Course Exam
124071 VO Culture, Society and the Media (2016S)
Transnational Trauma and Cultures: Experience, Representation and Resilience
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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).
- Registration is open from Th 24.11.2016 00:00 to Tu 13.12.2016 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 13.12.2016 23:59
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Participants are expected to read all set texts plus the additional secondary/theoretifcal material provided on the noodle platform; they are also expected to engage in autonomous research, to offer a critical and reflective analysis of texts and concepts.
Assessment and permitted materials
Final written test (100%).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
This lecture will familiarise students with the history of trauma both as concept and as cultural object; students will learn how to approach different mediations (comics, movies, novels, poems) and representations of traumatic events; students will be asked to read key theoretical texts by Michel Foucault, François Lyotard, Stuart Hall, Cathy Caruth, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler and Michael Kimmel.
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