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070281 UE Guided Reading Eastern European History - Russian & Soviet Orientalism (2020S)

Discource and Practice

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

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 04.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 11.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 18.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 25.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 01.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 22.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 29.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 06.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 13.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 20.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 27.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 03.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 10.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 17.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 24.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Controversial and influential in almost equal measure, Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism as “a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient” has stimulated a wealth of research in the humanities and social sciences since its publication in 1978. We will familiarise ourselves with the debate about its applicability to Russian and Soviet history, in particular with the question of the influence of Oriental studies on late imperial and Soviet policies towards, as well as notions of, national and cultural diversity in Russia’s ‘own’ Orient. Our analysis of the relationship between knowledge and state power in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union will further our understanding of the continuities and ruptures in how these two multinational states conceptualised, politicised and administered cultural and national difference. We deal with these questions in a Russian and Soviet context and mainly through secondary literature predominantly based on Russian-language sources. At the same time, we occasionally go beyond that linguistic and geographical focus in order to highlight that the phenomena subsumed under the term Orientalism were global and multilingual even within Russia and the Soviet Union.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students will be asked to attend classes having read the recommended literature (downloadable from Moodle) in advance in order to be able to have a conversation about it in class. They will also be encouraged to upload brief summaries and/or visual representations of each reading before class. Usually texts will be read and debated by all students. Where there is a choice of literature, the aim is that the various texts will be read by different students and presented to each other in class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Marking is based on: a) attendance and active participation in class; b) the careful reading of the literature, including the preparation of short summaries and/or visual representation thereof; c) the giving of a short in-class presentation of a chosen topic from the syllabus; and d) the attendance of an event at the Institute of East European History (conference, talk, screening, etc.) and the preparation of some form of review of that event.

Examination topics

see above

Reading list

to be announced in the first session

Association in the course directory

BA Geschichte (2012): Zeitgeschichte (4 ECTS)
BA Geschichte (2019): Osteuropäische Geschichte (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: Osteuropäische Geschichte (4 ECTS)
IMA Osteuropastudien: M2.1a, M2.1b

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