Virtual International Programme (VIP)

digital

Struktur: Vorlesung und Übung
Vorlesung: asynchron digital
Übung: synchron digital
Turnus: Wintersemester
Credits: 6 CP
Sprache: Englisch
Prüfungsform: Klausur

The course corresponds to the course "Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und Ökonometrie" offered in the summer term in German. It focuses on VIP- and Erasmus students as well as on regular students who prefer English and/or a digital offer.

Participants should possess some basic knowledge about statistical concepts such as estimation of parameters and testing hypotheses. The course will introduce to basic concepts of applied economic research starting with a strong focus on data and preprocessing of data for further analysis. It will provide an introduction to multiple linear regression including testing of hypotheses on parameters and checking whether relevant assumptions are satisfied. The course will also introduce to the modelling of discrete dependent variables and to dynamic modelling, which eventually are used for forecasts. The exercises and additional material offered through Ilias should help the participants getting used to the application of these methods and, possibly, also to first own empirical analyses.

Structure: Lecture + Tutorial
Rhythm: Winter semester
Credits: 6 CP
Course description: 02-VWL:MSc-V1-2
Language: English
Required work: Final exam (85%) + Assignments (10%) + Participation (5%)
Lecturers: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Götz
Possible Major: Economics, Management

The recordings of the lecture from the past WS 20/21 can be found on the chairs Youtube channel Economics2Go; in the playlist Industrial Organization.

Course description:
This course extends the basic concepts of Industrial Organization and presents advanced methods and topics. The focus is on business strategies such as price discrimination and product differentiation and on strategic interaction in oligopoly. Students will learn about the importance of the research and development activities of firms and how they are influenced by public policy in general and by the patent system in particular. The course models and evaluates business behavior from both a public policy and a managerial perspective.

Literature:
Pepall, Richard, and Norman: Industrial Organization: Contemporary theory and practice, South Western, 3rd edition. 2005 (or Industrial Organization: Contemporary theory and practice, Wiley, 4th edition. 2008).
Pepall/Richards/Norman: Contemporary Industrial Organization: A Quantitative Approach, resp. We recommend that you buy the more advanced "Quantitative Approach" text book.
D.W. Carlton and J.M. Perloff: Modern Industrial Organization, Pearson, 4th edition 2005.
Luis Cabral: Introduction to Industrial Organization, MIT Press, 2000.
Tirole, J., The Theory of Industrial Organization. MIT-Press, 1988.
Industrial Organization - Markets and Strategies by Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, Cambridge University Press 2010.
Helmut Bester: Theorie der Industrieökonomik, third edition, Springer, Berlin 2004.

Struktur: Vorlesung + Übung
Turnus: Wintersemester
Credits: 6 CP
Sprache: Englisch
Prüfungsform: Klausur

Die Modulinhalte umfassen unter anderem Aspekte aus folgenden Gebieten der Außenhandelstheorie und -politik:

• Erklärung von Handelsstrukturen
• Effizienz- und Verteilungswirkungen von Handel und Globalisierung
• Instrumente der Handelspolitik und deren Wirkungen
• Handelspolitik der Entwicklungsländer

Die Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt.

In dieser Veranstaltung wird ein erster Einblick in das Marketing gegeben. Die Marketingidee, in deren Zentrum die Kundenorientierung und die bestmögliche Befriedigung von Wünschen und Bedürfnissen der Kunden stehen, wird ebenso erläutert wie grundlegende marketingtheoretische Ansätze und die Einbindung des Marketings in die Unternehmung. Zunächst erfolgt eine Sensibilisierung für das Marketing. Anschließend wird ein Verständnis für Kunden, die im Zentrum des Marketings stehen, entwickelt. Es folgt ein Überblick darüber, wie man Märkte gezielt analysieren kann. Anschließend wird das Vorgehen zur Planung von Zielen und Strategien erläutert. Ein Schwerpunkt der Vorlesung bildet die Maßnahmengestaltung im Rahmen des Marketing-Mix der Unternehmung. Die Basis dafür bilden die festzulegenden Markenoptionen, die die Grundlage zur Ausgestaltung der Produktpolitik, der Kommunikationspolitik, der Preispolitik und der Distributionspolitik dienen. Diese werden ebenfalls detailliert dargelegt. Die Vorlesung schließt mit der Kontrolle von Zielen, Strategien und Maßnahmen und der Verankerung des Marketings im Unternehmen.

