Lehrende/r: Dr. Pia Wiegmink
Veranstaltungsart: Übung
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Inhalt: The course introduces students to the basic concepts and methods of two recent, important turns in American Studies, the performative turn and transnational turn. As a collaborative venture between students in Mainz and students in Regensburg, this course explores diverse performances ranging from theater to political enactments to commemorative events to festive activities to protest and intervention. Students will learn to analyze how particular performances located in places in- and outside the United States negotiate America in global contexts. They will investigate the potential of particular performances to perpetuate, but also to challenge and counteract cultural, social, and political discourses and phenomena. Performances to be discussed will be of mostly contemporary nature but we will also examine some 19th and early 20th century examples. The course is taught in tandem with Dr. Birgit Bauridl at the University of Regensburg. Students in both locations might exchange, compare, and discuss their findings via a shared blog, joint assignments, and online workshops. Students are invited (yet not obliged) to participate in the conference “Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies” in Mainz from June 21-23 organized by Pia Wiegmink and Birgit Bauridl. A reader with all required reading will be made available to students in the first session.
Zusätzliche Informationen: GUEST LECTURE - Everybody welcome! Derek Gingrich (York University) „Tony Kushner’s Homebody as a Globalized Mutter Courage“ on 22 June 2018 in P 4 (Philosophicum, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18)
