Meine Veranstaltungen - E.L.V.I.S. 3.1

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Kontakte

Kalender & Termine

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Ilka LENSEN-SAAL

Witches and Witchcraft

WS 2024

Teaching language

Englisch

Dates

Wö

16.10.2024–05.02.2025

10:00–12:00

C18-LG 4 | D05

Registration

This seminar is open to MA students and advanced BA students. For enrolment please contact me directly, indicating your program of study as well as interest in the topic.

https://elearning.uni-erfurt.de/course/view.php?id=17468

Modules

B Ang 2012 AA07#02 // S 3LP  ::-1::
B Ang 2012 AA22#04 // S 6LP  ::-1::
B Ang 2021 AA07LM#01 // S 3LP   ::-1::
B Ang 2021 AA09KLM#01 // S 3LP   ::-1::
M Lit 2011 B02#01 // S 6LP  ::-1::
M Lit 2011 B06#01 // S 6LP  ::-1::
M Lit 2020 B02#01 // S 6LP   ::-1::
M Lit 2020 B06#01 // S 6LP   ::-1::

Comment
This course is offered in English. This is not a course about Harry Potter, nor about Wicked or other contemporary pop cultural crazes about witchcraft. Rather, this seminar invites you to reflect on our contemporary cultural investment in magic and magical beings by taking a longer cultural and closer literary perspective. Witch, crone, hag, harpie, she-devil … for a long time appellations like these have been used to target people (mostly female) whose unconventional modes of being in this world and knowing of this world have confounded, challenged, and affronted their more narrow-minded neighbors. The term witch has been deployed bullet-like to mark out, contain, and obliterate what is perceived as radical Otherness – be it with regard to age, sex, race, class, marital status, or reproductive abilities. On this score, it has been instrumentalized to recalibrate personal and communal power relations, property distribution, and social bonds. Yet, it addition to fear of alterity, it has also signalled great power and agency. As an interstitial figure, the witch is situated at the threshold between the (commonly) known and unknown; it can communicate with non-human/ super-human entities and command great creative as well as destructive forces. The etymology of the German word "Hexe," in fact, signals this interstitial power: a spirit that lives in hedges and straddles fences. This course traces the evolution of the witch as an interstitial figure in the Western cultural imagination from the Romantic to the contemporary period, examining its function as literary character and trope in a number of fun texts across the last two centuries.

Literature

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Legende Termintypen

Wö = wöchentlicher Termin , ET = Einzeltermin , AB = A- oder B-Woche , Vo = Vorbesprechung , Ex = Exkursion , Kl = Klausur , Tä, At, Wt = täglicher (Block-)Termin , nV = nach Vereinbarung/nicht festgelegt. Wö = wöchentlicher Termin (meets weekly) , ET = Einzeltermin (meets one time only) , AB = A- oder B-Woche (alternating: “A” or “B” weeks) , Vo = Vorbesprechung (preliminary meeting) , Ex = Exkursion (excursion/study trip) , Kl = Klausur (exam) , Tä, At, Wt = täglicher (Block-)Termin (meets daily/block seminar) , nV = nach Vereinbarung/nicht festgelegt (by appointment, TBA).

Legende Raumbezeichnungen

AMG = AudiMaxGebäude , APS = AlteParteiSchule , FG = Forschungsgebäude , GH = Gartenhaus , GSH = Große Sporthalle , HdProjekte = Haus der Projekte , KSyn = Kleine Synagoge , LG = Lehrgebäude , MG = Mitarbeitergbäude , MTV Halle = Männerturnverein Halle , SH JP = Schwimmhalle Johannesplatz , WBS = Willy Brandt School , ZSG = Zentralschulgarten