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Apart from insights into theories of migrancy, refugeehood, life-writing, narrative, and transcultural communication, students will also gather very practical experience in all of these areas and gain a deeper understanding of refugees and their situation in Austria; they will learn to think of forced migration in new ways and acquire discursive strategies with which to critique and contest dominant and often prejudiced inscriptions of asylum seekers.

This course has at its thematic focus the experience of flight and the quest for asylum. In 2017, when the seminar was taught for the first time, the method chosen for the engagement with this particular theme was unconventional and, in Austria unheard of. After three repeats, the publication of a selection of students' works in book form and the dissemination of the methods used to other universities in Germany, Belgium and Greece, it no longer is. 

Participants will read primary and secondary texts about forced migration and the narration of involuntary displacement. They will then have to apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire in regular (10 approx. one-hour) meetings with a refugee, with whom they are required to engage in a transcultural conversation and over time write down their story as "creative non-fiction" to be uploaded in individual chapters or blogs once a week and eventually put together as a journal. The journal will replace a conventional seminar paper and, with the permission of the author as well as the person interviewed, become part of a collection to be housed in the Dokumentationsarchiv Tirol. Corona permitting there will also be a public presentation of excerpts from the journals produced in the course of the semester.

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Lehramtsstudium 2001: abgeschlossener 1. Studienabschnitt

Aufgrund der substanziell unterschiedlichen Zuteilung von ECTS-AP in den verschiedenen Curricula des MA Anglistik und Amerikanistik und des Lehramtsstudiums Englisch ergeben sich für diese Lehrveranstaltung unterschiedliche Anforderungen. Informationen hierzu erhalten Sie bei Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung durch die Lehrveranstaltungsleiterin/den Lehrveranstaltungsleiter.