Seminar: 3.02.970 S Global Health, Biocapitalism and Literature: An Indian Case Study - Details

Seminar: 3.02.970 S Global Health, Biocapitalism and Literature: An Indian Case Study - Details

General information

Course name Seminar: 3.02.970 S Global Health, Biocapitalism and Literature: An Indian Case Study
Subtitle
Course number 3.02.970
Semester SoSe2024
Current number of participants 10
expected number of participants 25
Home institute Institute of English and American Studies
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Wednesday, 03.04.24, 10:00 - 12:00 o'clock V02 0-003
Type/Form
Lehrsprache englisch

Rooms and times

V02 0-003

  • Wednesday, 10:00 - 12:00, Weekly (from 03.04.24)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Objectives
In the course of this seminar, you will
- engage yourself with postcolonial theory on global health, biocapitalism, pharmocracy, stratified healthcare, and, more generally, with postcolonial medical humanities.
- explore postcolonial perspectives on biotech-industries and global inequality, especially with regard to phenomena such as surrogacy, organ donation, pharmaceutical testing and patent trading.
- analyse how these issues are negotiated in three Anglophone Indian literary texts.
- discuss issues such as re-biologisation, species thinking and new universalisms in contemporary thinking and literary responses.
- listen to two international guest lectures and participate in the opening of an international workshop.
- develop individual research questions related to the seminar’s topic.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".
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  • Admission locked.