Course Schedule for Winter Term 2015/16
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Course Schedule for Winter Term 2015/16
UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG Winter 2015/16 Catalog Of Lectures - with Comments Transcultural Studies (14.8.2015) The detailed description of the courses can be found at http://lsf.uni-heidelberg.de Transcultural Studies Transcultural Studies In this section courses from different faculties with disciplines of the arts, humanities, cultural and social sciences are listed, which essentially follow a transcultural approach. The core courses of the M.A. Transcultural Studies are listed under the respective study focus. Under "Further Courses of Interest" courses from affiliated disciplines and programmes can be found which include a transcultural approach. Specific research colloquia for advanced master's and doctoral students are provided under "Colloquia". M.A. Transcultural Studies Courses are listed under the respective Study Focus. One course can be relevant to more than one focus. Introduction to Transcultural Studies 9719KJC546; Lecture; SWS: 2; LP: MA TS: 7; en Tue; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Brosius, C.;Juneja, M.;Kurtz, J. Content The concept of transculturality can be used both as a heuristic device (e.g. multiperspectivity and multi-locality) and focus of study (e.g. cultural entanglements). It is embedded in a large and very heterogeneous landscape of theoretical and methodological approaches that come from various disciplines and cover different thematic, historical and geographic areas. Jointly conducted by the five Cluster chairs, this lecture class will discuss the contributions and limitations of inherited and current notions of transculturality. Focusing on the three study areas of the MA TS, and the respective fields of research of the lecturers, theories and methods will be tested, e.g. in explorations of global art and exhibition practices, appropriations of philosophical and religious ideas, and the relationship between patterns of consumption and the exchange of commodities. The goal of the course is to introduce students to diverse disciplinary perspectives enabling them to frame their own studies of transcultural phenomena and perspectives. Proof of academic M.A. Transcultural Studies: Mandatory for all students achievement Active participation in Q preparation of mandatory readings; regular submission of short comments/discussion questions; written examination or research paper BEK75:AN(2LP)/EW(2LP)/Vt(2LP)/Eg(2LP) BEK50:AN((2LP)/Vt(2LP/Eg(2LP) BEK25:AN(2LP) MEK-H:A(2LP)Ew(2LP)/Vt(2LP)/Eg(2LP) MEK-B:A(2LP)/Ew(2LP) IMKM:A(2LP)/Eg(2LP) Literature LEK:AN(2LP)/Eg(2LP)/W(2LP) Introductory Readings: Appadurai, Arjun. 2005 (1996). Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 2 Transcultural Studies Christiane Brosius. 2010. India's Middle Class. New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity. New Delhi: Routledge. James Elkins et al (eds). 2010. Art and Globalization. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. Morphy, Howard and Morgan Perkins. 2006. Anthropology of Art. The Reader. Malden: Blackwell. Monica Juneja. 2011 "Global Art History and the "Burden of Representation"". In: Hans Belting/Andrea Buddensieg (eds). Global Studies: Mapping the Contemporary. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. Lackner, Michael, Iwo Amelung and Joachim Kurtz. 2001. New Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in late Quing China. Leiden: Brill. Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Sartori, Andrew. 2008. Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Kitty Zijlmans/ Wilfried van Damme (eds). 2008. World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches. Amsterdam: Valiz. Tutorium "Introduction to Transcultural Studies" 9719KJC585; Seminar / tutorial; SWS: 2; LP: 1; en Weekly; Group 1; tba; Weekly; Group 2; tba; Weekly; Group 3; tba; Content In this tutorium, which accompanies the "Introduction to Transcultural Studies", texts from the lecture will be reviewed and basic aspects of academic reading, presenting and writing will be discussed. Preconditions Optional for participants of the "Introduction to Transcultural Studies". Academic Writing in English 9719KJC544; Practice class; SWS: 2; LP: 5; en Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Barlas, Z. Content This semester-long course offers concrete guidelines and practical strategies for composing and editing academic texts in English. It aims to educate students in the tried-and-true methods of essay writing (thesis development, paragraph construction and composition), which students will apply practically in writing and developing a research paper (10-20 pages of written prose which can be part of a student’s MA thesis, or a paper for another course). The course is designed specifically for students who are not native speakers of English. The goal of the course is to prepare students for the following tasks: 1) Formulate a thesis statement and structure an essay; 2) Incorporate and convey the significance of examples; 3) Write analytically and clearly and 4) Articulate their ideas with stylistic and grammatical precision. Proof of academic 10% Regular Attendance achievement 15% Active Participation 20% Oral Presentation 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 3 Transcultural Studies Preconditions Short Comment 50% Term Paper Students of M.A. Transcultural Studies, preferably in their final or penultimate semester. Students who are not native speakers of English. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Academic Writing in English (Block Seminar) 9719KJC545; Practice class; LP: 5; en Fri; Single; 09:00 - 13:00, 16.10.2015 - 16.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Barlas, Z. Fri; Single; 09:00 - 13:00, 20.11.2015 - 20.11.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Barlas, Z. Fri; Single; 09:00 - 13:00, 15.01.2016 - 15.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Barlas, Z. Fri; Single; 09:00 - 13:00, 05.02.2016 - 05.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Barlas, Z. Content This block seminar offers concrete guidelines and practical strategies for composing and editing academic texts in English. It aims to educate students in the tried-andtrue methods of essay writing (thesis development, paragraph construction and composition), which students will apply practically in writing and developing a research paper (10-20 pages of written prose which can be part of a student’s MA thesis, or a paper for another course). The course is designed specifically for students who are not native speakers of English. The goal of the course is to prepare students for the following tasks: 1) Formulate a thesis statement and structure an essay; 2) Incorporate and convey the significance of examples; 3) Write analytically and clearly and 4) Articulate their ideas with stylistic and grammatical precision. Proof of academic 10% Regular Attendance achievement 15% Active Participation 20% Oral Presentation Preconditions Short Comment 50% Term Paper Students of M.A. Transcultural Studies, preferably in their final or penultimate semester. Students who are not native speakers of English. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Study Focus "Society, Economy, Governance" Agrarian Frontiers in South and Southeast Asia 9719KJC547; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MA TS:7; en Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Münster, D. Content This seminar looks at historical and contemporary processes of expanding agriculture into forested landscapes across tropical Asia. From the colonial introduction of plantations to postcolonial land-rushes by small-scale cash crop farmers, South and Southeast Asian have witnessed dynamic processes of encounters between agrarian capitalism and indigenous forms of land use (such as swiden cultivation). The main focus of the seminar will be on interrogating the notion of an agrarian frontier, which is increasingly gaining traction in anthropological literature. These assemblages are dynamic frontiers of law (land rights, conservation regimes), economy (capitalist and non-capitalist relations of labor and exchange), culture (migrants and indigenous populations) and power (edges of statehood, Zomia). It will be of special interest to look 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 4 Preconditions Literature Transcultural Studies at the role of specific plants (crops) in co-producing these landscapes. What are the specifics contributions of the socionatural properies of plants like tea, rubber, palm oil, or ginger in creating these frontier situation. 1st year students of: MA Transcultural Studies MA Ethnologie MA Health and Society in South Asia Arnold, D. 2001. Disease, Resistance, and India's Ecological Frontier, 1770-1947. In Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge. James Scott and Nina Bhatt, eds. Pp. 186–206. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eilenberg, M. 2014. Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border. Journal of Peasant Studies 41(2):157–82. Hall, D. 2011. Land grabs, land control, and Southeast Asian crop booms. Journal of Peasant Studies 38(4):837–57. Peluso, N. L., and C. Lund. 2011. New Frontiers of Land Control: Introduction. Journal of Peasant Studies 38(4):667–81. Scott, J. C. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press. Tsing, A. 2005. How to Make Resources in Order to Destroy Them (and Then Save Them?) on the Salvage Frontier. In Histories of the Future. Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, eds. Pp. 51–75. Durham: Duke University Press. A history of the concept of "politics" in the modern world (late 19th-early 20th century) 9719KJC587; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MA TS:7; en Wed; Weekly; 13:00 - 15:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Blitstein, P. Content Has there ever been an autonomous sphere of “politics”? To what extent has “politics” been conceptually dissociated from “ethics” or even from “aesthetics”? How radically has the “State” been distinguished from the “family,” the “parliament” from the “court assembly,” “political parties” from “factions,” “men of letters” from “bureaucrats,” “political leadership” from the “master-disciple” relations? In this course, we will discuss the different attempts at defining an autonomous sphere of "politics" in different parts of the late 19th - early 20th century world. The history of the modern concept “politics” indeed connects different actors from different places, from Tokyo University to the English parliament, from the Mexican presidential palace to an American university, from the imperial court in Beijing to a residence in Darjeeling. By following these connections, we will attempt to determine the spatial experiences that were involved in producing different definitions of the supposedly homogenous modern concept of "politics." Proof of academic Active Participation (50%) achievement Oral Presentation (10%) Term Paper (40%) Chinese Commercial Law and Governance 9719KJC586; Block seminar; LP: MA TS:7; en Thu; Single; 15:00 - 20:00, 07.01.2016 - 07.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pissler, K. Fri; Single; 11:00 - 19:00, 08.01.2016 - 08.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pissler, K. Sat; Single; 11:00 - 15:00, 09.01.2016 - 09.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pissler, K. Thu; Single; 15:00 - 20:00, 28.01.2016 - 28.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pissler, K. Fri; Single; 11:00 - 19:00, 29.01.2016 - 29.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pissler, K. Sat; Single; 11:00 - 15:00, 30.01.2016 - 30.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pissler, K. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 5 Content Proof of academic achievement Preconditions Literature Short Comment Transcultural Studies This course will give an overview on legal institutional setting of a market economy in China. After an introductory session devoted to a description of legal reforms since 1979 and of the political and legal institutions and procedures, the seminar will focus on the transition from a relation-based system to a rule-based legal and governance system and problems of transition, in particular for foreigners. Active Participation Oral Presentation Term Paper None. However, prior or parallel registration in law courses on East Asian law may be helpful. Help to find topic-specific literature to prepare the oral presentation and the term paper as well as individual advice will be given on demand. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. November 2015. Registered participants will be provided with a list of prospective topics and further information via email. Conquest and Religious Integration. Variations of a 'Medieval' Model of Expansion 9719KJC567; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Tue; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; König, D. Content The course will deal with various historical processes in which conquest led to a process of religious transformation either among the conquerors or among the conquered, generally among both. After dealing with the ancient Roman way of dealing with the religions of subjected populations, we will go through various processes of conquest (Goths, Franks, Arabs, Normans, Reconquista, Crusades, Mongols etc.) and analyse how, under which circumstances and why a process of religious transformation took place. In this context, the role of so-called 'universal religions' will be discussed repeatedly. Proof of academic Active participation achievement Short Comment Oral presentation Term paper All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Please send a) your matriculation number, b) information on your degree programme, c) reading skills (languages). Development Economics 9719KJC573; Block seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 5; en Fri; Single; 11:00 - 16:00, 16.10.2015 - 16.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Sat; Single; 09:00 - 14:00, 17.10.2015 - 17.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Fri; Single; 11:00 - 16:00, 23.10.2015 - 23.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Comments Prof. Kono is a guest scientist form Kyoto University. You can have a look at his CV here: https://sites.google.com/site/hisakikono/cv Content This course is an intensive 15-hour course targeted for non-economists. Development economics is the field of social science which apply economic analysis for the problem of poverty and global development. The topics covered in the course include: 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 6 Transcultural Studies 1. Impact Evaluation of Anti-Poverty Programs 2. History, Institutions and Development 3. Gender 4. Education 5. Health 6. Risk and Insurance 6. Credit and Savings Proof of academic achievement written exam Short Comment You can pre-register for the course by sending an e-mail to Ms. Christina Pietsch ([email protected]) with the following information: Mr./Ms. first name family name enrollment mailaddress study number course credit points (Matrikelnummer) 5 "Ethnogenesis": Processes of Ethnic Formation and Consolidation 9719KJC568; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Mon; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; König, D. Content The course will deal with the theoretical framework on ethnic processes or "ethnogenesis" developed by the so-called "school of Vienna" around Herwig Wolfram and Walter Pohl. Both eminent scholars in the field of late antique and early medieval studies, they provided an elaborate explanatory framework to explain the emergence of "peoples" in the period marked by the disintegration of the Roman Empire and the emergence of post-Roman polities around the Mediterranean (ca. 400-800 CE). Myths of origin, visions of community, strategies of distinction, issues of linguistic, ethnic and political identity are individual topic that will be addressed in this course. Proof of academic Active participation achievement Short Comment Oral presentation Term paper All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Please send a) your matriculation number, b) information on your degree programme, c) reading skills (languages). Frontiers of Modernity: Contact Zones, Development, Settler Colonialism, and Peripheries in Northeast Asia 1700-2000 9719KJC570; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Mon; Weekly; 10:00 - 12:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Ivings, S. Content This course utilizes a historical approach to examine socio-economic transformations in the periphery of northeast Asia circa 1700-2000. Focusing particularly on the Hokkaido 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 7 Proof of academic achievement Transcultural Studies (Japan’s northernmost island), Sakhalin and the Russian (Soviet) Far East, and Manchuria, this course allows us to connect the history of this region with global themes such as the nature of settler colonialism, centre-periphery dynamics, ‘contact zones’, and the role of frontiers in national and economic development. Though students may not have a background in socio-economic history, or northeast Asia, it is hoped that this course will allow them to broaden their knowledge of the region and acquire the tools required for historical enquiry into the transformations which the region witnessed. Active participation Oral presentation Short essays Term paper Weekly 200 word reading response Preconditions Students from other programmes may be granted more (not less) than 7 credit points if agreed with their respective degree programme, provided that they have completed all the course requirements. MATS students must complete all requirements for 7 credit points; less than 7 will not be granted. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. The course is open to students from all semesters, but would most likely suit second year students. It can also be recognized as an "Ostasien-Hauptseminar". Literature It requires no additional languages other than English (the language of instruction), though students with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Russian ability may be able to use their language skills when researching their final paper. A background in history is not required for participation although it would be helpful. A full reading list will be distributed to registered students, and available on moodle. The following will be referred to during the course: Barbier, E. (2010) Scarcity and Frontiers, Cambridge University Press Chekhov, A. (2013 reprint) Sakhalin Island, Alma Classics Howell, D. (1995) Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery, University of California Press Mason, M. (2012) Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan: envisoning the periphery and the modern nation-state, Palgrave-Macmillan Paichadze, S. &Seaton, P. (eds.) (2015) Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border, Routledge Stephan, J. (1971) Sakhalin: a history, Oxford University Press Stephan, J. (1994) The Russian Far East: a history, Stanford University Press Walker, B. (2006) The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion 1590-1800, University of California Press Gift Exchange in Anthropology 9719KJC564; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Mon; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pranaityte-Wergin, L. Comments Anthropologists have long been interested in how objects and individuals or groups are related. Exchange of material and immaterial items has proven to be central to the organization of social life. In anthropological analyses it is not merely the object of exchange that is emphasized, but what that object produces, what relationships and institutions a gift displays. In this seminar we will discuss the gift and the riddles its exchange have created for scholars. While theoretically travelling across Europe and Asia, the students will be introduced to the relations and distictions of various forms of exchange. Discussions 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 8 Transcultural Studies will include current debates in regards to fit alienation and inalienation in Western industrial settings and among Indian Jains, notions of blat in post-soviet contexts, Guanxi in China and the importance of gifts in Japan. Why does the maintenance of social relationships remain so important for the manifestation of groups and societies? Can we make friends without gifts or favours? Proof of academic achievement Preconditions active participation, short essays Seminar 7 CP All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by September 30 2015. Global Economic History 9719KJC571; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Wed; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Ivings, S. Content For a long time historians have debated the issue why the industrial revolution originated in Northwestern Europe when other parts of the world at various times seem to have reached stages of economic development variously described as protoindustrialization or industrious revolution, which could have almost enabled them to reach the next step of an economic breakthrough. Moreover, much debate has been going on ever since about the issue of what so-called late developing nations or regions need to do to catch-up with what has become known as the first world. In the meantime the hopes, expectations or fears are all about Asia taking over world economic leadership and changing the European and even American economic and political hegemony, which seems to be facing a gentle but almost inevitable relative decline. This class will review the classical and current arguments for the occurrence of global economic development in such an asymmetrical but entangled fashion while introducing the perspective of cultural economic history with its emphasis on cultural norms and practices into our interpretation of how economic cultures change over time and place. Proof of academic Active participation achievement Oral presentation Short essays Term paper Preconditions 14.8.2015 Credit Points: MATS 7, Others may receive more (not less) upon the agreement of their main programme. In this seminar there will be no option of a "reduced credit without research paper". All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Please sende her rhe following information: Winter 2015/16 9 Transcultural Studies Literature Mr./ Ms. first name family name enrollment mailaddress study number course (Matrikelnummer) credit points 7 The Global Economic History Class is designed as a seminar for first year MA in Transcultural Studies and Global History students as well as MA Students in the Regional Studies Disciplines. Erasmus students are permitted to participate but will have to do all the work including the research paper in order to obtain any credits. Advanced Students in History or Asian Studies are also welcome and will receive 8 credit points for the class (Hauptseminar Ostasien). In this class there will be no option of a "reduced credit without research paper". The class expects no background in economics but hopes students will have some knowledge of history in some parts of the world. A full reading list will be distributed to registered students, and available on moodle. The following will be referred to during the course: - Kenneth Pomeranz. The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton UP 2001. - Jan de Vries, "Industrial vs Industrious Revolution"Journal of Economic History 54:02 (1994): 249-270. - Kaoru Sugihara. Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949. Oxford UP 2005. - Robert Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (2011) - Mark Metzler, Lever of Empire The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (2006) - Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth. (2006) - Shigeru Akita, Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History (2002) - James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: the Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World 1783-1939. (2009) Introduction to East Asian Law I 9719KJC565; Lecture; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Förster, C. Content The lecture provides a "first contact" with important East Asian legal systems (Japan, South Korea, China) that historically were and presently still are shaped mainly by German law. We will begin with the development of the Japanese legal system, followed by the "extension" to South Korea and China. Of particular interest then are transcultural aspects of intermingling Western legal systems and East Asian traditional society. The final part consists of selected regulations of modern Civil Law, showing their European origin and their respective counterparts in Japanese, South Korean and Chinese codifications. The lecture will be continued in SS 2016, covering other important areas like Company, Labor, Criminal and Constitution Law, accompanied by remarkable decisions of East Asian courts. Proof of academic Active participation achievement Oral presentation Exam Legal Consequences of Modern Technology 9719KJC566; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Thu; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Förster, C. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 10 Content Proof of academic achievement Preconditions Literature Short Comment Transcultural Studies Modern technology like computers, airplanes or nuclear power plants provide us with many benefits. But they do not come without cost: Computers may allow access to secret personal data, planes may crash and power plants produce waste and may pollute the environment. We will look at several areas of today's life with a focus on legal attempts to cushion unwanted side-effects of modern technology. Comparing European and East Asian countries in their specific strategies to cope with the same problems offers a transcultural approach. Active participation Oral presentation Term paper None. However, prior or parallel participation in my lecture on East Asian Law may be helpful. Help to find topic-specific literature to prepare the oral presentation and the term paper as well as individual advice will be given on demand. Please register until September 30, 2015 at [email protected]. Registered participants will be provided with a list of prospective topics and further information via E-Mail. Muslim, migrant, youth? Contemporary debates in sociology and social anthropology in Russia and western Europe 9719KJC551; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MA TS:7; en Tue; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00, 20.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Roche, S. Content The January 2015 events in France have once again raised the question about how to speak about young Muslims many of them having parents with a migratory background. Most researchers have preferred to leave the debate to the press who has raised all kinds of issues and assertions often lacking any solid foundation. But the subject of Muslim youth in Europe has been researched by sociologists and social anthropologists more or less detached from political events. In this course we will discuss academic texts on Muslim youth in Europe and Russia and once acquiring a solid base also take a critical look at textual productions of media on the subject of Muslim, youth, terrorism, jihad, etc. The course is meant to be an introduction to the subject via sociological and social anthropological writings covering Europe and Russia. Short Comment This seminar starts in the second week of the semester (20.10.2015). Planetary Urbanism: Perspectives from the Global South and North 1241010139; Main seminar; LP: 5/7; de Thu; Weekly; 13:15 - 14:45; from 15.10.2015; BerlinerS 48 / HS; Brosius, C.;Gerhard, U. Comments Anmeldung: Registration by email ([email protected]) by September 30, 2015 Interdisciplinary seminar together with Prof. Christiane Brosisus, Anthropology, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies Content 14.8.2015 This class will be held in English. In this interdisciplinary seminar held by Geography and Anthropology, urban theory, practices and processes will be discussed for the Global South and Global North simultaneously. The idea is that most of the research is stongly related to perspectives from either the North (West) or South, neglecting important information, development, Winter 2015/16 11 Transcultural Studies and understandings. While Prof. Brosius is working on Indian cities, Prof. Gerhard has done most of her research on North American cities. What can we learn from a cosmopolitan perspective? The concept of planetary urbanism (Brenner 2013, Brenner &Schmid 2015) offers some theoretical background to approach cities throughout the globe. Thus, we will structure this seminar with intensive reading on comparatice/ extended/planetary urbanism, accompanied by discussions and presentation by the students. Preconditions Für Lehramt: bestandene Zwischenprüfung Short Comment Anrechnung: für Geographie Studierende: 5 LP für MA Transcultural Studies: 7 LP Single in the City: Gender, Media and Urban Space 9719KJC562; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Abu-Er-Rub, L. Content This seminar is about new gendered subjectivities in urban areas with a focus on Asia, particularly India and China. It is based on the research conducted by the HERA SINGLE project in Delhi and Shanghai (www.hera-single.de) Proof of academic achievement In the last decades the number of female and male singles has increased considerably in India and China due to changing family patterns and various (trans)cultural encounters such as border-crossing media, migration flows, cosmopolitan aspirations and neoliberal notions of 'Global cities'. In this course we will aim at answering the following questions: Why do women and men increasingly choose to be single in Chinese and Indian urban centres? How does being single affect the movement and perception of women in public spaces in Shanghai and Delhi? What imaginaries come into being due to new possibilities for gender subjectivities? In how far does singlehood affect career choices? Are their differences in single (wo)men's perception in India and China? Active participation 40 % oral presentation 20 % term paper 40 % Seminar 7 cps Preconditions The number of participants is limited to 25, a registration in advance is therefore necessary. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by September 30. Literature Magnani, Jose Guilherme Cantor. 2014. Practices of Sociality. In Donald M. Nunini (HG.). A Companion to Urban Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley, 329 - 346 Mohan, Taneesha Devi. 2011. Interrogating Temporal and Spatial Negotiations: Home as the Gendered Site for Working Women in Delhi. In Saraswati Raju &Kuntala LahiriDutt (Hgs.). Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India. New Delhi: Routledge, 155-178. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 12 Transcultural Studies Brastet, H.V. 2000. Piecing together the Jigsaw: Indian Women in the Urban Wage Labour Force. Asian Studies Review 24 (2), June 2000, 195 - 211. Curran' Winifred &Carrie Breitbach 2010. Notes on Women in the Global City: Chicago. In Gender, Place &Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2010, 393-399. Kaur, Ravinder. 2004. Empowerment and the City: the Case of Female Migrants in Domestic Work. In Harvard Asia Quaterly, Summer 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 3, 15 - 25. Lau, Lisa. 2010. Literary Representations of the "New Indian Woman": The Single, Working, Urban, Middle Class Indian Woman Seeking Personal Autonomy. In Journal of South Asian Development, Volume 5, Issue 2, October 2010, 271-292. May, Shannon. 2010. Bridging Divides and Breaking Homes: Young Women's Lifecycle Labour Mobility as a Family Managerial Strategy. In The China Quarterly, Volume 204, 899-920. McDill, T., Hall, S.K., &Turell, S.C. 2006. Aging and Creating Families: Never-Married Heterosexual Women Over Forty. In Journal on Women &Aging, Volume 18, Issue 3, 37 - 50. Phadke, Shilpa et al. 2009. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent. In Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham (Eds). Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities. London: Routledge, 185 - 203. Radakrishnan. Smitha. 2009. Professional Women, Good Families: Respectable Femininity and the Cultural Politics of a "New" India. In Qualitative Sociology, June 2009, Volume 32, Issue 2, 195 - 212. Ramu, G.N. 1989. Women, Work and Marriage in Urban India: A Study of Dual- and Single-Earner Couples. New Delhi: Sage. Ray, Raka. 2000. Fields of Protest: Women's Movement in India. New Delhi: Zubaan Books. Situmorang, Augustina. 2007. Staying Single in a Married World: Never-married women in Yogyakarta and Medan. In Asian Population Studies, Volume 3, Issue 3, 287-304. Song, Jesook, 2010. "A room of one's own": the meaning of spatial autonomy for unmarried women in neoloberal South Korea. In Gender, Place &Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 17, Issue 2, 131 - 149. Swain, Pushpanjali &Vijayan K. Pillai. Living Arrangements among Single Mothers in India. In Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 32.1, 2005, 53 - 76. Vishwanath, Kalpana. 2010. Women imagining the City. In: Bharati Chaturvedi (Ed). Finding Delhi. Loss and Renewal in the Megacity. Penguin: Delhi, 55 - 67. Waldrop, Anne. 2012. Grandmother, Mother and Daughter: Changing agency of Indian, middleclass women, 1908 - 2008. In Modern Asian Studies 46 (3), 601 - 638. Social and Cultural Transformations in Modern Korea in Global and Transcultural Perspective 9719KJC572; Main seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Fri; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00, 16.10.2015 - 05.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Knoob, S. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 13 Transcultural Studies Content Proof of academic achievement Preconditions th During the 20 century the Korean peninsula has undergone a succession of farreaching political, economic and demographic shocks. Their cumulative impact has resulted in a series of social transformations of incredible speed and depth. The roots of many events after 1950 can be traced to the period of Japanese rule, but it has been subsequent cataclysmic events – both negative and positive – that have completely reshaped the socio-economic and cultural conditions on the peninsula. To understand these transformation processes, the first weeks of the course will be th devoted to understanding Koreas historical path through the 20 century. After this, the course will switch to the thematic exploration of transformations of socio-economic conditions and structures, human geography and demography, family structure and gender relations, perception of the body and sexuality, the role of education, religious belief and its role, ideology and morality, ethnic makeup and citizenship. These will be considered with focus on the South as embedded in East Asian and Global context. - Active participation - Preparation of weekly compulsory readings and answers to questions for discussion in advance of each session - Term paper For MA Transcultural Studies 7 CP, for BA HauptseminarOstasien 8 CP, for other programmes according to requirements and departmental regulations The number of participants in this seminar is limited. Participants are required to preregister for this course via email to [email protected]. If the course is oversubscribed priority will be given in consideration of both study subject and earliness of registration. Literature Prerequisites for Participation: A basic understanding of historical events in Korea during the 20th century (see preparatory reading). Compulsory reading for historical background prior to the course: • Michel Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. Other literature: • Michael Robinson and Gi-Wook Shin eds. Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center; 1999. • Mark Caprio, Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. • John Halliday and Bruce Cumings, Korea: The Unknown War, London: Viking, 1988. • Kim Hyung-A, Korea’s Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979, London: Routledge Curzon, 2004. • Charles Armstrong ed., Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State, London: Routledge 2002. • Hyung Il Pai and Timothy Tangherlini eds., Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity, Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1998. • Kenneth Wells, ed. South Korea’s Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. • Kim Sunhyuk, The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2000. • Geir Helgesen, Democracy and Authority in Korea: The Cultural Dimension in Korean Politics, Richmond: Curzon, 1998. • Denise Potrzeba Lett, In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea’s “New” Urban Middle Class, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 14 Transcultural Studies • Michael Seth, Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. • James Grayson, Korea: A Religious History • Keith Howard ed., Korean Shamanism: Revivals, Survivals and Change, Seoul: The Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch, 1998. • Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim Janelli, Ancestor worship and Korean society, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. • Laurel Kendall, Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. • Robert E. Buswell and Timothy S. Lee eds., Christianity in Korea, Honolulu: University Keith Howard ed., Korean Pop Music: Riding the Wave, Folkstone: Global Oriental, 2006. • of Hawaii Press, 2006. As companions for historical background knowledge Short Comment • Michel Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. • Adrian Burzo, The Making of Modern Korea. London: Routledge 2003. • Chang, Yun-Shik &Lee, Steven. Transformations in 20th Century Korea. London: Routledge 2006 • Hyung-A Kim, Korea’s Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979, London: Routledge Curzon, 2004. • Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press, 2004 • Robert E. Buswell and Timothy S. Lee eds., Christianity in Korea, Honolulu: University • Denise Potrzeba Lett, In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea’s “New” Urban Middle Class, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. • Michael Seth, Education Fever: Society, Politics and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002 Study Focus: Society, Economics and Governance For Students on MA Transcultural Studies: Course language is Englisch, students in the MA Transcultural Studies are expected to submit the final course paper in English. Für Studenten im BA Ostasienstudien oder anderen deutschsprachigen Studiengängen: Unterrichtssprache ist Englisch aber Hausarbeit für Belegung als Hauptseminar Ostasien oder entsprechendes ist wahlweise auf Deutsch möglich. Für ZO-Studenten: Das Seminar kann als "Ostasien Hauptseminar" belegt werden. Study Focus "Knowledge, Belief and Religion" Advanced Topics in Tibetan and Buddhist Studies 9719KJC574; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 16.10.2015 - 16.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 30.10.2015 - 30.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 20.11.2015 - 20.11.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 04.12.2015 - 04.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 18.12.2015 - 18.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 08.01.2016 - 08.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 22.01.2016 - 22.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B. Content Research seminar on selected topics for advanced students. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 15 Preconditions Short Comment Transcultural Studies BA degree in a relevant field (South Asian Studies, Classical Indology, Tibetan Studies, Buddhist Studies). (Moodle: self-enrolment key: buddha) No registration necessary. A history of the concept of "politics" in the modern world (late 19th-early 20th century) 9719KJC587; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MA TS:7; en Wed; Weekly; 13:00 - 15:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Blitstein, P. Content Has there ever been an autonomous sphere of “politics”? To what extent has “politics” been conceptually dissociated from “ethics” or even from “aesthetics”? How radically has the “State” been distinguished from the “family,” the “parliament” from the “court assembly,” “political parties” from “factions,” “men of letters” from “bureaucrats,” “political leadership” from the “master-disciple” relations? In this course, we will discuss the different attempts at defining an autonomous sphere of "politics" in different parts of the late 19th - early 20th century world. The history of the modern concept “politics” indeed connects different actors from different places, from Tokyo University to the English parliament, from the Mexican presidential palace to an American university, from the imperial court in Beijing to a residence in Darjeeling. By following these connections, we will attempt to determine the spatial experiences that were involved in producing different definitions of the supposedly homogenous modern concept of "politics." Proof of academic Active Participation (50%) achievement Oral Presentation (10%) Term Paper (40%) Bringing Indian literature into the digital age with SARIT – a hands-on seminar in Digital Humanities 9719KJC577; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6 (additional credit points may be earned through further activities); en Thu; Weekly; 13:00 - 15:00, 22.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Kellner, B.;McAllister, P.;Olalde, L. Comments The seminar will begin on Oct 22nd. For further information on the resources used in the seminar please visit the following websites: SARIT corpus: https://github.com/sarit/SARIT-corpus SARIT web-interface: http://sarit.indology.info/ Content TEI Guidelines: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ Far from being a purely mechanical task, the digitization of literature occasions, and indeed requires, reflection on the nature, characteristics and structure of text in relation to its various forms of representation. The SARIT project – “Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts” (SARIT, also Sanskrit for “river”) is a long-term initiative that aims to produce and freely disseminate accessible machine-searchable texts of literature in Indic languages, and to develop new ways of presenting, interacting with, and analyzing texts online via a customized web-interface. For practical reasons the project currently focuses on Sanskrit, but it is not inherently limited to Sanskrit literature. SARIT is currently actively developed in a joint project of the Chair of Buddhist Studies/HRA in Heidelberg with Columbia University. One of the most important aspects in digitizing texts is their encoding – on the level of characters and scripts, but also in terms of their structural and semantic characteristics. Encoding on all levels should be based on open, non-proprietary standards. The SARIT 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 16 Transcultural Studies project is currently developing encoding guidelines, which amount to a customization of the specification of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). This hands-on seminar introduces students into the SARIT guidelines through practical encoding examples, and fosters further reflection on digitization and its implications for our access to and understanding of literature, in particular of literature in Indic languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali or Bengali. Proof of academic achievement • Active participation (20%) • Practical encoding examples (80%) Preconditions Participants should be prepared to work with text-editors (emacs, jEdit, oXygen, or the like) and to familiarize themselves with TEI. Knowledge of TEI is beneficial, but not required. Knowledge of Sanskrit is beneficial, but not required. Participants should bring their own laptop to class. The seminar will be particularly useful for students of South Asian languages and literatures, past and present. Registration: please send an email to [email protected] (until Oct 10th) Buddhist Arts of South Asia and the Himalayas 9719KJC579; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6; en Tue; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Repo, J. Content This course introduces the transcultural history of Buddhist art and architecture, beginning with its initial emergence in South Asia, continuing with the development of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna imagery and their subsequent diffusion across the continent. Based on this foundation we will follow the spread of Buddhism and its arts into the Himalayas. The emphasis of the course as a whole will be on Tibetan Buddhist sculpture, painting and architecture, their relation to India, the Western Himalayas and Nepal and their transmission into Mongolia and China. The relationship between Buddhist philosophy, practice, ritual and material culture will also be considered, as will contemporary developments in the arts. The development of Vajrayāna art forms in East and Southeast Asia will also be briefly considered and discussed throughout the course in order to contextualize Tibetan Buddhist art within the wider Buddhist artistic traditions found throughout Asia. Proof of academic Each student will be required to give a brief presentation on a specific topic during the achievement course of the semester. Preconditions Literature Term paper (100%) All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 9 October 2015. Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. It will be helpful, but certainly not essential, if students have at least some background in art history and/or Buddhist studies. For general introductory material on the content of this course see the relevant sections of the following books: Dehejia, Vidya. 1997. "Indian Art". (Phaidon, London). Fisher, Robert E. 1998. "Art of Tibet". (Thames &Hudson, London). Leidy, Denise Patry. 2009. "The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its History and Meaning". (Shambhala, Boston). Buddhist philosophy in its sources: the perception of yogis 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 17 Transcultural Studies 9719KJC578; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6/7 credit points; en Thu; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 22.