Courses in the Summer Term 2022

Lecture

Lecturer: Prof. Jürgen Martschukat

Module(s): W04#01

Credit Points: 3

Date: Thursday, 10am-12pm

Description: The lecture class will give an introduction to U.S.-history in the 20th century from World War I to 9/11. A focus will be on social and cultural history. A reader with sources will be provided. In addition to that, I will be available each Wednesday at 11.15 am for a 30-minute question&answer and discussion session. Final exam is a written test at the end of the semester.

Seminar

Lecturer: Felix Krämer

Modules: WG04#02

Credit Points: 3

Date: Wednesday, 10am-12pm

Description: Instead of centering European explorers of a "new world," histories of labor and capitalism increasingly focus new beginnings where – for instance – the first people were abducted from Africa to be sold as slaves to colonists in Virginia – 1619. The seminar will employ secondary but also primary sources to examine the extent to which the history of capitalism produced modern racism that continues to organize property relations, living or housing conditions utterly unequal in the United States until today. Starting from indentured servitude and debt peonage in the 17th century, the class will also explore dispossession of Native Americans as well as the long shadow of slavery’s history. We will discuss segregation in the 19th and 20th centuries from a gender history perspective, as well as the criminalization of minorities in the contemporary U.S. justice- and prison system as part of a persistent Racial Capitalism.

Seminar

Lecturer: Lisa Patt

Modules: E10#01; W11#01

Credit Points: 6

Date: Tuesdays, 2-4pm

Description:

What can cultural conflicts tell us about political power? Who even produces power, and how? Is there a boundary between “politics” and “culture”? The Cultural History of Politics offers a methodological framework for historians to analyze and discuss these questions. The aim of the seminar is to gain an impression of the methods and theories of the Cultural History of Politics. In the first part of the seminar, we will delve into relevant literature, to then later discuss and apply example cases. These will focus on U.S. history since the 1950s. However, impulses for a discussion on transatlantic perspectives are welcome and will be discussed in the literature.

Seminar

Lecturer: Felix Krämer

Module(s): M11#01

Credit Points: 6/9

Termin: Wednesday, 12-2pm

Beschreibung: Michel Foucault's last project "The History of Sexuality" is the starting point of the seminar on the theory of history. We will focus on different body-historical perspectives and their theoretical dimensions. From links between the history of capitalism, modern racism and colonialism to gender history or approaches from dis/ability studies, we will discuss what meaning human bodies had and have in different social contexts. From a governmentality-theory perspective the class gives an insight into different approaches from the field of body discourses and practices on the basis of secondary and primary sources as well as theoretical texts.

Colloquium

Lecturer: Prof. Jürgen Martschukat

Module(s): M12#02; M13#02; M14#02; M15#02; M16#02; ZV 101-PhiFPr#02

Credit Points: 6/9

Date: Wednesday, 6-8pm, bi-weekly and block on 9./10. June 2022

Beschreibung: The class will discuss MA- and other research projects. We will meet for a two-day-session on June 9/10, 2022 (also with international guests from Temple University and in cooperation with the colloquium in contemporary history). Participants are also expected to attend the lecture series of the Department of History on April 13, April 20, May 8, May 4, June 1, June 15, and June 29, always from 6-8 pm. MA students are particularly invited to attend and contribute tot the discussions. Please register for the colloquium until April 1, 2022 the latest by sending an email to juergen.martschukat@uni-erfurt.de

Colloquium

Lecturer: Prof. Jürgen Martschukat

Module(s): M12#02; M13#02; M14#02; M15#02; M16#02; ZV 101-PhiFPr#02

Credit Points: 6/9

Date: Wednesday, 6-8pm, bi-weekly and block on 9./10. June 2022

Beschreibung: The class will discuss MA- and other research projects. We will meet for a two-day-session on June 9/10, 2022 (also with international guests from Temple University and in cooperation with the colloquium in contemporary history). Participants are also expected to attend the lecture series of the Department of History on April 13, April 20, May 8, May 4, June 1, June 15, and June 29, always from 6-8 pm. MA students are particularly invited to attend and contribute tot the discussions. Please register for the colloquium until April 1, 2022 the latest by sending an email to juergen.martschukat@uni-erfurt.de

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