Collective memory in Poland -...

Course title Collective memory in Poland

Form* Discussion Class

Level of course Undergraduate (bachelor’s) / graduate (master’s) / doctoral degree

Year/semester 2016/2017 winter semester

ECTS 6

Language of instruction

English or/and German

No. of hours 30

Course content The course is aimed at presenting the core issues of collective memory in Poland, especially after the political turn of 1989. Special attention will be paid to the remembrance of the Second World War and of the communism. The analyses will be conducted both at the level of the politics of history/ memory as well as on the basis of cultural texts, such as films, novels or museum exhibitions (for instance, the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising or the Polin. Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw).

Assessment scheme Essay

Lecturer Dr Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

Contact [email protected]

USOS code 0100-ERAL017

Literature Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria (2006), New Threads on an Old Loom. National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland. In: The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kantsteiner, Claudio Fogu (Eds.). Durham, London: Duke University Press. Ochman, Ewa (2013), Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities. London and New York: Routledge. Main, Izabella (2014), The memory of communism in Poland. In: Remembering communism. Private and public recollections of lived experience in Southeast Europe, Maria Todorova, Augusta Dimou, Stephan Troebst (Eds.), Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe vol. I, Budapest-New York: Central European University Press.

Cultural Memory Studies. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, Astrid Erll, Ansgar Nünning (Eds.), Berlin–New York: De Gruyter.

Forecki, Piotr (2012), Reconstructing Memory. The Holocaust in Polish Public Debates, Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang.

Field of study/ programme

cultural studies

* L – lecture, T- tutorial, D – discussion class, Lab – laboratory, or other

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Course title History in the Movies

Form* Discussion Class


Year/semester 2016/2017 summer semester

ECTS 6


English or/and German

No. of hours 30

Course content The course is aimed at analyzing feature fiction films (both for cinema and television) that deal with various historical events of the 20th century. In order to examine how historical films have changed over the last decades we will look not only at contemporary examples but also at older ones. We will discuss basic formal aspects that influence the filmic images of history. Furthermore, our analyses will concern the social and cultural functions of historical films. Particular titles for discussion will be presented at the first meeting.

Assessment scheme Essay

Lecturer Dr Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska



Literature Robert A. Rosenstone, History on Film / Film on History, London 2006 Robert A. Rosenstone, Revisioning History: Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past, Princeton 1995 Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty, “American Historical Review” 1988 (5) The Historical Film. History and Memory in Media, ed. Marcia Landy, London 2001 Robert Burgoyne, The Hollywood Historical Film, London 2008


cultural studies



Course title New forms of literature and new ways of reading in 21st

century

Form* D

Level of course All degrees


ECTS 6


English

No. of hours 30

Course content 1. History of reading and book forms

2. Materiality of literature in XXI century – from artistic books to

liberature (e.g. materiality of literary texts and concept of

“technotext”, concept of “aesthetic of bookishness”, theory of

“liberature”, literary interfaces)

3. Between material and electronic forms of literature – hybrid form

of books in 21st century (e.g. augmented reality books)

4. Electronic literature and new ways of reading (e.g. playable texts,

locative narratives)

5. New concepts of reading (e.g. reading as a ride)

Assessment scheme 1. Attendance 2. Regular and active participation. 3. Short test (60% is minimum to pass) and oral presentation

Lecturer dr Agnieszka Przybyszewska



Literature Emerson L., Reading Writing Interfaces. From the Digital to the

Bookbound, Minneapolis–London 2014

Hayles K. N., Writing Machines, London–Cambridge 2002

Pressman J., The Aesthetic of Bookishness in Twenty-First-Century

Literature, „Michigan Quarterly Review”, fall 2009

The Aesthetics of Net Literature. Writing, Reading and Playing in

Programmable Media, red. P. Gendolla, J. Schäfer, Bielefeld 2007

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, eds. M.-L. Ryan, L.

Emerson, B.J. Robertson, Baltimore 2014

The Book of the Book. Some Works & Projections about the Book &

Writing, ed. J. Rothenberg, S. Clay, New York 2000

Fajfer Z., Liberature or total literature. Collected Essays 1999–2009,

ed. K. Bazarnik, Kraków 2010



Literature


Course title Anthropology of Theatre

Form* D



ECTS 6


English

No. of hours 30

Course content Main concepts and issues of theatre anthropology. Theatre practice as laboratory of inter- as well as infra-cultural research. The idea of art as vehicle. Anthropology of spectatorship.

Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay

Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak

Contact e-mail: [email protected]

USOS code 0100-ERAS68

Literature 1. E. Barba, N. Savarese, The Secret Art of Performer. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology, tr. by R. Fowler, Routledge: London and New York 1991.

2. The Grotowski Sourcebook, ed. by R. Schechner and L. Wolford, Routledge: London and New York 2007.

3. The Intercultural Performance Reader, ed. by P. Pavis, Routledge: London and New York 1996.

4. Performativity and Performance, ed. by A. Parker, Routledge: London and New York 1995.

5. T. Richards, Heart of Practice. Within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Routledge: London and New York 2008.


Cultural studies Theatre studies


Course title Introduction to Cultural Performances

Form* D



ECTS 6


English

No. of hours 30

Course content Basic concepts of cultural performance studies. Performative turn in culture, arts and humanities. Theatre as anthropological, aesthetic and axiological paradigm of cultural performance. Contexts and dimensions of performing identity. Performative dimension of ritual and play.

Assessment scheme Active participation, final essay.

Lecturer Mariusz Bartosiak



Literature 1. R. Schechner, Performance Studies. An Introduction, Routledge: London and New York 2013. 2. J. McKenzie, Perform or else… From Discipline to Performance, Routledge: London and New York 2001. 3. Sh. Jackson, Professing Performance. Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2004. 4. The Performance Studies Reader, ed. by H. Bial, S. Brady, Routledge: London and New York 2016. 5. The Intercultural Performance Reader, ed. by P. Pavis, Routledge: London and New York 1996.


Cultural studies Theatre studies


Course title Creative Cities – the case of Łódź

Form* D



ECTS 6


English

No. of hours

Course content The subject matter of the course is to present critical analysis of the uses of culture and creative industries in urban policy and city brand strategies. Discussed issues are presented in the context of contemporary “creative class” and “creative industries” theories adapted for urban policies. The course will outline the most significant implications and problems posed by implementation of “cultural policies” for urban renewal. The case study used is Polish city Łódź as an example of “creative city”. The course presents the case of Łódź from the perspective of the official strategies adopted by the city authorities, and from the perspective of grassroots activities undertaken by residents. As a result of the lecture student: - explains the characteristics of “creative” city brand strategies - demonstrates problems of using culture and creativity in contemporary urban renewal strategies - adapts discussed theories for analyses of contemporary urban policies based on creativity - identifies dominant trends in contemporary urban renewal policies - locates discussed issues of “creative cities” in the broad cultural context - presents her/his own critical analyses of discussed issues.

Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation. Attendance and participation are compulsory and constitute 40% of your final grade. Participation is assessed through your in-class questions and comments, completion of in-class exercises and small group work. Final presentation constitute 60% of your final grade. Over the semester, the students will read a mix of academic and popular texts as well as strategic documents. The students are expected to comment on readings in the class and take up task-based, empirical assignments in two forms: - homework research assignments based on on-line materials or individual observations undertaken in the city space - empirical group tasks during class undertaken in the city space. The students are expected to make documentation (notes, photographs, films) during their everyday exploration of the city space in order to use these materials in the class and for the final presentation.

Lecturer Blanka Brzozowska


USOS code

Literature 1. Florida, Richard (2014), The rise of the creative class : revisted, New York.

2. Landry, Charles (all editions), The Creative City : a Toolkit for Urban Innovators, London.

3. Pratt, Andy C. (2008) Creative cities: the cultural industries and the

creative class. Geografiska annaler: Series B - Human geography , 90 (2). pp. 107-117.

4. Tay, Jinna (2005) Creative Cities [in:] J.Hartley (ed.), Creative Industries , Blackwell.

5. Stern, Mark J., Seifert, Susan C. (2007) Culture and Urban Revitalization: A Harvest Document (report), University of Pennsylvania, access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.392.9921&rep=rep1&type=pdf


Urban cultural studies


Course title

Gothic in Modern Culture

Form* discussion class



ECTS 6

Language of instruction English

No. of hours 30

Course content: - origins of Gothic – English Gothic novel - fundamental features of Gothic convention - Gothic genres - aesthetics of Gothic - evolution of Gothic characters: e. g. Gothic villains, monsters - Gothic bodies - Gothic in modern literature - Gothic in modern visual arts.

