IS- US/Age of Incarceration
The 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series will explore the ways that state violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization have transformed the U.S. economy, culture and society. This one-credit course is offered in conjunction with eligible History Department courses in the Fall 2016. Students in this course will attend Feinberg Series events and may be expected to complete additional assignments. See participating faculty for details.
IS- US/Age of Mass Incarcation
The 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series will explore the ways that state violence, mass incarceration, and mass criminalization have transformed the U.S. economy, culture and society. Students in this course will attend Feinberg Series events and may be expected to complete additional assignments. See participating faculty for details.
QUEER DISPLACEMNT:RACE,SEX,PLA
Queering Displacement is an upper-level interdisciplinary seminar that draws from contemporary theories of race, gender and sexuality to examine the relationship between specific communities and state-sanctioned displacements in the 20th and 21st centuries. What is the relationship between spaces such as reservations, inner cities, prisons and housing projects and the state's intent to manage non-normative bodies? How are removal and displacement deployed as strategies to eradicate queer bodies?
Self/Subject/Photography
Before the oft-reproduced social-media mechanism of the selfie, there existed (and still does) the artistic self-portrait. Utilized in the photographic realm to create a representation of the artist as both subject and object, self-portraits can be whimsical, grim, tantalizing, performative, or combative. In this course we will examine gendered constructions of self-portraiture photography existing in the contemporary realm. Specifically, our task will be to examine the registers of possibility present when women use their own bodies to claim visual space. Our goal d
Cicero
This course examines the legal and moral writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero in their historical context: the Roman Republic’s tumultuous final century. Through his roles as a public official, lawyer, and philosopher, Cicero became one of the most important figures in the history of Roman law. We will explore how he understood the nature of law, obligation, and justice through close readings of his treatises and speeches, and we will pay especially close attention to his claims about how we should navigate conflicts between doing what is right and doing what is expedient.