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Semester: Summer term 2024

3.02.970 S Global Health, Biocapitalism and Literature: An Indian Case Study -  


Event date(s) | room

  • Mittwoch, 3.4.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 10.4.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 17.4.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 24.4.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 8.5.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 15.5.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 22.5.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 29.5.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 5.6.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 12.6.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 19.6.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 26.6.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003
  • Mittwoch, 3.7.2024 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-003

Description

Objectives
In the course of this seminar, you will
- engage yourself with postcolonial theory on global health, biocapitalism, pharmocracy, stratified healthcare, and, more generally, with postcolonial medical humanities.
- explore postcolonial perspectives on biotech-industries and global inequality, especially with regard to phenomena such as surrogacy, organ donation, pharmaceutical testing and patent trading.
- analyse how these issues are negotiated in three Anglophone Indian literary texts.
- discuss issues such as re-biologisation, species thinking and new universalisms in contemporary thinking and literary responses.
- listen to two international guest lectures and participate in the opening of an international workshop.
- develop individual research questions related to the seminar’s topic.

lecturer

Study fields

  • Studium generale / Gasthörstudium

SWS
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Lehrsprache
englisch

Anzahl der freigegebenen Plätze für Gasthörende
2

Für Gasthörende / Studium generale geöffnet:
Ja

Hinweise zur Teilnahme für Gasthörende
Lehrsprache: englisch Sichere Beherrschung des Englischen auf dem CEF-Niveau C1 ist erforderlich.

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