Inhalt: José Rizal (1861–1896) is not only considered a key figure in the Philippine independence movement from Spain and has strong biographical ties to Germany, but he is also one of the most interesting novelists writing in Spanish in the 19th century, in addition to his work in poetry, drama and essays. His two novels, Noli me tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), set in the Philippines and of great interest for understanding colonial society, are nevertheless part of Spanish Realist fiction. The point of comparison in the seminar will therefore be Benito Pérez Galdós' novel Doña Perfecta (1876) and, in part, his Misericordia (1897). On this basis, we will attempt to define the characteristics of realist writing.
Inhalt: Das Seminar widmet sich Reisen und den Berichten darüber, die seit dem 19. Jahrhundert von spanischen Reisenden nach den Philippinen unternommen wurden. Die Philippinen sind bis zum Ende der spanischen Kolonialzeit im Jahre 1898, aber auch darüber hinaus bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert ein Teil der hispanischen Welt und werden von einer Vielzahl von Reisenden aus sehr unterschiedlichen Motiven und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten besucht. Die Vielfalt dieser Texte soll in diesem Seminar erarbeitet und klassifiziert werden. Dabei werden auch die Grundzüge der spanischen Präsenz in Asien und ihres traumatischen Endes beleuchtet. Abgelöst werden die kolonialzeitlichen Reisenden von den ersten Weltreisenden und Touristen, zu denen auch Vicente Blasco Ibáñez gehört.
Semester: SoSe 2023 - im Rahmen der Summer School Philippines Perspectives (17.-28. Juli 2023)
Sprache: Englisch
Dozentin: Prof. Dr. Christiane Meierkord
Inhalt: This block focused on the on the history and current uses of English in the Philippines. We started from a thorough introduction to its roots in the country’s past as a US American territory and to the status and functions of English and attitudes towards its various forms today. Then, we familiarized ourselves with the features which characterize the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Philippine English. Students then concentrated particularly on code-switching between English and Tagalog (often referred to as Taglish, somewhat derogatorily), relating this to issues of identity construction, language contact, language policy and education.This course focuses on the the history and current uses of English in the Philippines. We will start from a thorough introduction to its roots in the country’s past as a US American territory and to the status and functions of English and attitudes towards its various forms today. Then, we will familiarize ourselves with the features which characterize the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation of Philippine English. Students will then concentrate particularly on code-switching between English and Tagalog (often referred to as Taglish, somewhat derogatorily), relating this to issues of identity construction, language contact, language policy and education.
Semester: SoSe 2023 - im Rahmen der Summer School Philippines Perspectives (17.-28. Juli 2023)
Sprache: Englisch
Dozent: Luis Castellví Laukamp (University of Manchester)
Inhalt: In the first session, we explored the Boxer Codex, a lavishly illustrated Manila manuscript from the late 16th century. This chronice paints a vivid picture of life in Southeast Asia. The second session delved into Pedro Chirino's Relación de las islas Filipinas (1604), a chronicle abundant with miracles. We uncovered the influence of popular literature on this chronicle's prodigious tales. In the third session, we joumeyed through early modern Sino-Hispanic relations as chronicled in Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola's Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609), In particular, we examined how Argensola frames the Manila-based Chinese. Finally, in the fourth session, we explored the enduring legacy of these chronicles through the works of Nick Joaquin (1917-2004), a prominent Anglophone Filipino writer who set many of his short stories in the early Spanish Philippines. Participants gained a comprehensive understanding of the Spanish Philippine chronicles and their impact on contemporary Filipino literature.
Semester: SoSe 2023 - im Rahmen der Summer School Philippines Perspectives (17.-28. Juli 2023)
Sprache: Filipino und Deutsch
Dozent: Lenny Bugayong
Inhalt: Dieser Kurs richtete sich an jene, die bereits bei Vincent Wongaiham-Petersen Teil 1 des Seminarblocks "Tagalog: Sprache und Kultur der Philippinen" besucht haben, bei welchem einige Grundlagen des Filipino, der auf dem Tagalog basierenden Amts- und Nationalsprache der Philippinen, vermittelt wurden. In den vier Tagen erhielten sie die Gelegenheit, das Gelernte im Intensivkursformat aufzufrischen, ihren Wortschatz zu erweitern und ihre Grammatikkenntnisse weiter zu vertiefen. Der Input wurde mit verschiedenen Übungen und Anwendungsbeispielen ergänzt und es wurden auch kulturelle Aspekte beleuchtet. Zudem wurden soziolinguistische Phänomene thematisiert.
