Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Prof. Dr. Armin Beverungen


Lehrveranstaltungen

Forschungskolloquium Soziologie und Kulturorganisation (Kolloquium)

Dozent/in: Armin Beverungen, Timon Beyes, Serhat Karakayali, Andrea Kretschmann, Stephan Scheel

Inhalt: Das Promotionskolloquium dient der Präsentation und vertieften Diskussion der Forschungsvorhaben im Kreise der Mitglieder des Promotionskollegs. Pro Kandidat*in steht üblicherweise 1 Stunde für Vortrag und Diskussion zur Verfügung. Die Präsentationen und Diskussion finden in deutscher oder englischer Sprache statt.

Master Forum (English language) (Kolloquium)

Dozent/in: Armin Beverungen, Ben Trott

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Di, 08.04.2025, 14:15 - Di, 08.04.2025, 17:45 | C 40.153 Seminarraum | C40.153
Einzeltermin | Do, 24.04.2025, 12:15 - Do, 24.04.2025, 19:45 | C 40.153 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Di, 03.06.2025, 12:15 - Di, 03.06.2025, 19:45 | C 40.601 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Di, 17.06.2025, 12:15 - Di, 17.06.2025, 19:45 | C 40.108 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This Master Forum, which will be held entirely in English, provides first and foremost an opportunity for students embarking on their MA theses to present an outline of their projects, with the goal of receiving productive critical feedback – both from instructors and from student peers. In addition, it also aims to facilitate critical reflection on a set of what may initially appear to be quite practical or even technical issues – around how scholarly research is carried out and presented – and yet often ultimately prove to be caught up with questions of content, argument and approach. In the first meeting of the Master Forum, Ben Trott and Armin Beverungen will introduce some of the common issues confronted by those carrying out scholarly research or writing in Cultural Studies, the Humanities and the Social Sciences. This will include general questions, including: how to arrive at and formulate a research question and a suitable framework for your project; how to begin thinking about method and methodology, and starting to conducting research; and ways of referencing and of acknowledging the use of sources. Students are invited to sign up to present an outline of their MA thesis in the subsequent meetings of the Master Forum, with presentations set to take place in English. While this will ultimately depend on the number of students participating, students should expect to have around 30 minutes in total for the presentation and discussion of their projects, and presentations themselves should last between 10 and 15 minutes, allowing plenty of time for discussion. Students are required upload a two-page summary of their project to myStudy one week before they are due to present. This should include: • a working title for your thesis as well as your research question; • the approach, method or methodology that you plan on using, and the theoretical framework or points of reference for your project; • what you anticipate discovering or arguing in your thesis; • and a list of up to five key works that you will use, along with any additional information about sources you plan on using – such as archives, exhibitions or interview partners. Students are asked to attend all sessions of the Master Forum, not the simply the session in which they will present, and to have read the two-page summaries ahead of time. Please be ready to provide your fellow students with productive critical feedback on their projects! This Master Forum is open to all Cultural Studies MA students but the expertise of the instructors lies in the fields of cultural and political theory, organisation and critical management studies, critical political economy, social movement studies and gender and queer studies. The Master Forum is examined (pass/fail) as a combined scholarly work [Kombinierte wissenschaftliche Arbeit] made up of (a) your two-page summary and (b) your presentation.

History of Cultural Studies and its Methods II (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Armin Beverungen, Luca Scheunpflug

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 14.027 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Organized as a lecture series, this course focuses on central themes and thinkers in the globalized sphere of cultural theorizing within the humanities and social sciences. The concerns, debates and methodologies of international cultural theorizing in part also draw upon different traditions and geographies of thought, or take the form of ›mobile theories‹ and ›travelling concepts‹ translated into different contexts, and change as they travel. The lecture series is, as suggested by the cultural theorizing explored, based on an understanding of culture as plural, as cultures that are continouously produced through, and made manifest in, embodied practices, discourses, spaces, emotional registers, technologies and organizational forms. In a globalized world, these cultural constellations are also geographically and linguistically plural, shaped by both global proceses and local conditions. They are thus contested and to some degree contingent. The terms and methods of cultural theorizing, its history and present, are invariably part of this ›cultural production and contestation‹. We hope that the lectures and discussions will therefore allow us to defamiliarize and enrich our ways of seeing and understanding, to make sense (differently) about how invariably globalized cultures take place.

Media Technologies of Organization (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Armin Beverungen, Lisa Conrad

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 08:15 - 11:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 14.001 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Do, 10.07.2025, 14:15 - Fr, 11.07.2025, 17:45 | C 14.006 Seminarraum | C14.001

Inhalt: The class brings together students from the MA "Media and Digital Cultures" and the MA "Culture and Organization" and is focused on the organizational powers of media technologies. ‘Media organize’, as the architectural theorist Reinhold Martin put it, and this is particularly true for digital media, according to the media theorist John Durham Peters. The class thus focuses on the way media organize, i.e. on their organizational capacities, on the kinds of organizational forms and processes associated with particular media technologies, as well as on the way these media technologies themselves are organized. The course is broadly split into three parts: in a first part the class explores histories of media technologies of organization; in a second part the class explores current instantiations of media technologies of organization; and in a third part students embark on a group exercise in which they research particular media technologies and their associated organizational forms and processes. The last part of the class culminates in a student conference in which students in groups present their findings.