PROGRAM LECTURES: TUESDAYS 2-4pm (18/1, …

PROGRAM

LECTURES: TUESDAYS 2-4pm (18/1, 25/1, 1/2, 8/2, 15/2, 1/3)

SEMINARS: THURSDAYS 10-12am (20/1, 27/1, 3/2, 10/2, 17/2, 3/3). Seminar leader: Jemima Garcìa Godos

1. Lecture January 18: "How to construct an argument for your thesis I" Jennifer Schirmer

Read: Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960

2. Lecture January 25: "How to construct an argument for your thesis II" Jennifer Schirmer

Read: Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960

3. Lecture February 1: “The World as a Book of Signs: From Thick Description to Semiotics” Nina Witoszek

Read: Barthes, Mythologies Geertz, “Thick Description” Bell, “Technology, Nature and Society” Bell, “The Disjunction of Realms”

4. Lecture February 8: “Methodology in Religious Studies” Tarjei Rønnow

Read: Castels, "The greening of the self”

5. Lecture February 15: “Fieldwork and case study methods” Jemima Garcìa Godos

Read: Stake, Case studies Creswell, Qualitative Inquiry Theidon, "Terror's Talk” Méndez, "The Power of Naming"

Optional reading: Stake, The Art of Case Study Research

NO LECTURE FEBRUARY 22

6. Lecture March 1: “How to Popularize” Nina Witoszek

Read: Burke and Lomborg, “The Challenge to the Environmental Movement” Geertz, “Culture War” Gould, “Utopia Limited” Hardin, ”The Tragedy of the Commons"