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MC: Doris Bachmann-Medick: Concepts in the Study of Culture (Part I)

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Nov 19, 2020 from 10:00 to 01:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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online

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*** This Master Class series is primarily (but not only) addressed to the new members of the GCSC. It consists of 3 consecutive parts. Attendance of all 3 sessions is required to obtain full credit ***

Further dates: 15.12.2020, 10 am  - 1pm | 19.01.2021, 10 am - 12:30 pm

 

This first part of the MC series is meant

  • to give the (new) members of the GCSC an introduction to the rich arsenal of contemporary concepts and discussions in the field of Kulturwissenschaften / study of culture

 

Working at the GCSC in the field of the study of culture confronts us with various concepts of culture. Of course, the GCSC does not follow any single understanding of culture. It rather wants to encourage its members to reflect on the question: Which specific concept of culture might suit to my individual dissertation project? Beyond this, the relation between culture and society as well as questions of culture and power are also topics of discussion. As culture is not only an object of our study but is implied in the very mode of research itself, we need to develop a conscious use of the concept of culture (and society) for our own work. 

 

This MC consists of

1) an introductory lecture: here, an overview of the most important contemporary concepts of culture will be given (culture as text, culture as performance, culture as translation, spatial, iconic and material concepts of culture etc.). The range of culture concepts to be critically discussed will run from a holistic understanding of culture as a system of meanings up to the advocacy of a pluralization of cultures. Here, difference-oriented and anti-essentialist understandings of culture come to the fore (culture as negotiation of differences, as hybridization, culture as travel).  

 

2) a discussion of a thought provoking text which might give new impulses for a changed approach.

 

Basic Requirement for Preparation:

- James Clifford: Traveling Cultures, in: J.C.: Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard UP 1997, 17-46 (German translation available).

 

// Dr. Doris Bachmann-Medick (GCSC)