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 12 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 time travel occurs in seemingly everyday sites as well such as supermarkets, films, or the Hermannsdenkmal.
The course is connected to the 2020 Koselleck-professorship held by Ethan Kleinberg, and is co-taught with our faculty.
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22-M-4.1 Theoriemodul | Interdisziplinäres Theorieseminar | benotete Prüfungsleistung
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