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Die Veranstaltung ist zugleich anrechenbar für Bereich II des Zertifikats ‚Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung‘ der UDE.
Green Utopias? Flipping the Script on Urban Disaster
Early twenty-first-century American life has been distinctively marked by urban disasters that have been understood as unmistakable markers of the arrival of the Anthropocene and its human-made climate instability. These disasters include tropical storms and wildfires on the American west coast, Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans, and the COVID pandemic's impact on New York. These catastrophes have figured prominently in a US popular literature and screen culture that has sought to come to grips with the ways in which each has been collectively shattering, disrupting many people's faith in the livability of their cities; each has also had a pronounced impact on how we imagine and experience an urban life that seeks to minimize each city's ecological footprint, flipping the script on the urban impact on the environment. This seminar will examine the ways in which American literature, film and television since 2000 have represented urbanity in the aftermath of ecological catastrophe, attending to affect—dread, anxiety, emptiness, mistrust, anti-authoritarianism, vigilantism—as well as plot, setting, and mise-en-scene. We will discuss critical essays by scholars in environmental studies and in literature, film and television studies, as well as literature, film and television texts that may include:
This class addresses SDG 11 (healthy cities). It will allow students to improve their Information Literacy, Analysis, Written Communication, and Intercultural Knowledge and media competences. |
| Literatur: |
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia, 1975
Octavia Butler, Fledgling, 2006
Broken Earth trilogy (2015-2017)
Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (2014)
Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy (2004-2007)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg 2012)
Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf, 2020)
WALL-E (Pixar 2008)
Tomorrowland (Disney 2015)
Treme (HBO 2010-2013)
Girls (2012-) |
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Bitte melden Sie sich hier ausschl. für das fachfremde Modul E3 Studium liberale an. (Als Fachstudent wählen Sie zur Anmeldung das fachintern übliche Verfahren; bei LSF: die gleichnamige Veranstaltung ohne das Präfix 'E3'.) Anmeldefrist ab dem 18.09.2024. Weitere Informationen zum Modul E3/Studium liberale, alle Veranstaltungen in chronologischer Reihenfolge, eine Liste freier Plätze etc. finden Sie oben unter „Weitere Links“. |
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In E3 nicht geeignet für: 2-Fach GeiWi, KuWi m Englisch. Englische Sprachkenntnisse erforderlich. Bitte nehmen Sie zur Kenntnis, dass Sie die E3-Ausschlüsse immer selbständig bei Ihrer Auswahl beachten müssen. Das LSF-System schließt Fehlanmeldungen nicht aus. Auch ist im System nicht ersichtlich, nach welcher PO Sie studieren, oder welche/s Fachwissenschaft/Anwendungsfach vorliegt. |
