DISE026 Guest Lecturer Course (Yana Meerzon)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. MgA. David Drozd, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Iva Mikulová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Šárka Havlíčková Kysová, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. MgA. David Drozd, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Syllabus
  • On Strangers and Neighbors: Performance and Migration
  • The course will take place in blocks.
  • 1 introductory session in April in Zoom (exact date to be confirmed)
  • 17 to 20 of June- 8 session per 90minutes (17.-20.6.)
  • The course defines “migration” as a wide spectrum of cultural, social, economic, and personal experiences. It examines a historical evolution of representation of migration - performing migration - through literature, philosophy and arts from the First World War on. Given the terminological contingency that the word “migration” implies, the course studies such diverse conditions of migration as political banishment and exile, personal flight and asylum seeking, mass migration, refugee crisis and cosmopolitanism. It renders a figure of traveler or migrant as refugee, exile, flaneur, immigrant, migrant worker, and tourist, among others; and it recognizes the three-part structure of movement - such as departure, life elsewhere and return – as the dramaturgy of migration, including the experience of second generation migrants and the phenomenon of (post)memory. The course material includes samples of philosophical essays, fictional, autobiographical and documentary literature, dramatic plays, theater and dance performances, art installations and films created by the migrant artists and about migration. The objective of the course is to identify common artistic vocabulary, themes, political standpoints and ethical concerns that characterize representation of migration through arts, across different forms, genres and historical periods.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught in blocks.
General note: V angličtině. Pro získání kreditů je vyžadována účast na přednášce a semináři a dílčí práce. In English. Attendance at lecture and seminar and an written essay are required to obtain credit.
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