Lehrveranstaltungen/Courses 2018/19
Becoming-with the Seas and Oceans
Teacher: Dr. Carsten Wergin
Dates/Times/Location: Thursdays, 18.10.2018 - 07.02.2019, 12:00-14:00, Marstallstr. 6 / R 413
Single: Friday, 26.10.2018, 14:30-18:00, Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212
LSF: Becoming-with the Seas and Oceans
| Description |
Please register until 30 September and via Email to wergin@uni-heidelberg.de |
| Comment | This course includes participation in the Weber World Café 'Transoceanic Cultures: The Sea in Past and Present' on 26 October 2018 at the Karl Jaspers Centre. Students who register for this course need to assure that they will be able to participate in this event. |
| Content |
This seminar introduces students to the seas and oceans as central sites for anthropological and transcultural studies research. Seas and Oceans are fundamental to processes of globalisation, mobility and exchange. They connect across space and facilitate flows of people, goods and ideas. Participants in this course will engage with the seas and oceans and how they have been used and conceptualised over time. We will look at islands, ports, beaches, coastlines and ships, as sites of transcultural encounter as spaces of labour, gender and race, and of aesthetic practices like writing, painting or music-making. Discussions about life in the anthropocene, multispecies ethnographies, and collaborative research in 'para-sites' will further broaden our theoretical understanding and methodological tool kit for an anthropology of maritime lifeworlds. |
| Certificates | for 4 ECTS: Active participation Oral presentation Weekly assignments for 8 ECTS: the above, plus Term Paper (6000 words) |