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Kellner, B. Comments The seminar begins on Oct. 22nd. A Moodle site will be used to organize the course. The access password is "yogipratyaksa". Content Several Indian religious traditions postulated that human cognitive faculties can be developed in extraordinary ways, through ascetic practices and techniques of meditation. In Buddhism the development of an extrasensory perception of the true nature of mind and world forms part and parcel of the conception of the path to liberation, and to buddhahood. Medieval Indian Buddhist philosophers, active in an environment often highly critical of their views, increasingly turned to rationalizing such religious postulates as the extraordinary perception of yogis, and to develop arguments and proofs to support them in controversial debates (in this case, especially with Mimamsaka opponents). How is it philosophically possible that an ordinary human being, subject to deeply engrained conceptions about their self and the world that are ultimately false, trains their mind not only to realize this falsehood intellectually, but even further to actually "see" selflessness? Proof of academic achievement Preconditions Short Comment In this seminar selected passages on this and related topics from the literature of the logico-epistemological tradition will be read in their original Sanskrit, and also partly in classical Tibetan translation. • Active participation (40%) • Term paper (60%) Sanskrit (at least 4 semesters); prior knowledge of Classical Tibetan is desirable, but not mandatory. No registration necessary. Conquest and Religious Integration. Variations of a 'Medieval' Model of Expansion 9719KJC567; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Tue; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; König, D. Content The course will deal with various historical processes in which conquest led to a process of religious transformation either among the conquerors or among the conquered, generally among both. After dealing with the ancient Roman way of dealing with the religions of subjected populations, we will go through various processes of conquest (Goths, Franks, Arabs, Normans, Reconquista, Crusades, Mongols etc.) and analyse how, under which circumstances and why a process of religious transformation took place. In this context, the role of so-called 'universal religions' will be discussed repeatedly. Proof of academic Active participation achievement Short Comment Oral presentation Term paper All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Please send a) your matriculation number, b) information on your degree programme, c) reading skills (languages). "Ethnogenesis": Processes of Ethnic Formation and Consolidation 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 18 Transcultural Studies 9719KJC568; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Mon; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; König, D. Content The course will deal with the theoretical framework on ethnic processes or "ethnogenesis" developed by the so-called "school of Vienna" around Herwig Wolfram and Walter Pohl. Both eminent scholars in the field of late antique and early medieval studies, they provided an elaborate explanatory framework to explain the emergence of "peoples" in the period marked by the disintegration of the Roman Empire and the emergence of post-Roman polities around the Mediterranean (ca. 400-800 CE). Myths of origin, visions of community, strategies of distinction, issues of linguistic, ethnic and political identity are individual topic that will be addressed in this course. Proof of academic Active participation achievement Short Comment Oral presentation Term paper All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Please send a) your matriculation number, b) information on your degree programme, c) reading skills (languages). Paratexts in Tibetan Literature 9719KJC575; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Mon; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Viehbeck, M. Comments All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by September 30 2015. Content This seminar will use Gérard Genette's notion of "paratext" as a jumping-off point for investigating typical features of Tibetan literature. There, working with paratexts, as elements that frame the main body of a text, concerns both the introductory parts of treatises as well as their ends, that is, different types of colophons. In Tibetological research the latter have proven to be a particularly rich resource for advances into intellectual and social history, while the earlier are important for the ways they contextualize and set the stage for the main body of a text. By working with concrete examples from different textual genres students should get a good grasp of the typical structural elements that occur in a Tibetan text and learn to cope with the linguistic specifics that appear in these. The course will also include readings and discussion of secondary literature aimed to address more general issues that are connected to paratextual elements, such as the notion of authorship in a Tibetan context, the organization of literature in terms of genre, or the role of religious authority and tradition in the placement of Tibetan texts. Proof of academic • Active participation achievement • Oral presentation • Term paper Preconditions The course addresses primarily students with some knowledge of Classical Tibetan – these are also encouraged to bring along textual material from their own field of research. But students with a specific interest in Tibetan literature or in paratexts in general are encouraged to participate even without knowledge of Tibetan. Ships, Scrolls, Seeds, Mandalas: Japanese Pre-modern Religions from a Transcultural Perspective 9719KJC576; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Andreeva, A. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 19 Content Proof of academic achievement Preconditions Literature Transcultural Studies This course introduces major themes in Japan's religious and cultural history between roughly 500 and 1600, and examines critical response of pre-modern Japan to other cultural and religious systems. Namely, this course pays a special attention to the processes of appropriation and re-configuration of the religious ideas originating in India, China and Korea, and construction of local religious traditions in pre-modern Japan. What concepts played a major role in these processes? What notions of space emerged from Japan’s changing religious landscapes? How were the new cosmologies constructed, and how did they support the political and economic frameworks of Japan's pre-modern society? These questions will be among our many tools of inquiry about Japan's past and its pre-modern religiosity. • • • • Active participation Oral presentation Short essays Term paper MA TS = 7 points (active participation, oral presentation with a handout, research term paper; occasional response papers possible). Students from other degree programmes, please consult the lecturer. Fluent English language skills are essential. Any East Asian language skills are desirable but not essential. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. The course is limited to 20 people; those applying for registration will be admitted on the first come, first served basis. Recommended readings: • R. Bowring, Religious Traditions of Japan, 500-1600 (Cambridge, 2005) • P. Swanson, C. Chilson (eds.), Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (Hawai’i, 2006) • G. Tanabe (ed.), Religions of Japan in Practice (Princeton, 1999) Seminar readings may also be selected from: • Articles from Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, available in the open access Specific information will be in the syllabus available on Moodle http://www.nanzanu.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/jjrs/jjrs.html • Monumenta Nipponica, past issues of which are available in the open access On Project MUSE and JSTOR; further information on Moodle http:// monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp/mnindex.html The shamaness on the threshold: religious encounters, repression and resistance in Asia 9719KJC552; Seminar; SWS: 3; LP: MA TS:7; en Wed; Weekly; 13:00 - 14:00, 21.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Roche, S.;Torri, D. Thu; Weekly; 13:00 - 15:00, 22.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Roche, S.;Torri, D. Content This lecture seminar engages with the issue of shamanism and its encounter with world religions. Constantly under pressure from more organized religions (Islam, Christianity, Buddhism etc.), shamanic practices and religious specialists have shown a marked resilience, enabling shamanism to an interminable process of adaptation in order to adapt and survive even under hostile conditions. In ancient, colonial and even post-modern times, shamanistic specialists have always been targeted by internal or external agents of civilizational processes, almost constantly devoted to the eradication or the “domestication” of popular/folk/vernacular/subaltern form of religious life. To many of these religious conflicts, a gendered dimension was also added, since many shamanic specialists were women, thereby doubly targeted by maledominated religious establishments. This course is at the same time a lecture series and a seminar. Guests (including Zarcone, de Sales, Hamayon, Aitpaeva and many others) specialized on the larger region from Siberia, Central Asia to the Himalaya and beyond will present their research while sessions in between are reserved for preparation and theoretical discussions. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 20 Transcultural Studies Short Comment This course starts in the second week of the semester (21./22.10.2015). Study Focus "Visual, Media and Material Culture" Buddhist Arts of South Asia and the Himalayas 9719KJC579; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6; en Tue; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Repo, J. Content This course introduces the transcultural history of Buddhist art and architecture, beginning with its initial emergence in South Asia, continuing with the development of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna imagery and their subsequent diffusion across the continent. Based on this foundation we will follow the spread of Buddhism and its arts into the Himalayas. The emphasis of the course as a whole will be on Tibetan Buddhist sculpture, painting and architecture, their relation to India, the Western Himalayas and Nepal and their transmission into Mongolia and China. The relationship between Buddhist philosophy, practice, ritual and material culture will also be considered, as will contemporary developments in the arts. The development of Vajrayāna art forms in East and Southeast Asia will also be briefly considered and discussed throughout the course in order to contextualize Tibetan Buddhist art within the wider Buddhist artistic traditions found throughout Asia. Proof of academic Each student will be required to give a brief presentation on a specific topic during the achievement course of the semester. Preconditions Literature Term paper (100%) All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 9 October 2015. Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. It will be helpful, but certainly not essential, if students have at least some background in art history and/or Buddhist studies. For general introductory material on the content of this course see the relevant sections of the following books: Dehejia, Vidya. 1997. "Indian Art". (Phaidon, London). Fisher, Robert E. 1998. "Art of Tibet". (Thames &Hudson, London). Leidy, Denise Patry. 2009. "The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its History and Meaning". (Shambhala, Boston). Gift Exchange in Anthropology 9719KJC564; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Mon; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Pranaityte-Wergin, L. Comments Anthropologists have long been interested in how objects and individuals or groups are related. Exchange of material and immaterial items has proven to be central to the organization of social life. In anthropological analyses it is not merely the object of exchange that is emphasized, but what that object produces, what relationships and institutions a gift displays. In this seminar we will discuss the gift and the riddles its exchange have created for scholars. While theoretically travelling across Europe and Asia, the students will be introduced to the relations and distictions of various forms of exchange. Discussions will include current debates in regards to fit alienation and inalienation in Western industrial settings and among Indian Jains, notions of blat in post-soviet contexts, 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 21 Transcultural Studies Guanxi in China and the importance of gifts in Japan. Why does the maintenance of social relationships remain so important for the manifestation of groups and societies? Can we make friends without gifts or favours? Proof of academic achievement Preconditions active participation, short essays Seminar 7 CP All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by September 30 2015. Global Media Events 9719KJC554; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Fri; Single; 12:00 - 15:00, 30.10.2015 - 30.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Schramm, S. Sat; Single; 12:00 - 17:00, 14.11.2015 - 14.11.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Sat; Single; 12:00 - 17:00, 28.11.2015 - 28.11.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Sat; Single; 12:00 - 17:00, 12.12.2015 - 12.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Sat; no info; 12:00 - 18:00, 23.01.2016 - 23.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Content An event is perceived as a spatial and temporal continuum and can be distributed as a 'media event' if it addresses a larger public by means of mass media (radio, television), the internet and/or other digital media (blogs, chats). The aim of the seminar is to discuss the ontological status of the event and how it is transformed into a media event, as well as to specify our notion of media events in globalized media cultures. The following questions will be addressed: Under which preconditions will an event turn into a media event? How is the immediacy of the event mediated by mass media? What is the relationship between a local event and its perception in a globalized world? We will not assume that media and event simply merge into an integrative "dispositif", but instead focus on the transcultural transformation of local events in worldwide communicative processes, considering how the countermovement and deviation between events and media events are negotiated. Examples wil focus on media events from Asia but also include other media events that have global significance, for example wars (Pacific War 1941-1945; Gulf War 1980 - 2003), terrorism (9/11 USA 2001), the Olympic Games (Peking 2008), the FIFA World Cup (South Corea, Japan, 2002) nuclear disasters (Fukushima Daiichi, 2011) and natural disasters (Tsunami, Indonesia, 2004; earthquake Nepal 2015). Proof of academic achievement 7 credit points active participation oral presentation Preconditions 14.8.2015 term paper Winter 2015/16 22 Transcultural Studies Literature All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 15. October 2015. Couldry, N. (2003): Media Rituals: A Critical Approach, London: Routledge. Couldry, N. Hepp, A, Krotz, F. (2009) (eds.): Media Events in a Global Age. Routledge, Abington. Dayan, D. and Katz, E. (1994): Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fiske, J. (1994): Media Matters. Everyday Culture and Political Change; Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. Hall, S. (1998) (eds.): Representation: Cultural Representations and Cultural Practices. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Hepp A. and Krotz, F. (2008): "Media Events, Globalization and Cultural Change: An Introduction to the Sepcial Issue", Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 33: 265-73. Wark, M. (1994): Virtual Geographies: Living with Global Media Events, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Illicit Visions? The Dynamics of the Image in the Arts of the Islamicate World 9719KJC556; Lecture; SWS: 2; en Wed; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Juneja, M. Content Illicit visions? The Dynamics of the Image in the Arts of the Islamicate World. Proof of academic achievement Violent conflicts over images of the prophet Mohammed that have erupted in recent times have reinforced perceptions of an "Islamic culture" intrinsically hostile to images of living beings. Discussions of Islam's "image problem" are not restricted to popular media, rather they have for long been firmly anchored in scholarship and have frequently found articulation in the blanket-term "Bilderverbot". This lecture course will begin by investigating the history of tropes about the "illicit picture" and the reductive conceptions of Islamic art that have followed from these. It will further undertake a historical investigation of the conception and reception of images in Islamicate societies at different historical moments and reaching out into contemporary times. Explorations of theological sources relating to figural representation in Islam will be undertaken in conjuction with other historical determinants of attitudes towards images, to uncover the dynamics of both image production as well as iconoclastic practice. The abundance of figural images that make up the body of "Islamic art" in museums and collections across the world testifies to a rich artistic creativity, and challenges us to find nuanced ways of understanding the tensions between theology and the magnetic pull of figuration. Through a series of case studies the course seeks to uncover ways of thinking about the image, the modalities of image production, reception and transmission in societies of different regions - Arabia, West and South Asia - during different historical moments shaped by the dynamics of migration, encounter and resistance. It will address a variety of themes such as representations of the Prophet, narratives of heroism, portraying political power, caricatures and erotic images. Thematic studies will be interwoven with questions about the ways in which materiality, geometry and calligraphic form have generated specific notions of the image. How can these contribute to refining paradigms of image theory? IEK 2 credit points MA TS 7 or 4 credit points other programmes subject to negotiation 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 23 Transcultural Studies Literature Basic Readings (additional readings specific to themes will be provided in the course of the lectures) Siliva Naef, Bilder und Bilderverbot im Islam: vom Koran bis zum Karikaturenstreit, Munich: C.H. Beck, 2007. Jamal J. Elias, Aisha's Cushion: religious art, perception and practice in Islam, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Finbarr Barry Flood, "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm and the Museum", Art Bulletin LXXXIV, December 2002: 641-659. Anthony Cutler, Image making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the early Muslim world: images and cultures, Ashgate Varorium, 2009. Avinoam Shalem (ed.), Constructing the Image of Mohammed in Europe, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. Kenneth M. George, Picturing Islam: art and ethics in a Muslim life-world, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. Nam June Paik - the father of video art in (trans-)cultural context and border-crossing collaborations 9719KJC555; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Koch, F. Content The course addresses the multi-media work, artistic position and art-related concepts of Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006), popularly known as the "father of video art", by introducing both, an (art) historical and transcultural perspective. Can Paik - who was born in Korea, studied music and its history in Japan, began his career as a multi-media artist in Germany, before completing his career based in the USA as an outspoken cosmopolitan - be called a "transcultural artist" avant la lettre? Based on a variety of primary and secondary literature and detailed analysis of his large and divers oeuvre - including his early Fluxus pieces, pioneering performance activities, as well as his later laser-works, and transnational broadcasting projects - we will consider Paik in distinct historical, socio-cultural, philosophical and media/art-related contexts. The second aim of the course is to discuss Paik as formative participant of and in relation to a wide, border-crossing network of vanguard artists since the 1960s, including, but not limited to such prominent contemporaries as Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, John Cage, Charlotte Moorman, Shigeko Kubota, and George Maciunas. How has his/their vision/-s and practice/-s of a globally related and informed (art) world underminded the currency of geopolitical borders and an Eurocentric art discourse during and after the end of the Cold War? Proof of academic achievement 7 cps for MA TS, 6 cps for BEK Ergänzungsmodul active participation 20 % 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 24 Transcultural Studies oral presentation 20 % short essays 20 % term paper 40 % Preconditions Good Englisch reading and writing skills. Preferably one course in art history or related fields Course from VMC modul Literature All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015 Rennert, Susanne, Hrsg. Nam June Paik. Ostfildern/Düsseldorf: Hatje Cantz/Museum Kunst-Palast, 2010. Kim, Honghee. Good morning, Mr. Paik! Happening, Fluxus, Video Art: Nam June Paik. Seoul: Design House, 2007. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Neuburger, eds. Nam June Paik. Exposition of Music. Electronic Television. Revisited. Wien/Köln: MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien/Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2009. Herzogenrath, Wulf and Sabine-Maria Schmidt, eds. Nam June Paik. Fluxus / Video. Bremen/Köln: Kunsthalle Bremen/Buchhandlung Walter König, 1999. Pijnappel, Johan, ed. Fluxus. today and yesterday. London: Acad. Ed., 1993. Paik, Nam June, Niederschriften eines Kulturnomaden: Aphorismen, Briefe, Texte. Köln: DuMont Verlag, 1992. Decker, Edith. Paik - Video. Köln: DuMont Verlag, 1988. Hanhardt, John G., ed. Nam June Paik. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982. Picturesque Travel - Traveling Pictures: The Idea of Asia in Illustrated Travelogues 9719KJC559; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Fri; Single; 09:00 - 13:00, 16.10.2015 - 16.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Introductory Session; Forberg, C. Fri; Single; 09:00 - 18:00, 11.12.2015 - 11.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Sat; Single; 09:00 - 18:00, 12.12.2015 - 12.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Fri; Single; 09:00 - 18:00, 18.12.2015 - 18.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Sat; Single; 09:00 - 18:00, 19.12.2015 - 19.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Content With the discovery of the sea routes to Asia by the end of the 15th century, the longlasting relationship between Europe and Asia had been intensified. Henceforth, the oceans were full of European vessels, which had merchants, priests, physicians, scholars, adventurers and artists aboard and headed for the Asian coast. These eyewitnesses came back to their homelands with new impressions of the foreign and were welcomed by their curious relatives and countrymen. Some returnees published their news from unkonwn regions and their experiences with the strangers in travel books which got the more popular the more images they contained. