MA S. Aktuelle Forschungsthemen: Diasporism

Dozent:innen: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Siegel
Kurzname: S Ak.Forschungsth
Kurs-Nr.: 05.054.615
Kurstyp: Seminar

Empfohlene Literatur

Jonathan Boyarin/Daniel Boyarin, Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2002)
Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund (New York: One World, 2026)
Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 36 (1989): 68-81.
Melane Kaye/Kantrowicz, The Color of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007).
Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).

Inhalt

In his essay "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" (1990), Stuart Hall analyzes the significance of diversity, hybridity, and difference for the experience and aesthetics of diasporas. “Diaspora identities are those which are constantly producing and reproducing themselves anew, through transformation and difference.” In this English-language course, I’d like to zero in on the aesthetic and political significance of the concept of diaspora or diasporism for contemporary Jewish life and culture. In the face of particular states, like Germany and the United States, and established Jewish organizations (e.g. Germany’s Central Council of Jews) strengthening their commitment to Zionism and the politics of Israel, many younger Jews have been turning instead to the historical, religious and political significance of the Jewish diaspora. We will pick up these debates and inquire into their possible relevance for film and media studies. Following Hall, who was writing about African and Caribbean diasporas, we will ask about the (cinematic) aesthetics of the Jewish diaspora? We will explore Jewish religious perspectives on diaspora by Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin; anti-racist and socialist political perspectives from Melanie Kaye/Kantrowicz (“radical diasporism”); and anti-nationalist leftist accounts by Molly Crabapple (the Jewish Bund’s idea of “doikayt” or “hereness”). We will also situate the concept of diaspora in relation to other terms such as “exilic”, “postcolonial”, or “transnational”. Hamid Naficy’s reflections on exilic and diasporic filmmaking in his 2001 book An Accented Cinema will be a further point of reference. The course is thus a research seminar on conceptual and political history, focusing on the Jewish diaspora but opening onto comparative critical considerations of the cultural work carried out by those of us who are at home where we live. Film selections include: artist Yael Bartana’s trilogy about the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland; Madame Rosa (Moshe Mizrahi, 1977); News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976); and Measures of Distance (Mona Hatoum, 1988).

Termine

Datum (Wochentag) Zeit Ort
21.10.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
28.10.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
04.11.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
11.11.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
18.11.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
25.11.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
02.12.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
09.12.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
16.12.2026 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
06.01.2027 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
13.01.2027 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
20.01.2027 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
27.01.2027 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
03.02.2027 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus
10.02.2027 (Mittwoch) 10:15 - 11:45 00 113 Seminarraum
9181 - Medienhaus