13992

Text Assemblage Lab

Cale Johnson

Additional information / Pre-requisites

For this course, please enrol via Campus Management. If this is not possible, enrol via the form "Modul-, Lehrveranstaltungs- und Prüfungsanmeldung" when you decide to take the course. You can find the form on the website of the Studienbüro Geschkult. Please submit this document to the Studienbüro within the same time frame you would have to enrol in your courses via Campus Management. The workload of the course equals: attendance 30 hours, preparation and wrap-up 90 hours, and portfolio 120 hours. Together with the companion course LV 13995, the workload equals 300 hours. For questions regarding credits you will have to approach your BA- or MA advisor of your study program." close

Comments

This course takes a step-by-step practical approach to assembling textual materials into a useful format or working environment. At the same time, the course will deal with thematic issues such as archives, filing systems, textual criticism, media studies and conceptual metaphor theory, based on weekly readings from different secondary literatures. The ideas from these materials will be dealt with informally in the active work of the lab, but the secondary literature will also be discussed separately in the Text Assemblage Colloquium, which will meet separately. We presuppose that each participant needs to have at least one year of an ancient semitic language before beginning the lab. Please contact the conductor of the course via wissensgeschichte@geschkult.fu-berlin.de. Ideally, participants in the course will develop their own dataset of open linked data that can, in turn, be used as the raw material for future work in digital humanities or programmatic approaches to philological data. Each term we will, depending on the participants, focus on a single type of textual artifact from a single time and place, so the course can be repeated. close