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 25 Transcultural Studies In our block seminar, we will deal with the sources of the illustrations, trace their way back from Asia to Europe and back again, investigate the dense social network of travelers, merchants, publishers and readers and endeavor to reconstruct the image of Asia (with focus on India and China) that was created on that way. The time frame of our investigations is from the 16th to the 19th centuries and will facilitate the view on a manifold process that incorporates different ideas of authenticity, self and social perception as well as of colonial practices. Proof of academic achievement MATS: 7 Credit Points Preconditions All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by October 11 2015. Planetary Urbanism: Perspectives from the Global South and North 1241010139; Main seminar; LP: 5/7; de Thu; Weekly; 13:15 - 14:45; from 15.10.2015; BerlinerS 48 / HS; Brosius, C.;Gerhard, U. Comments Anmeldung: Registration by email ([email protected]) by September 30, 2015 Interdisciplinary seminar together with Prof. Christiane Brosisus, Anthropology, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies Content This class will be held in English. In this interdisciplinary seminar held by Geography and Anthropology, urban theory, practices and processes will be discussed for the Global South and Global North simultaneously. The idea is that most of the research is stongly related to perspectives from either the North (West) or South, neglecting important information, development, and understandings. While Prof. Brosius is working on Indian cities, Prof. Gerhard has done most of her research on North American cities. What can we learn from a cosmopolitan perspective? The concept of planetary urbanism (Brenner 2013, Brenner &Schmid 2015) offers some theoretical background to approach cities throughout the globe. Thus, we will structure this seminar with intensive reading on comparatice/ extended/planetary urbanism, accompanied by discussions and presentation by the students. Preconditions Für Lehramt: bestandene Zwischenprüfung Short Comment Anrechnung: für Geographie Studierende: 5 LP für MA Transcultural Studies: 7 LP Postmodernism. From Theory to Art and Architecture 9719KJC560; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Tue; Single; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 13.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Falser, M. Tue; Single; 16:00 - 18:00, 20.10.2015 - 20.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Tue; Single; 16:00 - 18:00, 27.10.2015 - 27.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Fri; Single; 11:00 - 18:00, 20.11.2015 - 20.11.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Fri; Single; 11:00 - 18:00, 11.12.2015 - 11.12.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Fri; Single; 11:00 - 18:00, 15.01.2016 - 15.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 26 Transcultural Studies Sat; Single; 11:00 - 18:00, 16.01.2016 - 16.01.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Content The Seminar explores by whom, when, where and in which kind of publications postmodernist theories emerged, how they were negotiated in exhibitions (such as the First Architectural Biennale in Venice in 1980), and became visible in artistic productions. We will try to map this global movement's global trajectories with a focus on individual architects and their projects ranging from the USA and Europe to Asia (especially India and Japan). Proof of academic Active participation achievement Oral presentation term paper Preconditions tutor Christian Koch: [email protected] All participants are required to register for this course via email to Christian Koch by September 30. The course is taught in cooperation with the Institute of European Art History. Literature Provided via Moodle in October 2015 Research Colloquium in Art History for Masters and Doctoral Students 9719KJC557; Colloquium; SWS: 2; en Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Juneja, M. Single in the City: Gender, Media and Urban Space 9719KJC562; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: MATS: 7 credit points; en Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212; Abu-Er-Rub, L. Content This seminar is about new gendered subjectivities in urban areas with a focus on Asia, particularly India and China. It is based on the research conducted by the HERA SINGLE project in Delhi and Shanghai (www.hera-single.de) Proof of academic achievement In the last decades the number of female and male singles has increased considerably in India and China due to changing family patterns and various (trans)cultural encounters such as border-crossing media, migration flows, cosmopolitan aspirations and neoliberal notions of 'Global cities'. In this course we will aim at answering the following questions: Why do women and men increasingly choose to be single in Chinese and Indian urban centres? How does being single affect the movement and perception of women in public spaces in Shanghai and Delhi? What imaginaries come into being due to new possibilities for gender subjectivities? In how far does singlehood affect career choices? Are their differences in single (wo)men's perception in India and China? Active participation 40 % oral presentation 20 % term paper 40 % 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 27 Transcultural Studies Seminar 7 cps Preconditions The number of participants is limited to 25, a registration in advance is therefore necessary. All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by September 30. Literature Magnani, Jose Guilherme Cantor. 2014. Practices of Sociality. In Donald M. Nunini (HG.). A Companion to Urban Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley, 329 - 346 Mohan, Taneesha Devi. 2011. Interrogating Temporal and Spatial Negotiations: Home as the Gendered Site for Working Women in Delhi. In Saraswati Raju &Kuntala LahiriDutt (Hgs.). Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India. New Delhi: Routledge, 155-178. Brastet, H.V. 2000. Piecing together the Jigsaw: Indian Women in the Urban Wage Labour Force. Asian Studies Review 24 (2), June 2000, 195 - 211. Curran' Winifred &Carrie Breitbach 2010. Notes on Women in the Global City: Chicago. In Gender, Place &Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2010, 393-399. Kaur, Ravinder. 2004. Empowerment and the City: the Case of Female Migrants in Domestic Work. In Harvard Asia Quaterly, Summer 2004, Vol. 8 Issue 3, 15 - 25. Lau, Lisa. 2010. Literary Representations of the "New Indian Woman": The Single, Working, Urban, Middle Class Indian Woman Seeking Personal Autonomy. In Journal of South Asian Development, Volume 5, Issue 2, October 2010, 271-292. May, Shannon. 2010. Bridging Divides and Breaking Homes: Young Women's Lifecycle Labour Mobility as a Family Managerial Strategy. In The China Quarterly, Volume 204, 899-920. McDill, T., Hall, S.K., &Turell, S.C. 2006. Aging and Creating Families: Never-Married Heterosexual Women Over Forty. In Journal on Women &Aging, Volume 18, Issue 3, 37 - 50. Phadke, Shilpa et al. 2009. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent. In Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham (Eds). Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities. London: Routledge, 185 - 203. Radakrishnan. Smitha. 2009. Professional Women, Good Families: Respectable Femininity and the Cultural Politics of a "New" India. In Qualitative Sociology, June 2009, Volume 32, Issue 2, 195 - 212. Ramu, G.N. 1989. Women, Work and Marriage in Urban India: A Study of Dual- and Single-Earner Couples. New Delhi: Sage. Ray, Raka. 2000. Fields of Protest: Women's Movement in India. New Delhi: Zubaan Books. Situmorang, Augustina. 2007. Staying Single in a Married World: Never-married women in Yogyakarta and Medan. In Asian Population Studies, Volume 3, Issue 3, 287-304. Song, Jesook, 2010. "A room of one's own": the meaning of spatial autonomy for unmarried women in neoloberal South Korea. In Gender, Place &Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 17, Issue 2, 131 - 149. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 28 Transcultural Studies Swain, Pushpanjali &Vijayan K. Pillai. Living Arrangements among Single Mothers in India. In Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 32.1, 2005, 53 - 76. Vishwanath, Kalpana. 2010. Women imagining the City. In: Bharati Chaturvedi (Ed). Finding Delhi. Loss and Renewal in the Megacity. Penguin: Delhi, 55 - 67. Waldrop, Anne. 2012. Grandmother, Mother and Daughter: Changing agency of Indian, middleclass women, 1908 - 2008. In Modern Asian Studies 46 (3), 601 - 638. Transcultural Heritage 9719KJC553; Block seminar; LP: MA TS:7; en Fri; Single; 10:00 - 12:00, 04.12.2015 - 04.12.2015; Marstallstr. 6 / R 413; Breitfeld, J.;Wergin, C. Fri; Single; 10:00 - 17:00, 18.12.2015 - 18.12.2015; Marstallstr. 6 / R 413; Breitfeld, J.;Wergin, C. Fri; Single; 10:00 - 17:00, 08.01.2016 - 08.01.2016; Marstallstr. 6 / R 413; Breitfeld, J.;Wergin, C. Fri; Single; 10:00 - 17:00, 29.01.2016 - 29.01.2016; Marstallstr. 6 / R 413; Breitfeld, J.;Wergin, C. Fri; Single; 10:00 - 12:00, 05.02.2016 - 05.02.2016; Marstallstr. 6 / R 413; Breitfeld, J.;Wergin, C. Content The seminar Transcultural Heritage invites students to engage in the performances, commodifications and commercializations, ideal and material accounts of heritage and history. The seminar will look at the construction of natural and cultural heritage sites based on critical heritage theory and discourses on conservation, perception and stewardship. An ever-growing tourism industry as well as international competition for UNESCO world heritage listing foster new ways of imagining, constructing and promoting tangible and intangible heritage. This includes negotiations of diverse actors about preservation, restoration or demolition that reflect back on the construction of authentic heritage experiences. Related multisensory experiences of heritage will be approached as examples of a 'vital materialism'. While transculturality will offer us a particular understanding of heritage beyond dichotomies such as local and global, or a conventional division between temporal and spatial perspectives. A futher element of the course will be the pratical engagement and documention of different heritage sites in Heidelberg. Proof of academic 10% Advertent Reading achievement 20% Active Participation 20% Oral Presentation Short Comment 50% Term Paper All participants are required to register for this course via email to [email protected] by 30. September 2015. The places will be allocated by first come, first served. (Un)motivated attention: visual cultures and the practices of looking 9719KJC561; Seminar; SWS: 2; en Tue; Weekly; 13:00 - 15:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Bublatzky, C. Content In this course we focus on the social functions of visual objects and media in different cultural contexts. Photographs or YouTube clips rapidly circulate in various online 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 29 Proof of academic achievement Transcultural Studies media and reach a countless number of people all over the world. Thus, different kinds of unfiltered knowledge, information and events are transferred, translated, and acknowledged. Especially during times of crises, natural catastrophes or disasters, visual materials published in social media play a crucial role to 'keep updated', 'feel with' or 'make up your mind'. Borrowed from the discipline of psychology the notion of 'motivated attention' addresses how such visualized information is perceived and employed for social engagement across geographic and cultural borders. Hereby "practices of looking" are inherent and interlinked with other strategies such as consuming of or producing visual material in different cultural settings. This does not only allow us to critically elaborate on historical careers of mass media such as photography, facebook or YouTube but will draw our attention to visual practices such as street art, 'selfies' or mobile-filmung as transcultural processes of critical engagement and solidarity with incidents such as the 'Arab spring' or 'Charlie Hebdo'. The aim of this course will be to discuss selected case studies in context of visual culture and media studies with particular focus on ethnographic methodologies. active participation oral presentation Portfolio (e.g. short essays, description) MA TS 7 credit points MA South Asian Studies 6 credit points MA Anthropology 6 credit points Preconditions MA TS: first year, second term, study focus VMC All participants are required to register for this course via email to Brigitte Berger-Göken [email protected] by 30. September 2015. Information required for your registration: title of the course, Study programme and focus, matriculation number, semester Literature Selection will base on the study focus and 'first come, first serve'. Abu-Lughod, Lila, and Brian Larkin. Media Worlds' Anthropology on New Terrain. Edited by Faye D. Ginsburg. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2002. Bacci, Francesca, ed. Art and the Senses. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Visual Culture Reader. London; New York: Routledge, 2002. Pink, Sarah. 'The Future of Visual Anthropology - Engaging the Senses. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Tomlinson, John. The Culture of Speed: The Coming of Immediacy. Los Angeles, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007. (selection of relevant literature) 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 30 Transcultural Studies Visuelle Medien / Kunstgeschichte, Digital: Praktische Anwendung digitaler Methoden und inhaltliche Ausarbeitung Seminar Visual Media / Digital Art History: Practical Training in digital methods and their implementation e Übung mit japanischer Malerei Preparatory seminar / advanced seminar; LP: Proseminar (7 LP: BA 75%, BA 50% Schwerpunkt Japan, BA 25%); Oberseminar (10 LP: MA 75%) (5 LP: MA 75% mit Japanologie/Sinologie, ohne HA) (9 LP: MA 25%, mit HA) (6 LP: MA 25% ohne HA) Mon; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; from 19.10.2015; Seminarstr. 4 / ÜR Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens; Trede, M. Content Dozentin: Prof. Melanie Trede Tutorin: Violetta Janzen Mo: 16:00-18:00 Uhr: Seminar Do: 16:00-18:00 Uhr: Tutorium / Tutorial Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens, Seminarstr. 4, Seminarraum, 3. Stock Institute of East Asian Art History, Seminarstr. 4, third floor Inhaltsbeschreibung (for an English version, please scroll down) Dieses Seminar setzt sich zum Ziel in bestimmte digitale Methoden für visuelle Medienbzw. die Kunstgeschichte einzuführen und diese anhand eines bereits eingerichteten Projekts zur Anwendung zu bringen. Die zentrale Forschungsumgebung hierfür ist die Annotationssoftware HyperImage (http://hyperimage.ws/de/). Diese erlaubt u.a. bewegliche Bildmaterialien dynamisch und anwendungsfreundlich darzustellen, Annotationen anzubringen, sog. Lichttische für vergleichende Analysen einzurichten etc.. Ein weiteres Ziel wird es sein zu erproben und dann zu hinterfragen, inwiefern sich digitale Medien anbieten ein wissenschaftliches, visuelles Thema auf neuartige Weise zu analysieren. Es ist inzwischen schon viel über die 'Digital Humanities' geschrieben worden. Wie wirken sie sich konkret auf die Kunstgeschichte aus? Was kann sie uns derzeit bieten, was sollte sie noch weiterentwickeln? Wo liegen die Vor- und Nachteile speziell bei Werken nicht-europäischer Herkunft sowie bei außergewöhnlichen Formaten? Worin liegen die Unterschiede im Umgang mit dem originalen Werk und seiner digitalen Darstellung? Im Rahmen eines Projektes hat ein Team, geleitet von M. Trede, und der Heidelberg Research Architecture des Exzellenzclusters 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context', bereits die sog. HDH (Hachiman Digital Handscrolls) Seite eingerichtet, auf der sieben japanische Querrollen zu einem Thema vorgestellt werden. Die Rollen wurden vom 14. bis 19. Jahrhundert hergestellt und erzählen in Malereien und Kalligrafie die angebliche, prähistorische Eroberung Koreas als karmischen Ursprung der in Japan verehrten Hachiman Gottheit. Dieses Hachiman engi behandelt ein politisches, religiösmythologisches Thema, das über die Jahrhunderte in Japan weit verbreitet worden ist. Bereits fertiggestellt sind die komplette digitale Zusammenfügung von den bis zu 18 Meter langen Querrollen, die Transkriptionen und Übersetzungen ins Englische sowie einige Annotationen und Lichttische, die direkte Vergleiche einzelner Motive oder Malereiszenen sowie Vergleiche von Kalligrafien ermöglichen. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 31 Transcultural Studies Im Seminar sollen nun einerseits Details anhand der vorhandenen Seite erarbeitet werden, wie die Erstellung von weiteren Lichttischen, Kommentare zu den bereits erstellten und den neu eingerichteten, sowie die Überprüfung und Ergänzung der Bildund Text-Annotationen. Desweiteren sollen anhand einer noch nicht bearbeiteten Rolle alle digitalen Tools, die HyperImage zur Verfügung stellt, erlernt, geübt und angewendet werden. Diese umfassen etwa das Einrichten von Layern und Einzeichnen von Polygonen auf den Rollen, die die Grundlage für Annotationen darstellen und die digitale Aufarbeitung des Bildmaterials erst möglich machen. Durch weitere Fähigkeiten wie das Einspeisen von Text und das Setzen von Verlinkungen innerhalb verschiedener Objekte und Layer erlernen die Studierenden im Rahmen des Seminars die Mittel zur Erstellung eines eigenen Projekts mit Hilfe von HyperImage. Damit können sie sich selbst in eine neue Richtung weiterbilden und einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung und Verbreitung der Methoden der Digital Humanities leisten. Teilnahmevoraussetzungen -- Lust am kreativen Denken und an digitalen Technologien -- Interesse an visuellen Medien, insbesondere Malerei und Schriftkunst -- Gute bis sehr gute Englischkenntnisse -- Idealerweise Vorbildung in visuellen Medien / Materialer Kultur und/oder Asiatischen Studien Scheinerwerb -- Regelmäßige, gut vorbereitete und aktive Teilnahme sowohl am Seminar als auch am Tutorium -- Kleinere Aufgaben von Woche zu Woche -- (je nach Leistungspunkten) Eigener Beitrag zur HDH-Seite bzw. schriftliche Hausarbeit über ein Thema der Digital Art History. Creditpointvergabe Das Seminar ist für Studierende ab dem 3. Semester zugänglich und kann je nach Bedarf als Seminar für BA- oder MA-Studierende angerechnet werden, die jeweils entsprechend weniger oder mehr Aufgaben erledigen sollen. Da zusätzlich zum Seminar ein Tutorium zur Erlernung der digitalen Technologien vorgesehen ist, das regelmäßig besucht werden muss, werden 2 CP mehr als üblich vergeben. Anmeldung zum Seminar bis zum 15. September (für die bessere Planung des Tutoriums): Bitte fügen Sie Ihren Studiengang und Semesterzahl hinzu! Semesterplan 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 32 Transcultural Studies 19.10. Vorbesprechung, Einführung, Vorstellung des Semesterplans, 22.10. Tut: Vorbesprechung, Einführung, Vorstellung des Semesterplans 22.-24.10 Symposium: Histories of Japanese Art in a Global Context, Katholisches Universitätszentrum und Exzellenzcluster, Raum 212; Teilnahme empfohlen/erwünscht 26.10. Einführung in japanische Querrollen und die Hachiman-Thematik 29.10. Tut: Analyse HDH Projekt von technischer Seite 02.11. Digital Humanities und Digitale Kunstgeschichte: Möglichkeiten und Methoden 05.11. Tut: HyperImage Tools I 09.11. Einführung in Ressourcen zur Bibliotheks- und digitalen Recherche 12. 11. Tut: HyperImage Tools II 16.11. Kurzreferate zu einzelnen Szenen mit Vergleichen 19.11 Tutorium 23.11. 26.11. Tutorium 30.11. 03.12. Tutorium 07.12. 10.12. Tutorium 14.12. 17.12. Tutorium 21.12. 11.01. 14.01. Tutorium 18.01. 21.01. Tutorium 25.01. 28.01. Tutorium 01.02. 04.02. Tutorium 28.02. Abgabe der schriftlichen Arbeiten 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 33 Transcultural Studies ************************************ ENGLISH VERSION Seminar Description The seminar introduces, discusses and applies specific digital methods for visual media and art history. An established yet incomplete project serves as a case study to explore these methods. The main digital research environment is the annotation software HyperImage (http://hyperimage.ws/de/). It allows to present moving images in a dynamic and user-friendly manner, provides possibilities for annotations, so-called light tables for comparative analyses ecc. Another aim is to explore questions related to digital media and whether or not they are helpful in analysing an academic, visual theme in a new way. A lot has been written about Digital Humanities. But how do they work for art history? What do these new methods offer, what should be further developed? What are the advantages and disadvantages to work with an 'original' work of art in its material form versus its digital representation? Within the framework of a project lead by M. Trede and the Heidelberg Research Architecture of the Cluster of Excellence, 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context', the test case, the so-called HDH (Hachiman Digital Handscrolls) page, is already in place. Seven Japanese handscrolls from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries narrate in paintings and calligraphic text passages the purported conquest of the Korean Peninsula in prehistory. This narrative is the background of the karmic origins of the Hachiman Great Bodhisattva, revered in Japan since the eighth century. The narrative and its depiction is a political as well as religio-mythological theme, which spread throughout Japan over the centuries. The digital representation of these long scrolls, which measure up to eighteen meters in length have been completed along with transcriptions of the calligraphies and translations of the text into English. Some annotations and light tables are available as well, which point to the comparison of individual motifs or painting scenes and some calligraphic details. During the seminar we will develop details of the HDH-site such as commentaries to and establishing of new light tables, checking and supplementing picture and text-annotations, ecc. Additionally, a scroll, which has not yet been edited will serve as an opportunity to learn, probe and apply the different digital tools which are offered by the HyperImage software. This includes e.g. the setting of layers and drawing of polygons on the scroll, which are the basis for annotations. By learning other skills such as the feeding of text into a project and the setting of links within it, the seminar participants will be able to create a project on their own. This gives them the opportunity to broaden their research and presentation abilities, and will support the field of Digital Humanities to develop and spread. Requirements for Participation -- Interest in creative thinking and digital technologies as well as in visual arts -- Good / very good English language proficiency -- Ideally study or knowledge in visual media / material culture and/or Asian Studies 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 34 Transcultural Studies Requirements for a graded Certificate -- Regular, well-prepared and active participation in both seminar and tutorial -- Short assignments from week to week -- (depending on the required credit points) An independent written contribution to the HDH-webpage or a written assignment on a theme related to Digital Art History. Credit points The seminar is open for students beginning in the third semester. Depending on the status of the student the seminar can be registered as a BA or MA course. Requirements are adjusted accordingly. Since the tutorial is mandatory, additional 2 credit points will be issued on top of the regular seminar credit points. For better planning of the tutorial, please register for the seminar until September 15 at the latest: Please add your BA/MA majors and minors as well as the number of semesters. Syllabus 19.10. Introduction to the seminar, objectives, requirements ecc. 22.10. Tut: Introduction to the tutorial, introduction syllabus 22.