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Global Flex Morocco

Sectioned course.

NOTE: Is NOT a co-curricular course for credit. Please read expanded course description for FULL CLASS INFO. (Newcomers, Welcome!) Please contact Samuel Kanner for information on enrollment. NOTE Regarding COVID-19 and Fall 2020 Programming: Alternate training options will be evaluated at the time of classes to observe the safest public health requirements we are facing at the current moment. -- The Shuuko Kyudojo, located at Hampshire College, is a charter dojo of our governing association, Zenko International.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published very little in her lifetime, yet she left behind a body of work that continues to intrigue, engage, and inspire. In this workshop, we will consider Dickinson's life in light of the personal pressures and national upheavals that marked it, and the ways in which her writing-both poems and letters-charted what she called "circumference," the whole of existence, from the tiniest insects to the depths of human yearning, to the motion of the stars in the sky, and beyond.

This course investigates the roles of law, culture and technology in creating and re-defining families. We focus on the ways in which systems of reproduction reinforce and/or challenge inequalities of class, race and gender. We examine the issues of entitlement to parenthood, domestic and international adoption, surrogacy, birthing and parenting for people in prison, and the uses, consequences and ethics of new reproductive technologies designed to help people give birth to biologically-related children. Questions to be addressed include: What is family?

This seminar delves into the dynamics, debates, and desires that drive pop fandom. In this class, we ask: What is fan culture? Does it build community? Are fans different from other consumers? What are the ethics and politics of fandom? What are the aesthetic, social, and legal ramifications of fan-produced forms such as mash-ups, remixes, youtube videos, and fanfic/slash that borrow, customize, and reinterpret pop commodities? How do such textual appropriations call into question the boundaries between high and low, production and consumption, intellectual property and fair use?

In this media production workshop, we will study historic and contemporary examples of campaigns produced for political groups and movements as we make media for change and transformation. Students will analyze works created by corporations, collectives, citizens and artists and use this knowledge to create work of their own. The course will reinforce or introduce production and design skills. Our workflow will incorporate research and development of an idea, production, editing, revision and exhibition.