220053 Time Machines: Remains, Traces, and Ghosts (S) (WiSe 2021/2022)

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In the course we will explore how ghosts of the past and imaginaries of the future haunt the present. We will do so by looking at the temporal disjuncture in canonical and seemingly concrete evidentiary categories of disciplinary history. In essence, we will see how they serve as time machines to bring the past into present and the present to the future.
The course will be organized around a variety of themes from ghosts, haunting, trauma, and historical injustice, through heritage, memory, and presentism, to technological imaginaries and the Anthropocene. In addition, we will look to the ways such imaginary time travel occurs in seemingly everyday sites as well such as supermarkets, films, or the Hermannsdenkmal.
The course is connected to the 2021 Koselleck-professorship held by Ethan Kleinberg, and is co-taught with our faculty. It is the very extraordinary choice to meet one of the leading scholars in the theory of history worldwide. The course will be held in English; it aims to provoke thoughts and facilitate discussion.

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Ethan Kleinberg: Haunting History. For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past (Stanford 2017).

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22-M-4.1 Theoriemodul Interdisziplinäres Theorieseminar Graded examination
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Bielefeld Graduate School In History And Sociology / Promotion Optional Course Programme    
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This lecture is taught in english
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Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History
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