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Queer Trauma

Typ:
Theorieseminar
Semester:
SoSe 22
Zielgruppe:
Hauptstudium / Diplom 2
Voraussetzungen

Please register until March 10th (limited seats): kaempf@khm.de

Termine - Ort & Zeit

TypAnfangEndeTagTurnusvon-bisOrt
06.04.2213.07.22MittwochWöchentlich14:00 - 16:00Filzengraben 8-10, Seminarraum KMW, 2.04
Typ
Anfang06.04.22
Ende13.07.22
TagMittwoch
TurnusWöchentlich
von-bis14:00 - 16:00
OrtFilzengraben 8-10, Seminarraum KMW, 2.04

Beschreibung des Seminars

Queer Theory has for a long time been interested in trauma: The mass death event of the Aids crisis, heterosexist violence, incest and rape etc. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, for example, just recently reminded us that Generation X queers »came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, internalizing this trauma as part of becoming queer«. Queer Theory's engagement with trauma was most often deeply – though not always successfully – antipathological, focused on collective experiences, and negative feelings were seen as – as Ann Cvetkovich puts it – »a positive source for political action rather than its antithesis«. Current queer popular culture has adapted the vocabulary of trauma theory with its triggers and flashbacks etc., but seems to have abandoned this focus on collective experiences as potential driving forces of political action.

Today's queer trauma often seems to be individualized, and disconnected from calls for political action or if at all predominantly connected to action within the framework of bourgeois logics of charity. As Queer theorist Yasmin Nair observes, queer trauma seems to have become an identity, a confessional practice, a prerequisite to getting heard and the traumatized subject itself might be the perfect neoliberal subject.

In the seminar we will explore different concepts and critiques of queer trauma and we will try to develop research questions for projects related to queerness and trauma. The seminar is a research seminar, so ideally you have some experience reading and analyzing theoretical texts. Languages: English, German, Dinglish

Studienbüro

Studienbüro
Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Katrin Seiniger

Claudia Warnecke

Peter-Welter-Platz 2

50676 Köln


Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 119 / 187 / 249
Fax: +49 221 20189 - 49249
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de


Öffnungszeiten:

Montag + Dienstag von 10 - 13  Donnerstag von 10 - 13 + 14 - 16


Anfragen oder Termine weiterhin auch telefonisch, Mo - Do 9.30 bis 13,  oder per E-Mail.


Sommersemester 2024

Vorlesungszeit:

08.04. 2024 bis 19.07.2024


Wintersemester 2024/25

Vorlesungszeit:
21.10.2024 bis 14.02.2025

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