-24.10. Symposium: Histories of Japanese Art in a Global Context, Katholisches Universitätszentrum and Cluster of Excellence, Voßstr.2, Room 212; participation desirable 26.10. Introduction to Japanese handscrolls and the Hachiman theme 29.10. Tut: Technical/Software analysis of HDH Project 02.11. Digital Humanities and Digital Art History: possibilities and approaches 05.11. Tut: HyperImage Tools I 09.11. Introduction to relevant visual and textual resources in the library and in the web 12.11. Tut: HyperImage Tools II 16.11. Brief presentations and discussions 19.11. Tutorial 23.11. 26.11. Tutorial 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 35 Transcultural Studies 30.11. 03.12. Tutorial 07.12. 10.12. Tutorial 14.12. 17.12. Tutorial 21.12. 11.01. 14.01. Tutorial 18.01. 21.01. Tutorial 25.01. 28.01. Tutorial 01.02. 04.02. Tutorial Literature 28.02. Submission of final paper Literaturliste / List of references Allgemeines zu narrativer Malerei / On narrative painting Bätschmann, Oskar: Bild – Text: problematische Beziehungen, in: Kunstgeschichte 1989, 27–26 Kessler, Herbert L. / Simpson, Marianna Shreve (eds.): Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Studies in the History of Art 16, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1985. Mitchell, W.J.T. (eds.): On Narrative, Chicago / London: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Schapiro, Meyer: Words and Pictures. On the Literal and the Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text, Approaches to Semiotics 11, Den Haag / Paris: Mouton, 1973. Seckel, Dietrich: Emakimono: The Art of the Japanese Painted Hand-Scroll, London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. Weitzmann, Kurt: Illustrations in Roll and Codex: A study of the origin and method of text illustration, Princeton: Princeton University Press 1947, 1970 (2nd ed.), 3–33. Zur Digitalen Kunstgeschichte / On Digital Art History Bentkowska-Kafel: Debating Digital Art History, Digital Art History, vol. 1 (2015): 51–64. Cuno, James: How art history is failing at the Internet. The Daily Dot. http:// www.dailydot.com/opinion/art-history-failing-internet/ (13.7.2015) 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 36 Transcultural Studies Dieckmann, Lisa, Anita Kliemann, and Martin Warnke: “Meta-Image – Forschungsumgebung für den Bilddiskurs in der Kunstgeschichte.” CMS Journal, no. 35 (2012). http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/cmsj/35/dieckmann-lisa-11/PDF/dieckmann.pdf (13.7.2015) Doulkaridou, Elli: “Reframing Art History.” Digital Art History, vol. 1 (2015): 67–82. Kohle, Hubertus. “Digitale Bildwissenschaft.” Glückstadt: Hülsbusch, 2013. (13.7.2015) http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/2185/. Nauta, Gerhard Jan: “As You Can See: Applying Visual Collaborative Filtering to Works of Art,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 2.1. (2008): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/ dhq/vol/2/1/000019/000019.html (12.7.2015) Zweig, Benjamin: “Forgotten Genealogies: Brief Reflections on the History of Digital Art History,” Digital Art History, vol. 1 (2015): 39–49. Zur Hachiman-Thematik / On the Hachiman narrative Bender, Ross: “The Hachiman Cult and the Dōkyō Incident.” Monumenta Nipponica 34 (2): 125–53. Bockhold, Wolfgang. 1982. “Das Hachiman-gudōkun als historische Quelle, insbesondere zu den Invasionen der Mongolen in Japan.” Munich Univ., PhD Dissertation 1979, 2 vols. Grapard, Allan. 1999. “Religious Practices,” in The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. II Heian Japan, edited by Donald H. Shively and William H. McCullough, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 517–575. Repp, Martin: “Hachiman: Protecting kami of the Japanese Nation.” In Antoni, Religion and national identity in the Japanese context. Münster: LIT, 2000. Trede, Melanie: “Localizing the Hachiman engi / Hachiman engi no rōkarizēshon” (chapter in both English and Japanese), in Katachi saikō – hirakareta katari no tame ni / Reconsidering “Form”: Towards a more open discussion, edited by the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo: National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, 2014, 221–253 (jp.) and 41–64 (engl.); published under the same title by Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2014: 221–253. Language Classes Classical Tibetan I 9719KJC582; Language course; SWS: 4; LP: 6; en Mon; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Samuels, J. Wed; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Samuels, J. Content This is the first of four semesters teaching about Classical Literary Tibetan; the form of the language used in written texts on religion, history, and various aspects of Tibetan culture for over a thousand years. The course aims to gradually teach students how to navigate themselves around and understand a Tibetan text, and gain access to a rich literary heritage and a huge body of works. In the first semester, the focus will be upon the alphabet, the basics of grammar, and relevant cultural and historical information. The emphasis will be upon class-work, rather than homework. Students will be called upon to participate in reading exercises, regular testing, and eventually do translation exercises. At the end of each semester there will be a compulsory test, to determine whether students may proceed to the next part of the course. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 37 Transcultural Studies Proof of academic achievement • Active participation • Exam Tutorial Classical Tibetan 1 9719KJC580; Seminar / tutorial; SWS: 2; LP: 3; en Mon; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212a; Comments Name of the lecturer/s: TBA Content This tutorial accompanies the language introduction "Classical Tibetan 1" by Jonathan Samuels. Proof of academic • Active participation achievement • Oral presentation • Exam Preconditions The tutorial can only be taken in combination with the course "Classical Tibetan 1." Classical Tibetan III 9719KJC583; Language course; SWS: 2; LP: 6; en Wed; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Samuels, J. Content In the first two semesters of Classical Tibetan the focus was upon introducing students to grammar and vocabulary, as well as analysing individual linguistic elements. In the third and fourth semesters, much more time will be devoted to working with sections of text, to provide students with the context within which both the language and the meaning that authors are attempting to convey should be understood. Proof of academic • Active participation achievement • Exam Preconditions Students must have completed Classical Tibetan I and Classical Tibetan II, or courses of an equivalent level. Colloquial Tibetan I 9719KJC581; Language course; SWS: 6; LP: 9; en Mon; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 12.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Samuels, J. Tue; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Samuels, J. Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 15.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212a; Samuels, J. Content This is the first of four semesters of the Colloquial Tibetan course, teaching the everyday language according to the Central Tibetan Dialect. In the first semester, students will learn pronunciation of this tonal language, essential vocabulary and grammar. Special emphasis will be placed upon helping students to understand the conceptual framework within which the native speaker works. The course will also provide relevant cultural information, necessary to the achievement of this goal. At the end of each semester there will be a compulsory test, to determine whether students may proceed to the next part of the course. There is no set text-book, but the course will rely heavily upon sections of the teacher’s forthcoming Colloquial Tibetan: the Complete Course for Beginners (Routledge), which is scheduled for release in 2013. This course will provide a very firm foundation for involvement in more advanced Tibetan linguistic and cultural studies. Proof of academic • Active participation achievement • Exam 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 38 Transcultural Studies Colloquial Tibetan III 9719KJC584; Language course; SWS: 4; LP: 6; en Tue; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Samuels, J. Thu; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 212a; Samuels, J. Content This is the third of a four-semester course teaching the Central Tibetan Dialect. It is open only to those who have completed the first two semesters, or who have studied Tibetan, and reached a comparable level elsewhere (such individuals should contact the teacher prior to the course). Having been taught many of the fundamentals of the spoken language in the first two semesters, in this semester the students will get an opportunity to use what they have learnt, in various set-piece communication and comprehension exercises. Proof of academic • Active participation achievement • Exam Preconditions Students must have completed Colloquial Tibetan I and Colloquial Tibetan II, or courses of an equivalent level. SK Koreanisch I - Hauptkurs 0733152SK15; Language course; SWS: 2; LP: 3; de Fri; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 201; Hauptkurs/Sprachkurs; Knoob, S. Comments Dieser Kurs richtet sich an alle Studierenden des ZO. Content Der Grundkurs Koreanische Sprache ist für Anfänger konzipiert, die keine Vorkenntnisse in Koreanisch haben. Vermittelt werden die Grundlagen der koreanischen Sprache: Die Schriftzeichen und Aussprache sowie ein grundlegender Wortschatz für den Alltag. Erwartet wird die Bereitschaft einer aktiven Mitarbeit. Preconditions Kenntnisse der Japanischen ODER Chinesischen Sprache SK Koreanisch III - Hauptkurs 0733152SK17; Language course; SWS: 2; LP: 3; de Fri; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 201; Hauptkurs; Knoob, S. SK Koreanisch III - Übungen 0733152SK18; Practice class; SWS: 2; LP: 2; de Tue; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 208; Übungen. Dozent: Stefan Knoob; Knoob, S. SK Koreanisch I - Übungen 0733152SK16; Practice class; SWS: 2; LP: 2; de Tue; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 201; Übungen; Knoob, S. Further Courses of Interest (Import Options) Gender of knowledge. Theory and empiricism of gender studies in arts and social sciences HS201516047; Advanced seminar; SWS: 2; de no info; 27.11. (9-14 Uhr), 22. und 23.1. (9-18 Uhr); Patzel-Mattern, K. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 39 Transcultural Studies Das Recht der Anderen: Kosmopolitismus zwischen Ideologie, Moral und öffentlichem Recht 1805225009; Seminar; SWS: 2; de Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; Grabengasse 3-5 - neue Uni / HS 03; Thiele, U. Comments In diesem Seminar soll die Idee des Kosmopolitismus bzw. des Weltbürgerrechts aus verschiedenen theoretischen Perspektiven untersucht werden. Ausgangspunkt sind dabei die Intuitionen Jeremy Benthams und Hannah Arendts, die beide den Begriff der „Menschenrechte“ reservieren wollen für Personen oder Personengruppen, die außerhalb staatlicher Ordnungen leben. In den neueren Debatten über die Frage, auf welche Weise denn kosmopolitische Rechte (in diesem Sinn) zu instituieren wären, konkurrieren inter- oder supranationale Lösungsansätze mit nationalstaatlichen. Beide Ansätze stehen aber quer zu dem heute dominierenden Verständnis, nach dem unter „Menschenrechten“ die normative Quintessenz westlicher Verfassungsstaaten verstanden wird, was - teilweise zu Recht - Ideologie-Vorwürfe nach sich zieht. Proof of academic Hausarbeit; Referat; Anwesenheit achievement Preconditions Keine Literature Die Literatur wird zu Beginn des Semesters in einem Reader zur Verfügung gestellt. Short Comment Zuordnung Magister/Lehramt WPO Politische Theorie Der Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra 9702061713; Reading course; SWS: 2; LP: 6; de Fri; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; INF 330 / SAI R 312; Maithrimurthi, M. Content Der Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra („Schmuck der Mahāyana-Lehrreden“) ist dem Maitreya(nātha) (bzw. Asaṅga) zugeschrieben. Dieses Werk stammt aus dem 4. oder 5. Jh. n. Chr. Es werden Auszüge aus dem Werk gelesen (mit dem BhāṣyaKommentar von Vasubandhu, der möglicherweise aus der selben Zeit stammt) zu unterschiedlichen Themen, wie Unermesslichen (apramāṇa), Vervollkommnungen (pāramitā), Verhaltensweise (pratipatti) eines Bodhisattva etc. Proof of academic Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Übung/Protokoll/Referat achievement Preconditions Sanskrit I + II Short Comment Voranmeldung: bitte per E-Mail an [email protected] Die Pioniere des Welthandels: Der Handel im Indischen Ozean von der Bronzezeit bis zum Ende des römischen Reichs 9702045628; Practice class; SWS: 2; LP: 3/5; de Mon; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R 316; Kattner, E. Content Bunte, aus Elfenbein geschnitzte Vögel, Lapislazuli, Schmuckperlen aus Muscheln, Karneol und anderen Halbedelsteinen, Baumwolle, Ebenholz und mit Gold überzogene Möbel waren begehrte Luxusgüter des 3. Jahrtausends vor Christus. Wohlhabende Kaufleute aus Sumer importierten diese Waren über den Seeweg aus Meluhha, einer weit entfernten Region, die heute mit der Induskultur identifiziert wird. Die Kaufleute der Bronzezeit erfanden den Silberstandard, das Handelsrecht sowie das Versicherungsund Bankwesen. Wagemutige Seefahrer aus Indien überquerten den Ozean, nicht nur in Richtung Mesopotamien sondern auch bis nach Ostafrika. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 40 Transcultural Studies Der Seehandel erreichte in den Jahrhunderten von 2500 bis 1800 v. Chr. eine Blüte, die erst unter den achämenidischen Herrschern Persiens, unter Kaiser Ashoka und später unter den Römern übertroffen werden sollte. Anhand schriftlicher und archäologischer Quellen werden in der Veranstaltung die Strukturen des Handels in der Region des Indischen Ozeans, der zentralen Region für den Warenfluss zwischen Ost und West, herausgearbeitet. Diese Quellen lassen die kosmopolitische Welt der Kaufleute, der Handelswege und Häfen, der Schiffe und Seefahrer und natürlich der Waren wieder auferstehen. Die Übung wendet sich an Studierende der Geschichte Südasiens, der allgemeinen Geschichte, Global History, Wirtschaftsgeschichte aber auch an Interessenten aus benachbarten Fächern wie der Orientalistik, Archäologie, Ethnologie und Transcultural Studies. Proof of academic achievement Literature 2 LP aktive Anwesenheit 1 LP Klausur / schriftl. Leistung PLUS: 2 zusätzliche LP durch eine längere schriftliche Leistung Kulke, H., Rothermund, D., 2010: Geschichte Indiens: Von der Induskultur bis heute, Beck. Leemans, W.F., 1960: Foreign Trade in the Old Babylonian Period, Brill. Ratnagar, S., 2004: Trading Encounters, OUP. Tomber, R., 2008: Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper, Duckworth. Short Comment Anmeldung per E-Mail bis zum 28.09.2015 an: [email protected] Die Repräsentation des Westens in der neueren arabischen Literatur 07630060; Main seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7,5 (6,5) (6) (7); de no info; Das Seminar wird als Blockseminar gehalten - die Termine werden baldmöglichst bekanntgegeben!; Abboud, A. Comments In der postkolonialen Phase der arabischen Geschichte intensivierte die arabische Literatur die begonnene Auseinandersetzung mit dem „Westen“ in Form von Images und Repräsentationen. Auch die zeitgenössische arabische Literaturwissenschaft beschäftigte sich immer mehr damit. An arabischen Universitäten entstanden zahlreiche Dissertationen und Publikationen zu dieser Thematik. Für Menschen aus westlichen Ländern, nicht zuletzt für Deutsche, ist es gewiss von Vorteil, zu wissen, wie ihre Nationen und Kultur(en) in der neueren arabischen Literatur repräsentiert werden. Außerdem kann die kritische Untersuchung und Analyse dieser meist problematischen Images und Repräsentationen einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Kulturdialog zwischen der arabisch-islamischen und der westlichen Welt leisten. Nach einer theoretischen Einführung in die Thematik werden anhand von Referaten Repräsentationen des „Westens“ in Werken arabischer Schriftsteller und Dichter untersucht. Außerdem werden relevante Passagen aus den behandelten Texten gelesen und analysiert. Besondere Berücksichtigung erfahren arabische Autoren, von denen Werke in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegen und zu denen Sekundärliteratur in deutscher oder englischer Sprache vorhanden ist, was auf zahlreiche Vertreter der neueren arabischen Literatur zutrifft. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 41 Transcultural Studies Short Comment ISL 8 (7,5 LP), ISL 8a (6,5 LP), ILS 8b (6 LP), NeMES 4, NEMES 5 (je 7 LP) Einführung in das Vedische 9702060402; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6 LP; de Thu; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; INF 330 / SAI R 323; s. t.; Deigner, J. Content Vedisch, auch vedisches Sanskrit genannt, ist die älteste Sprachstufe des Altindischen und reicht bis in das 13. vorchristliche Jahrhundert zurück. Sie ist sprachgeschichtlich eng verwandt mit dem Awestischen, dem ältesten Vertreter des indoiranischen Sprachzweiges und zugleich Kultsprache des zoroastrischen Glaubens. Der Ṛg-Veda ist eine Sammlung von 1028 metrisch verfassten Hymnen, die an die Götter des vedischen Pantheons gerichtet sind wie Indra, Varuna usw. Diese Sammlung ist in weit auseinanderliegenden Zeiträumen entstanden, was zur Folge hat, dass diesem Werk ein homogenes Gepräge in Bezug auf Sprache und Inhalt fehlt. Es sollen ausgewählte Hymnen gelesen werden und dabei die grammatischen und metrischen Besonderheiten der vedischen Sprache aufgezeigt werden, die sich ja zum Teil erheblich von der klassischen Sprache unterscheiden. Zudem soll aufgezeigt werden, wie sich die vedische Sprache sprachhistorisch von einem rein indogermanischen zu einem „indoiden“ Sprachtyp entwickelt hat. Proof of academic achievement Regelmäßige Teilnahme, Protokoll/Referat/Klausur Preconditions mind. 1 Semester Sanskrit Short Comment Voranmeldung: bitte per E-Mail an [email protected] Einführungsvorlesung in die Geschichte des indischen Subkontinents I - Von den Anfängen bis ca. 1500 9702044031; Lecture / practice class; SWS: 2; LP: 3; de Mon; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R Z10; Dharampal-Frick, G. Content In dieser einführenden Vorlesung wird ein konziser und diskursiver Überblick über die historischen Entwicklungen des indischen Subkontinents vom Altertum bis in die Frühe Neuzeit gewährt, um die vielfältige Geschichte Südasiens in ihrer Eigenart zu veranschaulichen. Zentrale Strukturmerkmale sollen möglichst in chronologischer Ordnung dargestellt und neuere Forschungsergebnisse diskutiert werden: z.B. Migrations- und Siedlungsprozesse, die Entwicklung ländlicher und städtischer Gesellschaften, Staatsbildung sowie die Entstehung und Ausbreitung religiöser Bewegungen. Die Geschichte der einzelnen Herrscherdynastien wird dabei knapper skizziert. Thematisiert werden auch die transkulturelle Begegnung von Menschen sowie die Zirkulation von Gütern und Ideen über geographisch-kulturelle Grenzen hinweg zu einer Zeit, bevor die europäischen Handelskompanien im Indischen Ozean in Erscheinung traten. Die Vorlesung richtet sich nicht nur an Studierende der Geschichte Südasiens und anderer historischer Fächer, sondern auch der Politik, Wirtschaft oder Ethnologie Südasiens und alle, die sich ein Grundwissen über die Vergangenheit Südasiens verschaffen möchten. Proof of academic achievement 2 LP aktive Anwesenheit 1 LP mündliche/schriftliche Klausur Literature 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 42 Transcultural Studies Kulke, Hermann / Rothermund, Dietmar, 2006. Geschichte Indiens, C.H. Beck, Kapitel 1-4. Kulke, Hermann, 2005. Indische Geschichte bis 1750, Oldenbourg. Singh, Upinder, 2008. A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, Pearson Longman. Thapar, Romila, 2002. Early India: From the Origins until AD 1300, University of California Press. Short Comment Wink, André, 1999. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, OUP. Anmeldung per E-Mail bis zum 28.09.2015 an: [email protected] Environmental Sustainability in South Asia: Historical Perspectives, Recent Debates and Dilemmas 9702047024; Advanced seminar; SWS: 3; LP: 4/9; en Fri; Weekly; 10:00 - 13:00, 16.10.2015 - 05.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R Z10; Dharampal-Frick, G. Content Almost half a century ago the 'environment' was put on the agenda of international concern, yet the official environmental response has largely been one of offering technological and managerial fixes which, rather than addressing or solving the basic ecological problems, often create new ones. Against this backdrop, in this transdisciplinary graduate seminar, we shall begin by closely examining South Asian concepts of ecology and environmental ethics, thereby providing an overview of traditional indigenous knowledge systems. Secondly, we shall scrutinise the colonial extraction of biological resources, underscored by western techniques and concepts such as “scientific forestry” and “environmental management”. Thirdly, one of the aims of our discussions will be to foreground the ensuing effects on the human-nature interactions by reference to empirical case-studies. Fourthly, we shall study representative examples of popular resistance to recent policies (by farmers, women, etc.), and analyse new environmentalist paradigms (e.g. political ecology, eco-feminism) promoted by intellectuals and political activists. Last but not least, we will examine the contribution of such movements to global environmentalist discourse. This graduate seminar will be of special interest to students of South Asian history, geography, anthropology, political science, and Indology, but also to social scientists concerned with environmentalist problems in our globalised world. Proof of academic achievement Literature 2 LP aktive Anwesenheit 2 LP Referat 2 LP Protokoll/Diskutant oder kritische Zusammenfassungen 3 LP Hausarbeit Acharya, Keya / Frederick Noronha (ed.): The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia. New Delhi 2010. Agarwal, Dharma Pal: Man and Environment in India through Ages. Delhi 1992. Arnold, David / R. Guha (Hg.): Nature, Culture, Imperialism. Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia. Delhi: OUP 1995. Bandyopadhyay, Jayant: Natural Resource Management in the Mountain Environment. Kathmandu 1989. Das Gupta, Ananda: Tea Plantations in India: Towards Sustainable Development. Kolkata 2009. Drèze; Jean et al (Hg.): The Dam and the Nation. Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley. Delhi 1997. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 43 Transcultural Studies Rangarajan, Mahesh (Hg.): Environmental Issues in India: A Reader. Delhi 2007. Short Comment Anmeldung per E-Mail bis zum 28.09.2015 an: [email protected] European History of the Late Middle Ages HS201516020; Lecture; SWS: 2; LP: 5 bzw. (bei Studienbeginn ab WS 2015/16:) 4 LP; ÜK 2 LP, vgl. http://www.uniheidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zegk/histsem/lehre/uek_histsem.html; de Mon; Weekly; 14:00 - 15:30; from 12.10.2015; Grabengasse 3-5 / HistSem HS; Hirschmann, F. Faschismus in Japan: Realgeschichte und Interpretation 0731151HS01; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 8 bzw. 10; de Fri; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; from 16.10.2015; Akademiestr. 