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Current Courses and Courses in progress
Courses in the Winter Semester 2023/24
In winter semester 2023/24, the lectures Sozialstruktur, Diversität und Kultur in der transformierten Arbeitsgesellschaft will take place. For bachelor students, the courses Religion in Political Theory, Gendering Gramsci: (Queer-)Feministische Lesearten marxistischer Theorie, Macht und Machtverhältnisse in der feministischen Politikwissenschaft, Alle Räder stehen still? Konflikte und Machtbeziehungen in der Arbeitsorganisation, Zivilgesellschaft, Geschlecht und Flucht and Das "Schwarze Mittelmeer": Zur Kolonialität der Demokratie to choose from. The following seminars are offered in the Master's programme: Das Autoritäre im politiktheoretischen Diskurs, Kritische Perspektiven auf Geschlecht, Politik und Gesellschaft im Film, Recht und Rechtsmobilisierung in der Demokratietheorie, Diversitäts- und Organisationsklima an der WWU, Von der Risikogesellschaft zur Corona-Krise? Routinen und Dynamiken in Wissenschaft und Politik, Politische Kompromisse in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Historische und politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. In addition, the lecture series Nachhaltigkeit & Demokratie is held for Master's students.
Courses in progress since Winter Semester 2012/13:
Research group at the Graduate School of Politics at the Institute of Political Science
Interdisciplinary research group on the concept of governmentality and its application – beginning in Winter Semester 2012/13. Click here to go to the webpage of the research team on "governmentality" at the Graduate School of Politics at the University of Muenster.
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In summer semester 2023, the lecture series Kritik und Intervention: Feministische Perspektiven auf Politik und Gesellschaft took place. In addition, the lectures Sozialstruktur, Diversität und Kultur in der transformierten Arbeitsgesellschaft and Verhandlungen gesellschaftlicher Fragen in der Kunst und Kunstgeschichte were held. For Bachelor students the courses offered were: Affekte, Emotionen, Gefühle: Eine politiktheoretische Einführung in die Affect Theory, Politische Theorie religiöser Pluralität, Wohin driftet die Arbeitswelt? Einführung in die Arbeits- und Organisationssoziologie, Lektürekurs: Karl Marx - Das Kapital, Nachhaltige Mobilitätstransformation, Prekarität statt Exzellenz? Macht- und Ungleichheitsdimensionen im Feld der Wissenschaft, Soziologie als Mythenjagd? Einführung in Norbert Elias' Figurations- und Prozesssoziologie, Berger/Luckmann: Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit, Einführung in die Kulturtheorien, Zwischen Weltgesellschaft und Nationalstaat: Differenzen und Konflikte im Kontext von Migration in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. The following seminars were available in the Master's programme: Die Macht der Zivilgesellschaft. Bedeutung, Formen und Funktionen bürgerschaftlichen Handelns im politischen Diskurs, Bartleby oder das Phänomen der Verweigerung in der politischen Theorie, Climate Crisis in Democratic Theory, Künstlerischer Aktivismus in Afrika - Konflikt, Konsens, Empowerment, Situiertheiten - eine reflexive Perspektive auf Wissensproduktion, Erkenntnisinteresse und (eigene) Texte and Zivilgesellschaften im Dialog: Afrika und Wir.
In Winter Semester 2022/23 the lecture series Wohlfahrtsforschung in der Sozialen Arbeit took place. Furthermore, the lecture Sozialstruktur, Diversität und Kultur in der transformierten Arbeitsgesellschaft was held. The following courses were also offerend in the Bachelor's program: Diskurs & Hegemonie: Feministische Interventionen, Schöne neue Arbeitswelt? Ökonomisierung, Digitalisierung und Prekarisierung, Einführung in die Kulturtheorien, Ulrich Beck: Risikogesellschaft, Zwischen Weltgesellschaft und Nationalstaat: Differenzen und Konflikte im Kontext von Migration in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Vielfältige Arbeitswelten - Arbeitswelten der Vielfalt. In the Master's program the courses: Kinder- und Jugendhilfe auf dem Weg zur Inklusion, Zivilisation, Gewalt und Pazifizierung. Theorien und Debatten zur Prozesstheorie.
In Summer Semester 2022 the interdisciplinary ZEUGS lecture series „I would prefer not to“ Bartleby oder Praktiken der Verweigerung im sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs has taken place. Furthermore, the lectures Einführung in die Kinder- und Jugendhilfe and Sozialstruktur, Diversität und Kultur in der transformierten Arbeitsgesellschaft were held. The following courses were also offerend in the Bachelor's program: Einführung in die Kulturtheorien, „Common Sense“ in der Politischen Theorie, Geschlecht, Diversität und Ungleichheit: Grundlagentexte, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Sheila Jasanoff: wichtige Texte der Science and Technology Studies lesen und verstehen, Zwischen Weltgesellschaft und Nationalstaat: Differenzen und Konflikte im Kontext von Migration in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Educational Governance: Grundzüge des Schulwesens in den Ländern der Bundesrepublik, Ulrich Beck: Risikogesellschaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne, „I would prefer not to.“ Bartleby oder Verweigerung in der Politischen Theorie, Von "9 to 5"" zu "24/7"? - Die Ausgestaltung von Erwerbsarbeit in der Krise. In the Master's program the courses: Radikale Demokratietheorie, Theorie der Gouvernementalität, Armut als Bezugspunkt sozialpädagogischen Handelns and Politische Theorie des Trauerns.
