Weekly Schedule for Next Semester
April 3, 2008
After having finished off the third university paper for last semester, I thought it was about time to create the weekly schedule for the summer semester which is about to begin on Monday. And here it is:
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Monday
4-6 p.m. — Seminar: Expansion and Crisis of the European Welfare States since the 1960s (Raphael)
Tuesday
10-12 a.m. — Lecture: A History of Roman Citizenship from 500 BC to 300 AD (Coskun)
2-4 p.m. — Lecture: Early Modern Philosophy (Welsen)
Wednesday
10-12 a.m. — Lecture: The Renaissance of the 12th Century (Beach)
2-4 p.m. — Seminar: Edmund Husserl. Expression and Meaning (Welsen)
Thursday
10-12 a.m. — Lecture: Industrialization (Frie)
noon-2 p.m. — Proseminar: Arnold Gehlen. Anthropological Analyses (Welsen)
[2-4 p.m. -- Lecture: Science and Its Heretics (Fischer) ... I'm not sure yet.]
4-6 p.m. — Tutorial: Territorialization in the Middle Ages (Burgard)
Friday
10-12 a.m. — Proseminar: Kant on Lying (Kugelstadt)
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This semester I am not going to do as much as I did during the last semesters since there are two intermediate exams — one in history, and one in philosophy — still on my to do list, too. But I hope it’s going to be interesting nonetheless.
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Burgess Laughlin | April 4, 2008 at 7:30 pm
… interesting …
That is an understatement! What a fascinating set of possible courses of study!
Here are the questions I would ask if I were offered such a program:
1. Is the “Fischer” mentioned above David H. Fishcer, the author of Historians’ Fallacies? Even if not, the topic is intriguing.
2. Might the course on medieval territoriality cover, as a side issue or contrast at least, the rise of allods, the “free farmers” who were to some extent outside the feudal structure?
3. Is the course on Roman citizenship a “thread” course, as it appears to be? By that I mean a study (a course or book) that takes one cultural element and traces it through a very long history. That is a fascinating counter-balance to periodized studies.
Your studies must be very difficult, because of the very heavy load, but the content is intriguing.
Best to you in your studies.
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Sascha Settegast | April 4, 2008 at 8:10 pm
The workload, usually, is quite managable. The lectures are just that: I listen and take notes; no exams. The proseminars are optional. I just take them for “fun”; no exams either. I guess that Prof. Welsen will require me to give a presentation in his proseminar on Gehlen’s anthropology, but that is not much. I plan on doing as much reading in those courses as time permits. The main focus is on the seminars in which I will each have to give a presentation and write a paper of 25 pages or so. So that definetly will be most laborious.
However, I plan on completing my intermediate exams in both philosophy and history this semester, so that definetly will contribute a lot to the workload.
Concerning your questions:
1. No, his full name is Klaus Fischer. Since I study at a German university, all the professors are Germans, except for Mrs. Beach who is a visiting professor this semester.
2. Unfortunately, I do not know. However, I suspect that it will mostly cover the process by which the feudal nobility consolidated their estates and rights and came to form the early modern state.
3. Yes, I think that this is such a course. Altay Coskun, who also is my employer at the History Department’s Sonderforschungsbereich 600, has done a lot of research on Roman citizenship, and especially on how it was employed in order to further the inclusion of provincial elites into the Roman state in order to secure control over the provinces.