Seminar: Revolution and Resistance: The Nineteenth Century in Philosophy and Literature

This course uses the nineteenth century’s conflicts over justice as an entry point into our contemporary conversations and conflicts about justice. People fought about everything in the nineteenth century: political power, political identity and agency, economic resources and agency, art, science, religion, just to get us started. Our collective exploration of the “what” and the “why” of some of these revolutions will help us to examine the ways in which our current conflicts have been formed and framed by these nineteenth-century battles. We will use a case study approach, focusing on political power and agency (the three Atlantic Revolutions against January 6), labor conflicts and economic upheaval (worker uprisings and the communal movement against the gig economy), and representation and history (“Lost Cause” mythology and historical erasure against contemporary debates about history and monuments). We will be reading and/or viewing primary texts and artifacts for both halves of each case study.

NB! The first case study will include a discussion with US students in the course “How Democracies Die: Disobedience, Resistance, Rebellion.”

This class is offered by Prof. Karen Adkins, who will join the University of Greifswald for the summer semester as a DAAD-funded visiting researcher. Learn more about Prof. Adkins here: https://www.regis.edu/academics/faculty-finder/faculty/karen-adkins

In this seminar, students can submit

• "Studienleistungen" for LA Module 12 “Topics in Cultural Studies USA”  and LA Module 13 “Topics in Literature or Cultural Studies II”

• "Prüfungsleistungen" for 
  
  • LA Module 12 “Topics in Literature and Cultural Studies USA” 
  • LA Module  13 “Topics in Literature or Cultural Studies II”
  • MA Kultur, Interkulturalität, Literatur Module 7a Historizität + Module 8a Textualität