32402 Advanced Seminar

WiSe 15/16: Frontier Childhoods: Gender, Ethnicity and Coming of Age in the 19th Century (Mid-)West and Canada

Rebecca Brückmann

Comments

Exploring the history of childhood and family life on the (mid-)Western frontiers of the United States and Canada from the 1840s onwards, this course will highlight the interdependent complexities of emerging nationhood and expanding empire/imperialism in a “globally Western” context, ethnic and race relations, and childhood and adolescence gender politics. We will examine the living conditions and socialization of, for example, (white) settler families, American Indians, and African-Americans, (mission) schooling, and ethnic conflicts. Whereas childhoods on the frontier have traditionally been portrayed as girls being raised in the Victorian spirit of domesticity and boys being formed into future explorers and leaders, children’s experiences, through encounters with nature’s persistent wilderness or their work duties on farms, gave rise to pragmatic latitudes. On the other hand, settler expansionism, including the cultural re-education of American Indian children, encroached on diverse traditions of gendered education, and the continuously increasing codifications of race created a field of tension which we will dismantle in this course. Students will be familiarized with current historiographical debates in childhood, family, and rural history of the 19th century United States and Canada, which are lenses through which negotiations of Manifest Destiny, the displacement of American Indians and First Nations people, the global context of Western empire(s) and its gendered and racialized manifestations will be scrutinized. close

16 Class schedule

Additional appointments

Wed, 2016-01-06 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-01-27 14:00 - 16:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Regular appointments

Wed, 2015-10-14 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-10-21 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-10-28 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-11-04 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-11-11 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-11-18 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-11-25 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-12-02 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-12-09 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2015-12-16 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-01-06 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-01-13 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-01-20 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-01-27 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-02-03 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Wed, 2016-02-10 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Rebecca Jennifer Miriam Brückmann

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

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