optics of Gender(ed) Identity.” Journal of Gender Studies, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, 2023, pp. 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2213648.Wiedlack, K. “In/Visibility and the (post-Soviet) 'queer Closet'.” Journal of Gender Studies, vol. ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print, 2023, pp. 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2214886.T., A. (2020) Opacity-minority-improvisation: an exploration of the closet through queer slangs and Postcolonial theory. Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 75–78.
Zaltzman, H. (2019) ‘Polari’. (The Allusionist). Available at: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/polari.Haydar, Mona, “Hijabi (Wrap my Hijab),” YouTube, May 27, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOX9O_kVPeo
Zaltzman, H. (2019) ‘Polari’. (The Allusionist). Available at: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/polari.Haydar, Mona, “Hijabi (Wrap my Hijab),” YouTube, May 27, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOX9O_kVPeo
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BEd 08b.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4686
Code/Modul: BEd 08b.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4686
Letzte Änderung: Fr 13.10.2023 07:47
Practices of invisibilization are rightfully criticized as violent. The invisibilization of queer, racialized, non-normatively gendered members of the community creates illusions of social homogeneity, instead of showing the diverse lifestyles and people that actually make up society. Legal and other important state and societal discourses also render invisible, thereby denying recognition, equality, and inclusion, whether based on racialization, migration biography, gender, class, or dis_ability.Yet, representation and visibility are ambivalent. Queer politics and activisms often assume that more representation and more visibility mean more political presence, more participation, and more access to privilege. Such politics overlook the complex processes at work in the field of (visual) representation. The visibility of queer and racialized subjects might intend something different than what viewers read into them.
Moreover, visibility and invisibilities are not necessarily stable binary oppositions.In our course we will discuss queer representation and visibility from different angles and point of views reading key texts of Anglophone Queer Theory, Women of Color Feminism and Postcolonial Studies. We will discuss theories that address visibility and invisibility, transparency and opacity, as well as concepts such as “coming out,” and “the closet,” “passing,” and “hypervisibility,” etc.The seminar will offer specific examples from different eras and cultural settings from different cultural texts from the 1960s till the present day (video, music, performance, dance, art in public space, film) students will become acquainted with queer movements, artists and cultural producers who have used in_visibilities, transparency and opacities to communicate sociopolitical causes and mobilize communities. While much of the course will focus on forms of visual representation and visibility in visual media (film, TV, social media, music videos etc.), we will also think through forms of textual and verbal representation, visibility and invisibility as well as opacity and transparency. To that end we will engage with the poetic theories of Gloria Anzaldúa and Edouard Glissant.The seminar will be focusing on collaborative ways of learning and will encourage exchange between the students.
It will employ different formats: brief lectures, screenings, discussions, presentations, and brief free writing exercises. Students will be expected to read and prepare texts/audio materials for discussion prior to each session.IMPORTANT:
Part of the course is an excursion to the exhibition “Close[t] Demonstrations: an exhibition on the multitudes of queer invisibility,” at Semmelweisklinik: Centre for Arts and Culture Vienna, Austria (3/11 - 24/11/2023). For more info see: https://closetdemonstrations-gain.univie.ac.at/The class will take a guided tour through the art space and the students will have to engage with the exhibited art as part of their course work. Each student must pick one or several exhibited art objects, connect this piece/the pieces of art to one of the topics of our course and write an essay about it. The essay topics will also be presented in one of the course sessions.