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Advanced seminar
WiSe 23/24: Über den Wolken. Kulturgeschichte der Flugreise im 20. Jahrhundert
Patricia Hertel
Comments
Civilian air travel, which started with the first scheduled flights in the 1920s and subsequently grew into a mass phenomenon from the 1960s onwards, has greatly impacted human societies over the last century. This seminar adopts cultural historical perspectives to examine social dynamics, interests, and practices related to air travel and its influence on twentieth-century societies. A variety of topics serve as examples for studying these sometimes-ambivalent impacts, including governmental and colonial politics, travel practices and travel marketing, gender stereotypes, the visual culture of aviation, and airports as social spaces. Case studies will highlight the social changes which resulted from increased aerial mobility and the way societies, businesses, and governments embraced and resisted flight activity. Seeking to go beyond simplistic narratives of “progress” and “decline”, the seminar analyses air travel as a manifold phenomenon shaped by the competing interests of different historical actors. Overall, the cultural history of air travel provides a lens to study social transformations in twentieth-century global history. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2023-10-17 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-10-24 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-10-31 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-11-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-11-14 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-11-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-11-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-12-05 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-12-12 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-12-19 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2024-01-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2024-01-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2024-01-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2024-01-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2024-02-06 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2024-02-13 10:00 - 12:00