Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Start > Masterprogramm Humanities & Social Sciences: Kulturwissenschaften - Culture, Arts and Media [ab Studienbeginn WS 13/14] (M.A.) -> Minor Kulturtheorie -> Sozialität und Kulturalität

Lehrveranstaltungen

Against Democracy. Politics, Histories and Theories of Non-Democratic Power (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Benjamin Opratko

Inhalt: The hatred of democracy, as Jacques Ranciere reminds us, is as old as democracy itself: The word emerged in as an insult, decrying the illegitimate government of the unruly masses. Over millennia, democratic self-government was something people fought for, while others fought against it. In this seminar, we critically examine and engage with efforts to undermine, delegitimize, circumvent or destroy democratic ways of organizing social relations. We will deal with both theoretical and practical attacks on democracy, and learn about historical and current efforts to construct non-democratic forms of power.

Introduction to Queer Studies (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Inhalt: Students will be introduced to Queer Studies as a field that addresses the ways in which contested gender and sexual norms play an important role in shaping society as a whole. The seminar also explores the ways in which key figures within Queer Studies have refused to study gender or sexuality in isolation from other axes and hierarchies of difference or from contemporary forms of capital accumulation and nationalism. Students will critically engage with key works by Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, José Esteban Muñoz, Kadji Amin, Petrus Liu and others.