General information

Course name	Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-13 Physics and Fiction
Subtitle
Course number	10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-13
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	23
expected number of participants	20
Home institute	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
Preliminary discussion	Wednesday, 09.04.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Room: GW1 A0160
First date	Wednesday, 09.04.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Room: GW1 A0160
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lecturers

Dr. Anna Auguscik (LB)

Rooms and times

GW1 A0160: Wednesday: 16:15 - 17:45, weekly (14x)

Module assignments

Universität Bremen
- English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media (MPO 2018), 2. Version valid from WiSe 2024/2025
  - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media, MA E-SC (gültig ab WiSe 2018/19)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo1 - Erweiterungsmodul 1 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo1 (Seminar 2)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo2 - Erweiterungsmodul 2 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo2 (Seminar 2)

Comment/Description

Physics has often been understood as the opposite of fiction: formulae vs narrative, reality vs constructedness, in short, fact vs fiction. This has not discouraged writers to take up the challenge of merging the two, as a long tradition of science fiction attests. However, the interest in representing physics, physicists and their work on the part of what is considered 'literary fiction' seems to be more recent. This interdisciplinary seminar, co-taught by a physicist and a literary scholar focuses on representations of physics specifically in contemporary fiction. In a rare setting with students from both the English and the Physics departments, as well as across the universities of Oldenburg and Bremen, we will read at least one full science novel and several other science-related short stories and poems. This term, our focus will be on the topic of space and specifically on literary representations of the International Space Station (ISS) programme.  
Please, buy and read the following novels:
• Ra Page, ed. Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science. Manchester: Comma Press, 2011. [ISBN-13: 978-1-905583-33-1]
• Samantha Harvey. Orbital. London: Vermilion, 2024. [ISBN: 978-1-5299-2293-6]
In addition, we will read poetry written for, about and on the ISS by, among others, US poet laureate Ada Limón.

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