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Course Catalogue WS 2024/25

Live/Art/Lives/Again

HAMLET, HAMNET, AND OTHER MACHINES

Type:
Specialist seminar
Semester:
SoSe 23
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2
Requirement

Seminar language: the seminar is held in English only.


Please register an expression of interest by sending an email with a short description of your work, practice, interests and experience by March 8th 2023 to: phil.collins@khm.de


Open to Diplom 1 Hauptstudium students.

Dates - place & time

TypStartEndDayTurnusfrom-toLocation
17.04.2317.07.23MondayWöchentlich17:00 - 19:00Filzengraben 2a, Atelier 4b / Video und Performance
Typ
Start17.04.23
End17.07.23
DayMonday
TurnusWöchentlich
from-to17:00 - 19:00
LocationFilzengraben 2a, Atelier 4b / Video und Performance

Seminar description

Location: or at Studio A


William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark sometime at the turn of the 17th century in a period personally overshadowed by the death of his son Hamnet. Irish writer Maggie O’Reilly makes a convincing case in Hamnet her recent, celebrated novel that Shakespeare’s play – in its relentless deferrals and interrogation of archetypes – is a work characterised by grief. 


The seminar will continue its close reading of Hamlet in order to examine themes of theatricality and literary conceits in contemporary popular culture. Furthermore, we will research and reflect on PoC, feminist, socialist and queer productions of a tragedy capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others”. (Thompson and Taylor, Arden Edition). 


Field Trips and Excursions:

There will be weekly trips to exhibitions and live performances (performance, theatre, concerts).

Student office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14

50667 Köln


Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 194 /

119 / 187 / 249
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours:   Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.


For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.


Winter semester 2024/25

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 21, 2024 until Feb. 14, 2025


Summer semester 2025

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025

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