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GESS Science in Perspective Information
Only the topics listed in this paragraph can be chosen as GESS Science in Perspective.
Further below you will find the "type B courses Reflections about subject specific methods and content" as well as the language courses.

6 ECTS need to be acquired during the BA and 2 ECTS during the MA

Students who already took a course within their main study program are NOT allowed to take the course again.
Type A: Enhancement of Reflection Competence
Suitable for all students.

Students who already took a course within their main study program are NOT allowed to take the course again.
History
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
853-0725-00LHistory Part One: Europe (The Cradle of Modernity, Britain, 1789-1914) Information W3 credits2VH. Fischer-Tiné
AbstractA range of fundamental processes have transformed European societies in the course of the 19th and the 20th centuries. This lecture series asks whether one single model of modernization prevailed on the 'Old Continent' or whether we need to differenciate regionally. A special focus lies on the Swiss experience.
ObjectiveAt the end of this lecture course, students can: (a) highlight the most important changes in the "long nineteenth century" in Europe (b) explain their long-term effects; and (c) relate these changes to global developments today.
ContentThe thematic foci include: Industrialization on the British Isles, urban growth in Switzerland, the difficult road to democracy in Germany, and French individualism.
Lecture notesPower Point Slides and references will be made available in digital form during the course of the semester.
LiteratureMandatory and further reading will be listed on the course plan that is made available as from the first session.
Prerequisites / NoticeThis lecture series does not build upon specific previous knowledge by the students.
851-0105-00LBackground Knowledge Arabic World Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 80.
W2 credits2VU. Gösken
AbstractThis lecture will discuss important topics of the Arab culture involving concepts relating to history, the role of literature, sciences and religion, concepts of 'the West', meaning of education, understanding of culture as well as current concepts and discourses relevant at the sociocultural level.
ObjectiveTeaching about epistemic contents relating to the Arabic world that constitute modern Arabs' self understanding and are relevant for adequate behavior in practically dealing with the Arabic world. What basic knowledge about 'their' culture are Arabs taught? What educational goals are pursued? What is the relationship they build with the West?
The topics that are discussed on the basis of a scientifically critical approach are concepts and understandings of history, the role of literature, sciences and religion, concepts of the West and relationship with the West, the role of education, understanding of culture and cultural refinement, current concepts and discourses relevant at the sociocultural level.
851-0101-88LNational Socialist Persecution, International Politics on Refugees and Science 1933-1945 Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
Number of participants limited to 30
W3 credits2G
AbstractThe course discusses the development of National Socialist persecution policy, the reactions of democratic states to the persecution of the Jews and the role of science in the Nazi regime.
ObjectiveThe students are able to distinguish the phases of persecution and know various models to explain how the Holocaust came about. They can situate Swiss refugee policy in an international context. In their engagement with science under National Socialism, they develop an awareness of the socio-political responsibility of science.
ContentThe "Nazis" and the "Holocaust" are omnipresent in politics and entertainment industry - often combined with a lack of historical knowledge. The students learn about the logic of radicalization from exclusion to expulsion to extermination. The reaction of selected states to the persecution of Jews will enable them to recognise the challenge the Nazi regime posed to Western democracies and to place Swiss refugee policy in an international context.

The fact that "the Germans," whose achievements in art and science made them one of the world's leading nations, murdered millions of people on an industrial scale, caused widespread horror. This is based on the assumption that education and culture stand in contrast to the "barbarism" of the "Nazis". Therefore, the course pays special attention to the role of science and the academically educated people.
052-0801-00LGlobal History of Urban Design I Information W2 credits2GT. Avermaete
AbstractThis course focuses on the history of the city, as well as on the ideas, processes and actors that engender and lead their developments and transformations. The history of urban design will be approached as a cross-cultural field of knowledge that integrates scientific, economic and technical innovation as well as social and cultural advance.
ObjectiveThe lectures deal mainly with the definition of urban design as an independent discipline, which maintains connections with other disciplines (politics, sociology, geography) that are concerned with the transformation of the city. The aim is to make students conversant with the multiple theories, concepts and approaches of urban design as they were articulated throughout time in a variety of cultural contexts, thus offering a theoretical framework for students' future design work.
ContentIn the first semester the genesis of the objects of study, the city, urban culture and urban design, are introduced and situated within their intellectual, cultural and political contexts:

