The seminar addresses the historical and current dynamics which constitute the double continent of the Americas as a space of entanglement. Economic interdependencies, migration, transnational social relations, cross-border flows of media and communication as well as political integration processes are the most obvious dimensions of these interconnections between North and South. They point to the importance of critically reflecting and overcoming the traditional cultural, political and scientific imaginaries of space and the necessity of generating new approaches to the field of area studies of the Americas. The seminar deals with the historical conjunctures of these inter-american entanglements from the independence period to the present. We will focus particularly on cross-border dynamics of space, transnational flows, geopolitical imaginaries and the social construction of environment.
IMPORTANT: The seminar must be combined with the semianr offered by Christian Büschges under the same title!
Das Seminar findet in englischer Sprache statt!
O'Brian, Thomas: Making the Americas. The United States and Latin America from the Age of Revolutions to the Era of Globalization, Albuquerque 2007.
Pike, Frederik B.: The United States and Latin America. Myths and Sterotypes of Civilization and Nature, Austin 1992.
Rinke, Stefan: Lateinamerika und die USA. Eine Geschichte zwischen Räumen - von der Kolonialzeit bis heute, Darmstadt 2012.
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22-M-4.1 Theoriemodul | Theorieseminar Transnationale Geschichtsschreibung, Transfer und Vergleich | Student information | |
22-M-4.3 Mastermodul Moderne | Historische Kontextualisierung | Study requirement
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22-M-4.4.6 Profilmodul "Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Geschichte" | Historische Kontextualisierung | Study requirement
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22-M-4.4.6-IAS3 History of the Americas / Historia de las Américas | Historische Kontextualisierung | Study requirement
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22-M-4.5 Forschungsmodul | Historische Kontextualisierung | Student information | |
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The binding module descriptions contain further information, including specifications on the "types of assignments" students need to complete. In cases where a module description mentions more than one kind of assignment, the respective member of the teaching staff will decide which task(s) they assign the students.
Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Geschichtswissenschaft / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) | 4.3.1; Modul 4.4 | Wahlpflicht | 4.5 | scheinfähig | ||
Geschichtswissenschaft / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) | Mastermodul 4.1 | Wahlpflicht | 7.5 | scheinfähig Theorieseminar Transnational | ||
Geschichtswissenschaft (Gym/Ge) / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | Modul 4.7 | Wahlpflicht | 6 | scheinfähig | ||
Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) | MaIAS8 | 3 | ||||
Politische Kommunikation / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2013) | 3.3 | Wahl | 3 | (bei Einzelleistung 2 LP zusätzlich) |
Die Anforderungen an die regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme (nur gültig für Studienmodell 2002) sind hier erläutert. In den FsB und Modulhandbüchern finden sich Informationen, ob Studienleistungen (nur gültig für Studienmodell 2011)/Einzelleistungen/Modul(teil)prüfungen vorgesehen sind, und welche Anforderungen hierfür bestehen.