Die Vorlesungen werden auf Englisch gehalten. Ergänzend stehen Aufzeichnungen der deutschsprachigen Vorlesung des letzten Wintersemesters zur Verfügung.

Die Übung zur „Marketing“ Vorlesung findet unter anderem in Form von freier Aufgabenbearbeitung statt. Hierbei erfolgt eine Vertiefung der vorgestellten Inhalte. Übungsfragen helfen zudem, beim Selbststudium die Inhalte weiter zu vertiefen.
Es werden feste Übungstermine angeboten, bei denen die Aufgaben besprochen und die Lösungen vorgestellt werden.

Struktur: Vorlesung + Übung

Turnus: Wintersemester

Credits: 6 CP

Sprache: Englisch/Deutsch

Prüfungsform: Klausur

Das Modul umfasst z.B. Aspekte aus folgenden Gebieten des strategischen und internationalen Managements:
• Einführung in das strategische und internationale Management
• Strategieprozess und Strategische Analyse
• Geschäfts- und Unternehmensstrategie
• Internationaler Handel und Internationale Direktinvestition
• Internationalisierungstheorien
• Strategie und Organisation in internationalen Unternehmen
• Internationalisierung und Erfolg

Die Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt.

Struktur: Vorlesung + Übung

Turnus: Wintersemester

Credits: 6 CP

Sprache: Englisch/Deutsch

Prüfungsform: Klausur

Das Modul umfasst z.B. Aspekte aus folgenden Gebieten des strategischen und internationalen Managements:
• Einführung in das strategische und internationale Management
• Strategieprozess und Strategische Analyse
• Geschäfts- und Unternehmensstrategie
• Internationaler Handel und Internationale Direktinvestition
• Internationalisierungstheorien
• Strategie und Organisation in internationalen Unternehmen
• Internationalisierung und Erfolg

Die Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt.

Today maps seem to be the primary way of understanding and imagining the world, their construction of space and borders shape the way we approach our surroundings and what we ‘know’ about them. This concept of space and the medial element of maps, as well as written descriptions of the space ‘discovered’ and ‘explored’, played an important role in European colonialism all over the World, especially when it comes to the Americas and Oceania.

This course will look at the role of media and knowledge in the ‘explorations’ and expedition by Europeans from Columbus to Cook in Early Modernity (1500-1800), as well as the influences of these trips on what and how something can be ‘known’, and its effects on the way we think and act today.

To pass the writing of an essay or the holding of a presentation will be required, as well as regular participation in the discussions of the reading every week.
Due to the tie-in with the Virtual International Programme (VIP) this course will be held in english and online (via BBB on StudIP). This course will therefore allow international discussions on and insights in international historiography and academics.

Diese Übung ist in der neuen Prüfungs- und Modulordnung im Sprachmodul anrechenenbar!

This interactive series of lectures seeks to introduce you to the concepts of and issues in gender, sexuality, and diversity studies. The aim is to make clear how gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ rights, race, class, nationhood, migration status, and ableism have to be thought in conjunction with each other in order to understand and to trouble existing social hierarchies. In each session, we will relate an issue such as racial politics or trans rights to the U.S. American and/or the German cultural political context, paying particular attention to contentious issues in this American election year. The goal is to heighten our sensibilities for how we think and talk about and react to social hierarchies based on categories of identity.

