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Lehrende: Prof. Dr. phil. Gerrit Schenk
Veranstaltungsart:
Vorlesung
Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Geschichte (Institut)
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
VL MG 1
Fach:
Anrechenbar für:
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
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Literatur:
Groh, Dieter/ Kempe, Michael/ Mauelshagen, Franz (Ed.): Naturkatastrophen. Beiträge zu ihrer Deutung, Wahrnehmung und Darstellung in Text und Bild von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Literatur und Anthropologie 13), Tübingen 2003.
Janku, Andrea/ Schenk, Gerrit Jasper/ Mauelshagen, Franz (Ed.): Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics (Routledge Studies in Cultural History 15), New York/ London 2012.
Juneja, Monica/ Mauelshagen, Franz (Ed.): Coping with Natural Disasters in Pre-industrial Societies (= Special Issue, The Medieval History Journal 10. 1+2, 2007), Los Angeles/ London/ New Delhi/ Singapore 2007.
Mauch, C., Pfister, C. (Eds.): Natural disasters, cultural responses: case studies toward a global environmental history. Lanham 2009
Schenk, G. J., J. I. Engels (Eds.): Historical disaster research. Concepts, methods and case studies. Historical social research. Vol. 32,3, Special issue. Köln 2007.
Schenk, Gerrit Jasper (Ed.): Katastrophen. Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel. Ostfildern 2009.
Schläder, J. (Ed.): AngstBilderSchauLust: Katastrophenerfahrungen in Kunst, Musik und Theater. Leipzig, Henschel 2007.
Trempler, Jörg: Inszenierung der Erdgeschichte. Vesuvausbrüche im späten 18. Jahrhundert. In: H. Bredekamp, H., Werner, G. (Eds): Bildwelten des Wissens. Bd. 2,1 (Bildtechniken des Ausnahmezustandes), 2004, S. 93-105.
Walter, F.: Katastrophen: eine Kulturgeschichte vom 16. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart 2010.
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung:
The violence unleashed by natural disasters exposes human beings to the most elemental of borderline situations. Human will and capacities, poised on the precarious frontier between nature and culture – a frontier defined differently by each epoch and culture – are forced to undergo an ordeal of life and death. Disaster – viewed as a condition of emergency – becomes the site of survival or failure not only of individuals but of entire communities. Such extreme situations bring forth specific culturally formed patterns of action, ways of comprehension and coping which perforce transcend responses at the individual level in order to be effective. This makes all disasters, even those which unfold in the heart of “nature”, profoundly socio-cultural happenings. For survivors the experience of disaster can become a search for meaning: in what terms is the encounter with elemental violence perceived, interpreted, described and interiorized? In order to express that which defies description, cultures take recourse to visual media: verbal images, myths, symbols, signs, (scientific) graphs and maps, and films. The representation of that which eludes comprehension comes to be domesticated and contained as icon: signs of imminent danger, elemental powers, the shock of disaster, destruction and ruin, escape and rescue, overcoming danger, victory over the elements, help for the victims. All these dimensions have generated a repertoire of motifs with a view to portray disaster through a wide range of media, across time and history. The analysis of the ways disasters are imagined and visualized is the theme of this lecture, in two senses. First, it will address methodological questions pertaining to a more or less transcultural vocabulary and iconography of disasters and second, it intends to systematically analyze the event of disaster and its medial representation as a complex and composite socio-cultural process.
This lecture series is organized by the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Geschichte, Abteilung Mittelalter und dem Project D17 des Clusters of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a global context” der Universität Heidelberg. It precedes an exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim in 2014. Scholars from all over the world will participate in the project to generate and contribute to this field of research. The lecture series is divided between the University of Heidelberg and the TU Darmstadt. The lectures held in Heidelberg will be made available to the participants as mp3-file.
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