Animating Creative Methods & Close Readings - YBLS037

• Title: Animating Creative Methods & Close Readings
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: YMGS659
• 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
• Pre-requisite : {Group of prerequisites for LAH and Exchange students - SOC}
• Incompatibility : YMGS659
• Is incompatible with: YMGS659

Annotation

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practices of doing and writing research that are responsive to marginal and embodied knowledges, including what remains withdrawn and not available or put into words, without re-inscribing notions of alterity and subordination.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)

Course completion requirements

Assessment BA

Ø  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

Ø  Or short written input on a method, practice or concept that can assist our research 40%

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

Ø  Active participation in discussing methodological practices 30%

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

Syllabus

a full syllabus will be distributed at the first class meeting.

the course will not be held weekly:  normal 1.5 hour meetings (16:00-17:20) are scheduled on 26.2; 12.3, 29.3 and 23.4; 3 hour workshops (16:00-18:40) will be held on 26.3; 16.4,7.5 and 21.5.2026.  

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