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Advanced seminar
SoSe 22: Humanity: History of a Troubled Concept
Andrew M. Johnston, visiting professor from Canada
Information for students
While certain precautions against COVID-19 may still be in place, sessions will be in-person. Six weeks of the course will be taught in conjunction with Prof. Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht’s corresponding course being taught simultaneously at Carleton University in Ottawa. For those six weeks, we will share a hybrid in-person/virtual space with the Canadian students in her class. close
Comments
The seminar seeks to fulfill two premises: first, we will spend time considering some of the more recent literature dedicated to the genesis and trajectory of the term “humanity,” along with a series of accompanying primary sources. Historians have identified peculiar factors informing the nation’s experience and the historical memory contemporaries hold of their past. These include feminism, ethno-racial divisions, indigenous empowerment, nuclear threats, the Cold War, globalization, and campaigns for civil and human rights. But none of these was generic to any one region or country. What cocktail, we’ll ask eventually, made “humanity” such a ubiquitous reference across the centuries? Second, we will try to understand the legacy of a contested term for today and discuss whether there are particular lessons for the impending future. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2022-04-20 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-04-27 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-05-04 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-05-11 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-05-18 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-05-25 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-06-01 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-06-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-06-15 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-06-22 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-06-29 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-07-06 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-07-13 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-07-20 14:00 - 16:00