Animating Creative Methods & Close Readings - YMGS659

• Title: Animating Creative Methods & Close Readings
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 25 / 25 (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. If a course is shared, BA students may register for the bachelor’s version of the course, identified by a course code beginning with “YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBLS037
• Is incompatible with: YBLS037

Annotation

English

Feminist theorists have long emphasised the situated, relational and generative ways in which methods are practiced and shape and are shaped by the phenomena they investigate. They have drawn on and adapted methods such as interviews, observation, archival and visual methods and proposed new ones such as walking methodologies, collective cooking and body mapping. This course attends to the practices of doing and writing research that are responsive to marginal and embodied knowledges, including what remains withdrawn and not available or put into words, without re-inscribing notions of alterity and subordination. The course is addressed to students who are currently doing and writing research. How can we research intersectionality, for example, in ways that differences emerge and break out of binary oppositions? How to pay attention to the materiality, refrains and rhythms of words, affects and gestures? How do we work with concepts as starting points that can and should evolve? And how precisely are we implicated in the research we produce? At the heart of the course are four workshops in which students present a short piece of their research and analysis, centring on a disconcerting moment where they feel surprised or stuck that we collectively discuss.

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)

Czech

Feminist theorists have long emphasised the situated, relational and generative ways in which methods are practiced and shape and are shaped by the phenomena they investigate. They have drawn on and adapted methods such as interviews, observation, archival and visual methods and proposed new ones such as walking methodologies, collective cooking and body mapping. This course attends to the practices of doing and writing research that are responsive to marginal and embodied knowledges, including what remains withdrawn and not available or put into words, without re-inscribing notions of alterity and subordination. The course is addressed to students who are currently doing and writing research. How can we research intersectionality, for example, in ways that differences emerge and break out of binary oppositions? How to pay attention to the materiality, refrains and rhythms of words, affects and gestures? How do we work with concepts as starting points that can and should evolve? And how precisely are we implicated in the research we produce? At the heart of the course are four workshops in which students present a short piece of their research and analysis, centring on a disconcerting moment where they feel surprised or stuck that we collectively discuss.

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (24.02.2026)

Course completion requirements

Assessment MA

-          1500 word- presentation of work-in-progress piece of research and analysis (or revisiting a piece of research) for collective discussion, that will be distributed in advance for collective discussion  35%

-          Considered responses and (oral) commentary geared to advance and assist the work of your fellow students 30%

-          Short input on a method, practice or concept that can assist our research 25%

-          Active participation in discussing methodological practices 15%

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)

Syllabus

the full course syllabus will be distributed at the first meeting

NB: this course will not be held weekly.

Normal 1.5 hour meeting (16:00 -17:20) are scheduled on 26.2; 12.3, 19.3; and 23.4

Extended 3 hour workshops (16:00 - 18:40) are scheduled 26.3; 23.4, 7.5 and 21.5.2026

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)