Seminar: 4.02.038 Telling stories about migration, trade, and travel through objects and visual displays - Details

Seminar: 4.02.038 Telling stories about migration, trade, and travel through objects and visual displays - Details

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Course name Seminar: 4.02.038 Telling stories about migration, trade, and travel through objects and visual displays
Subtitle
Course number 4.02.038
Semester WiSe18/19
Current number of participants 1
expected number of participants 15
Home institute Institute of History
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 16.10.2018 14:00 - 16:00, Room: A11 0-014
Type/Form
Lehrsprache englisch
Miscellanea Proposed literature:
Placing Migration in European Museums, Theoretical, Contextual and Methodological Foundations, Christopher Whitehead, Susannah Eckersley, Rhiannon Mason, eds. (Mela Books, 2012), “Place-People-Culture Relations in Museums,” pp. 11-24; “Museums and Migration,” pp. 25-38, and “Understanding Migration in Museums,” pp. 39-46.
Brehm, Thomas. Migration im Museum: Mode, Auftrag, Perspektivwelchsel, Museum heute, 40 (2011): 37-41.
Loren, Diana DePaolo. “The Exotic in Daily Life: Trade and Exchange in Historical Archaeology,” Chapter 12, Trade and Exchange, Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory. Carolyn D. Dillian, Carolyn L. White, eds. (Springer, 2010), pp. 195-204.
Morgan, David. “The Materiality of Cultural Construction.” Chapter 10, Museum Objects, Experiencing the Property of Things. Sandra H. Dudley, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 101-102.
Museum International, Vol. LIX (May 2007), Ayatac Eryilmaz, “The Political and Social Significance of a Museum of Migration in Germany,” pp. 127-13, and Hélène Lafont-Couturier, “The Musee National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration; a museum without a collection,” pp. 41-45.
Schlutow, Martin. Das Migrationsmuseum: geschichtskulturelle Analyse eines neuen Museumstyps. (LIT Verlag Münster, 2012).
Verreyke, Hélène. “The Point of Departure: Migration Museums in Europe,” Chapter 7, The Heritage Theatre: Globalisation and Cultural Heritage. Marlite Halbertsma, ed. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), pp. 151-164.
Witcomb, Andrea. “Using souvenirs to rethink how we tell histories of migration: some thoughts,” Chapter 4, Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories: Essays in Honour of Professor Susan M. Pearce. Sandra H. Dudley, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 36-50.
ECTS points 6/9 (je nach Modul)

Rooms and times

A11 0-014
Tuesday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (13x)
(Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Führung durch die Francksen-Villa)
Tuesday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (1x)
(Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven (genauer Zeitplan folgt))
Saturday, 01.12.2018 10:00 - 17:00
(Exkursion nach Hamburg (Internationalens Maritimes Museum und Zoll Museum in der Speicherstadt))
Saturday, 15.12.2018 10:00 - 18:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The course focuses on how museums display migration, global trade, and international travel in their exhibits. Students will learn to assess the heuristic quality of material culture and discuss how to use artifacts as historical sources and as tools to tell stories. Visits to local history museums will give students the opportunity to critically evaluate actual exhibits currently presenting migration, trade, and travel narratives to the general public.
The course aims to equip students with sufficient knowledge to understand and evaluate museum presentations and to teach students how to identify, analyze, and challenge assumptions about migration, global trade, and travel using visual and spatial modes of narration.

Admission settings

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