Course Info: HACU-0261
| Course | HACU-0261 Commemorating Violence |
| Long Title | Commemorating Violence: Monuments, Museum Practice, Public Art |
| Term | 2024S |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson HallüFranklin Patterson Hall ELHü107 on T,THüT,TH from 1:00-2:20ü1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Jennifer Bajorek |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 14 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | This course explored contemporary approaches to commemorating incidents and aftermaths of collective historical violence through monuments, museum practice, and public art. Students examined case studies from around the world, with a focus on sites of contestation and interventions in public and collective discourse from the last 50 years, including Holocaust memorials and museums; monuments to los Desaparecidos (the disappeared) in Chile and Argentina and victims of genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda; #RhodesMustFall and other international "fallist" movements to remove statues celebrating slavery, apartheid, and white supremacy; the visual culture of #BLM; new monuments commemorating the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade in the US, the Caribbean, and West Africa. They also read selections from the relevant critical and theoretical literature across disciplines and look closely at decisions made by practitioners: artists, architects, curators, urban planners, and activists. |