In winter semester 17/ 18, a new form of teaching cooperation was getting underway between the Masters programme in “History and Culture of Science and Technology” at the Technical University (TU) Berlin and the UdK Berlin, which had been continued in winter semester 18/ 19. Professors from different faculties and departments of the UdK Berlin will provided students from the TU Berlin insights into their fields of research and work and thus contributed to further productive exchange between the two universities in the area of teaching. Since the summer semester, this exchange has not only continued, but also expanded, because the Studium Genrale opens a selection of seminars at the TU Berlin for students of the UdK Berlin.
Questions and Content
The “Cultures of Knowledge” specialisation in the MA programme on “History and Culture of Science and Technology” at the TU Berlin treats science and technology as decisive factors, by way of which the historically changing relationship of the human being to him- or herself, to life and to nature as a whole is continually taking on new forms. Dealing with literature and art in this context facilitates insight into the constitutive significance of cultural practices such as writing, reading, collecting, arranging, and calculating. The production, storage and circulation of knowledge amidst the transition from books and libraries to globally-networked workplaces and databases merits particular interest. Most recently, the question is also constantly being raised of how the human sciences, which emerged in the 19th century, are able to position themselves in the neighbourhood of natural and technical sciences under the completely changed conditions of a digital culture of knowledge. The teaching cooperation between the TU Berlin and the UdK Berlin will, in particular, focus attention on contemporary phenomena and developments and contribute to the development of capacities for describing present and future life in artificial, scientifically- and technologically-produced, environments.
Target Group
The courses offered by the professors of the UdK Berlin in the framework of the MA programme on “History and Culture of Science and Technology” were directed at students of the TU Berlin. At the same time, students of the UdK had the possibility of participating in the courses of the MA programme.
The offered lectures covered a variety of exciting topics:
- Goethe: Faust (Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian von Herrmann – TU)
- Einführung in die Kulturanalyse Slavoj Žižeks (Michael Beron – TU)
- „Merda dʼartista.“ Kunst als Provokation – Provokation als Kunst seit der Romantik (Prof. Dr. Markus Bernauer – TU)
- Denken, Dichten, Rechnen (Dr. Gerald Wildgruber – TU )
- Sexualität und Wahrheit – nach Freud und Lacan (Mai Wegener – TU)
- Class Politics: Anatomy of an Institution (Dr. Adam Jasper Smith – UdK)
- Dreamscapes of Modernity (Wenzel Mehnert – UdK)
- Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berliner Galerien und Museen (Prof. Dr. Stefan Neuner – UdK)
- Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. Wurzeln der Malerei des Alltagslebens (Prof. Dr. Stefan Neuner – UdK)
- Einführung in die Praxistheorie (Prof. Dr. Katja Rothe – UdK)
- Wissensgeschichte der Pädagogik (Prof. Dr. Katja Rothe – UdK)
- Critical Diversity Literacy (Prof. Dr. Katja RotheUdK)
- Abschied von der Sprache (Benjamin, Adorno, Heidegger, Godard) (Prof. Dr. Alexander Düttmann– UdK)
- Pasolini (Prof. Dr. Alexander Düttmann – UdK)
- Technikphilosophie (genauer Titel folgt) (Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser – UdK)
- Architektursemiotik (genauer Titel folgt) (Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser – UdK)
- Medium, Medien, Mediatrix. Weibliche Figuren der Vermittlung von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenward (Sarah M. Pourciau – TU)
- Kybernetik Ökologie Städtebau (Prof. Dr. Nathalie Bredella - UdK)
- Introduction to Art History (Dr. Adam Jasper Smith - UdK)
- Sites of Production (Dr. Adam Jasper Smith - UdK)
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