01. The History and Theory of the City as Project
02. Of Rituals, Water and Mud: The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia and the Indus
03: The Idea of the Polis: Rome, Greece and Beyond
04: The Long Middle Ages and their Counterparts: From the Towns of Tuscany to Delhi
05: Between Ideal and Laboratory: Of Middle Eastern Grids and European Renaissance Principles
06: Of Absolutism and Enlightenment: Baroque, Defense and Colonization
07: The City of Labor: Company Towns as Cross-Cultural Phenomenon
09: Garden Cities of Tomorrow: From the Global North to the Global South and Back Again
010: Civilized Wilderness and City Beautiful: The Park Movement of Olmsted and The Urban Plans of Burnham
011: The Extension of the European City: From the Viennese Ringstrasse to Amsterdam Zuid
Lecture notesPrior to each lecture a chapter of the reader (Skript) will be made available through the webpage of the Chair. These chapters will provide an introduction to the lecture, the basic visual references of each lecture, key dates and events, as well as references to the compulsory and additional reading.
LiteratureThere are three books that will function as main reference literature throughout the course:

-Ching, Francis D. K, Mark Jarzombek, and Vikramditya Prakash. A Global History of Architecture. Hoboken: Wiley, 2017.
-Ingersoll, Richard. World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
-James-Chakraborty, Kathleen. Architecture Since 1400. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

These books will be reserved for consultation in the ETH Baubibliothek, and will not be available for individual loans.

A list of further recommended literature will be found within each chapter of the reader (Skript).
Prerequisites / NoticeStudents are required to familiarize themselves with the conventions of architectural drawing (reading and analyzing plans at various scales).

Hybrid teaching: 33/33/33 (face-to-face/online, changing)
851-0319-00LThe Others and Me: The Female Wave in Contemporary Haitian Literature Information W3 credits2VK. Mars
AbstractHaitian literature is born with the independence of the country in 1804, and has long remained the domain of men. My intention is to discover with the students a female literature that will take the forefront of the Haitian literary scene during the 1990s. I offer students the reading and discussion of some female novels published in the last 20 years.
ObjectiveI offer students a reading of some female novels published in the last 20 years. Five novels chosen from my personal work and three others produced by three sisters living and writing like me in Haiti.
ContentHaitian literature is born with the independence of the country in 1804, and has long remained the domain of men. Poetry, theatre, essay, novel or short story, writing was used by writers to defend their ideas, fights, political ideologies and outlet to their fantasies of all kinds. A few heads of women emerge in this male literary ocean, but their passage has been, with rare exceptions, fleeting and contained in good spheres where women had to stay.
My intention is to discover with the students a female literature that will take the forefront of the Haitian literary scene at the turn of the 1990s. Driven by the achievements of the feminist struggle of the second half of the 20th century and thanks to the vast movement to liberate all forms of expression that will result from the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in February 1986, the writing of women has found in this context the field for its full development.
I offer students a reading of some female novels published in the last 20 years. Five novels chosen from my personal work and three others produced by three sisters living and writing like me in Haiti. Each lesson will contain two phases.
Phase I, reading significant passages, highlighting for students of the works, of their authors, of the context they embrace. In each lesson, topics addressed by the authors, that shed light on the Haitian society and the specific facets of its culture, will be identified and discussed, as well as the writing choices of the authors, etc.
Phase II, the floor will be given to students who will be asked (in groups or solo) to share their impressions of readings, to make presentations on the topics covered in Phase I, to interact with each other.
LiteratureSuggested readings:

• L’heure hybride – KM – Edition Mémoire d’encrier – Montréal, Canada - 2018
• Saisons sauvages – KM – Mercure de France – Paris, France - 2010
• Fado – KM – Mercure de France – Paris, France - 2008
• L’ange du patriarche – KM – Mercure de France, Paris, France - 2018
• Aux frontières de la soif – KM – Mercure de France, Paris, France - 2013
• Rosalie l’infâme – Evelyne Trouillot – Dapper Littérature, Paris, 2003
• Douces déroutes – Yanick Lahens – Editions Sabine Wespieser - France
• Un ailleurs à soi – Emmelie Prophète – Edition Mémoire d’Encrier – Montréal, Canada
Additional readings:
• Les mystères du Vodou – Laennec Hurbon
Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1993
• Papa Doc et les Tontons macoutes – Bernard Diederich
Librairie de France, 1971
• L’échec de l’aide internationale à Haïti : Dilemmes et égarements – Ricardo Seitenfus
Editions de l’Université d’Etat d’Haïti, juin 2015
• Haïti, une économie de violence – Fritz Alphonse Jean , 2019
Commande : Link
• Assistance mortelle – DVD – Raoul Peck, Réalisateur
Link
• Site Web « Ile en Ile »
• L’atelier d’écriture de Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Editions Seghers, France – 2017
• Ecrire – Marguerite Duras – Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1995
• L’amour de l’écriture – Joseph Vebret – Ed. L’Archange minotaure, France – 2006
• D’autres rêves. Les écritures migrantes au Québec, Gravili, Anne de Vaucher, éd, Venezia Lido (Italy), Supernova Edizioni srl, 2000
• Théories Caraïbes, poétique du déracinement, Des Rosiers, Joël, Montréal, Les Éditions Triptyque, 1996.
851-0523-00LDigital Humanities - Computing in the Humanities Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 20.
W3 credits2SR. Wichum
AbstractHow do humanities compute? From the perspective of the history of knowledge and technology we will examine how the humanities deal with computing since about 1960. How have disciplines in the humanities changed by using computers and digital networks? And how have infrastructures such as libraries and IT services changed?
ObjectiveStudents are familiarized with the interdependence of technical, epistemological and institutional change by means of sociology of knowledge, history of technology and history of knowledge. In addition to reading texts and working with sources, the seminar also includes excursions to sites of digitized knowledge.
ContentThe seminar will examine how the humanities deal with computing from a knowledge and technology history perspective. To this end, we will analyze how the scientific disciplines literature (computational linguistics, distant reading), history (New Economic History, cliodynamics), sociology (simulation) and law (legal informatics) delegated their knowledge production to computers and digital networks. On the other hand, we will focus on the university's own infrastructures (libraries, IT services), whose services we can no longer do without today.
LiteratureBerry, D. M. (2011). The computational turn: Thinking about the digital humanities. Culture Machine, 12, 1–22. Link

