Ringvorlesungen Sommersemester 2021
25950
Vorlesung:
Vortragsabende der Forschungsstelle FREDI
(SoSe 21)
Zeiten
Termine am Mittwoch, 28.04.2021, Montag, 03.05.2021, Mittwoch, 30.06.2021 18:15 - 19:45
Erster Termin
Mittwoch, 28.04.2021 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr, Ort: (Online via Zoom)
46543
Vorlesung:
Ringvorlesung (Fitz): Mapping the Margins, Revisited: Intersectionality and American Studies **AUCH FÜR EUROPEAN STUDIES ANRECHENBAR**
(SoSe 21)
Zeiten
Mo. 18:00 - 20:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin
Montag, 12.04.2021 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Beschreibung
The interdisciplinary lecture series “Mapping the Margins, Revisited: Intersectionality and American Studies” addresses the topic of intersectionality by surveying individual segments of U.S. literary and cultural history. As a theoretical framework that addresses how aspects of a person’s social and political identities (e.g., gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, ability/disability, age, physical appearance, etc.) can interact, intersectionality concerns the overlapping and simultaneity of different yet interconnected forms of discrimination and privilege against a person. Police brutality in recent years against people of color in the U.S. (and beyond) serves as just one current and prominent example of structural and systemic discrimination at the intersection of such categories as race, class, and physical appearance. More than thirty years after the term intersectionality was coined by U.S. law professor and civil rights advocate Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1989), the concept has gained global currency and widespread transdisciplinary academic appeal. We take this as an occasion and starting point to (re)examine U.S. literary and cultural production across media, genres, text types, and eras. Crenshaw herself has described intersectionality as “a method and a disposition, a heuristic and analytical tool.” In this sense, the individual contributions to this lecture series will read, interpret, and analyze old and new texts as well as cultural phenomena through the lens of intersectionality and place them in their respective webs of significance from within the interdisciplinary context of American Studies. The lecture also offers an excellent opportunity for students to meet the Passau American Studies team as well as a number of interesting American guest speakers, thereby learning about the current state of research in this highly topical field.
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