Hope you had a wonderful weekend. We still have some spots in these CHID courses and ask if you can share them with your students.
- CHID 250 A: “Utopias Gone Awry: Conflict and Paradise in the Black Sea Region”
- CHID 250 B: “Processes of Everyday Resilience: Decoding and Recoding cultural language in foods and eating-related events
- CHID 250 D: “Mobility, Visibility, and the Other: Rendering 2D Animation”
- CHID 250 E & EA: “The Making of the 21st Century”
- CHID 250 F: “What’s Wrong with Rights”
- CHID 250 G: “Writing in Public in Turbulent Times”
- CHID 270 C: “Lit and the Environment”
- CHID 339 B: Virtual Internship Course - “Widening Circles: Online Community for Learning and Action”
- CHID 480 A: “Diasporic (Re-)Envisioning of Social Movements: Multisensory Encounter and Multimodal Research”
- CHID 480 C: “The New Poetics of Race”
- CHID 480 E: “The End of Nature: Life and Love in a Time of Loss”
- CHID 480 G: “Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Line of Solidarity: How Anti-Semitism Relates to Other Forms of Racism and How the Relationship Bears on Racial Justice Movements”
- CHID 495 A: “The Lyric Essay”
COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF IDEAS DEPARTMENT
WINTER 2021 CHID COURSE OFFERINGS
CHID 250 A: “Utopias Gone Awry: Conflict and Paradise in the Black Sea Region”
SLN: 12437
TuTh 10:30 – 12:20
Mary Childs
I&S
Description: This course introduces students to the history and political dynamics of the Black Sea Region through contemporary literature, art, film, music and food. We will look at the multicultural makeup of the countries surrounding the Black Sea – Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey – and investigate why conflicts persist in this border area between East and West, Europe and Asia. Identifying patterns of turbulence, gender politics and environmental degradation, we will also explore positive cultural continuities in the region. In this seminar style course, students will contribute through reports, discussions, and creative projects.
CHID 250 B: “Processes of Everyday Resilience: Decoding and Recoding cultural language in foods and eating-related events”
SLN: 12438
TuTh 12:20 – 2:20
Carlos Salazar
I&S
Description: What messages and meanings does food create and acquire with culture? What are the feelings, emotions, and meanings that foods and other eating-related events embody? This course will develop an understanding of our foods and the dynamic messages that we as a society interchange in the events and performances related to culinary traditions through the lens of cultural studies and ethnography. Taking the City of Seattle and its inhabitants as fields of research, we will develop a practical analysis of cultural events such as Thanksgiving, Ramadan, Dia de los Muertos, and Christmas, as well as performances of belonging related to ethnic food, food and diaspora, American nostalgia (dinners and 1950’s cafés), and the food trucks phenomena in relation to the Street Culture. These inquiries, with an emphasis on the diverse practices and forms of “fusion” associated with the marketing of food and the (re)shaping of identities and communities, will enable us to unpack the interlocking structures of power intertwined with these processes and to further consider how foods reproduce social relations and perform resilience in everyday practices.
CHID 250 D: “Mobility, Visibility, and the Other: Rendering 2D Animation”
SLN: 12440
TuTh 2:30 – 5:20
Dan Paz
I&S
Offered Jointly with ART 360 A
Description: This cross-disciplinary, practicum course focuses on contemporary forms of documentation to analyze representations of stillness and movement as it affects Indigenous populations and marginalized communities in the West. Beginning with a close analysis of indigenous mark-making, Mobility, Visibility and the Other: Rendering 2D Animation will explore analog and digital forms of sequencing using varying methods of slow animation. Through material exploration students will be introduced to cultural and creative practices that parse out indigeneity, the global south, race, gender, and ethnic lineage to make thaumatropes, gestural animations, continuous/stop-motion videos, and 2D animations that reflect upon their own relationships to embodied history
CHID 250 E & EA: “The Making of the 21st Century”
SLN: 12441
Jose Antonio Lucero
I&S
Time: Asynchronous lecture, Required quiz section meets M 10:30 – 11:20
Description: Provides a historical understanding of the twentieth century and major global issues today. Focuses on interdisciplinary social science theories, methods, and information relating to global processes and on developing analytical and writing skills to engage complex questions of causation and effects of global events and forces.
CHID 250 F: “What’s Wrong with Rights”
SLN: 12442
TuTh 10:30 – 12:20
Chandan Reddy
I&S
Offered jointly with GWSS 390 A
Description: We often turn to “rights” as ways to address social or personal violence. Liberal feminism argued that it was the lack of “rights” in the household or private sphere, as much as the inequalities of the wage and workplace that facilitated pervasive sexual violence and intimate partner abuse. Feminist grassroots organizers developed domestic violence response that made the state responsible for enforcing women’s rights. Yet, this strategy has helped build and justify a massive policing apparatus, rebranding liberal feminism as “carceral feminism.” How did this happen? Can there be feminism without the police? What replaces a “right” to safety and freedom from harm? What alternative does abolitionist feminism offer?
CHID 250 G: “Writing in Public in Turbulent Times”
SLN: 22158
MW 10:20 – 12:20
Anne Dwyer
I&S, W
Description: The aim of this course is two-fold. First, this course will develop your abilities to creatively and effectively adopt and adapt a range of public-facing genres, from social media to Op-Eds to podcasts. In other words, this class focuses on developing strategies for writing for multiple audiences to advance a variety of purposes. Second, this course explores the specificity of the public sphere in the current moment, i.e., in turbulent times. To write effectively in this moment, we will interrogate the theoretical concept of the public sphere as well as situate and historicize contemporary public discourse and debates. The ultimate aim? To write our way to social change.
