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
| Typ | Start | End | Day | Turnus | from-to | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.04.23 | 17.07.23 | Monday | Wöchentlich | 17:00 - 19:00 | Filzengraben 2a, Atelier 4b / Video und Performance |
| Typ | |
| Start | 17.04.23 |
| End | 17.07.23 |
| Day | Monday |
| Turnus | Wöchentlich |
| from-to | 17:00 - 19:00 |
| Location | Filzengraben 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