Chun, W. H. K., & Rhody, L. M. (2014). Working the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows between the Dark and the Light. Differences, 25(1), 1–25. Link
851-0428-00LScientific and Technological Expertise in the Historical Networks of Power Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 30
W2 credits1ST. Männistö-Funk
AbstractThis course offers an overview of the social and economic history of science and technoscience by introducing different historical cases where scientific and technological expertise have played a central role in defining political and economic power relations.
ObjectiveThis course equips students to analyze science and engineering as integrally societal and social practices. Comprehension of historical developments that have shaped scientific and technological practices also offers tools for identifying and discussing ethical and social questions that are linked to science and engineering today.
ContentThis course offers an overview of the social and economic history of science and technoscience by introducing different historical cases where scientific and technological expertise have played a central role in defining political and economic power relations. We will explore such examples as industrial enlightenment and the boundaries of knowledge, engineering and science as national projects in times of war and peace, technological visions and practices of urban planning and public infrastructure, as well as the growing role of corporate and industrial research over the course of the 20th century.
851-0101-42LCulture, Conflict and Consumerism: A Global History of Jazz in the 20th CenturyW3 credits2VH. Fischer-Tiné
AbstractThe course provides and overview over 100 years of Jazz history. The first part focuses on the emergence of Jazz in the USA with a strong emphasis on its relation with African-American politics. The 2nd part analyzes the adaptation of Jazz in Europe, Asia and Africa. Here too musical history is analysed in the political and social contexts of the time.
ObjectiveThe lecture series has two main goals: For one, the reconstruction of the historical trajectories of a new art form should enable the students to better grasp processes of cultural globalisation and its effect on people's everyday life. Second, the chronology of Jazz history serves as a window onto the broader process of modernization and the manifold conflicts and crises it triggered. Thus, musical history can shed a entirely new light not only on the long history of racial conflict in the USA it also prides fresh perspectives on Apartheid in South Africa, the Cold War, the cultural politics of the Nazi regime in Germany or the global ramifications of the student protests of 1968.
The actual lecture is supported by the intense use of film and audio clips.
851-0199-00LHistory of Mathematics from Antiquity to 17th Century : Magnitudes, Numbers and EquationsW3 credits2VE. Sammarchi
AbstractFar from being fixed and timeless notions, magnitudes, numbers and equations are three objects that were conceived by mathematicians in a -sometimes radically- different way and that were influenced by their historical context. The course analyses the evolution of these objects from the Greek Antiquity to the European 17th century, via the Arabic and Latin Middle Age and the Italian Renaissance.
ObjectiveThe course aims are:
- to introduce students to the historical dimension of mathematics;
- to develop a critical understanding of mathematical notions;
- to have a general idea of the history of mathematics until 17th century;
- to acquire skills in order to read and comment mathematical texts written in the past ages and in different cultures.
ContentAfter a methodological introduction to the history of mathematics, several extracts written by some of the most known mathematicians (Euclide, Archimedes, al-Khwarizmi, al-Khayyam, al-Karaji, Fibonacci, Cardano, Stifel, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton) are read and commented in class. The aim is to understand what magnitudes, numbers and equations are for these authors. Beside this exegetical work on mathematical texts, students are also led to consider:
- the cultural and sociological consequences of the invention of the printed book;
- the history of the classification of mathematical sciences;
- the history of the scientific institutions.
851-0535-10LYemen: A Failed State?W2 credits2VE. Manea
AbstractIs Yemen a failed state? The Yemen Republic is the result of the unification in 1990 of two former states: The Yemen Arab Republic (NorthYemen) and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen). The country's history and its former units have been marred with civil wars, poverty and epidemic corruption.
Objective1. Examine the concept of failed state within the International relations literature.
2. Take a closer look at Yemen(s) political history(ies), its/their political and social structures, and power dynamics.
3. Introduce the concept of the 'cunning state' and its exploitation of the discourse of failed state
ContentThis seminar looks at the concept of failed states and how useful it can be in describing the situation in a country like Yemen. It will also take a closer look at Yemen(s) political history(ies) and its/their political and social structures. Students are expected to write a paper and make a presentation.
851-0429-00LTrust in Science Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2SM. Hagner
AbstractTrust in the sciences has come under pressure recently. This is unfortunate, because scientific research is not possible without trust. Therefore, we will discuss the variable role of trust in science in historical, epistemological and political perspective.
ObjectiveThe goal of the seminar is to understand and reflect various aspects of trust in the sciences in historical perspective.
ContentThe basic material for this seminar will by Naomi Oreskes' new book "Why Trust science" (Link). Reading this book and other texts will lead to a better understanding of the role of trust in the sciences. We will discuss both a variety of specific examples and more general epistemological problems with respect to trust.
851-0298-00LThe Modern Literary and Artistic Avantgarde in its European DimensionW3 credits2VS. S. Leuenberger
AbstractThe modernist Avant-Garde movements are characterized by a radical rhetoric of apocalypse and rebirth, the genesis of another world and a new mankind. The extension of the “intrinsic logic of the aesthetic form into the social fabric” (H. Ehrlicher), and likewise the intensive examination of the latest technical advancements, new forms of media and their combination, unites them.
ObjectiveAvant-garde movements are characterized by progressive notions on art, social and political issues as well as by radical criticism on the current circumstances. This is why the specific characteristics of the historic avant-garde of the early 20th century will be a central theme of this lecture: they cannot be separated from the experience of modernity, of the catastrophic course of the First World War, and of the concept of new models of society whose political implementation is a major goal after the end of the war.

