TransArea: New Paradigms in Area Studies
In a rapidly globalizing world, area studies have often come to be regarded as a somewhat old-fashioned relic of the Cold War era and as an attempt to squeeze complex cultural, social and political ensembles into narrowly defined regional containers. In response to this critique, a new array of theories has sought to reconceptionalize area studies from a transregional perspective. The interdisciplinary lecture series "TransArea: New Paradigms in Area Studies" presents new approaches to transregional area studies developed in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, history and the social sciences.
Ottmar Ette (Potsdam University): "TransArea Studies: Translational Transformations between Africa, Asia, America and Europe"
16. November 2015, Cas. 1801 (Renate von Metzler Saal), Campus Westend, 6-8 p.m.
Please notice, the lecture will be held in German!
For more information, please see: http://www.afraso.org/en/content/afraso-lecture-series-transarea-transarea-studies-translational-transformations-between
Kai Kresse (Columbia Univerity, New York): "Travelling as Learning Ethnography: Provisional Thoughts on the Study of Transregional Littoral Society"
3. December 2015, Cas. 1812, Campus Westend, 6-8 p.m.
Please notice, the lecture takes place in a different room than the others!
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Matthias Middell (Leipzig University): "New Spatial Formats and the Emergence of Transregional Studies"
11.Januar 2016 Cas. 1801 (Renate von Metzler Saal), Campus Westend, 6-8 p.m.
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Doris Bachmann-Medick (Justus-Liebig University, Gießen): "Modelle kultureller Übersetzung: Impulse für transregionale Forschung?"
01. Febbruar 2016 Cas. 1801,(Renate von Metzler Saal), Campus Westend, 6-8 p.m.
Please notice, the lecture will be held in German!
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