Prof. Dr. Daniel Hromada
UdK2300: On Teaching & Telling
Block Seminar, English/Deutsch, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Thursdays, 16.4., 23.4., 7.5., 21.5.2026, 12-14 h, Medienhaus Galerie or Garden
Block: Tuesday – Thursday, 28.4., 14 h- 30.4., 14 h, Begegnungsstätte Sauen
Plus final closing event (tba together with students)

Registration on Moodle starts on 9.4.2026:https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=3034
Enrolment Key: tell

Humans are story-telling animals. No matter whether You are an artist or a future grand-parent or teacher, there is one thing You will not avoid: You will be telling a story. In this seminar, we shall look at history of story-telling as it has been, since times immemorial, practiced in different cultures and different contexts (artistic, educational, political etc.). Also, we will extrapolate in the future and ask questions like: "How will story-telling look like in the future ?  What methods, instruments and media will be used to-tell-the-story in year 2300 ? Will AIs and corporations be the principal story-tellers or are they just temporary actors reminding us how important it is that humanity should protect its "narrative sovereignity" ?  What stories will be told and which which ones shall be abandoned ?".

But first and foremost: we will practice. Outdoor and indoor; by a fireplace and in Virtual Reality, we - You, me, us - will be telling stories. And, hopefully, also learning in the process.

Literature:
Ursula leGuin - The Telling (mandatory)
Will Storr - The Science of Storytelling
Paul Ricoeur - Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives
Joseph Cambpell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Fulfilment criteria for ungraded accreditation: regular and active attendance,develop own story and tell it.

Daniel Devatman Hromada is since August 2018 UdK’s Juniorprofessor for Digital Education at Einstein Center Digital Future. Born in 1982 in Bratislava, he holds bachelor degrees in humanities from Charles University (Prague) and linguistics from University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis; master degree in artificial and natural cognition from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris). In 2016, a successful defense of his Thesis “Evolutionary modelis of ontogeny of linguistic categories”, entitled Daniel to carry a double doctorate from both Slovak Technical University (cybernetics) as well as University Paris 8 – Lumieres (psychology). Father of two children, he is a founder and first senator of oldest Slovak digital community kyberia.sk.