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Syllabus
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Mini-Syllabus: The Relationship Between Mental Health and Remembering (Or Not Remembering)
by Guest Contributor December 16, 2020“Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.” – Jeanette Winterson, author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? In this course, we focus on the…
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mini-syllabus: IMMORAL, INCORRIGIBLE, DELINQUENT: GIRLS IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
by Guest Contributor October 11, 2019Course Overview This course looks at the history of girls within the juvenile justice system—including forced sterilization, racial segregation, institutional labor, and domestic servitude—and considers the ways in which that…
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Mini-Syllabus: The Friendship Novel
by Guest Contributor September 9, 2019Did all friendships … involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? –Zadie Smith, Swing Time My friendship with Lila began the day we decided…
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Mini-Syllabus: Writing the Anthropocene
by Guest Contributor July 9, 2019Course Description Microsoft Word’s spell check doesn’t know the word Anthropocene and yet this that word has become not only the time in which but also the place where we…
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Yet had I been alone I would not have done it—I remember my state of mind to be thus at the time—alone I would never have done it. – St.…
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Mini Syllabus: Reading Lives, Exploring Selves: Theories of Witness and Perception
by Guest Contributor May 28, 2019First, we end up with paradoxes if we believe that we encounter difference and newness only or primarily intellectually, especially if we believe that the intellect is distinct from perception,…
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Mini-Syllabus: Meandering the Text: Walking & Charting Inner Topographies
by Guest Contributor May 3, 2019How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. – Elaine Scarry This work was like no…
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Mini-Syllabus: Co-Dependencies: Affected Bodies & the Languages of Personhood
by Janice Lee March 19, 2019“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” – William James “Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even agree.” – Sten Nadolny,…
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Mini-Syllabus: Isolation to Engagement, A Beginner’s Guide
by Guest Contributor March 15, 2019“It’s about a man that is ‘apart from,’ at the beginning; he becomes a part of only at the end. The premise of it was that what’s broken is healed…
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Mini-Syllabus: Query into Academic Queer History
by Guest Contributor February 15, 2019How do we educate ourselves with a broken history primarily written and translated by people who do not care about us? As Ann Matter says, we must learn ‘to read…
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Mini-Syllabus: PROSE BY POETS
by Guest Contributor June 10, 2018We live in a genre-obsessed literary culture, but there have always been border-crossers among us. Some of the most powerful prose of the 19th and 20th centuries was written by…
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Mini-Syllabus: Representations of blackness, gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora
by Guest Contributor May 11, 2018Anthropological representations of black women, sexuality and families in the African Diaspora (early-mid 20th century) This course will emphasize the history of women anthropologists, especially women from ethnic or…
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Mini-Syllabus: Uncertainty
by Guest Contributor March 30, 2018Most syllabi I know start from a confident assumption of objectivity. These compilations of sources usually assure us of their realness, their solidity, their rationality. I appreciate them, I really…