The lecture is part of the ‘Science in Perspective’ course programme aimed at enabling the students to deal with avant-garde texts and artworks independently, especially in the context of literary and cultural history. They will also explore theoretical positions such as Peter Bürger's assumption that in the course of the historic avant-garde movements "the social subsystem that is art enters the stage of self-criticism".

The contemplation of the historic avant-garde is a crucial prerequisite to find scientific answers to the question about the possible effects of art nowadays. Thus, in this lecture the topic is on the one hand tackled from the historic perspective: literary texts and manifests by Heym, van Hoddis, Werfel, Lasker-Schüler, Toller, Marinetti, Ball, Tzara, Huelsenbeck, Hausmann, Apollinaire, Breton, Goll, and others will be read. On the other hand, debates of cultural policy and literary theory which were initiated by the avant-garde will be discussed (texts by Lukács, Benjamin, Bloch, Brecht, Adorno).
This lecture examines the modernist Avant-Garde movements by addressing three specific aspects. First, the ambivalent reception of technological innovations, second, the aesthetic programmes which focused on specific developments at the close of the 19th century, and third, political activism and the establishment of a new social model through Avant-Garde movements prior to World War One, and, following the disastrous consequences of World War One, an activism which was accused of being politically ineffective and lacking resilience to totalitarian ideologies.
851-0302-00LLiterature and Technology Restricted registration - show details
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 35
W3 credits2SA. Kilcher, S. Fanzun
AbstractThere are many references between literature and technology. This is already shown by terms such as "technology", "apparatus" and "automaton", which address procedures in art. Particularly since industrialisation, literature has been negotiating the mechanisation of the world. The seminar will discuss the history of technology in literature and the critical literary negotiation.
Objective- Basic concepts of literary theory as techniques of literature
- Basic terms of the philosophy and history of technology
- Critical analysis of modern history of technology in the mirror of modern literature
ContentAt first glance, literature and technology seem to be conceivably alien to each other: the purposeless intellectual world of fictional imagination is opposed by the purpose-oriented processes of machine production. A closer look reveals, however, that there are multiple references between the two. On a theoretical level, this is due to the original meaning of the term "technology" as "art", whereby the literature can be more precisely defined as "linguistic art" and can be differentiated through the development of writing and media techniques into the digital age. Other technical terms such as “machine”, “apparatus” and “machine” also imply far-reaching aesthetic aspects. Yet the connection between literature and technology is not only justifiable theoretically (or aesthetically), but also historically. Literature negotiates the increasing mechanization of the world, especially since industrialization, be it affirmative or critical. Literature thus proves to be a reflection medium of the technical age. In the seminary, the technical history of literature is examined on the one hand, and the literary negotiation of the history of technology in the age of technology on the other.
851-0007-00LComics & Colonialism Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 46.
W3 credits2SB. Schär
AbstractComics played an important role during the colonial period as transmitters of colonial images and racism. Today they are used to criticise colonial continuities. In this seminar we will examine scholarship on the subject matter and analyse concrete examples from different world-regions and periods.
ObjectiveStudents learn about the history of comics in the colonial period and in the ongoing phase of decolonisation. A special focus is on how comics depict the role of science and technology as a signs of European modernity and alleged superiority. Students will become familiar with approaches of postcolonial theory, the role of science and technologie in (post-)colonial imaginaries and learn to analyse colonial continuities in contemporary everyday culture critically.
ContentColonialism has profoundly changed the lives not only of societies in the colonies, but also in Europe itself. Comics and children's books are one example: popular children's heroes such as 'Tintin' or 'Lucky Luke' from Belgium or 'Globi' in Switzerland often experienced their 'adventures' on colonial stages. A recurring theme in these comics is the alleged superiority of European science, technology, and modernity.
This colonial imagery influenced generations of adolescents. From the 1970s onwards, criticism of these comics became more frequent and public controversies arose about how to deal with them. Parallel to this, anti-racist comics have been appearing for several years now, retelling the history of colonialism with its intricate links to ideas of European progress through science and technology for white and non-white children.
This seminar will use scholarly texts and concrete examples to familiarise participants with the changing role of comics in the age of colonialism and globalisation. This will set the stage for a mutual reflection on how cartoons and comics shaped our own world-views and to discuss questions such as: How to deal with racist comics from colonial times today? To what extent do comics today succeed in helping children and families from Europe and the former colonies to enter into dialogues about their shared but difficult history?
851-0114-00LThe Languages of Literature Information W3 credits2VC. Barbero
