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Engerom and The Faculty of Theology: History of European Cultures and Identities oversigtskursus - Udbydes på Engerom
Few continents have a cultural heritage as complex as Europe. Due to the great number of nations and languages, distributed within the limits of a relatively small territory, Europe has been a field of constant conflicts and reciprocal emulations, which leaves us with questions of who we really are as Europeans. The general idea of this course is to offer a ‘longue durée’ perspective with regard to some of the most important dualities or fault lines that have characterised European cultures and identities for the last five or six centuries. This perspective enables us a deeper and more refined understanding of what has shaped our European way of thinking about ourselves and how to act in the world since the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-period and until today. The course, based on a selected ‘canon’ of classic texts, will concentrate on the following themes:
1) State-apparatus versus individual freedom focusing on the formation of the modern state and the status of the person being defined on one hand by ever changing power structures and on the other hand by human rights.
2) Reason versus faith focusing on the contrast between religious and secular values, i.e. between two different concepts of truth respectively based on revelation and on scientific procedures.
3) Europe versus the Other, actualized with the great discoveries of the world followed by the imperialistic adventures and nowadays flows of migration.
Coordinator: Gert Sørensen and Anna Vind
Language: Danish
Emnekursus:European Film, Media and Public Sphere - Udbydes på MEF Se kursus
The public sphere has emerged as a key concept in current debates on the transformation of the media, the state and democracy in contemporary Europe. This course is designed to conceptualize the mediating infrastructure and processes that have shaped modern Europe, generated democratic legitimacy and grounded collective identity. At the same time, the political, cultural and normative presuppositions of public sphere theory need to be critically scrutinized. In particularly mass media with its traditional print and broadcasting outlets engage a nationally demarcated public and operate on the basis of a shared language and institutional arena of public communication. Against this background, the course will discuss how and to what extent transnationalization of film, media and the public sphere affects structures and processes of political and socio-cultural re-configuration. The seminar schedule provides for a critical reading of the main texts of traditional public sphere theorizing and will approach the ‘rethinking of the public sphere’ in terms of community, media, political authority and normative requirements for democracy in contemporary Europe.
Coordinator: Hans-Jörg Trenz
Language: English
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