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Veranstaltungen von Ben Trott


Lehrveranstaltungen

Power, Subjectivity, Ideology and Hegemony in Cultural Studies (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 03.04.2023 - 07.07.2023 | C 12.101

Inhalt: This seminar introduces students to key contributions to the understanding of ‘power’, ‘subjectivity’, ‘ideology’ and ‘hegemony’ within Cultural Studies. It engages with seminal works by figures within the field including Michel Foucault (on sexuality and power), Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jennifer Nash (on subjectivity and intersectionality), Louis Althusser (on reproduction and ideology) and Stuart Hall (on neoliberalism and hegemony).

Queer Digital Cultures (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 03.04.2023 - 07.07.2023 | C 12.101

Inhalt: Digital media, digital technologies and digital infrastructures shape contemporary culture in many and far-reaching ways. This seminar examines their impact on 'queer' culture in particular – understood here as both LGBT (i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) cultures as well as, more broadly, cultures that contest or subvert dominant norms around gender and sexuality. Students will explore recent efforts to theorise the relationship between transformations in information, digital and other technologies, and transformations in the fields of gender and sexuality. They will examine empirical as well as theoretically-informed work on the ways that digital media and technologies are shaping queer life and culture. And they will address the extent to which the study of digital cultures can be productively approached from a queer perspective. Issues that will be explored include the following: • The role of digital media in transgender self-representation • How social media hashtags (like #lesbian) can facilitate both the production of community and the (de-)stabilisation of identity categories • How LGBT and queer intimacies are being transformed through dating and ‘hook-up’ apps (such as Tinder and Grindr) • Digital labour and online pornography • The possibilities and limits of digital queer activism • LGBT and queer cultural producers who engage extensively with digital cultures, such as Lil Nas X

Introduction to Queer Theory (FSL) (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Mi, 05.04.2023, 12:15 - Mi, 05.04.2023, 15:45 | C 14.102b
Einzeltermin | Mi, 19.04.2023, 12:15 - Mi, 19.04.2023, 15:45 | C 14.102b
14-täglich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 15:45 | 26.04.2023 - 21.06.2023 | C 12.001

Inhalt: This lecture-based class introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Queer Studies, a dynamic and heterogeneous area of scholarly inquiry that has consolidated over the last three decades. It explores, first, the ways in which Queer Studies has insisted on the centrality of the critical study of both heterosexual culture and the binary organisation of gender to any understanding of contemporary culture and society. Second, it examines Queer Studies’ interrogation of queer and trans sub-cultures, counter-publics and life-worlds. The genealogies of Queer Studies are explored, including its roots in Gay and Lesbian, Women’s and Gender Studies, in women of colour feminist traditions, and in social movement and artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Students gain a critical familiarity with some of the key theoretical contributions to the field by some of its best-known authors, including work on “performativity”, “hetero-” and “homo-normativity”, “queer of colour critique”, and “disidentification” as well as queer contributions to the thinking of temporality, intersectionality and historical materialism. Finally, the class explores the complex and changing relationship between Queer Studies and Trans Studies.

The Global Right and "Gender Ideology" (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ben Trott

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 18:15 - 19:45 | 03.04.2023 - 07.07.2023 | C 12.013

Inhalt: In recent decades, the global right has increasingly sought to mobilise against an often ill-defined ‘gender ideology’. This seminar explores examples from Europe, the United States and Latin America, examining the coalitions that have often been formed among the far-right and the centre-right as well as with some on the left and centre-left. At times, such coalitions have sought to defend traditional ideas of the family as well as sex/gender roles and identities. And at others, they have focussed on opposing particular parts of queer culture (such as drag) as well as trans rights, recognition and liberation.