The lecture series can be taken as part of your Anglophone Studies coursework and/or as the introduction to the Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity. This certificate aims to give students the tools for understanding how gender and sexuality intersect with other areas of identity and social experience so as to combat continued forms of inequality in work and in their private lives. The certificate also adds a valuable extra qualification for those who wish to work in organizations and businesses committed to diversity (https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/f05/certificates/certificate-in-gender-sexuality-and-diversity).

Die Veranstaltung ist für Muttesprachler_innen gedacht

Dieses Seminar bietet einen Überblick über das bekannteste nichtexistierende europäische Land: das kommunistische Jugoslawien, das zweite von drei Ländern, die denselben Namen trugen. Der Kurs besteht aus Workshops über die Politik, den historischen Kontext, die Ideologie, den Lebensstandard und die Massenkultur der SFRJ. Anhand von authentischen Quellen aus dem beobachteten Zeitraum lernen die Studierende Jugoslawien durch ihre eigene Analyse und Recherche kennen. Der Kurs endet mit einem großen „Kneipenquiz“, bei dem die Schüler einzeln oder in Teams gegeneinander antreten können. Das Quellenmaterial für die Workshops liegt in BCMS vor oder ist ins Deutsche und/oder Englische übersetzt, so dass keine Vorkenntnisse in BCMS erforderlich sind.
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This seminar offers an overview of the most famous non-existing European country: the communist Yugoslavia, the second of three countries that carried the same name. The course is composed of workshops about the politics, historical context, ideology, standards of living and mass culture of SFRJ. By looking at the authentic sources from the observed period, the students learn about Yugoslavia through their own analysis and research. The course ends with a big “pub quiz”, allowing the students to compete amongst themselves, individually or in teams. The source material for the workshops are available in BCMS or translated to German and / or English, so previous knowledge of BCMS is not necessary.

Die Veranstaltung führt in das Studium Deutsch als Zweit- und Fremdsprache ein. Die Studierenden lernen das Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache als ein mehrdimensionales, interdisziplinäres Fach kennen, das Lerngegenstände (Grammatik, Aussprache, Wortschatz, Landeskunde) und Lehrmethoden gleichermaßen umfasst. Dabei werden Methoden, Anwendungs- sowie Erkenntnisinteressen und Forschungsfragen aufgezeigt. Thematisiert werden darüber hinaus institutionelle Kontexte der Vermittlung des Deutschen als Fremdsprache und grundlegende Mittel einer gesteuerten Vermittlung des Deutschen als Fremdsprache (GER, Lehr- und Lernmaterialien, Testverfahren) sowie Aspekte, wichtig für die Methodenreflexion und die Entwicklung innovativer Lehr-Lernformate.

The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. Therefore, we will pay particular attention to the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, in order to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Exam Date
Feb. 7, 2023

The study of the history of the English language offers highly relevant insights into how the language has changed over the course of the centuries and into how the English language is structured and functions all around the world today. Therefore, we will pay particular attention to the different periods in the history of the English language, i.e. Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Late Modern English and Present-day English, in order to follow the structural changes on the levels of phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics that have led to the English language as we use it today.

Exam Date: Feb. 9, 2023

Im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert war der literarische und wissenschaftliche Austausch zwischen Deutschland und Polen außerordentlich rege. Zahlreiche deutsche Humanisten studierten z.B. in Krakau und die Werke Luthers wurden in Polen eifrig rezipiert. Das Seminar, das in Kooperation mit der Universität Lodz angeboten wird und sich an Studierende der Germanistik in beiden Universitäten richtet, behandelt zentrale deutsche Werke der beiden Epochen und ihre polnischen Gegenstücke und fragt nach charakteristischen Ähnlichkeiten und Differenzen zwischen den beiden Literaturen. Das Seminar kombiniert eine Online-Veranstaltung mit einem Präsenz-Blockseminar mit den polnischen Studierenden in Gießen in der Woche vom 7. bis 12. November. Dafür endet es vor Weihnachnten.
Qualifikation: Hausarbeit.
Nachweis aktueller Teilnahme: Kurzreferat.