Criteria of Assessment: 1. attendance 2. regular and active participation 3. homework: final essay.

Lecturer prof. Agnieszka Izdebska



Literature - F. Botting, Limits of horror. Technology, bodies, Gothic, Manchester

& New York: Manchester University Press, 2008.

- N. Groom, The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2012.

- Modern Gothic, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle, Cambridge: Cambridge


- D. Punter, G. Byron The Gothic, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd,

2003.

- A. Smith, Gothic Literature, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,

2013.

- C. Spooner, Fashioning Gothic Bodies, Manchester: Manchester


Field of study/ programme:

cultural studies


Course title "There is hope after all…”. Holocaust in diaries and

memories

Form* L, D



ECTS 0100-ERAS968


English

No. of hours 30

Course content "Many horrors were forgotten. Many horrors went unwitnessed. Many

horrors were of a kind that those who described them were not believed.

But they must remain alive in human memory” – wrote Oscar Rosenfeld,

publicist from Vienna, who was deported to the Lodz (Litzmannstadt)

Ghetto in 1941 by way of Prague. In his diary (1942-1944) he described

terrible hunger and the dehumanization of people but also the beauty and

courage of victims, their dreams, believes and optimism. "Jews won't

vanish, in the end there is always immediately a beginning, thus eternity,

no enemy can destroy us”. During the classes we will study literature

(diaries and memories), watch movies and testimonies from survivors and

discuss the historical and ethical problems of Holocaust during WW II.

Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation or/and essay

Lecturer Joanna Podolska



Literature Oscar Rosenfeld, In the beginning was the ghetto: notebooks from Łódź, edited and with an introduction by Hanno Loewy, Northwestern University Press, 2002, The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto, ed. Alan Adelson, Josef Zelkowicz, In Those Terrible Days, , Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2002, Chava Rosenfarb, Survivors, Toronto, 2004, Julian Baranowski, The Łódź Ghetto 1940-1944. Vademecum, Łódź 2005, Horwitz Gordon, Ghettostadt. Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City, 2008.


Cultural studies, literature, philology, history


Course title The Jewish Lodz, from the beginning till today.

Through literature, culture and memories Form* L, D



ECTS 6


English

No. of hours 30

Course content The main matter of the course is to present students the history and culture

of the Jewish population of Lodz described in literature, art and memories.

During our classes we will study literature, watch movies, visit places and

discuss the problems of assimilation, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, and

coexistence of the Poles and Jews in XIX and XX century in Lodz. We also

will discuss how Lodz was described by Polish, Jewish and German writers,

for example by Władysław Reymont (The Promised Land), Israel Joshua

Singer (The Brothers Ashkenazi), Joseph Roth ( Hotel Savoy) and others.

Assessment scheme Active participation, final presentation or/and essay

Lecturer Joanna Podolska





Literature Israel Joshua Singer, The Brothers Ashkenazi, New York, 1980 (fragments) Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy, The Overlook Press, tr. by John Hoare,1986 (fragments) Wladyslaw Reymont, The Promised Land (fragments) Jews of Łódź, by Andrzej Machejek; Julian Baranowski; Dorota Dekiert; Hamal Books, Łódź 2009 Joanna Podolska, The Golden Book. Lodz, Bonechi-Galaktyka, 2007 Julian Baranowski, The Lodz Ghetto 1940-1944. Vademecum, Lodz 1999 (first edition), Lodz 2003 (second edition), Lodz 2005 (third edition).


Cultural studies, literature, philology, history


Course title Introduction to Postcolonial Literature

Form* L



ECTS 6

Language of instruction English

No. of hours 30

Course content

- postcolonialism: history, ideology, psychology, literature

- basic terms applied in the field of postcolonial studies (subaltern,

hegemon, centre, margin, periphery, Orientalism, cultural hegemony,

mimicry, post-colonial identity: essentialism vs constructionism, trans-

action identity; diaspora, hybridity, creolization, multiculturalism,

ethnocentrism, nation and narration, necessary fiction, Caliban

paradigm, writing back to the Centre)

- postcolonial novels: between resistance and coexistence

- postcolonial novels: revisions of the past vs multiculturalism

- re-writing of the colonial past, re-writing of Western Canon: J. Rhyss,

The Wide Saragosso Sea vs ; Jane Eyre by Ch. Brontë; J. M. Coetzee,

Foe vs. Robinson Cruzoe by D. Defoe; T. Williams, Caliban`s Hour vs.

