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The City of Benares in 19th-Century Texts
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The city of Benares has fascinated travellers, both European and Indian, for a long time. To many European travellers, it embodied those aspects of India which were quintessentially ‘other’, and which provoked feelings of admiration or repulsion, or both. It will be the aim of this seminar to examine and compare the feelings recorded by European and Indian travellers, as they are indicative of the various responses to a foreign culture and discourses regarding British colonial rule prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Texts studied will include extracts from:
Reginald Heber, Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India (1828).
Emma Roberts, Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, with Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society (1835),
William Buyers, Recollections of Northern India (1848),
Fanny Parks, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque (1850),
Matthew Sherring, The Sacred City of the Hindus: Benares in Ancient and Modern Times (1865),
Bholanaut Chunder, The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India (1869),
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897),
E. B. Havell, Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion (1905),
Rajani Ranjan Sen, The Holy City (Benares) (1912).
All of these texts are accessible on the internet (archive.org etc.), but extracts will also be made available on StudIP. Please make sure you have read the Benares parts of these books before the start of the semester (There will be a short test)
Please register for the course in person (preferably after making an appointment by e-mail), and as soon as you can, StudIP registration is not sufficient. To participate in this course you need to be in possession of a notebook or tablet with remote internet access.
Would you be interested in an excursion to Benares, to be undertaken in February, 2025? We would be there for one week; and it would cost ca. € 1.200,--. Please let me know if you might be interested as soon as possible, as we need to start planning early, in order to avail of (comparatively) cheap air fares. This study trip would be open to participants as well as non-participants in the seminar.
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Ort: 22/104
Zeiten: Mi. 18:00 - 20:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Mittwoch, 30.10.2024 18:00 - 20:00, Ort: 22/104
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Interdisziplinäre Studiengänge > Literatur und Kultur in Europa > Modul 2: Nationale Literatur und Kultur A
- Interdisziplinäre Studiengänge > Literatur und Kultur in Europa > Modul 5: Transnationale Literaturen und Kulturen in Europa
- 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