Semester: SoSe 2023 - im Rahmen der Summer School Philippines Perspectives (17.-28. Juli 2023)
Sprache: Deutsch
Dozent: Prof. Dr. Phil. Roger Friedlein
Inhalt: Der philippinische Archipel befand sich vom 16. bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts unter spanischer Kolonialherrschaft, die ihren Teil zur Ausprägung der heutigen philippinischen staatlichen Grenzen und zur kulturellen Identität beigetragen hat. 1898 konnten die Philippinen sich befreien, aber nicht ohne in eine zweite koloniale Periode unter US-Herrschaft zu geraten. Vor diesem Hintergrund, aber selbstverständlich auch darüber hinaus bis hin zur Gegenwart haben spanische Reisende unterschiedlichster Art die Inseln besucht und Texte über ihre Aufenthalte verfasst. Sie gehören zum Kernbestand der kulturellen Filipiniana , auch wenn viele der Reisenden keineswegs allein die Gewinnung von Erkenntnis über die Inseln zum Ziel hatten. Neben Forschern finden wir Soldaten, Kriegsgefangene und Missionare bei den Ureinwohnern, Weltreisende und Touristen, Journalisten und Reiseblogger. Ihr Verhältnis zu den Einheimischen könnte unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Im Seminar wurde das Spektrum der spanischen Reisenden seit dem 19. Jhd. bis zur Aktualität vorgestellt. Das Seminar fand in deutscher Sprache statt; es wurden spanische Texte mit sprachlichen Verständnishilfen verwendet.
Semester: SoSe 2023 - im Rahmen der Summer School Philippines Perspectives (17.-28. Juli 2023)
Sprache: Englisch
Dozent: Prof. Dr. Phil. Christine Moll-Murata (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) und Prof. Dr. Flemming Christiansen (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Inhalt: This seminar focused on a prominent group of immigrants to the Philippines and their descendants. In chronological order, we examined the origins of Chinese migration to the Philippines since the sixteenth century, emphasizing the role of Chinese merchants, the Sangleys, in the distribution of silver from the Spanish colonies to the Chinese Ming Empire. Moreover, we discussed the relationship between Spanish-occupied Taiwan as a colony of secondary importance compared to the macro-regional hub, the Philippines, centered on Manila. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the tension between assimiliation and the preservation of Chinese identity in a diasporic environment remained a crucial issue. We studied the anticolonial opposition by Rizal and Aguinaldo, but also referred to the plight of the coolies that were transported far overseas. In the session on 26 July, Professor Flemming Christiansen of the University of Duisburg-Essen, a specialist of Chinese diaspora studies, discussed whether the Chinese in the Philippines were really considered a problem, and how the international community took advantage of the cheap labor provided by ethnic Chinese from the Philippines. The final day was devoted to more contemporary issues. We looked at the recent new waves of immigration and the respective positions of the Chinese government. Students were asked to write short summaries of their papers and presented them in the final session.
Inhalt: Landeskunde steht in engem Zusammenhang mit dem Spracherwerb. In diesem Workshop werden sowohl Informationen über das Land als auch Strategien und Verhaltensweisen für den Umgang mit der Kultur der Philippinen vermittelt. Der erste Teil des Kurses bietet vorab einen wichtigen Kontext für die Vermittlung der Sprache und wird auch in der Abschlussevaluation in Betracht gezogen.
Am Ende dieses Kurses (Niveau A1) verfügt der/die Lernende über grundlegende Kenntnisse sowohl der Tagalog-Sprache als auch der Grundstruktur der Grammatik und der Aussprache. Alltägliche Ausdrücke und ganz einfache Sätze, die die eigene Person und Umgebung betreffen, werden verstanden und benutzt, sowohl in der mündlichen als auch in der schriftlichen Teilkompetenz.
