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Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-03 Key Topics in Cultural History: Cultural Currents in 19th-Century America: Slavery, Nature, and the Nation - Details

Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-03 Key Topics in Cultural History: Cultural Currents in 19th-Century America: Slavery, Nature, and the Nation - Details

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Course name Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-03 Key Topics in Cultural History: Cultural Currents in 19th-Century America: Slavery, Nature, and the Nation
Subtitle
Course number 10-76-3-D1/WD1-03
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 42
expected number of participants 35
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Friday, 19.12.2025 10:15 - 11:45, Room: GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Type/Form
Nachhaltigkeitsziel Yes
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

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Comment/Description

This seminar explores the cultural and imaginative currents that shaped America in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on select cultural objects, such as nature writing, the slave narrative, and landscape paintings, we examine how land and bodies of water functioned as symbolic and material sites where questions of power, freedom, resistance, and national or cultural belonging were negotiated. Through a combination of textual analysis and cultural history, we will investigate how the American environment was represented, claimed, and contested in a century marked by expansion, conflict, and environmental and industrial transformation.

This class is open to BA E-SC students studying 3rd semester modules. It is also open to a limited number of international exchange students and students doing ‘Freiwillige Zusatzleistungen,’ ‘Ersatzleistungen,’ and General Studies, including the sustainability certificate BRENA.

Prior enrolment via Stud.IP is mandatory and admission is limited to a maximum of thirty-five students. Further information will be made available on Stud.IP. Please check Stud.IP regularly for updates.
Requirements
• active participation in weekly in-person meetings,
• in-depth study of the primary and secondary material in preparation for each session,
• graded or ungraded assignment in accordance with the respective module requirements.

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