Women Artists, Writers and Scientist in 20th Century Central Europe - ABO700300

• Title: Reading from the Attic. Herstories and Stories from Central Europe
• Guaranteed by: Department of Czech and Comparative Literature (21-UCLK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Libuše Heczková, Ph.D.
• Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Literatura; Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature

Annotation

Last update: KCLHECZK (19.02.2020)

The course is thematic rather than chronological, with the course content organized into topical sections. Each section offers students the chance to explore one subject in-depth, while at the same time learning to wrestle with one or two particular types of primary sources. During the first weeks, the students read a range of primary sources political speeches, interviews and film by or about women, and social commentary devoted to the status of women and learn to work with specific vocabularies and databases. In the second half of the course students concentrate more on specific case studies - female politicians, philosophers, scholars and scientists.

Descriptors

Last update: KCLHECZK (24.02.2020)

February 17th

Introduction 

The problem with women in history. Sources and perspectives. Databases.

The film: The Hidden Figures

Question: What does the film say about the status of women about their privacy? What happened when we changed the focus of the narrative? 

Reading: 

Michael Werner: Public and Private. available in Moodle Gender Library (Genderová knihovna) login: knihovna

February 24th

Gender Studies Library, if it would be possible. Exhibition 100 years of the women suffrage.

Reading Františka Plamínková. 

Working with Databases.

Reading for  march

Julia Kristeva, Life is a narrative. Hannah Arendt, Uni Toronto press, 2006.

April 6th:

Milada Horáková and her last letters. Life is a narrative and the narrative of her second life. 

Reading S. de Beauvoir The Second Sex. (excerpts) Julia Kristeva: Hannah Arendt. Life is a narrative. Available in Moodle Gender Library. 

April 20th

Women scientist in Central Europe. Institutions and networks, nationality and religion. 

Film Marie Sklodowska

First  presentation

April 27th

Students presentions.

Women in the household. 

Reading Ch. Gilbert and C. Frederick. Once again question of Private and Public. 

May 4th

Students presentations

Course completion requirements

Last update: KCLHECZK (19.02.2020)

Presentation 20 min.

Every student will prepare a case study presentation focusing on one woman, her life and work, her "narrative".

Types of sources the students could use for their presentations

Official Documents, Newspapers and internet,  fiction, music, visual material, memories

Literature

Last update: KCLHECZK (25.02.2020)

All reading and literature is available at moodle

 

https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=4418