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Vorlesung
WiSe 15/16: Ringvorlesung Borders in Motion - Fronteras en Movimiento
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Marianne Braig
Kommentar
"Borders in Motion -- Fronteras en Movimiento.“
Borders are and have always been in motion. Their shape and design depend on the political and economic context, scientific knowledge, natural adjustments as well as the migration and exchange of people, goods, services, and capital. Experts have labeled some borders – such as the one between Mexico and the United States or the Pacific Rim – as transnational spaces per se: their effect on international policy and adjacent states is not merely limited to the border region itself but fundamentally impacts our understanding of the state, citizenship, nation, and culture.
The lecture series seeks to explore the concept of borders in motion and their relevance for the disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences with a particular eye on the North and Latin American contexts. Contributions should explore the historical conditions, contingencies and valences of borders in motion as a field of communication and interaction (political and cultural exchange, military confrontation, interstate diplomacy, mediascapes) to highlight processes of transnationalism, translocalism, translation and the reconfiguration of borders.
To obtain a Teilnahmeschein, students are required to
- regularly prepare all texts
- prepare and bring to each class and be prepared to be called on
- attend sessions, ask questions
- and record the central points of one session central points of your choice (1p.). Please upload your report on Blackboard until 6pm the night before the next session (Tuesday). LAI students, please save your document under “LAI*yourlastname*”, JFKI students, please save your document under “JFKI*yourlastname*”.
No more than two no-shows per semester.
Place: JFK Raum 340
Time: Wed., 6-8pm
Languages: English and German, Spanish optional.
For an introduction, see:
- Ursula Lehmkuhl, Stefan Rinke (Hg.), Amerika – Amerikas: Zur Geschichte eines Namens von 1507 bis zur Gegenwart (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2008).
- Peter Birle, Marianne Braig, Ottmar Ette, Dieter Ingenschay (Hg.): Hemisphärische Konstruktionen der Amerikas. (Berlin, Madrid: Vervuert 2006)
Note: this is an offline course: Please turn off your cell phone, W-Land and internet connection at the beginning of each class!
Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mi, 14.10.2015 - Mi, 28.10.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Mi, 21.10.2015 18:00 - 20:00
TBA
Introduction
Mi, 28.10.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Managing Fluidity: Jack London's Transpacific Journeys
Mi, 04.11.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Convergent Risks and the Re-definition of Border Security in the Homeland Security State
Mi, 11.11.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Manifest Destiny as a creative principle in American foreign policy
Mi, 18.11.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Migration und Mediascapes zwischen der Sierra Norte Mexikos und Los Angeles
Mi, 25.11.2015 18:00 - 20:00
This American World: Americanization, Modernization and Fantasies of the Global
Mi, 02.12.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Poppin' borders: segregated spaces and the rap music imaginary
Mi, 09.12.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Geography of Money: Asymmetric Monetary Spaces and Implications for Economic Policies
Mi, 16.12.2015 18:00 - 20:00
Los estados de bienestar de América del Norte ante la globalización
Mi, 06.01.2016 18:00 - 20:00
Territoriality, the State and the Everywhere Border
Mi, 13.01.2016 18:00 - 20:00
Borders and Crossing of Borders in the Context of Travesty Performances in Tijuana
Mi, 20.01.2016 18:00 - 20:00
Economic borders and economic inequalities
Mi, 27.01.2016 18:00 - 20:00
A Historical Analysis of Continuities and Changes in Chicago’s Mexican Migrant Organizations
Mi, 03.02.2016 18:00 - 20:00
Fluid Frontiers: (Re-Configurations of Racial and Gender Identities in the 19th Century South/West)
Mi, 10.02.2016 18:00 - 20:00
Conclusion and Wrap-Up