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African-American Literature and Migration
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The title of Isabel Wilkerson’s book on the so-called Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) borrows half a line from a poem by Richard Wright: “I was leaving the South/ to fling myself into the unknown/ …I was taking a part of the South/ to transplant in alien soil,/ to see if it could grow differently,/ …respond to the warmth of other suns/ and, perhaps, to bloom”. African-American migration from Southern United States between the early and the mid-twentieth century have been viewed as acts of collective agency and resistance against the brutally unjust realities of the Jim Crow legal regime. In this seminar in American Studies, we will explore the many waves of migration and the ways in which they have shaped modern and contemporary African-American culture and literature.
This seminar will take up a challenging selection of historical, analytical, fictional and nonfictional texts that demand careful preparation and thoughtful discussion.
We will be discussing the following primary texts intensively in our course:
Jean Toomer, _Cane_ (1923)
Toni Morrison, _Jazz_ (1992)
Please procure print or eBook versions and start reading them. Recommended editions: Jean Toomer, _Cane_ (1923) [Norton Critical edition, 2011, ISBN: 9780393931686], Toni Morrison, _Jazz_ (1992) [Random House, 2001, ISBN: 9780099750918].
This course takes up literary/cultural texts that might be viewed as offensive and/or disturbing, especially because of their racially explicit vocabulary and imagery. This should not be seen as an attempt at normalizing racist epithets or attitudes, but on the contrary as an opportunity to appreciate and examine literary and cultural expression that tackles and critiques the murky realities of racism.
As part of your assigned work in this seminar, all the course participants would need to carefully prepare the reading(s) allotted for each of the sessions, develop points of discussion, and occasionally respond to the reading(s) via annotations on Google Docs. Our weekly, in-person meetings will be assisted by expert groups/session presenters.
Requirements for a grade: All of the above and a research-based seminar paper.
Please check the course webpages on Stud.IP regularly for updates, announcements, and changes.
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Ort: 41/102
Zeiten: Di. 14:00 - 16:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Dienstag, 02.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00, Ort: 41/102
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Interdisziplinäre Studiengänge > Literatur und Kultur in Europa > Modul 2: Nationale Literatur und Kultur A
- Interdisziplinäre Studiengänge > Literatur und Kultur in Europa > Modul 5: Transnationale Literaturen und Kulturen in Europa
- Interdisziplinäre Studiengänge > Literatur und Kultur in Europa > Modul 6: Spezialisierung und Professionalisierung
- Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Master
- Language and Literary Studies
- Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Master
Research Areas:
Algebraic geometry 14-XX
K-theory 19-XX
Algebraic topology 55-XX
Publications:
- Cellularity of hermitian K-theory and Witt-theory (with Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær)
- On the η-inverted sphere. K-Theory-Proceedings of the International Colloquium
- Gigantic random simplicial complexes Link (with Jens Grygierek, Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, Matthias Reitzner and Tim Römer)
- On very effective hermitian K-theory Link (with Alexey Ananyevskiy and Paul Arne Østvær)
- The first stable homotopy groups of motivic spheres DOI (with Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær)
- Vanishing in stable motivic homotopy sheaves (with Kyle Ormsby and Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- The multiplicative structure on the graded slices of hermitian K-theory and Witt-theory (with Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- Slices of hermitian K–theory and Milnor's conjecture on quadratic forms (with Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- Calculus of functors and model categories, II (with Georg Biedermann) Link
- The Arone-Goodwillie spectral sequence for Σ∞Ωn and topological realization at odd primes (with Sebastian Buescher, Fabian Hebestreit und Manfred Stelzer) Link
