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Legal Fiction as Surrogate Trial: Victorian Fiction, Gender and the Failure of the Law
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Beschreibung
The aim of the course is to explore the interaction and interrelation between law and literature in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, drawing on the latest research of the Collaborative Research Center on Law and Literature (Münster/Osnabrück). Looking at selected Victorian novels and shorter works, we will examine the extent to which well-known Victorian novelists engaged in legal criticism in their novels, offering literary discourse not only as complementary but also corrective to the inadequacies of the law. In various 19th century literary works, so the initial premise for this course, it is not only the villains of the novels but also the legal system that are put on trial. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton (1848), her novella A Dark Night’s Work (1863) and her short story “The Crooked Branch” (1859) together with Wilkie Collin’s novels The Woman in White (1859-60) and The Law and the Lady (1874-5) will serve as primary material, which will not only allow us to explore the sensationalism connected to murder and crime but also look at legal and literary judgements and specifically the role of women in the literary and legal discourse of the time.
This course is explicitly designed as a research seminar. This design will allow participants greater flexibility and agency but will also require increased commitment and personal responsibility. Over the course of the winter semester, the course material will be developed alternately in self-study and group work units as well as in monthly online sessions. An in-person one-day workshop will then take place in January to allow participants to bring together the results of their work to date and to discuss, present, practice and evaluate methodological approaches. The seminar will culminate in a two-day symposium (in the first week after the end of classes in February), where students will be able to present their projects to each other and get feedback by their peers but also respective experts on the field.
Although the course requires a considerable amount of reading and thorough preparation as well as self-study, the project and research focus will hopefully provide a welcome departure from the traditional seminar format and will be of particular interest to those students who are interested in being in touch with current research.
The course is mainly intended for MA students, but advanced BA students may participate, after previous consultation via email.
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Ort: 01/114: Freitag, 12.01.2024 09:00 - 16:00,
41/E07: Montag, 05.02.2024 - Dienstag, 06.02.2024 09:00 - 16:00
Zeiten: Termine am Mittwoch, 04.10.2023, Mittwoch, 25.10.2023, Mittwoch, 08.11.2023, Mittwoch, 29.11.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Freitag, 12.01.2024 09:00 - 16:00, Mittwoch, 24.01.2024 10:00 - 12:00, Montag, 05.02.2024 - Dienstag, 06.02.2024 09:00 - 16:00, Ort: 01/114, 41/E07
Erster Termin: Mittwoch, 04.10.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Veranstaltungsart: Blockseminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Master
- Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Master
Past and Forthcoming Events
- Bernoulli-ims 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bochum, August 12-16, 2024
- Workshop on Stein's Method and Networks, Oxford, June 20-21, 2024
- Spatial Stochastics in High Dimensions, Osnabrück, May 2-3, 2024
- SPP2265-Meeting on Stochastic Geometry and Point Processes, Münster University, 15.11.2023
- DMV meeting 2023, TU Ilmenau, 25.-28.09.2023
- Workshop Random Graphs 2023, TU Dortmund, 04.-08.09.2023
- 43rd conference on Stochastic Processses and their Applications, in Lisbon, 24.-28.7.2023
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, Stochastic modelling of complex systems, The Univesity of Manchester, 27.-31.3.2023
- BOS Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Osnabrück, 22.-24.2.2023
- Stochastic Geometry Workshop, Osnabrück, 23-25.11.2022
- Workshop Recent Trends in Spatial Stochastic Processes, Eurandom Eindhoven, 03.-07.10.2022
- SPP Workshop Limit theorems for spatial random structures, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 07.09.-09-09.2022
- Stein’s Method: The Golden Anniversary, IMS Program Singapore, 13.06.–08.07.2022
- SPP Random Geometric Systems First Annual Conference, 11.04-14.04 2022
- Stochastiktage Mannheim, 27.09.-01.10.2021
- First Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society, 8-10 March 2021, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, 30 March to 3 April 2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Dresdener Stochastik-Tage 24. to 27.03.2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Final Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, September 30 to October 2nd, 2019
- SIAM in Bern, 07.2019
- Symposium in memory of Charles Stein [1920-2016]
- Women in probability, 31.05. to 01.06.2019
- Fourth Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, January 10 and 11, 2019
- Third Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, April 5 and 6, 2018
- Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, 30.11. to 02.12. 2017
- Second Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, June 26 and 27, 2017
- Opening Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, December 6 to 8, 2016
- Conference on Combinatorial Structures in Geometry
- Organisation of the workshop Algebraic and Stochastic Aspects of Graph Theory
- Talk at Junior Female Researchers in Probability in Berlin, October 22 and 23, 2015
- Talk at Satellite workshop Recent Trends in Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics at Univ. Hamburg, September 20 and 21, 2015
- Local Organisation of the 18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"
- Probabilistic and Geometric Facets of High Dimensions Organisation of the Mini-Workshop at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, October 9 and 10, 2014.