This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to the study of the English language in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terminology from the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Exam Date: Feb. 6, 2023

This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to the study of the English language in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terminology from the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Exam Date: Feb. 6, 2023

This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to the study of the English language in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terminology from the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Exam Date: 08 February 2023

This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to the study of the English language in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terminology from the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Exam Date: Feb. 7, 2023

This course aims at familiarizing students with approaches to the study of human language in general and to the study of the English language in particular. Attention will be paid to important concepts and terminology from the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and to their relevance to the fields of applied linguistics, such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Exam Date: 08 February 2023

Ungraded credit: Regular attendance, completion of reading and homework assignments, active participation in class and an oral presentation, which may involve group activities and class discussions, or a written report.

Graded credit: In addition to the above, a final exam or a term paper.

Exam Date: Feb. 6, 2023
Term Paper Deadline: March 31, 2023

1. Das Seminar zur Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte wird ausgehend vom Beispiel des ukrainischen Philosophen Gregorius Skovoroda (1722-1794) die Verflechtungen von sprachlicher Begrifflichkeit, metaphorische Anschaulichkeit und rhetorischer Performanz behandeln. Das historische und areale Wandern von Konzepten gibt Einblick in den Aufbau der Kultur als Transformationsphänomen. Die Lektüre Skovorodas (im Original bzw. auch in Übersetzung) kann auf Wunsch der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer um verwandte Themen aus Sprach-, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte erweitert werden. Ziel ist, die Theorie und Methode der kulturwissenschaftlichen Lektüre - close reading und interdisziplinäre Kontextualisierung - am konkreten Material zu entwickeln und theoretische Kompetenz mit praktischer Anwendbarkeit zu vermitteln.

1. The seminar is concerned with the interconnections of concepts, speech and performance in intellectual and cultural history. As a starting point selected works of Ukrainian philosopher Gregory Skovoroda (1722-1794) will be analyzed to examine the migration of concepts in time and space as building blocks of culture as a phenomenon of transformation. We will read Skovoroda in original language and all available translations; we are not so much interested in lingustics, but in the migration of concepts, which may be found in other media (painting, sculpture, architecture, dramatic plays), as well. Participiants are welcome to broaden the thematic range of the seminar according to their academic interests. The seminar aims at a close reading of Skovoroda's work together with its interdisciplinary contextualization to introduce theoretical and methodological approaches to cultural science.

This lecture course surveys the sounds of English, primarily those of American and British accents. The lecture focuses on the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation) as well as the systems used for the phonetic description of vowels and consonants. We will also have a look at phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena such as word stress and intonation. Attention is also paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription.

Course book:
Lorenz, Frank. 2013. Basics of phonetics and English phonology. With IPA transcription. 2nd. ed. Berlin: Logos Verlag. (available as e-book through universitay library)

Registration:
FlexNow.

Credit:
Graded: Final exam 100%

Final exam:
- ICB and Anglophone Studies (MAP): last week of lecture period, dates tba.
- all others: 07.02.2022

This lecture course surveys the sounds of English, primarily those of American and British accents. The lecture focuses on the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation) as well as the systems used for the phonetic description of vowels and consonants. We will also have a look at phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena such as word stress and intonation. Attention is also paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription.

Course book:
Lorenz, Frank. 2013. Basics of phonetics and English phonology. With IPA transcription. 2nd. ed. Berlin: Logos Verlag. (available as e-book through universitay library)

Registration:
FlexNow.

