This seminar provides an advanced introduction to the anthropology of the senses through a critical examination of urban soundscapes. In particular we will look at the category, concept, and experience of noise (Lärm) as a catalyst for urban living and sense-making, that is, as an incitement for how people experience government, conceive of freedom, relate to others, navigate an ethics of everyday life, theorize environmental change, and make politics. We will investigate sound as part of the culturally specific, historically-grounded urban sensorium, and how it relates to and invokes other sensory experience. In addition to reading, listening and discussing texts and sonic artefacts, students will approach Berlin as an experimental field for course concepts. The seminar will be in English as will be the readings. However, students are welcome to speak German in class as well as submit their course requirements in German. |
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Dr. Andrew Gilbert (he/him)