4-8 / R 107; Krämer, H. Comments Seit dem japanischen Überfall auf die Mandschurei 1931 und dem daraus indirekt resultierenden Rückzug Japans aus dem Völkerbund 1933 steuerte Japan außenpolitisch auf einen Konfrontationskurs mit den liberal-demokratischen Westmächten zu. Innenpolitisch wurden Parteienkabinette in den 1930er Jahren von Militärkabinetten abgelöst; oppositionelle Gruppen waren einer zunehmenden Verfolgung ausgesetzt. Um diesen Wandel analytisch zu fassen, wird das damalige politische System Japans insgesamt als „ultranationalistisch“, „autoritär“, „dikatorisch“ oder „faschistisch“ eingestuft. Insbesondere das Etikett „Faschismus“ ist Gegenstand zahlreicher historiographischer Debatten geworden, weil es Japan klar in einen weltweiten Trend einordnet und den Vergleich insbesondere zu NS-Deutschland und dem faschistischen Italien eröffnet. Der Begriff steht auch für divergierende Sichtweisen japanischer HistorikerInnen (die ihn mehrheitlich akzeptieren) und westlichen Japan-HistorikerInnen (die ihn mehrheitlich ablehnen). Im Seminar wird nach einer kurzen Einführung in wichtige Eckpunkte der Politik-, Wirtschafts-, Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte der 1930er und 1940er Jahre die Debatte über den japanischen Fachismus anhand von zentralen Texten der Sekundärliteratur nachvollzogen. Das Seminar wird als Leseseminar in angloamerikanischem Stil abgehalten werden, d.h. die TeilnehmerInnen werden pro Woche ca. 30 Seiten deutsch-, englisch- oder japanischsprachige Sekundärliteratur zu Hause lesen, Kurzexzerpte dazu abliefern und das Gelesene dann im Unterricht diskutieren. Zum Scheinerwerb wird überdies die Anfertigung einer Hausarbeit (ca. zwöf bis 15 Seiten im Hauptseminar; ca. 15 bis 20 Seiten im Oberseminar) erforderlich sein. Ein Reader mit den zu lesenden Texten wird in der ersten Sitzung verteilt werden; damit dieser Reader rechtzeitig angefertigt werden kann, wird um eine Anmeldung per E-Mail ([email protected]) bis spätestens 30. September 2015 gebeten. Content Digital History HS201516075; Practice class; SWS: 2; de 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 44 Mon; Weekly; 18:15 - 19:45; from 19.10.2015; Grabengasse 3-5 / HistSem ÜR IV; Schultes, K. Transcultural Studies Historical Exhibitions HS201516016; Lecture; SWS: 2; LP: 5 bzw. (bei Studienbeginn ab WS 2015/16:) 4 LP; ÜK 2 LP, vgl. http://www.uniheidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zegk/histsem/lehre/uek_histsem.html; de Thu; Weekly; 14:15 - 15:45; from 15.10.2015; Grabengasse 3-5 / HistSem HS; Arendes, C. Geschichte, Theorien und Empirie der Globalisierung 1805224010; Seminar; SWS: 2; de Wed; Weekly; 10:00 - 12:00; R 02.040; Schlotter, P. Comments Globalisierung ist in aller Munde. Von den einen werden ihre negativen Konsequenzen (u.a. weitere Öffnnung der Schere zwischen Armen und Reichen) betont, von anderen die wirtschaftlichen Wachstumseffekte und die weltweite Verdichtung der Kommunikation als positive Folge hervorgehoben. Bei genauerer Betrachtung ist der Begriff der Globalisierung jedoch ausgesprochen schillernd. In dem Seminar erarbeiten wir uns zunächst die Geschichte der Globalisierung, die bereits mit dem "Zeitalter der Entdeckungen" beginnt und im "langen 19. Jahrhundert" einen ersten Höhepunkt erreicht. Damit wird das, was uns heute als so neu erscheint, in einen weiteren historischen Kontext gestellt. Danach behandeln wir die einzelnen Theorien der Globalisierung (u.a. Theorien der "Weltgeschichte", Weltsystemtheorie, Liberalismus, Kritische Theorie, Englische Schule, Theorien der Weltgesellschaft und die moderne Politische Ökonomie). In einem dritten Teil geht es darum, Ursachen und Konsequenzen von Globalisierungsprozessen in ausgewählten Politikfeldern zu untersuchen. Proof of academic Hausarbeit; Referat; Anwesenheit; aktive Mitarbeit; Essay achievement Preconditions Literature Short Comment Grundkenntnisse in den Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen; Grundkenntnisse aus der Beschäftigung mit Globalisierungsprozessen, entweder in den Geschichtswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Politikwissenschaften oder Kulturwissenschaften. Boike Rehbein/Hermann Schwengel, Theorien der Globalisierung, 2. überarbeitete Aufl. Konstanz 2012 (UTB). Reinhard Wendt, Vom Kolonialismus zur Globalisierung. Europa und die Welt seit 1500, Paderborn 2007 (UTB). Jürgen Osterhammel/Niels P. Petersson, Geschichte der Globalisierung. Dimensionen, Prozesse, Epochen, 5. durchgesehene Aufl. München 2012 (Beck Wissen). Christoph Scherrer/Caren Kunze, Globalisierung, Göttingen 2011 (UTB). Barry Buzan/George Lawson, The Global Transformation. History, Modernity and the Making of International Relations, Cambridge 2015 (Cambridge University Press). Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (Hg.), Globale Trends 2015. Perspektiven für die Weltgesellschaft, Frankfurt/M. 2015 (Fischer Taschenbuch). Zuordnung Magister/Lehramt WPO OS Internationale Beziehungen Health and Social Structure 970202280; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6; de Tue; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00; Polit, K. Proof of academic Term paper achievement 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 45 Preconditions Transcultural Studies Für eine Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung per E-Mail an den/die Dozent/-in bis 7 Tage vor Vorlesungsbeginn erforderlich. Hinduismus I 9702061111; Lecture; SWS: 2; LP: 3; de Wed; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 14.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Grabengasse 3-5 - neue Uni / HS 05; Gengnagel, J. Content Die Vorlesung bietet eine Einführung in die als Hinduismus bezeichneten religiösen Traditionen Südasiens. Zunächst soll die Diskussion um den Begriff „Hinduismus“ als Fremd- und Eigenbezeichnung behandelt werden, um davon ausgehend Frühformen des Hinduismus im Verhältnis zu anderen Religionen darzustellen. Darauf aufbauend werden zentrale religiöse Lehren z. B. zur Gotteskonzeption, karman und Wiedergeburt, Erlösungslehren sowie ausgewählte Ritual- und Lehrtraditionen und deren Praxis vorgestellt. Proof of academic Regelmäßige Teilnehme und Klausur achievement Literature Short Comment Malinar, Angelika. 2009. Hinduismus und Hinduismus Reader. Göttingen: UTB. Michaels, Axel. 2010. Der Hinduismus. Geschichte und Gegenwart. München: C.H. Beck, 3. Aufl. Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected] HS/OS modern: 65 Jahre chinesische Außenpolitik (1949-2014) 0733152HOS03; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 8 (HS) / 6 (OS); de Mon; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; from 19.10.2015; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 102; Kampen, T. Proof of academic Hausarbeit/Referat/Übersetzung achievement Short Comment Abgabetermin 31. August 2016 In dieser Veranstaltung werden westliche Diplomaten, Geschäftsleute, Journalisten, und Sinologen und ihre Publikationen vorgestellt (Schwerpunkt: 20. Jahrhundert). HS/OS modern: Hollywood Silent Films in Early Republican China 0733152HOS01; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 8 (HS) / 6 (OS); de Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 208; Sun, L. Comments This course will introduce students to the history of Hollywood silent films exhibited, discussed, and perceived in early Republican China. We will combine a) screening silent films with different themes, such as Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), and It (1927); b) reading and discussing secondary literature and film analysis; c) exploring the distribution of Hollywood silent films in China, and the local film economy; and d) analyzing original reviews and criticism by Chinese writers like Zhou Shoujuan. By showcasing the aesthetic developments of early films in both American and Chinese historical and cultural contexts, and through analysis of various source materials, the course aims to develop students’ skills for multiple approaches to international film research. HS/OS modern: Taiwan Lecture Series: Taiwan Culture and Society 0733152HOS10; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 8 (HS) / 6 (OS) / 7 (MATS); en Wed; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 208; Mittler, B. Thu; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00; 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 46 Transcultural Studies Comments Allgemeine Infos: Das Taiwan Seminar besteht aus regelmäßig stattfindenden Unterrichtsstunden (auf Deutsch oder Englisch) und den unregelmäßig stattfindenden Vorträgen der Taiwan Lecture Series (auf Deutsch, Englisch oder Chinesisch), die zum Teil auch als OnlineClassroom realisiert werden. Es geht darum, ein umfassendes Bild der taiwanesischen Gesellschaft, Kultur und Geschichte zu erhalten, um sich dann auf einem Gebiet zu spezialisieren und eine forschungsbasierte Hausarbeit zu schreiben.Studierende können im Rahmen dieses Seminars einen Hauptseminarschein in der Sinologie oder einen Oberseminarschein für den Master (oder Master Transcultural Studies) erwerben, indem sie, neben den regulären Unterrichtsstunden, alle auf der Website angekündigten Teile der jeweiligen Lecture Series besuchen. Die Unterrichtsstunden werden wie angekündigt vorbereitet. Proof of academic achievement Short Comment Zu jeder Sitzung muss die Lektürevorbereitung mit dem Verfassen von Abstracts (300 Worte pro Textlektüre) nachgewiesen werden. Am Ende schreiben die Studierenden eine Haupt-/ Oberseminararbeit (mit eigener Bibliographier- und Rechercheleistung und unter Berücksichtigung chinesisch-sprachiger Materialien, wie es für eine Hauptseminararbeit verlangt wird).Bitte beachten Sie: Dieser Kurs kann, wenn auf Chinesisch abgehalten, auch als Ü Hörverständnis (BA / MA) und Wissenschaftsdiskurs (MA) belegt werden. Vor- und Nachbereitung während der Veranstaltung: Erstellung von Reviews zu fünf der zu lesenden Texte (300-500 Wörter). Im Anschluss an die Veranstaltung: Verfassen einer Oberseminar-/Hauptseminararbeit, mit eigener Bibliographier- und Rechercheleistung und unter Berücksichtigung chinesisch-sprachiger Materialien. All students interested in taking the course should register with [email protected] heidelberg.de by October 1 . Dieser Kurs kann belegt werden als: Hauptseminar (BA Sinologie), Oberseminar (MA Sinologie 2st/ *3st.); und Ostasienseminar oder Oberseminar im MA Transcultural Studies. Links *Mit zusätzlich Textlektüre und Überestzung kann dieser Kurs auch als 3st. Oberseminar (MA Sinologie) angerechnet werden. Taiwan Lecture Series - http://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/research/tls/ index.html Ideengeschichte der Ethik VII: Schuld und Verzeihen 0710VL15203; Lecture; SWS: 2; de Thu; Weekly; 13:15 - 14:00; Grabengasse 3-5 - neue Uni / HS 08; König, P. Fri; Weekly; 13:15 - 14:00; Grabengasse 3-5 - neue Uni / HS 08; König, P. Comments BA MA LA-alt SP1-PP , GP1-NP/ AMP Content 14.8.2015 LA-neu PP Zum ethischen Leben gehört auch das sittliche Versagen, die Verletzung des sittlichen Gebots, durch die ein Einzelner oder eine Gemeinschaft Schuld auf sich lädt. Was ist diese „sittliche Schuld“? In der Geschichte des abendländischen Denkens gewinnen drei Formen der Schuld eine besondere Bedeutung: die radikale Schuld, die tragische Schuld und die absolute Schuld. Die radikale Schuld ist durch den Gegensatz zur (natürlichen) Winter 2015/16 47 Literature Transcultural Studies Unschuld des Menschen bestimmt – der Mensch verliert in einem Urvergehen seine Unschuld und ist fortan durch seine Natur schuldig; die tragische Schuld durch den Gegensatz zur Freiheit – der Mensch glaubt frei zu handeln, doch vollzieht er darin nur das Schicksal; und die absolute Schuld durch den Gegensatz zur Verzeihung – es gibt eine Schuld, die nicht vergeben werden kann. In der Vorlesung sollen diese drei historischen Erscheinungen der Schuld herausgearbeitet werden, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der tragischen und der absoluten Schuld liegen wird. Behandelt werden sowohl Autoren der Antike wie der Moderne. Literaturhinweise zu einzelnen Aspekten, Autoren und Ansätzen werden begleitend zur Vorlesung gegeben. Zum Einlesen ins Thema werden folgende Texte empfohlen: Aristoteles: Poetik (übers. Von M. Fuhrmann). Stuttgart (reclam) 2001 (u.ö.). Friedrich Nietzsche: Zur Genealogie der Moral. Ein Streitschrift. Leipzig 1887. Karl Jaspers: Die Schuldfrage. Heidelberg 1946. Paul Ricoeur: Das Rätsel der Vergangenheit: Erinnern – Vergessen – Verzeihen. Göttingen 1998. Vladimir Jankélévitch: Das Verzeihen. Ffm. 2003. Introduction to Medical Anthropology 970202652; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6; en Tue; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00, 20.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Sieler, R. Content This seminar is designed to give an introduction to the methods and some main theoretical concepts of medical anthropology. One of anthropology's largest and fast growing subfields, medical anthropology inquires into social, political economic and cultural dimensions of health, illness, and of healing and is well equipped to protray medical systems as social institutions. In this seminar, we will explore the field of medical anthropology through readings of classic texts and current research on mental health, lifestyle diseases, emerging medical technologies, public and global health, and many more. Proof of academic 1. Regular attendance, active participation; 2. Class presentation; 3. Final exam or achievement essay Preconditions Für eine Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung per E-Mail an den/die Dozent/-in bis 7 Tage vor Vorlesungsbeginn erforderlich. Literature • Inhorn, M.C., ed. (2012). Medical anthropology at the intersections: histories, activisms, and futures. Durham: Duke University Press. • Lock, M.M., ed. (2000). Living and working with the new medical technologies: intersections of inquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Nichter, M., ed. (2002). New horizons in medical anthropology: essays in honour of Charles Leslie. London: Routledge. • Nichter, M., Nichter M. (1996). Anthropology and international health: Asian case studies. Amsterdam: Gordon &Breach. • Singer, M., Erickson P. (2011). A companion to medical anthropology. Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. • Singer, M., Baer, H.A. (2012). Introducing medical anthropology: a discipline in action. Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press. • Winkelman, M. (2009). Culture and health: applying medical anthropology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. • Whyte, S.R., van der Geest S., Hardon, A. (2002). Social lives of medicines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Leichte Sanskrit-Lektüre (Sanskrit III) Auszüge aus dem Rāmāyaṇa 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 48 Transcultural Studies 9702061141; Reading course; SWS: 2; LP: KRS: 3; SAS: 3; de Thu; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Maithrimurthi, M. Content Das Rāmayaṇa und das Mahābhārata sind die beiden großen Epen des alten Indien. Das Rāmāyaṇa wird dem Seher und Dichter Vālmīki zugeschrieben und geht in seinem Kern auf die Mitte des ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausends zurück. Die uns vorliegende Version dieses Werkes enthält 24.000 Doppelverse und ist über die Jahrhunderte möglicherweise allmählich gewachsen. In Indien hält man das Rāmāyaṇa für den Prototyp der Kunstdichtungen und nennt es daher „erstes Gedicht“ (ādikāvya). In diesem Epos erzählt Vālmīki die Geschichte Rāmas, seine Verbannung in den Wald für 12 Jahre, die er in der Begleitung seiner Frau Sīta und seinem Bruder Lakṣmaṇa verbringen sollte. Sītā wurde später von dem Dämonenkönig Rāvaṇa aus Laṅkāpura entführt. Rāma kämpft um sie mithilfe eines Heeres von Affen, geführt von Affenkönig Hanuman. Er tötet den Dämonenkönig im Kampf und befreit seine Frau Sitā. Diese Geschichte ist (bis heute) immer wieder in verschiedenen Regionalsprachen nacherzählt worden und inspirierte im größerem Ausmaß Kunst und Literatur im Großraum Südasien. In dieser Veranstaltung lesen wir einige Auszüge (Nebenerzählungen) aus dem Rāmāyaṇa. Proof of academic Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Übersetzung. achievement Preconditions Sanskrit I + II. Short Comment Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected] New and Full Moon Offerings / Opfer-Rituale zu Neu - und Vollmond (Darsapūrṇamāsa-iṣṭi) 9702061712; Reading course; SWS: 2; LP: 6; de Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; from 14.10.2015; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Mishra, A. Content Die Neu - und Vollmond - Rituale sind von grosser Bedeutung, um die grundlegende Struktur der Srauta-Opfer zu verstehen, da sie den Archetyp (prakṛti) darstellen von dem sich andere Rituale (iṣṭis) in modifizierter Form (vikṛtis) ableiten. In diesem Kurs werden wir die relevanten Passagen aus Satapatha-Brāhmaṇa (Mādhyandina) und Kātyayana-Srauta-Sūtra lesen, in denen diese Opfer-Rituale beschrieben werden. The New and Full Moon offerings are of prime importance to understand the fundamental structure of srauta-sacrifices as they make the archetype (prakṛti) of which other iṣṭis are modifications (vikṛtis). In this course we will read the relevant passages from Satapatha-Brāhmaṇa (Mādhyandina) and Kātyayana-Srauta-Sūtra which describe these sacrifices. Proof of academic Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Übersetzung. achievement Preconditions Short Comment Vorausgesetzt werden gute Kenntnisse des Sanskrit. Good knowledge of Sanskrit is a pre-requisite. The course may be held in English and/or in German. OA HS: Maritime Order in East Asia The Politics, Economics and Nationalisms of the East Asian Seas 0733152OA01; Main seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 8; en Wed; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00; Akademiestr. 4-8 / Sino R 201; Pugliese, G. Content Since the end of the Cold War several scholars have considered Maritime East Asia as relatively prone to instability given the structure of the regional system, which is characterized by growing multi-polarity, increasing military spending and China’s remarkable and, in recent years, assertive rise to the center stage of regional politics. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 49 Transcultural Studies The presence of divergent political systems throughout the region in the form of democracies and authoritarian regimes, unsolved territorial claims, competition over energy resources, unresolved historical issues, and rising nationalisms has contributed to the view that the region is «ripe for rivalry». At the same time, the seas connect East Asian economies together through regional production networks and these economies have become ever more integrated and interdependent. The seminar will tackle these fundamental issues to disentangle the geopolitical, military, economic and normative undercurrents of East Asia’s stormy seas. Will economic factors and support for the global commons contribute to regional stability? (Ostasien-Hauptseminar) Japanische Kunst im globalen Kontext / Japanese Art in a Global Context Preparatory seminar / advanced seminar; LP: Ostasien-Hauptseminar (8: BA); Proseminar (7: BA 75%, BA 50% Schwerpunkt Japan, BA 25%), (5: BA 50% Schwerpunkt China); Oberseminar (8: BA), (10: MA 75%), (5: MA 75% mit Japanologie/Sinologie, ohne HA), (9: MA 25%, mit HA), (6 : MA 25% ohne HA) Mon; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; from 19.10.2015; Seminarstr. 4 / ÜR Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens; Trede, M.;Wakita, M. Content OS/PS: Japanische Kunst im globalen Kontext / Japanese Art in a Global Context Melanie Trede/Mio Wakita Beginn: 19.10.15.(Vorbesprechung), Voranmeldung erforderlich (bis 15. September 2015) This seminar conceptually revolves around the three-day international symposium „Histories of Japanese Art and Their Global Contexts: New Directions”, which takes place in Heidelberg from October 22 through October 24. More than twenty leading researchers from all over the world (Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and North America) will present their latest research findings in Heidelberg. Current research topics on Japanese art and its global entanglements from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries will be discussed from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. The symposium will frame Japanese art in a “global” context as a case study-based analysis, centering on reciprocal exchanges between Japan and China, Europe, as well as North and South Americas. For the program of the symposium please see below. The symposium focusses on the transculturality of Japanese art; the aim of the symposium is to re-contextualize Japanese art in its dynamics, and in its continuous and multilayered interrelationships with objects, technologies, institutions and discourses. In the seminar, we will discuss selected papers covering wide-ranging topics: starting from cartography; trade with export lacquer and porcelain; adaptations of nanban folding screens in Mexiko; Japanese art in late Qing-China; photography, calligraphy, and on to curating Japanese art today. Participants of the seminar may choose one topic for their presentation according to their own interest; any other themes relevant to the conference papers will also be accepted for presentation. The subject of the presentation should be thematically related to the selected conference paper; we also encourage to come up with new ideas, objects or methodologies in the presentation. The seminar will provide a unique chance to personally meet with the panelists of the symposium, whose papers the participants will be working on in the course of the seminar. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 50 Transcultural Studies Additionally we will venture on a fieldtrip to an exhibition, which is thematically closely linked to the seminar: „Japan’s love of Impressionism“ in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. The fieldtrip is scheduled to take place either on am Friday or Saturday, January 15 or 16. The exhibition will feature the Japanese reception of Impressionism (including works by Monet, Cezanne,Bonnard, Pissarro, Renoir, Van Gogh) acquired by famous Japanese collectors at the turn of the century. At the same time, Japanese paintings in the Western style created prior to 1920 will also be shown. Here is the link (please scroll down): http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/leichte-sprache/leichte-sprache-startseite/dieaktuellen-ausstellungen.html The seminar will be conducted in German (and English as needed). For class registration, please contact Dr. Wakita ([email protected]) as soon as possible (by September 15 at the latest) so that you may reserve your favourite topic. *** Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist konzipiert rund um das vom IKO organisierte Symposium „Histories of Japanese Art and Their Global Contexts: New Directions“, das in Heidelberg vom 22. bis 24. Oktober 2015 stattfindet. Mehr als zwanzig erstklassige Forscher aus dem In- und Ausland (Japan, Taiwan, Europa, Nordamerika) tagen zu diesem Anlass in Heidelberg und präsentieren ihre neuesten Forschungsergebnisse. Aktuelle kunsthistorische Themen zur japanischen Kunst im globalen Kontext werden aus verschiedenen Zeitepochen (vom 14. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart) und aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären und regionalspezifischen Perspektiven behandelt. 