GRIPS - Uni Regensburg

In this class we explore complex histories of the sites where the Holocaust happened. You will learn not only “what happened” but “how it has been remembered.” Among the addressed questions are: What stories do Holocaust sites embody? What documentary evidence have they left behind? How have they been memorized in ritual and stone? How different actors and groups have appropriated and instrumentalized their memory under changing political regimes? For these purposes, we follow the transformation of the mass killing sites and concentration camps whose history is less known “in the West.” Our case studies include (but are not limited to) Babyn Yar, Paneriai, Maly Trascianiec, Daugavpils and Jasenovac. To reconstruct their histories, we explore a variety of visual sources, maps, survivor testimonies and ego-documents.

Im Forschungsseminar werden übliche Techniken und Methoden zur Erforschung biologisch/klinisch psychologischer und psychotherapeutischer Fragestellungen praktisch vertieft. Nach einer Literaturrecherche wird gemeinsam eine wissenschaftliche Fragestellung formuliert. Anhand dieser wird dann ein geeignetes (und machbares) Studiendesign davon abgeleitet. Teil der Veranstaltung ist ebenso die Datenerhebung und -analyse. Die Prüfungsleistung setzt sich aus der regelmäßigen Anwesenheit (nach §5, Abs. 2 im PsychThApprO), der empirichen Arbeit und einem Abschlussbericht. In diesem schriftlichen Bericht sollen die Inhalte des Seminars sowie erlernte Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten zusammengefasst werden.

Der Moodle-Kurs "Blended Learning für Einsteiger (Steinberger)" ist die Online-Plattform zur gleichnamigen Schulung, die am Freitag, den 27.02.2015, stattfindet. 

Flucht sowie der Umgang mit Geflüchteten lassen sich epochenübergreifend in Texten und auf Bildern analysieren. Schutzgewähr wurde von Ethnologen daher sogar als „kulturelles Inventar aller menschlichen Gemeinschaften“ (B. Turner) bezeichnet. Dabei spiegelt sich im Schutz zugleich oft die Auseinandersetzung von Gesellschaften mit Krisen und Konflikten wider sowie die Entwicklung von Lösungswegen. Das Hauptseminar wird von Prof. Dr. Jörg Trempler (Kunstgeschichte, Universität Passau) und Prof. Dr. Jenny Oesterle (Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Regensburg) veranstaltet. Es führt Studierende der Mittelalterlichen Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte der Universitäten Regensburg und Passau in zwei Blocksitzungen zusammen.

In this seminar, we will examine how the novelists of the Victorian era dealt with the pressing social issue of madness in their work and investigate how their portrayal of mentally ill fictional characters reflected and shaped society’s attitudes towards madness. The great prosperity and industrial advancement Britain enjoyed in the 19th century made the Victorians a society that reacted to rapid social change with strict gender- and class distinctions, a concern with morality and a general support for reform movements. In this seminar, we will particularly focus on the role of gender in the complex discourse of madness by positioning 19th-century ideas and phenomena such as the madwoman or the lunatic asylum in their wider, socio-cultural, medical and psychological contexts. Thus, we will first familiarize ourselves with a variety of theories that tried to define madness in the 19th century and heavily influenced how the (allegedly) mad were perceived by the Victorians, before we approach our primary works Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Our literary examination will be based on primary texts by authors such as Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson and useful secondary sources will help us enhance our understanding and interpretation of the representations of madness in 19th-century British fiction.

Compulsory Reading:

• Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Oxford UP, 2008 (Oxford World’s Classics Edition)
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Oxford UP, 2008 (Oxford World’s Classics Edition)
• further reading material will be available on GRIPS

Please make sure you have read  Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde before the seminar begins.

Requirements:

• regular participation in the seminar
• expert group session (includes writing a short essay on your area of expertise (approximately 500 words) and giving constructive written feedback on the essay of one member of your expert group)

• term paper at the end of the semester (8-10 pp.)