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Dear all,
Please keep checking this space before your weekly session, as I will be posting the latest announcements about the seminar here.
Please browse through the seminar outline and reader below. Please check/read/watch the readings/videos for the first session beforehand. You may find that some readings in the reader are still missing (yellow marked), and will be added at a later date.
Kindly note that you are expected to obtain a copy of the primary texts/novels. Please let me know if that is a problem, and I will look into solutions.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Pavan Malreddy -
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (watch the documentary beforehand)
Reading in Class: “mountains are calling”:
https://www.localphilosophy.org/the-mountains-are-calling-flagstaff-the-sublime/ -
We have two readings for this session (in the reader). We will try to undrestand how to conceptualize submile, physical limit, body and philosophjy of pushing one's limits.
The second one is slightly demanding but please give it a try. It will be reqarding as well.
2. Shits Happens by Catherine Palmer
3. Postcolonial Romanticisms: The Sublime and Negative Capability… by Philip Dickinson
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John Quellen, Tempting the Throne Room: Surviving Pakistan’s Deadliest Climbing Season (story, plot, form)
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John Quellen, Tempting the Throne Room: Surviving Pakistan’s Deadliest Climbing Season (ethics of tourism)
Read the articles below and discuss if mountain tourism should be allowed at all, given the abuses of humans, animals and the environment? Then what would happen to the communities that depend on tourism? Or what should be the remedies?
Group 1:
https://explorersweb.com/pakistani-porters-k2-broad-peak-speak-out/
Group 2:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2353276/pakistan
Group 3:
https://english.onlinekhabar.com/donkey-abuse-on-everest-trail.html