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Part 1: World Heritage and Cultural Studies • history, development and main fields of research of UNESCO’S concepts on culture, heritage and cultural development • main representatives of Cultural Studies and their priorities of research • methods mainly implemented in Cultural Studies • Cultural Studies and their relevance in discussions on heritage protection and use • Cultural Studies and their relevance for the analysis of intercultural co-operations • talking and writing about cultural phenomena • UNESCO conventions, processes of adoption and backgrounds Part 2: World Heritage and Theory of Culture • approaches for the understanding of culture and heritage • discourses on culture and nature in the course of time • culture and nature as philosophical background for the understanding of the European enlightenment • concepts of culture in the age of globalization • UNESCO conventions in the course of time and their cultural backgrounds • Concepts of tangible and intangible culture and heritage and of cultural diversity

Lernziele

In general students shall be able to analyse cultural topics and issues, exemplified in UNESCO’s instruments on culture and heritage, and to relate them to the scientific background of Cultural Studies. Part 1: World Heritage and Cultural Studies Students shall be able • to identify and understand Cultural Studies and their immanent scientific concepts • to relate these concepts to UNESCO’s instruments on culture and development • to implement these concepts on strategies of World Heritage protection and use • to distinguish cultural and sub-cultural phenomena in their respective contexts and with their respective “ways of life” • to understand and implement methods of text analysis within scientific discourses on culture and heritage • to relate Cultural Studies with cultural, economical, social and political expressions of man and his society • to understand the relationships of individuals and groups on an abstract level • to interpret UNESCO conventions within socio-political contexts and time of adoption Part 2: World Heritage and Theory of Culture Students shall be able • to identify different approaches of culture within the frame of theories of culture • to understand how concepts of culture have changed in the course of time • to classify concepts of ‘civilization’, nature, identity, etc. within theories of culture • to see how culture and nature are interrelated • to relate UNESCO conventions with cultural developments and their respective understanding of culture • to evaluate political dimensions in discussions on culture and heritage

Prüfungsleistung

• active participation • written tests during the seminar • presentations

Literatur (13)

Albert, Marie-Theres; BTU Cottbus, German Commission for UNESCO (eds): Nature and Culture. Ambivalent Dimensions of our Heritage. Change of Perspective, Cottbus, Bonn 2002
Albert, Marie-Theres, Gauer-Lietz, Sieglinde (eds): Constructing World Heritage, Frankfurt am Main 2006
Albert, Marie-Theres; Bernecker, Roland; Gutierrez Perez, Diego; Thakur, Nalini; Nairen, Zhang (Hrsg.): Training Strategies for World Heritage Management. Cottbus 2007
Baldwin, Elaine a.o.: Introducing Cultural Studies, Prentice Hall Europe 1999
UNESCO (ed.) Conventions: 1954, 1972, 2003, 2005 and others
UNESCO (ed.) Declarations: 1982, 2001, 2007
Hall, Stuart: Encoding, Decoding, in: During, S. (ed.): The Cultural Studies Reader, London: Routledge 1993
King, Anthony D. (ed.): Culture, Globalization and the World-System, University of Minnesota 1997
Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier: Our Creative Diversity. Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development. UNESCO 1998
Schulman, Norma: Conditions of their Own Making: an Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, in: http://www.cjc-online.ca~cjc/BackIssues/18.1/schulman.html
Storey, John: Cultural Studies: An Introduction, in: Storey, John (ed.): What is Cultural Studies, London 1996
Tomlinson, John: Globalization of Culture, Cambridge 1999
Williams, Raymond: The Analysis of Culture, in: The Long Revolution, London 1961

Module

Cultural Sciences: Concepts and Applications

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