The Tempest by W. Shakespeare;

- In the Heart of Darkness, in the Heart of Postcolonialism? (In the

Heart of Darkness by J. Conrad, The Things Fall Apart by Ch. Achebe;

The Dream of The Celt by M. Vargas LLosa

- African writing: Ch. Achebe, Ben Okri, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Wole

Soyinka and others

- J. M. Coetzee and D. Lessing writings as a form of apology for

apartheid.

- Salman Rushdie novels: postcolonial irony and humour as a dagger:

Midnight`s Children; The Satanic Verses, The Enchantress of Florence

- postcolonialism and femininity: rough road to feminism (The Color

Purple by A. Walker; Beloved and Song of Salomon by T. Morrison,

Ines of my Soul and Island beneath the Sea by I. Allende; The Help by

K. Stockett)

- In the eyes of the child: The Icarus Girl by H. Oyeyemi; 26A by D.

Evans; The White Teeth by Z. Smith

- Postcolonial mimicry: The Impressionist by H. Kunzru; Mimic Man by

V. S. Naipaul, The Inheritance of Loss by K. Desai.

- the hard life after colonialism: multicultural novel: The White Teeth,

On Beauty by Z. Smith; The Londonistan by M. Gautani; The Budda of

Subburbia by H. Kureishi

- magic realism and postcolonial literature: The House of the Spirits by

I. Allende; Beloved by T. Morrison and others

-Francophone postcolonial novels: (négritude. A. Cesaire, F. Fanon,

Mersault`s Case by K. Daoud; Black Bazar, African Psycho, Broken

Glass by A. Mabanckou)

- Polish literature in the scope of postcolonialism: double discourse of

subaltern and hegemon.

Assessment scheme Attendance, regular and active participation in discussion during the lecture, oral exam.

Lecturer Natalia Lemann Phd



Literature - Bhabha H., Nation and Narration, Routledge, 1990

- Bhabha H., The Location of Culture, Routledge, 1994

- Said E., Orientalism, 1978

- Said E., Culture and Imperialism, 1993

- Rushdie S., Midnight`s Children

- Morrison T., Beloved

Field of study/ programme literary and cultural studies


Course title SF and fantasy – literature, cinema, culture

Form* L



ECTS 6

Language of Instruction

English

No. of hours 30

Course content - SF& fantasy- wonder of popular culture

- SF& fantasy: history, poetics and genology (basic genres and

subgenres)

- J. R. R. Tolkien`s novels and Peter Jackson`s film adaptations

- Dune by Frank Herbert: environment, policy and Messiah

- The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin: liquidity or

redundancy of sex/gender

- Wizard of the Earthsea cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin:

archetypes, cultural anthropology and the magic

- A Song of Ice and Fire novel series by George R. R. Martin vs

The Game of Throne TV series: what is the director permitted to

do?

- Star Wars movie series: the birth of the legend

- Matrix trilogy by Wachowski brothers: cyberpunk of the reality

- Philip K. Dick novels (The Ubik, The Man from the High

Castle, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and others): can we

decide what the existence really is?

- The Discworld novel series by sir Terry Pratchett: The mirror

of our dreams and fears in fumes of absurdity

- Blade Runner dir. By Ridley Scott vs/& Do Android Dreams of

Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick: is the perfect screening

possible?

- Katniss Everdeen and Beatris “Tris “ Prior Change the World-

subversive and feministic potential of dystopia

- Polish SF literature- Stanisław Lem, Jacek Dukaj and others

- Polish fantasy literature: The Witcher and others.

Assessment scheme

Attendance, regular and active participation in discussion during the lecture, oral exam.

Lecturer Natalia Lemann, Phd



Literature 1. Jameson F., The Archeologies of the Future: The Desire

Called Utopia and Other Science Fiction, Verso, 2005

2. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, ed. By E.

James and F. Mendlesohn, Cambridge 2003

3. Hanney W. S. II, Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science-

Fiction. Consciousness and Posthuman, Amsterdam, NY,

2006

4. Herbert F., Dune,

5. Dick P. K, The Ubik

Field of study/ programme literary and cultural studies


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