13319
Seminar
WiSe 22/23: The Past and the "Orient": Spaces of Salvation in Global Weimar Berlin
Margrit Pernau
Comments
This seminar examines the modernist reaction to the experience of the Modern – expressed in the haunted constructions of the past and the ‘Orient’ – within the entangled radical political movements of Weimar Berlin. Homosexual emancipationists, feminists, Zionists, radical right-wingers, Life Reformers, and anti-colonial activists, often in surprising dialogue, all invested the past and the ‘Orient’ with desire, constructing them as locations of political possibility and escape. The seminar will critically investigate modernity and reactions to it both as categories of experience and as analytical concepts, alternating between the reading of theoretical and secondary texts and sources (textual and visual) from a variety of movements. The course requires short weekly response papers and includes one early-semester block seminar intended to lay the groundwork for the next months. Students choosing to do final research papers will be encouraged to work in groups to answer broad, movement-bridging research questions. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2022-10-20 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-10-27 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-11-03 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-11-10 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-11-17 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-11-24 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-12-01 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-12-08 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2022-12-15 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-01-05 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-01-12 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-01-19 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-02-09 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2023-02-16 14:00 - 16:00