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070191 UE Methodological workshop - Actors, actants and agency. From Feminist Studies to ANT (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Meetings will be held on-site as far as pandemic-related possible.

  • Tuesday 18.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 25.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 08.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 15.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 22.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 29.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 06.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 13.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 10.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 17.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 24.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Tuesday 31.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 8, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The aim of the methods workshop is to gain insight into the discussion of a research-relevant field of theory and methods and to develop the ability to understand theoretical texts and to be able to reproduce their argumentation structure.
Since the critique of large-scale concepts of modernization theory, space has been given to actors of the most diverse hues in historical and cultural studies. Actor-centered" research is supposed to integrate less privileged groups - from the working class to women to the colonized - into historiography. In recent decades, thought has been given to the "agency" of non-human actors and actants, of animals, things, and matter. The exercise will introduce approaches that deal with actors*, their possibilities and modes of action, and the question of their efficacy. We will start with everyday and micro history and deal with the agency concept of gender studies as well as the actor-network theory of Bruno Latour and others. For this purpose we will discuss theoretical texts and historiographical examples.
- Intensive text discussion
- Discussion of your own excerpt drafts

Assessment and permitted materials

Successful completion includes oral participation, preparation of a text from the seminar literature, and writing an excerpt on one of the texts.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

For successful completion of the seminar, the excerpt must be graded at least a 4.
15 % continuous participation and discussion of the seminar reading
15 % presentation of a text from the seminar reading
70 % excerpt (to be handed in by the end of the lecture period)
Equal weight will be given to structure, clarity of presentation, argumentative structure, text comprehension, language/style, and form of the excerpt.

Examination topics

A close study of the seminar literature is required for the work to be performed.

Reading list

The literature to be read and a bibliography for further reading will be provided on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

SP Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, MATILDA

MA Geschichte (2019): 5 ECTS

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