170721 UE World Exhibitions (2024S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 12.02.2024 09:00 to Mo 19.02.2024 23:59
- Registration is open from Sa 24.02.2024 09:00 to Tu 27.02.2024 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 31.03.2024 23:59
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 05.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 19.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 09.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 16.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 23.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 30.04. 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 14.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 28.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 11.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
- Tuesday 25.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 4 2H558 UZA II Rotunde
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
- Regular presence in the course and preparation for discussions as well as development of an own research project on theatre forms in a selected world exhibition of the period 1851 to 1935.
- Presentation of the works progress at the end of the semester.
The assessment is primarily based on the research skills documented orally and in writing.
- Presentation of the works progress at the end of the semester.
The assessment is primarily based on the research skills documented orally and in writing.
Examination topics
Reading list
- Geppert, Alexander: Fleeting Cities. Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Mitchell, Timothy. "The World as Exhibition", in Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 2 (1989): 217–36.- Bank, Rosemarie K.: Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition, in Theatre Journal 54.4 (December 2002), 589–606.
- Hilari, Johanna: "New York, ein Maschinenwesen und strahlende Eisblumen",, in Hulfeld, Stefan (Ed.): Unerhörte Theatergeschichten. Ein Lesebuch. Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2022, 31–49.
- Johnston, Ewan: "Polynesien in der Plaisance: Das samoanische Dorf und das Theater der Südseeinseln auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago 1893", in Comparativ 5/6 (1999), 89-102.
- Pougin, Arthur: Le Théâtre a l'exposition universelle de 1889. Notes et descriptions, histoire et souvenirs. Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1890.
- Raibmon, Paige: Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwaka’wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World’s Fair, in Canadian Historical Review 81.2 (June 2000), 157–90.
- Savarese, Nicola: Antonin Artaud Sees Balinese Theatre at the Paris Colonial Exposition, in:
TDR, The Drama Review: A Journal of Performance Studies 45.3 (Fall 2001), 51–77.Link
https://en.worldfairs.info/chapitrehistorique.php
- Mitchell, Timothy. "The World as Exhibition", in Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 2 (1989): 217–36.- Bank, Rosemarie K.: Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition, in Theatre Journal 54.4 (December 2002), 589–606.
- Hilari, Johanna: "New York, ein Maschinenwesen und strahlende Eisblumen",, in Hulfeld, Stefan (Ed.): Unerhörte Theatergeschichten. Ein Lesebuch. Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2022, 31–49.
- Johnston, Ewan: "Polynesien in der Plaisance: Das samoanische Dorf und das Theater der Südseeinseln auf der Weltausstellung in Chicago 1893", in Comparativ 5/6 (1999), 89-102.
- Pougin, Arthur: Le Théâtre a l'exposition universelle de 1889. Notes et descriptions, histoire et souvenirs. Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1890.
- Raibmon, Paige: Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwaka’wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World’s Fair, in Canadian Historical Review 81.2 (June 2000), 157–90.
- Savarese, Nicola: Antonin Artaud Sees Balinese Theatre at the Paris Colonial Exposition, in:
TDR, The Drama Review: A Journal of Performance Studies 45.3 (Fall 2001), 51–77.Link
https://en.worldfairs.info/chapitrehistorique.php
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Mo 04.03.2024 17:46
The fact that technological innovation and industrialisation overlapped with commerce and consumerism on the one hand, and nationalism, imperialism and colonialism on the other, makes these exhibitions phenomena that have been the subject of much research. In them, historical developments of the 19th and early 20th centuries become particularly evident, and thus also a very ambivalent concept of modernity. The theatre metaphor is sometimes used in this research, and architecture and spatial arrangements are also described as staging devices. However, less attention has so far been paid to the integration of theatre performances in world exhibitions, even though all of the above-mentioned developmental trends may have overlapped in a particularly significant way.
The course therefore aims to explore the question of how theatre forms were integrated into world's fairs during the above-mentioned period and thus to investigate how these performances, oscillating between artistic aspiration, consumption and pleasure, became the experiential centre of the respective major events.
After an initial phase of joint reading and discussion of texts, which serves to develop basic knowledge about world exhibitions and their entertainment programmes, the students devote themselves to their own research project on theatre performances at a specific world exhibition. Generally speakin, world's fairs have generated a great deal of documentation, from official publications by the organisers to numerous journalistic reports. Students are instructed to search for traces of theatre performances in these materials, which are primarily available in the form of digital archives, and to research them so that, ideally, a picture of the phenomenon of the intertwining of theatre and world's fairs over several decades emerges within the framework of this course, which will at least be summarised in the presentation and discussion of the research results.