In the Winter Semester 2021/22 the lecture series Bunte Vielfalt? Bildung, Diversität, Organisation has taken place. The following courses were also offerend in the Bachelor's program: Alltagsverstand, Hegemonie & Subalternität. Feministische Theorie nach Antonio Gramsci, Postkoloniale Theorien, Einführung in die Kulturtheorien, Niklas Luhmann: Vertrauen, Das Autoritäre im theoretischen Diskurs zum Politischen, Zwischen Weltgesellschaft und Nationalstaat: Differenzen und Konflikte im Kontext von Migration in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Vom Gender Trouble zur bunten Vielfalt? Diskurse und Befunde zu Geschlecht und Diversität in der Arbeitswelt, Prekarität statt Exzellenz? Macht- und Ungleichheitsdimensionen akademischer Wissensarbeit. In the Master's program the courses: Zur Theorie des Politischen bei Judith Butler: Öffentliche Versammlungen und das Prinzip der Volkssouveränität, Europäische Integration mit und durch Zivilgesellschaft, Von der Risikogesellschaft zur Corona-Krise? Routinen und Dynamiken in Wissenschaft und Politik was offered.
In the Summer Semester 2020/21 the interdisciplinary lecture series Risky artists. Potetials and threats in the creative economy, Introduction to children und youth services and Narratives of resistance in modern art and music have taken place. The following courses were also offered in the Bachelor's program: Reading Gramsci: an introduction to the philosophy of practice, Ulrich Beck: Risk Society. On the Way to a Different Modernity, Introduction to Cultural Theories, Political Theory of revolution, The Theory and Practice of Political Participation, Theoretical perspectives on power and power relations in feminist political science, Creating feminist knowledge and Between world society and nation state: differences and conflicts in the context of migration in germany. In the Master's program, however, the seminar The justification of freedom: the concept of revolution by Hannah Arendt was offered.
In the Winter Semester 2020/21 a lecture series All-day Education: Cooperation between Youth Welfare Services and Schools? was offered. For Bachelor students, there was the lecture Introduction to Political Theory: Civil and Civil Society in its Relationship to the State, Rule and Economy. The following courses were also offered in the Bachelor's program: Introduction to Cultural Theories, Ulrich Beck. Risk Society. On the Way to a Different Modernity, Education in the Context of Globalization and Migration, Postcolonial Theories and GRL PWR! Power and Domination in Feminist Theory. In the Master's program, however, the following seminars were offered: Agonal Democracy by Chantal Mouffe, Child and Youth Services in Times of the Pandemic and Feminist & Postcolonial Perspectives on International Relations.
In the Summer Semester of 2020, Bachelor students attended one lecture each on Introduction to Child and Youth Services and a Bachelor's seminar on Risky Artists. Between the imperative of neoliberalization and emancipatory counterculture in the creative industries. The following reading courses were also offered in the bachelor's program: Introduction to Cultural Theories, Ulrich Beck. Risk Society. On the way to a different modernity, What kind of Theater?! and The Power of Habit. The Ordinary in Political Theory. In contrast, the following seminars were offered in the Master's program: The Return of the Authoritarian. On the Topicality, Ambivalence and Critique of a Concept of the Political, Supranational Governmentality: On the reorganization of law, political rule and democracy in the EU, Civil society and external democracy promotion in times of 'shrinking spaces', Youth politics - from idea to practice, The upcoming democracy! Constructions of temporality in Derrida and Rancière.
In the Winter Semester 2019/2020 the following bachelor seminars took place: On the performative theory of assembly by Judith Butler, Between World Society and Nation-State: Differences and Conflicts in the Context of Migrants in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as Economization, Digitalization and Precarity: Brave New Working World? In addition, a standard course entitled Ain't a Woman? - Identity Politics as an introduction to the subject, two reading courses were also offered to Bachelor students. For Master's students, not only were the following two seminars offered in German: Threats to Modern Democracies in Theoretical Discourse and The Future of the EU as Reflected by European Elections, Brexite and Authoritarianism, but also the following two seminars in English: Civil Society in Non-democratic Settings and Contemporary EU and US Migration Discourse.
