MA HS. Regionalität, Interkulturalität und Globalisierung: Built Environment and Mnemonic Landscapes in Post-Independence Croatia
Instructors: Dr. Taylor Andrew McConnellShortname: HS Regionalität
Course No.: 05.174.650
Course Type: Hauptseminar
Requirements / organisational issues
Participants must demonstrate a familiarity with general theories of memory research and the history of Yugoslavia in order to register for this excursion-based seminar. This includes participation in the MA HS. Erinnerungsforschung: Kulturelle Narrativen, Identität und Repräsentationen in WiSe 2024/25 and/or knowledge acquired through a successfully completed Bachelor's thesis or term paper. The course is not open to exchange students.Prior consultation with the lecturer is absolutely necessary, as only a limited number of students are allowed to participate in the excursion to Zagreb and Vukovar for financial and insurance reasons.
Alternative courses will be offered to students who still have to complete the HS. Regionalität, Interkulturalität und Globalisierung and are not allowed to take part in the excursion. For alterative course recognition options, please contact the departmental student advising team (studienfachberatung.kaee@uni-mainz.de).
Anwesenheitspflicht
As the course is part of a one-week excursion to Zagreb and Vukovar, Croatia, attendance is compulsory for all events.Digital teaching
Some preparatory sessions and those following the excursion may be held digitally if not in person.Contents
Yugoslav socialism collapsed in the early 1990s during the Yugoslav wars. In Croatia, a government followed that endeavoured to eliminate any continuity with the previous regime. In this interdisciplinary excursion seminar, we will use cultural anthropological, cultural-historical and media studies approaches to explore which materialities from past regimes have survived capitalism and are still relevant. In doing so, we ask questions about the reasons and circumstances of destruction and active maintenance that go beyond explicit ideological positioning.The seminar covers three thematic areas:
- Monuments and the culture of remembrance
- Residential architecture and public infrastructure
- The aftermaths of empire and socialism
The seminar brings together students from three degree programmes: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology (University of Mainz, Director: Dr Taylor McConnell), Cultural History/Cultural Anthropology (University of Jena, Director: Dr Lea Horvat) and Comparative Literature (University of Zagreb, Director: Petra Požgaj, M.A.).
The core of the seminar is a one-week seminar trip, mostly in Zagreb, with an excursion to Vukovar. The teaching format encourages international collaboration and research-based learning.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 04/15/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 00 232 HS 11 1312 - Aulagebäude/Mensa I |
| 04/22/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 04/29/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 05/06/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 05/13/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 05/20/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 05/27/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 06/03/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 06/10/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 06/17/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 06/24/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 07/01/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 07/08/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |
| 07/15/2025 (Tuesday) | 10:15 - 11:45 | 01 172 Übungsraum 1231 - Physikalische Chemie |