- Motivic slices and coloured operads (with Javier Gutierrez, Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- Motivic strict ring models for K-theory (with Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær) PDF
- Theta characteristics and stable homotopy types of curves DOI
- A universality theorem for Voevodsky's algebraic cobordism spectrum (with Ivan Panin and Konstantin Pimenov) Link
- On the relation of Voevodsky's algebraic cobordism to Quillen's K-theory DOI (with Ivan Panin and Konstantin Pimenov)
- On Voevodsky's algebraic K-theory spectrum BGL (with Ivan Panin and Konstantin Pimenov)
- Rigidity in motivic homotopy theory DOI (with Paul Arne Østvær)
- Calculus of functors and model categories DOI (with Georg Biedermann and Boris Chorny)
- Motivic Homotopy Theory Link (with B.I.Dundas, M.Levine, P.A.Østvær and V.Voevodsky)
- Motives and modules over motivic cohomology Link (with Paul Arne Østvær)
- Modules over motivic cohomology DOI (with Paul Arne Østvær)
- Enriched functors and stable homotopy theory Link (with Bjørn Ian Dundas and Paul Arne Østvær)
- Motivic functors Link (with Bjørn Ian Dundas and Paul Arne Østvær)
Preprints and Talks:
Projekte
- DFG-Sachbeihilfe "Algebraic bordism spectra: Computations, filtrations, applications" (DFG-RSF-Antrag mit Alexey Ananyevskiy)
- DFG-Sachbeihilfe "Applying motivic filtrations" (mit Marc Levine und Markus Spitzweck) im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786
- DFG-Sachbeihilfe "Operads in algebraic geometry and their realizations" (mit Jens Hornbostel,
Markus Spitzweck und Manfred Stelzer) im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786 - DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Operad structures in motivic homotopy theory'' im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786 ``Homotopy theory and algebraic geometry'' (mit Markus Spitzweck)
- DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Motivic filtrations over Dedekind domains'' im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786 ``Homotopy theory and algebraic geometry'' (mit Marc Levine und Markus Spitzweck)
- DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1916 ``Combinatorial structures in geometry''
- DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Goodwillie towers, realizations, and En-structures''
- Graduiertenkolleg ``Combinatorial structures in algebra and topology'' (mit H. Brenner, W. Bruns, T. Römer und R. Vogt)
- DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Combinatorial structures in algebra and topology'' (mit H. Brenner, W. Bruns, T. Römer und R. Vogt)
Supervision
PhD
Philip Herrmann: Stable equivariant motivic homotopy theory and motivic Borel cohomology, 2012
Florian Strunk: On motivic spherical bundles, 2013
Master/Diplom
Markus Severitt: Motivic Homotopy Types of Projective Curves, 2006 PDF
Philip Herrmann: Ein Modell für die motivische Homotopiekategorie, 2009
Florian Strunk: Ein Modell für motivische Kohomologie, 2009
Sebastian Büscher: Anwendung der F2-kohomologischen Goodwillie-Spektralsequenz für iterierte Schleifenraeume, 2010
Fabian Hebestreit: On topological realization at odd primes, 2010
Katharina Lorenz: Darstellung unterschiedlicher mathematischer Rekonstruktionen von Größen, 2012
Jana Brickwedde: Fehlvorstellungen zum Grenzwertbegriff, 2015
Lena-Christin Müller: Penrose-Parkettierungen und ihre Eigenschaften, 2015
Larissa Bauland: Der Satz von Seifert-van Kampen und einige seiner Anwendungen, 2018
Nikolaus Krause: Eine algebraische Einfuehrung in die Milnor-Witt K-Theorie, 2019
Bachelor
Ein Spezialfall des letzten Satzes von Fermat, 2010
Transzendente Zahlen, 2010
Zur Gruppe des Rubik-Wuerfels, 2011
Einige Betrachtungen zum letzten Satz von Fermat, 2012
Die Involution auf algebraischer K-Theorie, 2012
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Platonische und Archimedische Körper, 2012
Klassifikation regulärer Polyeder, 2013
Grundbegriffe der Trigonometrie und ihrer Umsetzung in der gymnasialen Sekundarstufe I, 2014
Die Riemann’sche Zetafunktion und der Primzahlsatz, 2014
Konstruktion der klassischen Zahlbereiche, 2014
Eigenschaften und spezielle Werte der Riemann'schen Zetafunktion, 2015
Das quadratische Reziprozitätsgesetz und dessen Bedeutung in der Kryptographie, 2015
Graphen färben, 2015
Klassifikation und Visualisierung von Koniken, 2016
Konstruktion von Polygonen mit einem einzigen Schnitt, 2016
Parkettierungen der Ebene durch kongruente konvexe Fuenfecke, 2019
Die klassischen Hopf-Faserbuendel und einige ihrer Eigenschaften, 2019
Einige Anmerkungen mathematischer und historischer Natur zu Fermats Letztem Satz, 2019