Mo 18-20
The Extra Slot (offenes Oberseminar, alle zwei
Wochen)
The Extra Slot provides an informal and
friendly space for discussing texts and images (and occasionally also music) as
well as questions and issues you find particularly interesting / fascinating /
baffling. It is also a forum for discussing projects – yours as well as mine
(ranging from seminar papers to BA/MA theses, or perhaps your first conference
paper or plans for a Ph.D. thesis, to all sorts of publications etc.). This
informal colloquium is for all those whose interests, enthusiasms and ambitions
go well beyond what they are told they have to do. It also goes beyond the
acquisition of Leistungsnachweise and
credit points (of which there will be none whatsoever). This is the only one of
my courses where no preparation is required.
In pre-Corona times, the Exta Slot
description used to say: If any interesting opportunities come up, we may go
and watch an English play, see an exhibition or attend other events connected
with British literature and culture in and around Essen. Now that things are a
bit different for reasons beyond our control, we will have to look for
enjoyable digital alternatives.
The Extra
Slot will be conducted entirely online and entirely in real time. We will meet
each online via Zoom, each week of the semester at the time of the seminar.
Please join the seminar´s Moodle room (password: ExtraWS20-21); you will
receive further information via Moodle/e-mail. Please make sure to use and
check your official university e-mail addresses at all times. Do not use any
other addresses, and do not have e-mails sent to your university address
forwarded to other addresses. Our experience in the last semester has shown
that that using non-university addresses / forwarding mails will lead to our
messages bouncing back in very many cases.
The Extra Slot is primarily aimed at students
who have taken (or who are taking) one or several of my seminars/lectures.
However, it is very much an open forum. Newcomers are most welcome. If you are
new to the Extra Slot, please send an e-mail to christian.feser@uni-due.de who
will put you on our mailing list