AbstractWhat value of truth have the statements that we find in novels? What difference is there between any writing and a literary work? Should literature communicate moral values? Can we learn from literary texts? These are some of the questions addressed in this course.
ObjectiveStarting from a close analysis of the principles and assumptions that are the basis of literary works - those thanks to which we are able to recognize them, appreciate them and perhaps even lose them forever - the course will offer analysis and discussion points on literature and related issues.
ContentWhat value of truth have the statements that we find in novels? What difference is there between any writing and a literary work? Should literature communicate moral values? Can we learn from literary texts? These are some of the questions addressed in this course. Starting from a close analysis of the principles and assumptions that are the basis of literary works - those thanks to which we are able to recognize them, appreciate them and perhaps even lose them forever - the course will offer analysis and discussion points on literature and related issues.
851-0518-00LTechniques of Modern Punishment – a Global HistoryW3 credits2VS. M. Scheuzger
AbstractThe course deals with the essential role of techniques in the developments of modern penal regimes in a global perspective, from the 18th century to present. The discussion focusses on confinement, from the individual cell to electronic tagging. Techniques of death penalty, corporal punishment, or forced labour in their social contexts, however, are subject of presentation as well.
ObjectiveA) The students know central developments of modern punishment in their global entanglements. B) They are familiar with relevant penal techniques and their role in these developments. C) They are able to assess them in their social contexts.
851-0125-65LA Sampler of Histories and Philosophies of Mathematics
Particularly suitable for students D-CHAB, D-INFK, D-ITET, D-MATH, D-PHYS
W3 credits2VR. Wagner
AbstractThis course will review several case studies from the ancient, medieval and modern history of mathematics. The case studies will be analyzed from various philosophical perspectives, while situating them in their historical and cultural contexts.
ObjectiveThe course aims are:
1. To introduce students to the historicity of mathematics
2. To make sense of mathematical practices that appear unreasonable from a contemporary point of view
3. To develop critical reflection concerning the nature of mathematical objects
4. To introduce various theoretical approaches to the philosophy and history of mathematics
5. To open the students' horizons to the plurality of mathematical cultures and practices
851-0524-00LIntroduction to the History of Technology of the 20th Century Restricted registration - show details
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 40
W3 credits2SD. Gugerli
AbstractThe seminar will deal with the question: Which technologies are the object of the history of technology in the 20th century, and what does this mean for the technology and for history of the 20th century?
ObjectiveThe aim of this seminar is a critical introduction to the subject, the questions and the concepts of the history of technology in the 20th century.
Lecture notesThe reading programme will be available on Moodle at the beginning of the semester. Participation in the meetings is required. A graded semester performance takes place. Students should carry out two research tasks each, which result from the individual sessions.
Prerequisites / NoticeDie Zahl der Teilnehmenden ist auf 40 beschränkt.
Literature
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
851-0319-00LThe Others and Me: The Female Wave in Contemporary Haitian Literature Information W3 credits2VK. Mars
AbstractHaitian literature is born with the independence of the country in 1804, and has long remained the domain of men. My intention is to discover with the students a female literature that will take the forefront of the Haitian literary scene during the 1990s. I offer students the reading and discussion of some female novels published in the last 20 years.
ObjectiveI offer students a reading of some female novels published in the last 20 years. Five novels chosen from my personal work and three others produced by three sisters living and writing like me in Haiti.
ContentHaitian literature is born with the independence of the country in 1804, and has long remained the domain of men. Poetry, theatre, essay, novel or short story, writing was used by writers to defend their ideas, fights, political ideologies and outlet to their fantasies of all kinds. A few heads of women emerge in this male literary ocean, but their passage has been, with rare exceptions, fleeting and contained in good spheres where women had to stay.
My intention is to discover with the students a female literature that will take the forefront of the Haitian literary scene at the turn of the 1990s. Driven by the achievements of the feminist struggle of the second half of the 20th century and thanks to the vast movement to liberate all forms of expression that will result from the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in February 1986, the writing of women has found in this context the field for its full development.
I offer students a reading of some female novels published in the last 20 years. Five novels chosen from my personal work and three others produced by three sisters living and writing like me in Haiti. Each lesson will contain two phases.
Phase I, reading significant passages, highlighting for students of the works, of their authors, of the context they embrace. In each lesson, topics addressed by the authors, that shed light on the Haitian society and the specific facets of its culture, will be identified and discussed, as well as the writing choices of the authors, etc.
Phase II, the floor will be given to students who will be asked (in groups or solo) to share their impressions of readings, to make presentations on the topics covered in Phase I, to interact with each other.
LiteratureSuggested readings:

• L’heure hybride – KM – Edition Mémoire d’encrier – Montréal, Canada - 2018
• Saisons sauvages – KM – Mercure de France – Paris, France - 2010
• Fado – KM – Mercure de France – Paris, France - 2008
• L’ange du patriarche – KM – Mercure de France, Paris, France - 2018
• Aux frontières de la soif – KM – Mercure de France, Paris, France - 2013
• Rosalie l’infâme – Evelyne Trouillot – Dapper Littérature, Paris, 2003
• Douces déroutes – Yanick Lahens – Editions Sabine Wespieser - France
• Un ailleurs à soi – Emmelie Prophète – Edition Mémoire d’Encrier – Montréal, Canada
Additional readings:
• Les mystères du Vodou – Laennec Hurbon
Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1993
• Papa Doc et les Tontons macoutes – Bernard Diederich
Librairie de France, 1971
• L’échec de l’aide internationale à Haïti : Dilemmes et égarements – Ricardo Seitenfus
Editions de l’Université d’Etat d’Haïti, juin 2015
• Haïti, une économie de violence – Fritz Alphonse Jean , 2019
Commande : Link
• Assistance mortelle – DVD – Raoul Peck, Réalisateur
Link
• Site Web « Ile en Ile »
• L’atelier d’écriture de Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Editions Seghers, France – 2017
• Ecrire – Marguerite Duras – Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1995
• L’amour de l’écriture – Joseph Vebret – Ed. L’Archange minotaure, France – 2006
• D’autres rêves. Les écritures migrantes au Québec, Gravili, Anne de Vaucher, éd, Venezia Lido (Italy), Supernova Edizioni srl, 2000
• Théories Caraïbes, poétique du déracinement, Des Rosiers, Joël, Montréal, Les Éditions Triptyque, 1996.
851-0300-85LThe Knowledge of Literature. An Introduction Restricted registration - show details
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 80
W3 credits2SA. Kilcher
AbstractThis lecture provides a general introduction to literary theory and presents the important theories dealing with knowledge and its role in and as literature.
ObjectiveStudents are introduced to the various approaches and methods of literature studies and gain an overview of literary theory.
ContentThis lecture has two aims: Firstly, it serves as a general introduction into the fiel of literary theory (thereby looking into "knowledge about literature"). Secondly, there will be a special emphasis on recent theoretical approaches that take seriously literature and knowledge as one of its components (thus investigating the "knowledge of literature"). Even though traditional criticism disagrees, a number of recent approaches, based on literature and culture studies, hold that literature is not to be conceived of as standing in opposition to the world and the classificatory system of the academic disciplines, particularly the sciences (e.g. Foucauldian discourse analysis and New Historicism). Instead, these approaches understand literature in terms of its epistemological forms and functions. Thus, the main thesis is that literature actively participates in the constitution and formation of knowledge. Literature itself generates models of knowledge, sometimes with critical or even utopian intentions. Moreover, it draws attention to the fundamental role of order and representation (systematization, narrative rendering, linguistic and pictorial representation) in both humanities and sciences.
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