Credit:
Graded: Final exam 100%

Final exam:
- ICB and Anglophone Studies (MAP): last week of lecture period, dates tba.
- all others: 09.02.2022

This lecture course surveys the sounds of English, primarily those of American and British accents. The lecture focuses on the characteristic articulation of English sounds (esp. speech organs, sound classes, places and manners of articulation) as well as the systems used for the phonetic description of vowels and consonants. We will also have a look at phonemes and allophonic distribution, phonological processes and connected speech phenomena such as word stress and intonation. Attention is also paid to those areas of articulation that tend to be problematic for German speakers. Students will also learn to read and broadly transcribe English sounds using International Phonetic Association (IPA) transcription.

Course book:
Lorenz, Frank. 2013. Basics of phonetics and English phonology. With IPA transcription. 2nd. ed. Berlin: Logos Verlag. (available as e-book through universitay library)

Registration:
FlexNow.

Credit:
Graded: Final exam 100%

Final exam:
- ICB and Anglophone Studies (MAP): last week of lecture period, dates tba.
- all others: 09.02.2022

Since the beginning of the war in Donbas in 2014, this border region has been a hot spot both in news coverage across the globe and on the battlefield. Along with this, a wide array of issues concerning the place of the Donbas on Ukrainian cultural map—from its entangled history to the significance of Russian culture or the complex relations between regional and national identity—came to the fore, esp. after the outbreak of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022.
In our online tandem seminar, we shall discuss how the image of the Donbas has been construed in culture, literature, and arts since the 19th century, how it developed afterwards, and what narratives this development has brought about. In so doing, we will try to overcome the stereotypic image of the Donbas as a “pro-Russian,” “pro-Soviet,” even “anti-Ukrainian” region and focus on its complex affiliation with the Ukrainian identity debates. Our prime goal is to look at the Donbas through the lens of the current Russian-Ukrainian war to observe how the older narratives about this Ukrainian region are being referred to, reproduced, instrumentalized, or revised in contemporary Ukrainian culture and in arts—and how this influences Ukrainian self-identifications under war conditions.
The tandem seminar, which will be held by Dr. Oleksandr Chertenko (JLU Giessen) and Dr. Olha Poliukhovych (NaUKMA Kyiv), is part of the project “Ukraine digital: Ukraine in its transcultural and transnational context” of the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA). The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); funding is provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the course of the seminar, we plan to invite an international expert on the topic to an online guest lecture and one or two other experts who will provide their insights into topics discussed during individual sessions.

The tandem seminar is held together by Prof. Wingender (JLU Giessen) and Prof. Kobchenko (NaUKMA Kyiv). Our tandem seminar deals with the complex research field of language and war. The seminar begins with the treatment of the methodical basics and the historical background. Thus, on the basis of a model of language conflict types we deal with the complex relationships of language and conflicts. This is followed by the historical background in form of a short overview of Ukraine’s history and its language policy.
The focus of the seminar is then on three thematic blocks:
1. Myths and narratives regarding the origin of the Ukrainian language, public opinions on Ukrainian language, stereotypes, propaganda;
2. Myths and narratives regarding the language situation in Ukraine, language laws, laws on education, propaganda with regard to the role of Russian in Ukraine;
3. Attitudes towards Ukrainian and Russian in Ukraine, changes in attitudes, current surveys and polls, language of cultural products, language as a means of Ukrainian battle, changes in word usage and word meanings, linguistic landscape.
The tandem seminar is part of the project “Ukraine digital: Ukraine in its transcultural and transnational context” of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (JLU) together with the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA). The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the frame of our tandem seminar we will invite an international expert on the topic to an online guest lecture.

No final exam

Einführungsveranstaltung am 17.10.2022 von 17:15-18:30 Uhr (HBR19, Hörsaal C2)

Die Veranstaltung wird online stattfinden und auf Englisch gehalten.

Die Veranstaltung wird nur online und in englischer Sprache gehalten.

