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Semester | spring semester 2019 |
Course frequency | Once only |
Lecturers | Katerina Dysa (katerina.dysa@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
Content | This course is focused on the evolution of travel to and travel narratives about the region of Eastern Europe (mainly Poland, Ukraine and Russia). Students will explore how the images of this region were constructed, reproduced, and revised in travel notes, diaries of travelers, and guidebooks between the 16th and 20th centuries. We will identify the travelers, their agendas, and the influence of those agendas on what they were writing. In class we will discuss what common tropes about the region travelers from different centuries shared. The course also includes some basic theory material about mental mapping, travel writing, and the construction of regions in Europe. |
Bibliography | Casey Blanton, Travel Writing: The Self and the World (2002) Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (2002) Diana Mishkova and Balasz Trenczenyi (eds.) European Regions and Boundaries: Conceptual History (2017) Ivar Neumann. Uses of the Other. “The East” in European Identity Formation (1999). Nicholas Parsons. Worth the Detour: A History of the Guidebook (2007) Maria Todorova. Imagining the Balkans (1997) Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism, ed. By (2006) Peter Whitfield. Travel: A Literary History (2012) Larry Wolff. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1993) |
Admission requirements | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen sowie Studierende anderers Studienfächer, in deren Module die Übung verknüpft ist. Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
Language of instruction | English |
Use of digital media | No specific media used |
Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
Modules |
Modul: Analysefelder: Akteure - Erfahrungen - Praktiken (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Osteuropa (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Osteuropa (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Basis Geschichte: Ostmitteleuropa (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Basis Geschichte: Russland / Sowjetunion (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Forschung und Praxis (Master's degree subject: East European History) Modul: Praxis (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Profil: Moderne (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Profil: Osteuropäische Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) |
Assessment format | continuous assessment |
Assessment details | - Attendance and participation - Reading response papers on Schoology - Presentation - Final paper |
Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
Scale | Pass / Fail |
Repeated registration | no repetition |
Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
Offered by | Departement Geschichte |