'Global' ist hier nicht so sehr wörtlich zu verstehen als auf Fallstudien bezogene Analysen, die sich auf wechselseitigen Austausch bzw. Reaktionen zwischen Japan und China, Europa, Nord- und Südamerika ergeben. Das Tagungsprogramm finden Sie untenstehend. Der Fokus des Symposiums liegt auf der Transkulturalität der japanischen Kunst. Die Konferenz zielt darauf ab, japanische Kunst in ihrer Dynamik und in ständigen und vielschichtigen Wechselbeziehungen mit Objekten, Technologien, Institutionen und Diskursen neu zu kontextualisieren. Im Seminar werden ausgewählte Vorträge des Symposiums zum Gegenstand des Unterrichts. Die thematische Palette des Seminars ist entlang des Symposiums sehr breit angelegt (u.a. Kartografie, Handel mit Exportlack und -porzellan, Adaptionen von Nanban-Stellschirmen in Mexiko, japanische Kunst im China der ausgehenden Qing-Dynastie, Fotografie und Kalligrafie, Kuratieren japanischer Kunst heute); TeilnehmerInnen können sich je nach Interesse ein Vortragsthema bzw. einen thematisch wie inhaltlich relevanten Aspekt für ein eigenes Referat aussuchen. In Referaten sollen neben dem thematischem Bezug zu den ausgewählten Vortragsthemen idealerweise eigene Ideen, Objekte oder Methoden einbezogen werden. Die Teilnehmerinnen des Seminars haben dabei die einmalige Chance die Forscherinnen und Rednerinnen persönlich kennenzulernen, über die sie im Laufe des Seminars arbeiten werden. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 51 Transcultural Studies Zusätzlich werden wir eine eng an unsere Thematik anschließende Exkursion zu der vielversprechenden Ausstellung „Japans Liebe zum Impressionismus“ in der Bonner Bundeskunsthalle am Freitag, 15. oder Samstag, 16. Januar durchführen. Darin wird die japanische Rezeption des Impressionismus (Monet, Cezanne, Bonnard, Pissarro, Renoir, Van Gogh) anhand von japanischen Sammlungen vorgestellt, die bereits um 1900 zusammengestellt wurden. Aber auch japanische Malereien im westlichen Stil vor 1920 sollen gezeigt werden. Hier der link (bitte ganz runterscrollen): http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/leichte-sprache/leichte-sprache-startseite/dieaktuellen-ausstellungen.html Die Unterrichtssprache ist Deutsch, je nach Bedarf auch Englisch. Die Zahl der Referatsthemen ist begrenzt. Zur besseren Planung bitten wir darum, dass Diejenigen, die ein Referat übernehmen wollen, sich schnellstmöglich verbindlich per Email anmelden ([email protected]) (spätestens bis zum 15. September). Teilnahmebedingungen --Interesse am Thema und gute Englischkenntnisse (auch Japanischkenntnisse sind sehr willkommen!) Voraussetzungen für einen Leistungsnachweis von 4 LPs: - „volle“ Teilnahme an der dreitägigen Konferenz (22. -24.10.15: an allen drei Tagen!) - regelmäßige Teilnahme am Seminar - Vorbereitung durch Lektüre der angegebenen Texte sowie aktive und regelmäßige Teilnahme an der Diskussion im Rahmen des Seminars. - Übernahme eines Referates (30 min, mit Handout) Für 6 bzw. 8 LPs vorausgesetzt wird außerdem: - Eine Hausarbeit (Schriftgröße 12p, 1,5-fachem Zeilenabstand, Umfang ca. 10-12 Seiten für BA-Studierende/16-20 Seiten für MA-Studierende) In der Hausarbeit sollte etwas Eigenes erarbeitet werden, das aber durchaus mit dem referierten Thema in engem Zusammenhang stehen kann. Mehr als zweimal dürfen Teilnehmerinnen nicht fehlen (ausgenommen sind ärztliche Atteste). Für die Notenvergabe sind folgende Leistungen entscheidend: gründliche Vorbereitung und aktive Teilnahme an der Diskussion im Seminar (30%); Referat (30 %); Hausarbeit (40%). 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 52 Transcultural Studies ************************ SEMESTERPLAN 19.10 Vorbesprechung, Einführung, Vorstellung des Themas und der Referentinnen des Symposiums / Introduction to the course 22.-24.10. Symposium: Histories of Japanese Art in a Global Context Katholisches Universitätszentrum und Exzellenzcluster, Raum 212; Teilnahme verpflichtend 26.10. ENTFÄLLT/ class cancelled 2.11. Introduction to ‚Global art history’ / ‚transcultural art histories’; microhistory versus global history: questions and methodologies 9.11 (Referat/paper) 16.11. (Referat/paper) 23.11. (Referat/paper) 30.11.(Referat/paper) 7.12. (Referat/paper) 14.12. (Referat/paper) 21.12. (Referat/paper) 11.1. (Referat/paper) 18.1. Entfällt/cancelled. Instead: Exkursion zur Ausstellung 'Japans Liebe zum Impressionismus', Bundeskunsthalle Bonn am 15. (Freitag) oder 16. (Samstag) Januar 25.1. (Referat/paper) 1.2. (Referat/paper) 28.2. Abgabe der schriftlichen Arbeiten / final papers due ************************** Programm des Symposiums Histories of Japanese Art and their Global Contexts: New Directions—— th Celebrating the 10 Anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation Visiting Professorship in Japanese Art History at Heidelberg University Heidelberg, October 22-24, 2016 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 53 Transcultural Studies Thursday, 22 October, 2015 Venue: Katholisches Universitätszentrum Heidelberg, Edith-Stein-Haus, Neckarstaden 32, 69117 Heidelberg, Sitemap: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Neckarstaden +32,+69117+Heidelberg,+Deutschland/@49.412614,8.702706,16z/data=!4m2!3m1! 1s0x4797c1051a1d9d45:0xe62a4245b682fc10?hl=de-DE 10:00 Welcome addresses: (Representative of the Ishibashi Foundation) Judit Arokay, Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, Heidelberg Axel Michaels, Acting Director, Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg Introduction to the Conference: Melanie Trede, Mio Wakita 10:30-12:30 Panel I: ’Making Worlds’ – Imagining Japan Max Moerman (Barnard College): Japan, Cartography, and the Art of WorldMaking Komine Kazuaki (Rikkyo University, Tokyo): The World of Mt. Sumeru Diagrams — Representation and Discourse Melanie Trede (Heidelberg): Constructions of "Japan" in pictorial narratives Chair and Discussant: Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg) 14:00-16:30 Panel II: Global entanglements of East-Asian Export Artifacts Sofia Sanabrais (Los Angeles): “…desired and sought by the rest of the world”: The Movement of Japanese Art in Mexico in the Early Modern World Fujita Kayoko (Ritsumeikan University, Beppu): Textile cultures and the Tokugawa economy: On foreign trade, import substitution, and the changing material culture, ca. 1550–1850 Hidaka Kaori (National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba): Lacquerware as a global commodity Maezaki Shin’ya (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto): Japanese Export Porcelain for the Chinese and Korean Market in the Meiji Period Chair and Discussant: Lianming Wang 18:00 Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 54 Transcultural Studies Voßstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg, Sitemap: https://maps.google.de/maps? ll=49.409884,8.689448&=15&id=14470961824983260432&=Karl+Jaspers+Centre+for +Advanced+Transcultural+Studies&utput=classic&g=ntvo Keynote Speech: Hybridity and the Global Turn in Japanese Art History Christine Guth (Royal College of Art and V& Museum, London) Chair and Discussant: Monica Juneja ****** Friday, 23 October Venue: Katholisches Universitätszentrum Heidelberg, Edith-Stein-Haus, (Depending on the noise level of the construction work, the venue might switch to the Karl Jaspers Centre, in the Voßstr. 2, for the day) 10:00-12:00 Panel III: China and Japan, c. 1900: Reframing Tradition and Modernity Lai Yu-Chih (Academia Sinica, Taibei): Mediating Tradition: Japanese Copperplate Printing and Art Reproduction in 1880s Shanghai Tamaki Maeda (Univ. of Washington, Seattle): Inverting Cultural Order: Naitō Konan and East Asian Art History Aida Yuen-Wong (Brandeis Univ., Waltham,Mass.): Japan and the Lingnan School in China: A Conundrum of Modernity Chair and Discussant: Sarah Fraser (Heidelberg) 14:30-16:30 Panel IV: Transcultural negotiations: cultural practices and discourses in modern Japan Mio Wakita (Heidelberg): Spirit, living dolls, and photography: On realism and its perceptions in Meiji Japan Michael Lucken (INALCO, Paris): The bone-image in 20th century Japan Alice Tseng (Boston University): The Visual Culture of Japan’s Modern Monarchy Chair and Discussant: Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg) 18:00 Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Voßstr. 2 Keynote Speech: A Global Interpretation of Nihonbashi Timon Screech (SOAS, London) Chair and Discussant: Joachim Rees (Berlin) ****** 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 55 Transcultural Studies Saturday, 24 October Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Voßstr. 2 10:00-12:00 Panel V: Collecting Japan in EuroAmerica and the formation of a “World Art History” Yamanashi Emiko (Tokyo Institute of Cultural Properties): The art historian, collector and dealer Hayashi Tadamasa - negotiating the concepts of “Fine arts” in Europe and “Bijutsu” in Japan Ingeborg Reichle (Humboldt University, Berlin): The Origin of Speciesand the Beginning of World Art History: Kunstwissenschaft’u Encounter with Darwinian Aesthetics around 1900 Doris Croissant (Heidelberg): "Collecting East-Asian art in Imperial Germany and the Predicament of World Art History" Chair and Discussant: Georg Vasold (Berlin) 13:00-15:00 Panel VI: Postwar Japanese Art and Contemporaneity Eugenia Bogdanova (Heidelberg): On the Notion of Avant-Garde in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy Reiko Tomii (Independent Scholar, New York City): Stoned in 1969: Siting Horikawa Michio and His Contemporaries Hayashi Michio (Sophia University, Tokyo): The Return of the Mother-land: An Aspect of the Postwar Japanese Culture of the 1960s Chair and Discussant: Ulrich Blanché (Heidelberg) 15:30-17:30 Panel VII: Curating 'Japan' in International Exhibitions Kuraya Mika (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo): Gambare, Nippon: How can artwork represent the nation? Jaqueline Berndt, (Seika University, Kyoto):Culturalizing Manga, Leaning on “Japan” Alexander Hofmann(Museum of Asian Art, Berlin): Displaying Visual Arts of Japan at German museums -- extant collections, absent discourses Chair and Discussant: Reiko Tomii (Independent Scholar, New York) 17:30-18:30: Wrap-Up Discussion, moderated by Monica Juneja, Christine Guth, Alexander Hofmann, Hayashi Michio 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 56 Transcultural Studies Pāli I 9702061161; Language course; SWS: 3; LP: HF 6; de Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:30; from 14.10.2015; INF 330 / SAI R 214; Maithrimurthi, M.;Roock, A. Comments Einführungskurs in das Pāli, eine der beiden wichtigen mittelindischen Sprachen, in dem auch der Kanon der buddhistischen Theravāda-Schule verfasst ist. Pāli besitzt eine umfangreiche Literatur (außerkanonisch und Kunstdichtung etc.). Das Erlernen dieser Sprache ist besonders für die Buddhismusforschung sowohl in philologischer als auch ideengeschichtlicher Hinsicht sehr hilfreich. Content Introductory course in Pali – part one – one of the two main middle Indic languages known as Prakrit. The complete Buddhist canon extant in an Indian language is composed in Pali and belongs to the Theravada school of Buddhism that is also known as Southern Buddhism. Extensive literature (paracanonical and fine arts etc.) is available in Pali. Knowledge of Pali will be useful in research work in Buddhism (both as regards to philology and history of ideas). Im ersten Teil dieses zweisemestrigen Kurses wird die Grammatik anhand der Lektüre einfacher Originaltexte eingeübt. Dabei wird institutseigenes Lehrmaterial verwendet. In this course students acquire the knowledge of Grammar and ability to read simple text passages in original Pali literature. Proof of academic achievement Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Klausur Preconditions Der Kurs steht allen Interessierten offen, Sanskritkenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Short Comment Knowledge of Sanskrit is welcome but not required. Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected]. Pakistan. (Post-)foundation of a society 9702077010; Seminar; SWS: 2; en Thu; Weekly; 11:15 - 12:45; INF 330 / SAI R 509; Schaflechner, J. Comments Various attempts exist to “explain” the Islamic Republic to the world. Publications with titles such as Making Sense of Pakistan (2009), What is Wrong with Pakistan? (2013), or even Apocalypse Pakistan describe a nation on the brink, a society “insufficiently imagined,” as Salman Rushdie famously wrote. Asides introductory texts on the Islamic Republic’s cultural, religious, and political diversity we will theoretically approach Rushdie’s dictum of the “insufficiently imagined” nation-state and question the possibility of a fully imagined society as such. Using writings of Abul Ala Maududi, Mohammad Iqbal, Claude Lefort, and Laclau and Mouffe the class will critically interrogate and compare various notions of “society” to further apply these political theories to today’s Pakistan. Participation is limited. Please write to: [email protected] Performance of Healing 970202620; Seminar; de Wed; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00; Polit, K. Preconditions Für eine Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung per E-Mail an den/die Dozent/-in bis 7 Tage vor Vorlesungsbeginn erforderlich. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 57 Transcultural Studies Philosophie der Wirtschaft - Politische Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie 0710HS15209; Main seminar; SWS: 2; de Mon; Weekly; 16:15 - 17:45; Schulgasse 6 / Phil. Sem. Kantsaal; Faber, M.;Manstetten, R. Comments BA MA LA-alt LA-neu PW2,3,4 Content Literature MSP-TP/PP, MS, MW, MB TP, PP, AE TP, PP, PdE, FW 2 In heutigen Gesellschaften sind Sphären von Wirtschaft, Recht und Politik sorgfältig voneinander zu unterscheiden. Sie basieren auf unterschiedlichen Systemlogiken und ihre Akteure sind unterschiedlichen Rollenerwartungen unterworfen. Dennoch sind sie nicht voneinander zu trennen. Was in einer Sphäre geschieht, hat Auswirkungen auf alle anderen. Insbesondere sind Wirtschaft und Staat aufeinander angewiesen und miteinander verflochten, Das war bereits Adam Smith bewusst, der die Politische Ökonomie als branch of the science of a statesman or legislator definierte. In seinen Augen musste jede Untersuchung von Märkten die Reflexion auf Themenstellungen der Ethik, der Politischen Philosophie und der gesellschaftspolitischen Praxis miteinschließen. In den letzten Jahrzehnten lassen sich Tendenzen beobachten, ökonomischen Gesichtspunkten zusehends den Vorrang vor den Gesichtspunkten der anderen Sphären einzuräumen, während andererseits Herausforderungen der Finanzkrise seit 2008 die Forderung nach einem Primat der Politik dringlich erscheinen lassen. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist das zentrale Thema des Seminars das Verhältnis von Wirtschaft, Recht und Politik vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher kultureller Kontexte. Im Seminar werden einerseits Texte der Klassischen Politischen Philosophie und der ökonomischen Klassik (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Hegel, Marx), andererseits, von Rawls ausgehend, liberale und neoliberale Gesellschaftsentwürfe der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie (Buchanan, Mueller u.a.) betrachtet. Eine besondere Rolle spielt die Frage nach Alternativen zu den gegenwärtigen globalen Ordnungen von Wirtschaft und Politik (Stiglitz, Graeber, Mignolo). Schließlich stellt sich die Frage, ob Politische Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie heute nicht der Gefährdung der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen der Menschheit durch neuartige Konzeptionen begegnen müssten. Literatur (Auswahl) Buchanan, J. (1975) The Limits of Liberty. Between Anarchy and Leviathan. Chicago and London. (deutsch 1984: Die Grenzen der Freiheit. Tübingen.) Buchanan, J./Tullock, G. (1962) The Calculus of Consent. Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor. Bürgin, A. (1993) Zur Soziogenese der Politischen Ökonomie. Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche und dogmenhistorische Betrachtungen. Marburg. Dussel, E. (2013) 20 Thesen zu Politik. Münster. Faber, M. / Manstetten, R. (2014) Was ist Wirtschaft? Von der Politischen Ökonomie zur Ökologischen Ökonomie: 2. Aufl. Freiburg. Graeber, D. (2012) Schulden. Die ersten 5000 Jahre. Übers. v. U. Schäfer, H. Freundl, S. Gebauer. Verlag Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart. Hegel, G.W.F. (2004) Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, in: Werke Bd. VII. Frankfurt. a.M. Hobbes, Th (1996) Leviathan oder Stoff, Form und Gewalt eines kirchlichen und bürgerlichen Staates. Hg. I. Fetscher. Frankfurt am Main. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 58 Transcultural Studies Hirschman, A. (1987) Leidenschaften und Interessen. Aus dem Amerikanischen übers. von S. Offe. Frankfurt a. M. Marx, K. (1973) Kritik des Gothaer ProgrammsKarl Marx/Friedrich Engels - Werke. (Karl) Dietz Verlag, Berlin. Band 19, 4. Auflage 1973, unveränderter Nachdruck der 1. Auflage 1962, Berlin/DDR. S. 13-32 Marx, Karl/ Engels, Friedrich (1848/1972) Manifest der Kommunistischen Partie, in: Marx, K./Engels, F. Werke, 4. Band, Berlin; 459-493 M Mignolo, W. (2011) 2011: The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Latin America Otherwise). Duke University Press Books, 458 p. Mueller, D. (1989) Public Choice II. A revised edition of Public Choice. Cambridge. Petersen, Th./ Faber, M. (2015) Karl Marx und die Philosophie der Wirtschaft. Bestandsaufnahme - Überprüfung – Neubewertung. 3. Aufl. Freiburg, Rawls, J. (1975) Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, übers. von H. Vetter. Frankfurt a. M. Stiglitz, J. (2012) Der Preis der Ungleichheit. Wie die Spaltung der Gesellschaft unsere Zukunft bedroht, München. Political Geography of South Asia 9702031461; Main seminar; LP: MA SAS: 6 / MA GEO: 5; en Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Anmeldung per Email [email protected]; Baghel, R. Content Political geography deals with the interactions of political processes and spatial structures and is a classic field of human geography. South Asia as a region offers a rich set of case studies and classic topics for discussion. This course uses is designed so that students work to deepen their knowledge of political geography as a subtopic and South Asia as a region at the same time. The course language is English. The class discussions and literature will be in English, however the final essay can be written in either English or German. Proof of academic achievement Leistungsnachweis: aktive Teilnahme, Gruppenarbeit, Hausarbeit. Literature Literatur wird in Moodle bekannt gegeben. PS/ V Ostasien in der Weltgeschichte I 0730152OAW1; Preparatory seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; de Thu; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00; Grabengasse 3-5 - neue Uni / HS 09; Giele, E.;Krämer, H.;Trede, M. Content Gegenstand der Veranstaltung: Proof of academic achievement 14.8.2015 In diesem Kurs werden Grundlagen zur Geographie, Bevölkerung und visuellen Objekten in Ostasien, zu vorstaatlichen Kulturen, zur Staatenbildung und zur Struktur der Gesellschaft, sowie insbesondere zum wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Austausch zwischen Ostasien und der übrigen „Welt“, und zu den Beziehungen innerhalb Ostasiens bis ca. 1850 vermittelt. 1. Regelmäßige Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung 2. Wöchentliche Vorbereitung durch Lesen der betreffenden Artikel in Moodle 3. Jeweils eine halbstündige Klausur in den drei Fachbereichen Winter 2015/16 59 Transcultural Studies Raum, Kommunikation und Herrschaft: Neue Perspektiven auf maritime Geschichte des Indischen Ozeans (7. - 17. Jahrh.) 9702046021; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 3; LP: 4/9; de Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 19:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R Z10; Dharampal-Frick, G. Content Das Hauptziel dieses Hauptseminars ist es, den Indischen Ozean im mittelalterlichen Jahrtausend als Ensemble zugleich abgegrenzter und verbundener Meeresräume in seiner zeitlich-räumlichen Erstreckung und dessen herrschaftliche und rechtliche Durchdringung möglichst präzise zu fassen. Zweitens sind Grundzüge seiner Entwicklung als eine für die Globalgeschichte der Vormoderne besonders relevante Geschichtsregion herauszuarbeiten. Insbesondere ist zu fragen, welche Faktoren jeweils Konnektivität oder Abgrenzung zwischen Teilräumen definierten bzw. begünstigten; zeitspezifisch wäre auch die Existenz von "Zentren" und "Peripherien" auszuloten. In Anbetracht zahlreicher Zonen "offener bzw. fluider Souveränität" im asiatischen Raum ist ferner zu untersuchen, in welchem Maße und unter welchen Umständen sich die Autorität über das Land auch auf Meeresräume erstreckte, und mit welchen Mitteln solche Ansprüche verfolgt wurden. Damit ist die Frage berührt, in wie weit sich Herrschaft und politische sowie rechtliche Raumvorstellungen auf konnektive Strukturen von Meeren ausgewirkt haben. Das Hauptseminar richtet sich nicht nur an Studierende der Geschichte Südasiens und anderer historischer Fächer (inklusive der Islamwissenschaft und der Sinologie), sondern auch der Politik, Wirtschaft und Ethnologie und alle, die sich für die historischen Grundlagen der Globalisierung interessieren. Proof of academic achievement Literature 2 LP aktive Anwesenheit 2 LP Referat 2 LP Protokoll/Diskutant oder kritische Zusammenfassungen 3 LP Hausarbeit Alpers, Edward: The Indian Ocean in World History. Oxford 2014. Chaudhuri, Kirti: Asia before Europe. Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Cambridge 1990. Lefebvre, Henri: La production de l’espace, Paris 1974. McPherson, Kenneth: The Indian Ocean. A History of People and the Sea, New Delhi 1993. Mukherjee, Rila: Oceans connect: Reflections on Water Worlds across Time and Space, Delhi 2013. Ray, Himanshu P. (Hrsg.): Mausam: Maritime Cultural Landscapes across the Indian Ocean, New Delhi 2014. Short Comment Wink, André: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective, in: Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (2002), 416-445. Anmeldung per E-Mail bis zum 28.09.2015 an: [email protected] Recht und Sitte - Einführung in das Dharmasāstra 9702061131; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6 Tue; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00; from 13.10.2015; INF 330 / SAI R 316; Michaels, A. Comments Unterrichtssprache: deutsch oder englisch 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 60 Content Transcultural Studies Das Seminar will eine Einführung in die Geschichte des vormodernen hinduistischen Rechts und der hinduistischen Jurisprudenz (Dharmasāstra) bieten. Der erste Teil des Seminars widmet sich theoretisch-konzeptionellen Fragen des Dharmasāstra, etwa nach Bedeutung und Geschichte des dharma-Begriffs, dem Einfluss der exegetischen Tradition der Mīmāṃsā, dem Spannungsfeld von normativen Texten und Rechtspraxis, Schuld und Sühne, der Rolle des Königs, der Stellung der Frau und der Institution der Joint-Family. Im zweiten Teil des Seminars soll an Hand von historischen Fallbeispielen aus dem frühneuzeitlichen Kerala, Maharashtra und Nepal die Perspektive auf die Rechtspraxis gelegt werden. Ein Ausblick auf Transformation und Fortwirken der hinduistischen Jurisprudenz im kolonialen und postkolonialen Südasien rundet die Veranstaltung ab. Proof of academic achievement Regelmäßige Teilnahme, Referat und Hausarbeit. Preconditions keine Literature Literatur zur Einführung: Davis, Donald R. Jr., The Spirit of Hindu Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Derrett, John D.M., Dharmasāstra and Juridical Literature. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1973. Jolly, Julius, Recht und Sitte. Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1896 . Kane, P.V., History of Dharmasāstra. 5 vols. Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Intitute, 1953ff. Lingat, Robert, The Classical Law of India. Transl. By J.D.M.Derrett. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1993 (reprint, 1st publ. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1973). Short Comment Lubin, Timothy/Davis, Donald R. Jr./Krishnanand, Jayanth K.