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410005 SE Interdisciplinary Seminar Legacy Awareness, Persona and autobiographical Practice. (2022W)

Theoretical Perspectives on biographical Material

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 41 - Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Doktoratsstudium
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 04.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 18.10. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 15.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 29.11. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 13.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 10.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 10.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 24.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Tuesday 24.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 2, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In recent decades, biographical approaches in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences have experienced an unprecedented upswing, which requires a thorough theoretical-methodological reflection of concepts and materials of biographical research from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This concerns, to name just a few examples, the boom and change of the concept of persona in the history of knowledge and science, but also the increased examination of the autobiographical practices of historical protagonists, for example in the context of transnational history. One form of autobiographical practice is the 'estate consciousness' that has recently been the subject of discussion, especially in literary studies research contexts, and which can be classified as a specific expression of individualisation processes in modernity. Against this background, the plurality and heterogeneity of the legacies of historical protagonists pose great challenges to researchers in various historical-cultural studies fields, even if they are not directly aimed at biographical questions.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The course puts theoretical perspectives on biographical material up for discussion, but also reflects on associated working techniques as well as research-systematic and research-ethical questions. The discussion of texts read by all in advance and the reflection on auto/biographical aspects in the dissertations of the participants are at the centre of the course.

Examination topics

Reading list

Preparatory literature:
Johanna Gehmacher/Kirsti Niskanen/Katharina Prager (Eds.), When Does the Genius do the Chores? Knowledge, Auto/Biography and Gender (=European Journal for Life Writing -Vol. XI), 2022. (https://ejlw.eu/article/view/38231)
Kirsti Niskanen/Mineke Bosch/Kaat Wils (Hg.), Special Issue: Scientific Persona (=Persona Studies Vol. 4 No. 1), 2018. (https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/issue/view/107)
Kai Sina/Carlos Spoerhase (Hg.), Nachlassbewusstsein. Literatur, Archiv, Philologie 1750-2000, Göttingen 2017.
Sidonie Smith/Julia Watson, Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Minneapolis, Minn. And London, second edition, 2010.

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