CS 39P Photographing History Making Fall 2012
Responding to this transformational period in the history of the university, this experimental seminar will explore photographic technique and be conducted in the context of the current climate of change and conflict sweeping the university. Political discussion will be an integral part of the seminar. Class participation is essential.
What Benjamin Read (& Saw)
We envision this working group as something of a salon where faculty
and graduate students will be able to discuss the work of Walter Benjamin. In contrast
to other Townsend groups devoted to Critical Theory, our aim is not solely to read
Benjamin and his contemporaries, but to read with him—to read what he read and take
time to look at what he saw. We wish to put Benjamin’s thought in dialogue with the
philosophers, thinkers, artists, and cities with which he was engaged—especially those
CS 39P: Photographing History in the Making, Spring 2012
Responding to this transformational period in the history of the university, this experimental seminar will explore photographic technique and be conducted in the context of the current climate of change and conflict sweeping the university. Political discussion will be an integral part of the seminar. Class participation is essential.
Townsend Working Group in Contemporary Art
The goal of the Townsend Center Working Group in Contemporary Art is to broaden conversations across disciplines and institutions. Scholarship in contemporary art occurs across many departments on campus well beyond History of Art—Rhetoric/Film Studies, New Media, Art Practice—yet most opportunities for interaction are either extremely narrow (e.g. the personal conversation, the classroom) or broad (e.g. the public lecture, the exhibition). Our aim is to establish an intimate forum that fosters conversation and information sharing among faculty, curators, students and artists.