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Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-07 Key Topics in Literature: Literature and/in the Anthropocene - Details

Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-07 Key Topics in Literature: Literature and/in the Anthropocene - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-07 Key Topics in Literature: Literature and/in the Anthropocene
Untertitel
Veranstaltungsnummer 10-76-4-D2/WD2-07
Semester SoSe 2025
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 9
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 35
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Vorbesprechung Donnerstag, 10.04.2025 12:15 - 13:45, Ort: GW1 B0080
Erster Termin Donnerstag, 10.04.2025 12:15 - 13:45, Ort: GW1 B0080
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Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

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GW1 B0080
Donnerstag: 12:15 - 13:45, wöchentlich (12x)

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

Although a proposal to name a new geological epoch following the Holocene as ‘the Anthropocene’ has recently been rejected by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the term continues to be used both in public discussions as well as across a wide range of disciplines in the sciences and the humanities to describe human impact on the Earth system. The goal of this seminar is to familiarize students with the concept of the Anthropocene, its discursive relevance and specific use in relation to literary and cultural representations. We will focus especially on literary negotiations of binary oppositions such as nature and culture, human and other-than-human, globe and planet, as well as the positionality of climate knowledge production, and related concepts such as the Capitalocene, the Plantationocene, or the Chthulucene. The course comprises in-presence meetings with group presentations, reading weeks and online research.
Please, buy and read the following novels:
- Jaspreet Singh. Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022. [ISBN: 978-1-927366-97-4]
- Laline Paull. POD. Little, Brown, 2023. [978-1-4721-5662-4]
- Samantha Harvey. Orbital. London: Vermilion, 2024. [ISBN: 978-1-5299-2293-6]

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