In the Summer Semester 2019 the following courses, besides the interdisciplinary lecture series Gender Relations in the Focus of Political Discourses and Practices of the Authoritarian, were offered: Five masterseminars regarding the topics European Civil Society between New-Governance and Governmentality, Working in the creative industry - hard but unfair, Culture as Politics and Social Diagnosis of Time in Times of 'Moral Panics' and Beyond Economic Reasoning? Sustainability and Justice. Furthermore, a colloquium was held on the topics of Family and Kinship. Historical and Current Approaches, as well as an Introduction to Child and Youth Welfare in lecture format. For Bachelor students, two seminars on the topics Hannah Arendt: On Revolution and Right Mobilization as Political Participation, as well as three reading courses under the titles Introduction to Cultural Theories, Sociology of Education with a focus on Globalization and Migration and Back to the Future? On the Topicality of Classic Feminist Theory were offered.
In the Winter Semester 2018/19 the following courses were provided: Three master classes entitled "Civil Society in Non-democratic Settings", "Classic and Modern Democratic Theory: Ancient and Classic Concepts of Democracy from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill", and "Current Challenges, Concepts and Practices of Democratic Ruling: Modern Concepts of Democracy from Max Weber to Iris Marion Young". For undergraduate students there are two lecture classes offered, entitled "GRRRL PWR!? Power and Domination in Feminist Perspectives" and "Introduction to Postcolonial Theory", as well as a class about "Civil Society in the EU - between Participation, Political Disenchantment and Protests".
The following courses were provided in the Summer Semester 2018: Two lecture classes entitled "Judith Butler: Gender trouble" and "Mothers and Machos: Gender Relations in Latin America", a colloquium about "Family and Kinship. Current and Historical Approaches", two bachelor classes on "Genealogy as Practice from the Early Modern Age to the Present" and "Modern Slavery? A Resaerch Class on Care, Gender and Transnational Migration", as well as a class entitled "Introduction in Feminist Political Science".
In the Winter Semester 2017/18 the following courses were provided: an introduction to "Gender Studies in Social Sciences", a lecture course on "Feminist Critiques on Power and Domination", as well as a course entitled "Genealogical Practices in Public, Popular and Scientific Use since the 19th Century: Historical and Cultural-Anthropological Perspectives".
The following courses were provided in the Summer Semester 2017: an interdisciplinary lecture series on "Resistant practices in public space", an "Introduction to postcolonial theory", a lecture course on "Feminist perspectives on theory and practice of International Relations", as well as a course entitled "The single family home: built, inhabited, coveted".
In the Winter Semester 2016/17 two master courses "On the Political Discourse of the Authoritarian" and "On the Political Practice of the Authoritarian in Europe" as well as the two standard courses on "Introduction to family policy" and "Foundations and structures of family policy" were held. Furthermore a lecture course on "Judith Butler: Gender Trouble" and a course on "Fundamental principles of european governance on gender order: institutions, actors and processes" were given.
In the Summer Semester 2016 the following courses were provided: an interdisciplinary lecture series on "Interdisciplinary perspective on: Family as discourse and social practice", a course entitled "Women in non-profit organizations: motivation, working conditions and opportunities for advancement" as well as a reading course on "Feminist democratic theory".
In the Winter Semester 2015/2016 a standard course on "An Introduction to gender relations on the example of Humanitarian Aid", a reading course entitled „International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on theory and practice“ as well as a reading course on „A feminist perspective on Hannah Arendt“ were held. In addition, a lecture series on "A (new) perspective on family - How families become addressees of child and youth welfare" was provided.
In the Summer Semester 2015 an interdisciplinary lecture series on „Concepts of the public sphere in feminist theory“, a reading course entitled „Changing gender and work relations“ as well as a reading course on "Judith Butler: Gender Trouble" were given.
An interdisciplinary lecture series entitled „Re-Defining the Public“, a standard interdisciplinary course on „An introduction to present gender relations“ and a reading course entitled “Political participation and gender” were given in Winter Semester 2014/15.
In the Summer Semester 2014 events were offered on "Sexual difference is political difference: Carole Pateman and her concept of the gender contract", "Gender and health as global challenges", and "Theorization of difference: The approach of intersectional studies". In addition, a standard interdisciplinary course on "An Introduction to Gender Studies in social science" was given.
An interdisciplinary reading course entitled "The concept of intersectionality in social science gender studies" as well as a reading course on "Judith Butler: Gender Trouble" were given in Winter Semester 2013/14.
In the Summer Semester 2013 an interdisciplinary lecture series on "The Relationship between women and work" as well as an interdisciplinary course entitled "Interdisciplinary perspectives and critical analysis of Pierre Bourdieu’s gender-theoretical approach" were offered.
Interdisciplinary Gender College - gender and gender relations in scientific analysis. Lecture series at the University of Muenster in Winter Semester 2010/11 and Summer Semester 2011.