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014. Weitere Informationen
- Project "Mathematik be-greifen" in the Alfried Krupp-Schülerlabor at RUB, 2006-2013.
- Organisation of the IRTG Berlin-Zürich summer school "stochastic models of complex processes" and the Spring meeting Beijing/Bielefeld - Berlin/Zurich 2011
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2009. Weitere Informationen
Publications
- Asymptotics of a time-bounded cylinder model, with N. Aschenbruck and S. Bussmann, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964822000420
- The method of cumulants for the normal approximation, with S. Jansen and K. Schubert, Probability Surveys 2022, Vol. 19, 185-270, https://doi.org/10.1214/22-PS7
- Sedentary Random Waypoint, with C. Betken, arXiv:2009.02941
- The Impact of Bit Errors on Intra-Session Network Coding with Heterogeneous Packet Lengths, with B. Schütz, N. Aschenbruck, S. Bussmann and M. Juhnke-Kubitzke, Proc. of the 45th IEEE LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking LCN, virtually hosted in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 16–19, 2020.
- Stationarity for the Small World in Motion Mobility Model, with Nils Aschenbruck, Christian Heiden und Matthias Schwamborn, MSWIM '19: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Nov 25-29, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3345768.3355935
- Crossing Numbers and Stress of Random Graphs, with Markus Chimani and Matthias Reitzner, In Proceedings 26th International Symposium, GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 255--268, 2018 available here and for an extended journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07558
- Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model via Stein's method, with Carina Betken and Marcel Ortgiese, Random Structures & algorithms, vol.55, no.4, 2019 available here
- Connection times in large ad-hoc mobile networks, Bernoulli, vol.22, no.4, 2143--2176, 2016 available here
with Gabriel Faraud, Wolfgang König - The random disc thrower problem, Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, 59-78, 2013 available here with T. van der Aalst, D. Denteneer, M. Hong Duong, R. J. Kang, M. Keane, J. Kool, I. Kryven, T. Meyfroyt, T. Müller, G. Regts, J. Tomczyk
- Edge fluctuations of eigenvalues of Wigner matrices, High Dimensional Probability VI: the Banff volume, Progress in Probability, vol.66, 261-275, Springer, Basel, 2013 available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the determinant of Wigner matrices, Dedicated to Friedrich Götze on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol.42, 253-275, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the eigenvalue counting function of Wigner matrices, ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (1), 27-44, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations via cumulants, Journal of Theor. Probability, 2012, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains, Electronic Comm. Probab., 16(28), 296-303, 2011, available here
with Frank Aurzada, Marcel Ortgiese, Michael Scheutzow - Moderate deviations in a random graph and for the spectrum of Bernoulli random matrices, Electronic Journal of Probability, Vol. 14, Paper no. 92, 2636-2656, 2009, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Perpendicular transport of charged particles in slab turbulence: recovery of diffusion for realistic wave-spectra?, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 35, 025202, 2008
with Andreas Shalchi - Velocity correlation functions of charged test particles, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34, 859, 2007
with Andreas Shalchi