In these two courses we prepare an encounter with our partner groups from Warsaw and Washington, D.C. All three groups will have the same general program and we will meet in-person or virtually to discuss everybody's project and research. Which will be the following:
The 2025 Transatlantic Students Symposium examines queer times and places as well as queer theory in general and a selection of texts, which we will look at from a queer theory perspective. To explain this a bit more concisely: When we prepared the 2025 Symposium (which is the core of this module) together with our partners and we decided to hold it in Berlin, the topic ‘queer theory and queer life’ suggested itself as Berlin is a great place to reflect on queer literature, art, and theory. So, in this class we will delve into some of the fundamental texts in queer theory, such as Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet, and Jack Halberstam’s In a queer time and place. We will read a variety of texts from Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous to Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin. And we will explore artworks and sites we resonate with queer theory and queer life.
The course will take place in the classrooms, but it will possibly include formats such as colloquia, digital forums, student-run workshops – partly with our partners in Warsaw and Washington D.C. As part of the seminar we will also do some field work – exploring specific scenes of interest in Berlin.
The course will culminate in the 23rd Transatlantic Students Symposium to be held in May 2025 in Berlin.
Course requirements (for both SE and SPJ) include active class participation, in-class presentations (“spezielle Arbeitsleistungen”), independent project work and a symposium presentation (MAP).
The Moodle Key will be announced through Agnes // Please register in Agnes.
Readings:
- Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet
- Jack Halberstam’s In a queer time and place
- Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
- Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin
→ We will partly work with excerpts, which we will upload on Moodle.
SE + SPJ (3+3) Do 12-14 wöch Raum UL 6, 2014 A S. Bidlingmaier/M. Klepper
Teilnehmer:innenzahl: 35
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