Syllabus
Lecturer: Filip Herza Ph.D. consultations per mail: herza@eu.cas.cz
Assessment criteria:
This is a 3 ECTS class.
You’ll be assessed based on 1. Regular attendance (30p.), 2. Group presentation (30p.), 3. Final essay writing (30p.). Each category makes up one third of the final grade, i.e. altogether 90 points.
Regular attendance means: no more then 3 absences (30 points fixed rate)
Group presentation means taking active part in the preparation and execution of presentation with group of fellow students (2-3 people). (30 points fixed rate)
Final essay writing: last session (May 21). 0-30 points.
Assessment scala: 80-90 points A (1 in the Czech evaluation system) 70-79 points B (2) 60-69 points C (3)
Less then 60 means failed
Programme: 1) MAXWELL, Alexander. 'The Handsome Man with Hungarian Moustache and Beard': National Moustaches in Habsburg Hungary. Cultural and Social History. 2015, 12(1), 51-76. Presenters: Sophie and Adrian 2) AMAL (Jeden svět / One World - Human Rights Documentary Film Festival) one of the following dates: March 7 - Thursday 6.30pm, March 11 - Monday 7.00 pm 3) ANDERSON, Benedict. Imagined Communities (short excerpt from the book). Presenters: Grace and Belen 4) LAMPLAND, Martha. Family Portraits. Gendered Images of the Nation in the Nineteenth Century Hungary, s. 287-292, 300-308, conclusion. Presenters: 5) MAZOWER, Mark. Healthy Bodies, Sick Bodies. In. The Dark Continent (1998), p. 77-104. Presenters: Tereza, Anna, Lucie 6) CORNWALL, Mark. Heinrich Rutha and the unraveling of a homosexual scandal in 1930s Czechoslovakia. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 8(3). Presenters: Paulina, Nina, Brian 7) MIKKA, Liisa. National Geographic. Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees. Cultural Anthropology 7/1, 1992. Presenters: Anna, Petra, Magda, Tereza 8) BREN, Paulina. Women on the Verge of Desire. Women, Work and Consumption in Socialist Czechoslovakia. In. Pleasures in Socialism (2010) Presenters: Julia, Luna, Niklas 9) McCLINTOCK, Anne. Family Feuds: Gender, Nationalism and the Family. Feminist Review, No. 44, Nationalisms and National Identities (Summer, 1993), pp. 61-80 Grace, Hoevi, Despina, Tereza 10) ŞULE TOKTAŞ. NATIONALISM, MODERNIZATION AND THE MILITARY IN TURKEY: WOMEN OFFICERS IN THE TURKISH ARMED FORCES. Oriente Moderno, Nuova serie, Anno 23 (84),(2004), pp. 247-267 Arzum, Akami 11) POBLOCKI, Kacper. Online Nationa Communities. Polish Sociological Review 134 (2001), pp. 221-246.
Presentations:
Oral presentation with PPT presentation is mandatory for each participant.
Presentations are prepared by groups of 2-3 students based on the selected reading. Each participant has to do his/her share of work.
Presentations are no longer then 15 minutes (5 minutes for each group member)
The aim is to discuss the main points of the reading and provide us with 3 questions for the subsequent discussion.
Group will receive an evaluation of their performance per mail within a week after the presentation.
Annotation
From 19th-century “Spring of Nations” to the recent Orbán’s Hungary, discourses of nationality closely relate to ideologies of gender. Based on normative images of femininity and masculinity, nations were often imagined as heterosexual families and/or collective nation-bodies, characterized by particular gender, ethnic, racial and other traits.
Our seminar examines the relationship between gender and nationalism from several angles, with particular emphasis on the East Central European perspectives. Selected readings discuss different approaches to the studies of nationalism and gender in Europe and the post-/colonial World from the 19th to the 21st Century.