Inhalt: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is one of the emblematic authors of Spanish realism. The seminar focused on his Valencian novels, in particular on La barraca and on his Mediterranean novel Mare nostrum. Moreover, Blasco Ibáñez was a travel writer. In his principal work La vuelta al mundo de un novelista, he describes, among others, his stay on the Philippines and in Indonesia. These three texts constitute a differentiated identity with regional, Mediterranean and cosmopolitan dimensions.
Inhalt: This master’s degree seminar for advanced students focused on the analysis of movies of the 20th and 21st centuries that examine the period of European expansion and the Conquista in Asia and the Americas. The leading question was to find out in how far the ‘modern’ perspective follows a post-colonial scheme of representing the colonial past. In addition to Ridley Scott's movie about Christopher Columbus (1992) – an inconsistent heroic rendering of the Italian seafarer – we also watched and analysed movies based on autobiographical accounts from the 16th century. In a comparative perspective, the original texts were compared with their cinematographic representations. The students were also called to do group research of the centenary celebrations of, for example, the voyage of Magellan to the Philippines.
Inhalt: Francisco de Xavier (born in Javier (Navarre) 1506 - 1552) or Franz Xavier is one of the founders of the Jesuit Order, together with Ignatius of Loyola. His missionary work extends over large parts of the Asian continent, where Spain and Portugal develop their colonial expansion: India, the Southeast Asian archipelago, Japan and China. In this context, both a multitude of texts of the saint himself and, soon after, a diverse body of literature as well as iconography about the soon to be canonized saint emerge. In the seminar, first the historical context of the political and religious expansionist movement of the Iberians will be examined - also critically; secondly, the cultural products will be presented that have contributed to the fact that Francisco Xavier is considered today as the first-rate reference figure of Asian Christians.
Gastvortrag von Dr. Francis Navarro (Ateneo University, Manila)
Thema: Spanish and Portuguese chronicles on Latin America and SE Asia, incl. Leonardo de Argensola: Conquista de las islas Malucas
Since the ventures of Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), the Iberian monarchies have been pioneers in European overseas expansion. The literature produced during the expansion period, roughly until the end of the 17th century, has long been the focus of cultural studies research. In addition to intercultural hermeneutics or so-called imagology, which discusses the question of imagining the foreigner(s) (see the seminal studies by Todorov, La conquête de l'Amérique, 1982, and Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions, 1991), the following perspectives have also been discussed in research alongside these questions about cultural contact: the fluid boundaries between fact and fiction; the legitimation procedures used by authors to justify conquest and missionization. The focus here, however, will also be on two topics that have received little attention to date: To what extent does a specifically early modern concept of experience emerge in the writings? What role do emotions play with regard to cultural contact?
In addition to the Letter of Columbus and the letters of Hernán Cortés, the report of A. Pigafetta on the Magellan expedition and Leonardo Argensola: Conquista de las Islas Malucas will be discussed.
Thema: Celebrations of the 4th and 5th centenaries of the Columbus and Magellan voyages in comparison (1892 – 1992 – 2020), including analysis of PH Quincentennial site
Inhalt: In this cultural study course, we will deal with the voyages of discovery of the Spanish and Portuguese expansionist period since the end of the 15th century, which are known to have taken the Iberian seafarers to all continents outside Europe. In an introductory phase of the seminar, the most important voyages of Columbus, da Gama, Magellan and Álvares Cabral as well as their documentation will be presented. The focus thereafter, however, will not be on the early period of colonial expansion, but on the celebrations dedicated to the 400th and 500th anniversaries of the voyages in the Iberian and in the formerly colonized countries in the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively. The last of these anniversaries, the 500th anniversary of the circumnavigation of the world by Magellan and Elkano, is being celebrated this year in Spain and the Philippines. We will work through the celebrations and the postcolonial debates that have been sparked by them in comparative perspective.
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