Abstracts zu Vorträgen in 2010
Überblick
- Taking Heritage Seriously: A Critical View on the Critical Heritage Perspective (PD Dr. Christoph Brumann, 21.04.2010)
- Subjektivierungsweise problematisieren: Forschung zwischen theoretischer Reflexion und emprisch-praktischen Konsequenzen (Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann, 03.02.2010)
- Geopolitics of Jerusalem in Israeli Literature: The Example of David Shahar (Anna Lissa, Ph.D., 02.02.2010)
Taking Heritage Seriously: A Critical View on the Critical Heritage Perspective (PD Dr. Christoph Brumann, 21.04.2010)
Cultural heritage is an ever more popular concern, and old things, places, and practices inform hierarchies of value, channel tourist flows, and feed identity politics around the globe. Humanities and social-science research has often deconstructed particular heritage claims as "invented" or denounced heritage in general, claiming that it falsifies history, petrifies living cultures, transforms meaningful things and practices into mere emblems, and encloses these as the exclusive property of specific groups. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the urban traditions of Kyoto and in the UNESCO World Heritage system, however, I will show that these assumptions are not all there is to heritage and can be outright misleading. My findings encourage an approach that pays attention to the personal viewpoints of the heritage carriers, addresses their non-academic conceptions of history and continuity, appreciates the universalist and counterhegemonic sides of heritage, and acknowledges the creativeness and innovation it can provoke among present-day people.
Subjektivierungsweise problematisieren: Forschung zwischen theoretischer Reflexion und emprisch-praktischen Konsequenzen (Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bührmann, 03.02.2010)
Wie kann das Verhältnis zwischen Subjektivierung, Praxis und Objektivationen theoretisch problematisiert und empirisch praktisch erforscht werden, ohne eine historisch-konkrete Sicht auf Subjektivierung vorauszusetzen? Diese Frage bildet den Ausgangspunkt des Vortrags. Es wird darum gehen, Wege zu beschreiben, wie die Differenzen zwischen Denkbarem, Möglichem und Wirklichem - also durch Praxis ,wirklich' Gemachtes - zu erforschen sind. Diese Frage wird am Beispiel des ,Users' digitaler Medien illustriert.
Geopolitics of Jerusalem in Israeli Literature: The Example of David Shahar (Anna Lissa, Ph.D., 02.02.2010)
Jerusalem is a place where mythical and historical time clash and where mythical time can shape the form of concrete space plunged in historical time. In Israeli literature this intersection is also expressed and given further meaning through the use of the Biblical text.
This paper will analyse the issue through a close reading of two short stories of David Shahar: “The Empty Cigar Box” and “The Boy living on the Border”. In those short stories the mythical motif of the border is given a striking historical meaning, since it becomes the space where the three main Jerusalem communities (Jews, Arabs and Christians) meet.
Anna Lissa, Ph.D. in “Cultura storico-giuridica ed architettonica in età moderna e contemporanea nell'area mediterranea” (“Mediterranean Studies” – 2002-2005) at the Naples University Federico II in co-tutorage with University Paris 8. She is been teaching Hewbrew Language and Literature at the Trieste University (2002-2008).