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Seminar: Constructing Communities
Downloads for Spring Semester 2019
Notices:
Texts for work in class will be uploaded here at least a week before they are dealt with. Seminar participants are expected to download them in good time and to come to the session having studied them carefully as reading in class is unncessarily time-consuming.The schedule for seminar moderations with dates, names and group monickers can be downloaded once they have been organised.
For those who want a grade here are the Guidelines for the Individual Study Project.
Please also note the Guidelines for Seminar Organisation (How to Run Your Seminar Session).
| Week | Themes and activities | Files
for Download - and to read before the
session! |
Moderators |
Additional
Material, Presentations and Handouts to be uploaded after the session |
14 |
Rock ClimbersPlease note that this class will take place atUniversitätssport
Bern Bremgartenstrasse 145, 3012 Bern
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Please read the following texts for the last week:
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Nico Stefano Degiorgi Scott Douglas Finley Marc Hofer |
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13 |
Steiner Schools |
Please read the following texts for next week |
Ann-Christin Ravald Anita Paul |
Powerpoint Show A useful article to read by Etienne Wenger: Communities of practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept (Source) |
12 |
Rhetorics Club Bern
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Please read the following texts for next week
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Elias Just Joel Simon Schaad Stefan Widmer |
The Great Dictator Speech as a PDF Sildes of the Session |
11 |
LBTQ+ |
Please read the following as preparation for this session: Kerry John Poynter and Jamie Washington 2005: Multiple Identities: Creating Community on Campus for LGBT Students The moderators apologise for the late posting! |
Vanessa Baumann, Melissa Guglielmo, Pirintha, Subramaniam |
Powerpoint Show |
10 |
Game of Thrones Fandom |
Please read the following as preparation for this session: Cornell Sandvoss and Laura Kearns 2014: From Interpretive Communities to Interpretative Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media |
Larissa Baumann Aline Botteron |
Powerpoint Show |
9 |
Bronies |
Please read the following as preparation for this session: Anne Gilbert (2015): What we talk about when we talk about bronies Please bring smartphones/laptops and headphones to the session |
Jessica Friedli Richard Lauener Manuela Troxler |
Interviews link Powerpoint Show |
8
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Hogwarts Fandom Community |
To read for week 8 Baumeister and Leary 1992: Need to Belong Please take the sorting hat quiz on
www.pottermore.com in order to work
with the results of the quiz during the session. In order to take the quiz, one
has to make an account (which is free and can also be deleted after this
session). |
Jenny Wiget Laura Kalbermatter Diana Schöttli |
Materials of and from the session |
7 |
Incels |
Naomi Brunner Lea Steuri |
The Presentation and related material |
|
6 |
The Community of English Students |
To read for next week Cashman 2002: Identities at Play |
Nicole Bucher Sara Locher |
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4/5 |
"Us" vs. "Them" in Protest Songs |
Songs for discussion |
FAM |
Us vs. Them Presentation |
3
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Round-up and Seminar Organisation
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Summary of introductory explorations |
FAM |
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2 |
Membership Criteriato have access or not to have access... |
FAM |
Membership Questions |
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1 |
IntroductionCommunities, what communities? |
For once these are to be read after the session, as per instructions |
FAM
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