1. Das Seminar zur Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte wird ausgehend vom Beispiel des ukrainischen Philosophen Gregorius Skovoroda (1722-1794) die Verflechtungen von sprachlicher Begrifflichkeit, metaphorische Anschaulichkeit und rhetorischer Performanz behandeln. Das historische und areale Wandern von Konzepten gibt Einblick in den Aufbau der Kultur als Transformationsphänomen. Die Lektüre Skovorodas (im Original bzw. auch in Übersetzung) kann auf Wunsch der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer um verwandte Themen aus Sprach-, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte erweitert werden. Ziel ist, die Theorie und Methode der kulturwissenschaftlichen Lektüre - close reading und interdisziplinäre Kontextualisierung - am konkreten Material zu entwickeln und theoretische Kompetenz mit praktischer Anwendbarkeit zu vermitteln.

1. The seminar is concerned with the interconnections of concepts, speech and performance in intellectual and cultural history. As a starting point selected works of Ukrainian philosopher Gregory Skovoroda (1722-1794) will be analyzed to examine the migration of concepts in time and space as building blocks of culture as a phenomenon of transformation. We will read Skovoroda in original language and all available translations; we are not so much interested in lingustics, but in the migration of concepts, which may be found in other media (painting, sculpture, architecture, dramatic plays), as well. Participiants are welcome to broaden the thematic range of the seminar according to their academic interests. The seminar aims at a close reading of Skovoroda's work together with its interdisciplinary contextualization to introduce theoretical and methodological approaches to cultural science.

Since the beginning of the war in Donbas in 2014, this border region has been a hot spot both in news coverage across the globe and on the battlefield. Along with this, a wide array of issues concerning the place of the Donbas on Ukrainian cultural map—from its entangled history to the significance of Russian culture or the complex relations between regional and national identity—came to the fore, esp. after the outbreak of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022.
In our online tandem seminar, we shall discuss how the image of the Donbas has been construed in culture, literature, and arts since the 19th century, how it developed afterwards, and what narratives this development has brought about. In so doing, we will try to overcome the stereotypic image of the Donbas as a “pro-Russian,” “pro-Soviet,” even “anti-Ukrainian” region and focus on its complex affiliation with the Ukrainian identity debates. Our prime goal is to look at the Donbas through the lens of the current Russian-Ukrainian war to observe how the older narratives about this Ukrainian region are being referred to, reproduced, instrumentalized, or revised in contemporary Ukrainian culture and in arts—and how this influences Ukrainian self-identifications under war conditions.
The tandem seminar, which will be held by Dr. Oleksandr Chertenko (JLU Giessen) and Dr. Olha Poliukhovych (NaUKMA Kyiv), is part of the project “Ukraine digital: Ukraine in its transcultural and transnational context” of the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA). The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); funding is provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the course of the seminar, we plan to invite an international expert on the topic to an online guest lecture and one or two other experts who will provide their insights into topics discussed during individual sessions.

The tandem seminar is held together by Prof. Wingender (JLU Giessen) and Prof. Kobchenko (NaUKMA Kyiv). Our tandem seminar deals with the complex research field of language and war. The seminar begins with the treatment of the methodical basics and the historical background. Thus, on the basis of a model of language conflict types we deal with the complex relationships of language and conflicts. This is followed by the historical background in form of a short overview of Ukraine’s history and its language policy.
The focus of the seminar is then on three thematic blocks:
1. Myths and narratives regarding the origin of the Ukrainian language, public opinions on Ukrainian language, stereotypes, propaganda;
2. Myths and narratives regarding the language situation in Ukraine, language laws, laws on education, propaganda with regard to the role of Russian in Ukraine;
3. Attitudes towards Ukrainian and Russian in Ukraine, changes in attitudes, current surveys and polls, language of cultural products, language as a means of Ukrainian battle, changes in word usage and word meanings, linguistic landscape.
The tandem seminar is part of the project “Ukraine digital: Ukraine in its transcultural and transnational context” of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (JLU) together with the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA). The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the frame of our tandem seminar we will invite an international expert on the topic to an online guest lecture.