Course Schedule for Winter Term 2015/16

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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
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)
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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.
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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
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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 barlas@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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.
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
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 barlas@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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
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Preconditions
Literature
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)
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.
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Content
Proof of academic
achievement
Preconditions
Literature
Short Comment
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 pissler@mpipriv.de
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 daniel.koenig@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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:
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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
(christina.pietsch@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de) 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
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
achievement
Short Comment
Oral presentation
Term paper
Frontiers of Modernity: Contact Zones, Development, Settler Colonialism, and Peripheries in Northeast
Asia 1700-2000
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
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Proof of academic
achievement
(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.
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 steven.ivings@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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".
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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
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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
lina.pranaityte.wergin@gmail.com by September 30 2015.
Global Economic History
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
achievement
Oral presentation
Short essays
Term paper
Preconditions
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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".
christina.pietsch@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de by 30. September 2015. Please sende
her rhe following information:
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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
achievement
Oral presentation
Exam
Legal Consequences of Modern Technology
Thu; Weekly; 14:00 - 16:00, 15.10.2015 - 04.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Förster, C.
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Content
Proof of academic
achievement
Preconditions
Literature
Short Comment
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.
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 christian.foerster@asia-europe.uniheidelberg.de.
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
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 (nordamerika@geog.uni-heidelberg.de) by
September 30, 2015
Interdisciplinary seminar together with Prof. Christiane Brosisus, Anthropology,
Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
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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,
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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
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 abu-er-rub@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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.
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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
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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.
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Content
Proof of academic
achievement
Preconditions
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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
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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 stefan.knoob@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de. 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.
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• 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:
• 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:
• 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
Fri; Single; 14:00 - 17:00, 16.10.2015 - 16.10.2015; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Kellner, B.
Content
Research seminar on selected topics for advanced students.
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Preconditions
Short Comment
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)
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
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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 olalde@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de (until Oct
10th)
Buddhist Arts of South Asia and the Himalayas
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%)
repojoonam@gmail.com 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
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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
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
achievement
Short Comment
Oral presentation
Term paper
"Ethnogenesis": Processes of Ethnic Formation and Consolidation
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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
achievement
Short Comment
Oral presentation
Term paper
Paratexts in Tibetan Literature
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 viehbeck@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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
Wed; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 14.10.2015 - 03.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 112; Andreeva, A.
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Content
Proof of academic
achievement
Preconditions
Literature
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.
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•
•
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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 andreeva@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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
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.
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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
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%)
repojoonam@gmail.com 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
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,
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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
lina.pranaityte.wergin@gmail.com by September 30 2015.
Global Media Events
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
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Literature
samantha.schramm@uni-konstanz.de 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
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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
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 %
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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 koch@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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
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.
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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
corinna.forberg@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
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 (nordamerika@geog.uni-heidelberg.de) 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
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
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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
achievement
Oral presentation
term paper
Preconditions
tutor Christian Koch:
christian.koch@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
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
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 %
term paper 40 %
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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 abu-er-rub@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de 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.
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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.
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
Short Comment
50% Term Paper
All participants are required to register for this course via email to juliane.breitfeld@uniheidelberg.de 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
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Proof of academic
achievement
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
berger-goeken@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de 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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
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Proof of academic
achievement
• 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
achievement
• Oral presentation
• Exam
Preconditions
The tutorial can only be taken in combination with the course "Classical Tibetan 1."
Classical Tibetan III
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
achievement
• Exam
Preconditions
Students must have completed Classical Tibetan I and Classical Tibetan II, or courses
of an equivalent level.
Colloquial Tibetan I
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
achievement
• Exam
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Colloquial Tibetan III
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
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.
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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 maithrimurthi@uni-heidelberg.de 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.
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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: kattner@uni-heidelberg.de
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.
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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 sek-michaels@uni-heidelberg.de
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
1 LP mündliche/schriftliche Klausur
Literature
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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: dharampal-frick@sai.uni-heidelberg.de
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 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.
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Rangarajan, Mahesh (Hg.): Environmental Issues in India: A Reader. Delhi 2007.
Short Comment
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
(hans.martin.kraemer@zo.uni-heidelberg.de) bis spätestens 30. September 2015
gebeten.
Content
Digital History
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Mon; Weekly; 18:15 - 19:45; from 19.10.2015; Grabengasse 3-5 / HistSem ÜR IV; Schultes, K.
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
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Preconditions
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 joerg.gengnagel@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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
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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 barbara.mittler@zo.unist
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
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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)
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Literature
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
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
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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 maithrimurthi@uni-heidelberg.de
New and Full Moon Offerings / Opfer-Rituale zu Neu - und Vollmond (Darsapūrṇamāsa-iṣṭi)
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
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.
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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.
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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 (mio.wakita@zo.uni-heidelberg.de) 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.
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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 (mio.wakita@zo.uniheidelberg.de) (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%).
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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)
30.11.(Referat/paper)
18.1. Entfällt/cancelled. Instead: Exkursion zur Ausstellung 'Japans Liebe zum
Impressionismus', Bundeskunsthalle Bonn am 15. (Freitag) oder 16. (Samstag) Januar
28.2. Abgabe der schriftlichen Arbeiten / final papers due
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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
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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,
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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)
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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
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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 maithrimurthi@uni-heidelberg.de.
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: juergen.schaflechner@uni-heidelberg.de
Performance of Healing
970202620; Seminar; de
Wed; Weekly; 09:00 - 11:00; Polit, K.
Preconditions
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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.
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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 baghel@uni-heidelberg.de; 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
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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
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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 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.
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
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Content
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 sek.michaels@uni-heidelberg.de
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
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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 maithrimurthi@uni-heidelberg.de oder
joerg.gengnagel@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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,
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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 maithrimurthi@uni-heidelberg.de
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 maithrimurthi@uni-heidelber.de
Stimmen des Unmuts in Sanskrit-Literatur (Leichte Sanskrit Lektüre)
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.
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Proof of academic
achievement
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 anand.mishra@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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 anand.mishra@uni-heidelberg.de
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.
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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 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: HeikoFrese@gmx.de
Suttanipāta Fortsetzung
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.
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Short Comment
Voranmeldung: bitte an maithrimurthi@uni-heidelberg.de
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.
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: amiyasen1@gmail.com
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 yan.suarsana@wts.uniheidelberg.de; Suarsana, Y.
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Comments
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 yan.suarsana@wts.uni-heidelberg.de
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
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• 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.
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• 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
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: sek.michaels@uni-heidelberg.de
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
Fri; Fortnightl; 10:00 - 12:00, 23.10.2015 - 05.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; König, D.
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Content
Short Comment
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
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 (nowoitnick@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de).
Doctoral Student or PostDoc at the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
PhD Colloquium "Intellectual History"
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: christina.pietsch@asiaeurope.uni-heidelberg.de.
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
Tue; Weekly; 16:00 - 18:00, 13.10.2015 - 02.02.2016; Voßstr. 2, 4400 / R 002; Juneja, M.
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