CHID 270 C: “Lit and the Environment”
SLN: 12446
TuTh 10:30 – 12:20
Gary Handwerk
I&S, VLPA, W
Offer jointly with C LIT 210 A
Description: Science is a social, civic, cultural and political enterprise, deeply intertwined with the ways in which human beings define themselves and organize their activities. This holds true, indeed is especially true, for non-scientists and non-researchers. Our topic in this course will be this aspect of science: how it reaches into social life, shaping the intellectual frameworks through which we understand our world (and ourselves), affecting public processes of social and political decision-making, and influencing our daily interactions with people and with the natural world in ways both obvious and unobtrusive.
CHID 339 B: Virtual Internship Course - “Widening Circles: Online Community for Learning and Action”
SLN: 21878
Willy Oppenheim
Additional $600 course fee required
Description: Widening Circles is a new five-credit, online “study away” program that responds to this moment by offering a digital ecosystem of relationships, virtual social impact internship opportunities, curated curriculum, and multimedia storytelling. For more information, go to HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/Y6MCLDRJ or contact CHID Study Abroad.
CHID 480 A: “Diasporic (Re-)Envisioning of Social Movements: Multisensory Encounter and Multimodal Research”
SLN: 12458
MW 10:30 – 12:20
Ellen Chang
I&S
Description: This course provides a critical overview of how the idea of diaspora has been (re)shaped through different understandings of the notions of roots, routes, and returns, with an emphasis on how such mobility (re)shapes the ways we participate in and (re-)envision, from a distance and often through the mode of virtual encounter, social movements that explore personal and collective identities, rebel against social injustices, and ignite social and political transformation. This course also introduces students to the emerging scholarly form of multimodal research to further engage the course projects in unpacking and participating in the interlocking webs of mobility, connectivity, and communication at moments of encounter. With an emphasis on the positionalities emerged particularly from the UW campus, the City of Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest, students will build a theoretical toolkit for critically engaging creative forms of both cultural and scholarly production and for communicating about the debates surrounding the notion of diaspora and the diasporic mode of participation in social movements using diverse media and presentational strategies.
CHID 480 C: “The New Poetics of Race”
SLN: 12460
TuTh 12:30-2:20
Caroline Simpson
I&S, VLPA
Description: In the last few years we’ve witnessed the emergence of a number of poets of color concerned with re-posing the question of race in American culture, including Solmaz Sharif, Ocean Vuong, and Layli Long Soldier among others. Their vibrant reclamation of that too often lost classical symbiosis between poetry (or the lyric) and protest has re-set the stakes of American poetry. Our focus will be two-fold. First, we will try to on figure out just how they do what they do. How does a poem come to mean this rather than that to us? What turns of language, address, tone, example, description, and page setting create their particular worlds of desire, lament, and outrage? Second, we will try to locate or situate our poems, when possible, in relationship to other expressive conventions, be they poetic or musical or merely, loosely linguistic. Students need not have any experience reading poetry but should come with a deep curiosity to learn about what’s happening on the poetry ‘scene’ that has so many of us taking note.
CHID 480 E: “The End of Nature: Life and Love in a Time of Loss”
SLN: 12462
TuTh 10:20 – 12:20
Maria Elena Garcia
I&S
Description: This seminar invites students to think critically about nature and explore the urgency of this moment – from global warming to mass extinctions to the current pandemic and protests against police brutality. Thinking with “nature,” students will examine the politics of life and loss to explore the fraught category of “the human,” engage with the impacts of extractive industry, consider the vitality of trees and glaciers, and discuss the significance of grief and rage in environmental politics. In our readings, discussions, and written work, we will center race, indigeneity, coloniality, disability, sexuality, and other vectors of difference.
CHID 480 G: “Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Line of Solidarity: How Anti-Semitism Relates to Other Forms of Racism and How the Relationship Bears on Racial Justice Movements”
SLN: 21880
MW 4:30 – 6:20
Nicolaas P. Barr
I&S
Offered jointly with JEW ST 462 A
Description: Comparative study of various anti-Semitic cultural systems from ancient to modern times. Topics include how anti-Semitism can be defined as a cultural phenomenon; the conditions that explain the circulation of anti-Semitic traditions in a given society; the conditions under which social conflict with Jews becomes anti-Semitism.
CHID 495 A: “The Lyric Essay”
SLN: 21888
TuTh 2:30-4:20
Caroline Simpson I&S, W, VLPA
Description: This course will focus on the so-called “lyric essay,” an experimental writing practice that mixes a number of forms, from autobiographical, theoretical or academic, fictional or poetic, and even visual expression. We will sample both the variety of lyric essays out there, as well as the variety of often strongly held opinions about the meaning or significance of the lyric essay. Students will be encouraged to develop and experiment with their own lyric forms, both as critics of the essays we will read and as writers of their own essays. Class will, thus, be split between group discussion of influential lyric essays and the discussion and work-shopping of our own lyric essays.
QUESTIONS? NEED MORE INFO? CONTACT CHID:
Cynthia Anderson
Director of Learning Communities & Academic Counselor for CHID