612001 VO Culture and History of Eastern Europe

winter semester 2023/2024 | Last update: 31.01.2024 Place course on memo list
612001
VO Culture and History of Eastern Europe
VO 2
2,5
weekly
each semester
German

Students are familiar with the historical, natural and cultural foundations of the greater area of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and can critically reflect on culturally or politically determined spatial constructions.

Eastern and South-Eastern Europe are more than uncertain terms. Their exact spatial delimitation is sometimes difficult or even impossible and depends above all on the respective temporal context. 24th of February 2022 has set things in motion and started to question supposed certainties. While South-Eastern Europe, with the controversial complementary term ‘Balkans’, can already look back on a ‘longer tradition’ in this respect, Eastern Europe has a character that was primarily inscribed in people’s mental map in the 20th century. When asked - would you rather live in Eastern Central Europe (Ostmitteleuropa) than in western Eastern Europe - people usually prefer to answer with ‘Ostmitteleuropa’. The East, but also the Southeast, often have a bad reputation in the ‘Western’ imagination.

The lecture concentrates on both spaces and aims to provide a historical-geographical basis for their analysis and understanding of their genesis. Within the broad scope, there will be focus on selected longitudinal and cross-sections, which should provide an insight into various, cultural-historical topics. These include questions of space and spatial conceptions as well as environmental structures, the role of church(es) and their relationship to the state, the emergence of state structures, identities, etc. Additionally, the course will discuss movies (at current as older ones) and examples from fiction, each of which reflects these topics in their own way.

The lecture is structured as follows:

Introductory discussion of the collapse of the former Eastern-Bloc and the awakening after 1989/1991 as well as its consequences.

Space and its Geography: structural preconditions and differentiations of Eastern/South-Eastern Europe

Development & contextualisation of individual themes of cultural and structural history in selected temporally and spatially defined longitudinal sections since the Middle Ages;


Lecture, text readings and discussions in class

Written exam at the end of semestre

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02.10.2023
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Date Time Location
Mon 2023-10-09
CANCELED
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-10-16
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-10-23
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-10-30
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-11-06
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-11-13
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-11-20
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-11-27
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-12-04
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2023-12-11
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2024-01-08
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2024-01-15
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Mon 2024-01-22
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Thu 2024-01-25
19.00 - 21.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free Ersatztermin
Mon 2024-01-29
08.30 - 10.00 40406 40406 Barrier-free
Fri 2024-02-02
13.30 - 15.00 Hörsaal 4 Hörsaal 4 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired 1. Prüfungstermin
Fri 2024-03-01
10.15 - 11.45 Hörsaal 4 Hörsaal 4 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired 2. Prüfungstermin
Fri 2024-04-05
10.15 - 11.45 Hörsaal 4 Hörsaal 4 Barrier-free Induction loops for hearing impaired 3. Prüfungstermin