(eds.), Hinduism and Law: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Voranmeldung bitte per E-Mail an [email protected] Religion in Quotation Marks: Debates about religion as globalizing concept in South Asia / Religion in Anführungszeichen: Auseinandersetzungen mit einem sich globalisierenden Religionsbegriff in Südasien 9702070040; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6 Mon; Weekly; 14:15 - 15:45; INF 330 / SAI R Z10; Deutsch und Englisch (For the German version of the abstract see our German page.); Harder, H.;Hopf, A. Comments Religion may appear in today's commonsensical parlance as a clearly identifiable phenomenon, and the notion of a plurality of religions ready to be aligned by each other's side is widespread. But such a notion of religion requires critical questioning. In South Asia, e.g., a long debate centered on this concept, which originally came from a Christian context and gradually acquired a universalized meaning. This led to complex reinterpretations. Reacting to critical comparative studies of South Asian religions with Christianity by missionaries and the colonial power, concepts like the Islamic "din" and "Madhhab" or Hindu-Buddhist "dharma/dhamma" were newly negotiated and their compatibility with the concept of religion was probed. In this seminar we want to look at chosen texts in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and English (mostly of the 19th and 20th centuries, and depending on the language 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 61 Transcultural Studies proficiencies of the participants) in order to trace same instances of this still ongoing examination and contestation of a globalized concept of religion. Language of instruction: German and English MA SAS, MA KLM, BA SAS, BA NSL, MA TS Proof of academic achievement Hausarbeit und Referat Preconditions Solid reading skills in one South Asian language required. Sanskrit I 9702061101; Language course; SWS: 8; LP: BA-KRS: 12 LP; B.A. SAS 12 LP; MA SAS: 12 LP; de Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 15.10.2015 - 06.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Gengnagel, J. Mon; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Maithrimurthi, M. Tue; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Maithrimurthi, M. Fri; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Maithrimurthi, M. Comments Erster Teil der zweisemestrigen Einführung in die klassische Sanskritsprache (Schrift und Grammatik). Die Studierenden werden anhand von Lehrbuchtexten zur Lektüre von Originalliteratur befähigt. Als institutseigenes Unterrichtsmaterial wird das Lehr- und Übungsbuch von Thomas Lehmann verwendet. This is the first part of the two-term course “Introduction to Classical Sanskrit” (Script and Grammar). We use the text book by Thomas Lehmann: “Sanskrit für Anfänger. Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch”. Basic knowledge of German is therefore needed. On request we offer to use addi-tional material and partly teach in English. Proof of academic achievement Regelmäßige Teilnahme, Hausaufgaben und Klausur Literature Thomas Lehmann: Sanskrit für Anfänger Short Comment Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected] oder [email protected] Singhalesisch I 9702061361; Language course; SWS: 4; LP: 6; de Fri; Weekly; 14:30 - 16:00, 16.10.2015 - 06.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R 312; s.t.; Maithrimurthi, M. Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 17:30, 20.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R 312; s.t.; Maithrimurthi, M. Comments Einführung in die singhalesische Sprache Singhalesisch ist die Sprache der ethnischen Gruppe der Singhalesen, die die Mehrheit der Bewohner auf der Insel Sri Lanka (früher Ceylon) bildet. Singhalesisch gehört der indoiranischen bzw. indoarischen Untergruppe der indogermanischen oder indoeuropäischen Sprachen an. Sie wurde aber im Laufe der Zeit besonders durch das Tamil sowohl lexikalisch als auch syntaktisch beeinflusst und in der Kolonialzeit zwischen 1505 und 1948 durch viele Lehnwörter aus dem Portugiesischen, Holländischen und Englischen bereichert. Heute sprechen etwa 16 Millionen Menschen, vorwiegend in Sri Lanka, Singhalesisch. Seit 1958 ist es die erste Amtsprache des Landes. Singhalesisch besitzt eine eigene Schrift und befindet sich, 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 62 Transcultural Studies wie viele andere moderne indische Sprachen, in einer Diglossie-Situation, in der sich die Schriftsprache von der Umgangsprache erheblich unterscheidet. Für diejenigen, die sich für die Kultur und Geschichte Sri Lankas und besonders für die dortige Form des Buddhismus (Theravāda) interessieren, ist das Erlernen dieser Sprache von großem Nutzen. In diesem Kurs steht vor allem das Erlernen des modernen gesprochenen Singhalesisch im Vordergrund. Introductory course in Sinhala. Sinhala is the language of Sinhalese, the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Sinhala belongs to the Indo-Iranian or Indo-Arian sub group of the Indo-German or Indo-European language family. Sinhala is spoken by more than 16 million people mainly in the island of Sri Lanka. Sinhala has its own alphabet and like many other modern Indian languages Sinhala has the situation of diglossia where the spoken language is rather different from the written language. It is very useful to learn Sinhala who is interested in the culture and history of Sri Lanka and also the form of Buddhism that is practiced there. In this course we concentrate on the spoken form of Sinhala in modern Sri Lanka. Proof of academic achievement regelmäßige Teilnahme und Klausur Literature Lehrbücher: Premalatha Jayawardena-Moser, Klaus Matzel: Einführung in die singhalesische Sprache. Harrassowitz Verlag 2001. Premalatha Jayawardena-Moser: Grundwortschatz Singhalesisch – Deutsch: Mit grammatischer Übersicht. 3. überarbeitete Auflage. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2004. C. H. B. Reynolds: Sinhalese: School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London, London 1980. Short Comment Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected] Singhalesisch V (Fortsetzung des Kurs IV im SoSe 15) 9702061933; Language course; SWS: 2; LP: 6; de Mon; Weekly; 17:00 - 18:30; INF 330 / SAI R 312; Maithrimurthi, M. Content Fortsetzung des Kurses Singhalesisch IV vom Sommersemester Preconditions Singhalesich IV Short Comment Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected] Stimmen des Unmuts in Sanskrit-Literatur (Leichte Sanskrit Lektüre) 9702061142; Reading course; SWS: 2; LP: 3; de Wed; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00; from 14.10.2015; INF 330 / SAI R 317; Mishra, A. Content In diesem Kurs werden wir ausgewählte Texte aus der Sanskrit - Literatur lesen, in der Dissens (Unmut), Missachtung, Abneigung und Abscheu geäussert werden; manchmal auf ironische Weise - oder auch unverblümt - oder sogar in lautstarken, emotionalen Ausbrüchen. In this course we will read selections from Sanskrit literature where dissent, defiance and disgust is voiced sometimes in an ironic manner, at times bluntly or sometimes even in vociferous outbursts of emotions. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 63 Transcultural Studies Proof of academic achievement Regelmäßige Teilnahme und Übersetzung. Preconditions Sanskrit I + II Short Comment The course may be held in English and/or in German. Stumbling Blocks as a form of rememberance HS201516040; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 2; de Mon; Weekly; 11:15 - 12:45; from 12.10.2015; Grabengasse 3-5 / HistSem ÜR I; Arendes, C.;Lingen, K. Structures and Paradigms in early India (Block Seminar in Heidelberg and Varanasi, India 22.02.-06.03.2016) 9702061711; Block seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 6 LP BlockSaSo, 22.02.2016 - 06.03.2016; Raum und Zeit n. V.; Mishra, A. Comments Unterrichtssprache: deutsch oder englisch Content Voranmeldung bitte an [email protected] This seminar investigates into the methods employed in early India to comprehend structures in diverse fields of human accomplishments: rituals, languages, organization of knowledge, textual exegesis, jurisprudence and social-law (dharma). How do the early Sanskrit texts formulate and represent them? How are these employed within a particular context or area of application? What were the main purposes addressed by these structures? To what extent and in which manner one can speak of their transcontextual application? Further, it seeks to work out the possibilities of evolving a (formal) language towards comprehending the structures and paradigms in early India. The block seminar will take place in Varanasi (India) between 22.02.-06.03.2016 together with Indian scholars and ritual experts. There is no language pre-requisite although knowledge of Sanskrit is of added advantage. The course language is English. Applications are welcome from students from diverse backgrounds, including religion, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and the social sciences. The deadline for application is 30.10.2015. A preparatory meeting will be held in the month of November. Please check the course website for application form and other information: http://sanskrit.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/Seminare/2015_WS_Paradigms/index.html Proof of academic achievement Regelmäßige Teilnahme, Protokoll/Referat/Klausur Preconditions There is no language pre-requisite although knowledge of Sanskrit is of added advantage. The course language is English. Applications are welcome from students from diverse backgrounds, including religion, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and the social sciences. Short Comment The deadline for application is 30.10.2015. A preparatory meeting will be held in the month of November. Voranmeldung: bitte per E-Mail an [email protected] Südindien in der Vormoderne 9702041037; Preparatory seminar; SWS: 3; LP: 6/8; de Wed; Weekly; 14:00 - 17:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; INF 330 / 316; Frese, H. Content Südindien spielt in der Geschichte des Subkontinents immer noch eine eigenartig untergeordnete Rolle, obwohl es weder an Quellen noch an Fragestellungen mangelt. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 64 Transcultural Studies Das Proseminar wird diese forschungshistorische Entwicklung kritisch hinterfragen, denn die heute gängige Aufteilung Indiens in "Norden" und "Süden" wirkt mehr als artifiziell. Eine klare Trennung beider Großregionen ist historisch kaum durchzuhalten. Vielmehr gab es immer kulturelle, wirtschaftliche und soziale Verbindungen und regen Austausch zwischen dem Norden und Süden des Subkontinents. Die relative Missachtung der Geschichte südlich des Dekkan in der indischen Historiographie erscheint noch fragwürdiger, wenn man bedenkt, dass diese Region Schauplatz kultureller Blütezeiten, wichtiger Standort lebendigen Seehandels und Heimat mächtiger Herrscherhäuser war, die die Geschichte Südasiens (und darüber hinaus) entscheidend beeinflussten. In diesem Proseminar sollen sowohl diese bedeutenden Dynastien der Vormoderne diskutiert werden, als auch geschichtswissenschaftliche Kontexte, die "Südindien" als historische Region definierten und definieren. Proof of academic achievement Literature Short Comment Das Seminar richtet sich an alle Studierende aus historischen Fächern sowie an Interessierte aus den Südasienstudien. 2 LP aktive Anwesenheit 2 LP Referat 2 LP Klausur 2 LP Hausarbeit + 1 für Tutorium K.A. Nilakanta Sastri (K. Aiyah): A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. Delhi 2005. V. Narayana Rao/D. Shulman/S. Subrahmanyam: Symbols of Substance. Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu. New Delhi 1992. Anmeldung bis zum 28.09.2015 per E-Mail an: [email protected] Suttanipāta Fortsetzung 9702061731; Reading course; SWS: 2; LP: 6; de Fri; Weekly; 13:00 - 14:30, 16.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R 312; Maithrimurthi, M. Content Das Suttanipāta gehört zum Khuddakanikāya (Sammlung der kurzen Lehrtexte) des Suttapiṭaka (Korb der Lehrtexte) im Pāli-Kanon. Es beinhaltet zum Teil einige Lehrreden des Buddha, die zu den frühesten Schichten der kanonischen Schriften gehören, die in einer archaischen Form der Pali-Sprache geschrieben worden sind. Einige Sutren im Suttanipāta sind im Kanon selbst zitiert und auch in den AsokaFelseninschrift (von 3. Jh. v. Chr.) in Bhairāṭ/Bhabru. In diesem Kurs lesen wir einige ausgewählte Lehrreden vom Suttanipāta, besonders diejenigen, die in der AsokaInschrift erwähnt sind, z.B. muni-gāthā (Muni-sutta: Vers 207-221), moneya-sūte (Nālaka-sutta: Vers 679[699]-723) and upatisapasine (Sāriputta-sutta: Vers 955-975). The Suttanipāta belongs to the Khuddakanikāya (Anthology of small texts) of the Suttapiṭaka (Basket of discourses) of the Pāli canon. It contains some discourses of the Buddha that belong to earliest strata of the canonical scriptures written partly in an archa-ic form of the language. Some of the Suttas of Suttanipāta are quoted in the canon itself and also in the Asokan rock inscription (of 3rd century BC) in Bhairāṭ/ Bhabru. In this class we read some selected discourses of the Suttanipāta, especially those which are mentioned in the Asokan inscription, i.e. muni-gāthā (Muni-sutta: Vers 207-221), moneya-sūte (Nālaka-sutta: Vers 679[699]-723) and upatisa-pasine (Sāriputta-sutta: Vers 955-975). Proof of academic regelmäßige Teilnahme und Übersetzung achievement Preconditions Pāli I + II Erwünscht aber nicht erforderlich. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 65 Transcultural Studies Short Comment Voranmeldung: bitte an [email protected] Tagore, Gandhi and the Religious Quest in Modern India 9702044030; Lecture; SWS: 2; LP: 3/5; en Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; INF 330 / SAI R Z10; Sen, A. Content British Orientalism created and considerably strengthened the view that religion represented the quintessential self-expression for India. In British India, identities built around the notion of discrete religious communities were also progressively sharpened over time for a variety of reasons. This led several contemporary Indian thinkers to focus on religion as the site for all important changes, including the social and political. Given the historical context, such thinkers were forced to address two major issues: first, the need to project religion as a humanizing and ethicizing force in history and second, of fostering greater and constructive inter-religious communication. This course seeks to critically assess the life and thought of Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, two major Indian thinkers from this period who perhaps best addressed these challenges. Proof of academic achievement Literature This course will be of interest to students of Social Sciences, Religious Studies, Philosophy and History. 2 LP aktive Anwesenheit 1 LP mündliche/schriftliche Klausur PLUS: 2 zusätzliche LP durch die 'Erarbeitung eines Lektürekanons' The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore. Delhi. Sahitya Akademi. S. 493 - 505. Amiya P. Sen (Hg.): Religion and Rabindranath Tagore. Select Discourses, Addresses and Letters in Translation. Delhi, 2014. Robert D. Baird (Hg.). Religion in Modern India. Delhi, 2005, S. 460-89. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (Hg.). The Mahatma and the Poet. Letters and Debates between Gandhi and Tagore. Delhi, 1997, S. 156-61. R. Iyer (Hg.). The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Oxford, 1986, S. 534-44. Anand T. Hingorani (Hg.). To the Hindus and Muslims by Mahatma Gandhi. Karachi, 1942, S. 59-62, 99-101, 274-75. Mahatma Gandhi. What is Hinduism? Delhi, 1994, S. 6-9, 19-20, 106-08. Shriman Narayan (Hg.). The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. 4. Ahmedabad, 1968, S. 20-23. Short Comment V.S. Naravane: Modern Indian Thought. Bombay,1964. Anmeldung per E-Mail bis zum 28.09.2015 an: [email protected] Theosophie und globale Religionsgeschichte 01152233502; Preparatory seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 4; de Thu; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00; Kisselgasse 1 / WTS ÜR I; Anmeldung bitte kurz per Email an [email protected]; Suarsana, Y. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 66 Comments Transcultural Studies In der häufig als ‚westlich‘ verstandenen Esoterik sind Elemente ‚östlicher‘ Religiosität und Spiritualität heute nicht mehr wegzudenken. Historische Ursache für diesen an sich erstaunlichen Umstand ist die 1875 in New York gegründete „Theosophische Gesellschaft“. Diese Organisation, die mit okkulten und spiritistischen Kreisen in Verbindung stand, verlegte 1878 (im Rahmen der allgemeinen Orient- und Indienbegeisterung am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts) ihren Hauptsitz nach Indien, um dort das „Urweistum“ in seiner reinsten Form zu entdecken. Zu diesem Zweck traten die Theosophen in intensiven Austausch mit reformhinduistischen Denkern jener Zeit und können daher zumindest indirekt als ein Geburtshelfer des (Reform-)Hinduismus im Sinne der hinduistischen Weltreligion bezeichnet werden. Im Proseminar werden wir uns diese Verbindung von Theosophie, moderner Esoterik und globaler Religionsgeschichte aus den verschiedenen Perspektiven der religionswissenschaftlichen Disziplin ansehen und dabei auch theoretische Probleme des Faches anschneiden. Proof of academic achievement Referat/Protokoll und Proseminararbeit Preconditions Gute Lesekenntnisse in Englisch Literature Short Comment Anmeldung per email an an [email protected] K. v. Stuckrad: Was ist Esoterik? Kleine Geschichte des geheimen Wissens. München 2004. Zielgruppe: Studierende im Grundstudium Zusätzlicher Arbeitsaufwand pro Woche 3 h The Politics of Tibetan Medicine 970202651; Seminar; LP: 6; en Mon; Weekly; 11:00 - 13:00, 19.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Besch, F. Content The fact that practitioners from Ladakh or Nepal avoid to refer to their practices as "Tibetan medicine" shows already the political connotations of the subject in those regions. The topic will be stretched over time and regions (Mongolia, China, TAR, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Europe, USA), as well as actors (doctors, amchi, Men-Tsee-Khang, Mentsikhang, div. governments, 'biomedicine', pharma industry). We will investigate Tibetan medicine and its politics in the encounter of healers and patients, as well as in regard to processes of revival and reinvention, processes of syncretism and assimilation, and identity formation. This seminar starts at 19th of October 2015. Participants will read one basic text for each session, give one oral presentation of a session topic and write a term paper. Previous registration via email is requested. Proof of academic achievement Oral presentation and term paper Preconditions Basics of medical anthropology Literature 14.8.2015 Für eine Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung per E-Mail an den/die Dozent/-in bis 7 Tage vor Vorlesungsbeginn erforderlich. • Adams, V., Schrempf, M., and S. Craig (eds.) 2011. Medicine between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds. Oxford &New York: Berghahn Books • Alphen, J.v. and A. Aris (eds.) 1995. Oriental Medicine. An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing. London: Serindia Publ. • Clifford, T. 1984. Tibetan Buddhist Medicine and Psychiatry: The Diamond Healing. Maine: Samuel Waiser. Winter 2015/16 67 Transcultural Studies • Connor, L.H. and G. Samuel (eds.) 2001. Healing Powers and Modernity. Traditional Medicine, Shamanism and Science in Asian Societies. Westport / London. Bergin &Garvey. • Craig, S. 2012. Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine. Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]: University of California Press. • Dhonden, Y. 1986. Health through Balance. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publ. • Hofer, T. 2012. The Inheritance of Change: Transmission and Practice of Tibetan Medicine in Ngamring. Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien. • Pordié, L. 2008. Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World. Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice. London &New York: Routledge. • Samuel, G. 1993. Civilized Shamans. Buddhism in Tibetan Society. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. • Saxer, M. 2013. Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: the Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness. New York, NY [u.a.]: Berghahn. • Schrempf, M. 2007. Soundings in Tibetan Medicine. Anthropological and Historical Perspectives. PIATS 2003: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Tradition und Modernität in der arabischen Welt gestern und heute Colloquium; SWS: 1; de Mon; Fortnightl; 14:30 - 16:00; from 19.10.2015; Alb.-Ueberle-Str 3-5 / SR II; Khoury, G. Short Comment Fällt aus am 20.10.2008 Vormoderne Dokumente Nepals 9702061831; Reading course; SWS: 2; LP: 6; de no info; Raum und Zeit n. V.; Michaels, A. Content Der Lektürekurs umfasst die Lektüre und Übersetzung ausgewählter religiöser und rechtlicher Dokumente des vormodernen Nepals. Die Dekadente sind meist auf Altnepali geschrieben. Preconditions Nepali Grundkenntnisse Short Comment Voranmeldung an: [email protected] Zen-Buddhismus und christliche Kontemplation Lecture; SWS: 1; de Mon; Weekly; 12:15 - 13:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Grabengasse 14-18 / SgU 1017; Faber, M.;Manstetten, R. On the History of Globalization HS201516046; Main seminar / advanced seminar; SWS: 2; de Wed; Weekly; 11:15 - 12:45; from 14.10.2015; Grabengasse 3-5 / HistSem ÜR I; Wenzlhuemer, R. Colloquia Islamic(ate) Spheres 9719KJC569; Seminar; SWS: 2; LP: 7; en Fri; Fortnightl; 10:00 - 12:00, 23.10.2015 - 05.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; König, D. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 68 Content Short Comment Transcultural Studies This colloquium is not open to MA students but primarily addresses a circle of PhDstudents and researchers interested in the history and affairs of societies containing significant Muslim populations. Registration upon invitation by course organizer. KJC Cluster Colloquium 9719KJC500; Colloquium; SWS: 2; en Mon; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 12.10.2015 - 01.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Nowoitnick, J. Content The idea of the Cluster Colloquium is to interconnect between projects and members within a smaller group at the Cluster and cross the borders of its 4 Research areas or individual Departments' colloquia. The Colloquium is open to doctoral candidates and PostDocs of the Cluster (mandatory for GPTS). Within the colloquium presenters are asked to present the main idea of their project in 15-20 minutes (with or without power point),and then discuss research question, sources etc. with the colleagues. Every session has two slots for these short project presentations with a time allocation of max. 40-45 mins per presenter. Preconditions The Colloquium's schedule is decided via foodle. Please contact the GP lecturer for the link ([email protected]). Doctoral Student or PostDoc at the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" PhD Colloquium "Intellectual History" 9719KJC516; Colloquium; SWS: 2; en Tue; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00, 20.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Kurtz, J. Preconditions Please register for the seminar in advance with Ms. Pietsch: [email protected]. Short Comment Research Colloquium Transcultural Studies / Chinese Studies 2 SWS, wöchentlich, TUE 9-11; KJC 002 Research Colloquium in Art History for Masters and Doctoral Students 9719KJC557; Colloquium; SWS: 2; en Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Juneja, M. 14.8.2015 Winter 2015/16 69