Course Schedule

Start > Masterprogramm Kulturwissenschaften: Kritik der Gegenwart - Künste, Theorie, Geschichte (M.A.) -> Kernbereich -> Ökologien, Umwelt, Kollektivität

Lehrveranstaltungen

Elemente einer Geschichte ökologischen Denkens 1850/2050 (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Christina Wessely

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 6.026 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In diesem Seminar lernen wir grundlegende Positionen einer Geschichte ökologischen Wissens kennen. Sie reicht historisch zurück bis zu den Anfängen der Ökologie als moderner Wissenschaft, die sich im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts herausbildete, hat einen Schwerpunkt auf der umwelthistorischen Epochenwende um 1970, die den Beginn einer "Ära der Ökologie" markierte und reicht bis zu Debatten der unmittelbaren Gegenwart rund um das Anthropozän.

Posthumanist Political Ecologies: Promises and Problems (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 6.320 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The current climate catastrophe has intensified that process of challenging key concepts of Western modernity that began around the 1960s-70s. Ideas such as the nature/culture dualism or the human-nonhuman boundary are deeply rethought and new horizons, such as the question of power, justice or the relationship between capitalism and the environment, are introduced. Crucial in this rethinking (and from the very beginning foundational to ecology) is the category of relationality. Around this category, even the most recent approaches in the environmental humanities play out, so much so as to name a real relational switch. This seminar aims to introduce and analyze those recent approaches, through three moves: 1) providing a systematization of them under the label of posthuman political ecology 2) identifying crucial thematic cores and key lines of argument through specific examples (in particular taking into consideration representative texts from: New Materialism, Animal Studies, Actor-Network Theory, etc. ) 3) Sifting through potentialities and critical points both in terms of theory and political/activist practice. In particular, we will ask: what are the promises and problems of the new relational turn? What is its genealogy? what are its ontological assumptions? what are the ethical and political implications, for humans, animals and environments?