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SPAN504C
Cine y fotografía documental en la España contemporánea Instructor: Anna Casas Aguilar Language of instruction: Spanish En este seminario discutiremos eventos centrales de la historia contemporánea de España, empezando con la Guerra Civil y la dictadura de Franco, así como eventos recientes relacionados con la política, la crisis económica de 2008 y de la pandemia de 2020, […]
Fricciones
Gabriel Saldías Rossel — Fricciones is a collection of short stories published by Editorial Nadar in Chile, 2017. All the short stories present in the volume revolve, as its title suggests, around the idea of uncomfortable contact. Written with a caustic prose filled with black humor, irony and detachment, the nightmarish scenarios presented in these short stories […]
The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Specular Reflections
Nancy Frelick (ed.) — This volume examines the intersections between material and metaphorical mirrors in medieval and early modern culture. Mirrors have always fascinated humankind. They collapse ordinary distinctions, making visible what is normally invisible, and promising access to hidden realities. Yet, these liminal objects also point to the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom. In […]
Buñuel en Toledo. Arte público, acción cultural y vanguardia
María Soledad Fernández Utrera — In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a parody order of knights whose members included Salvador Dalí, García Lorca, and Rafael Alberti. Together, they often visited the ancient Spanish capital to stroll through its labyrinthine streets. But these excursions on the part of Buñuel and the Brotherhood were […]
ITST419
From Covid-19 to the Black Death: Pandemics and Epidemics in Italian Literature and Culture This course is mainly concerned with four key pandemics or epidemics impacting Italy, which have inspired literary and cultural outputs of exceptional quality: the Black Death of 1346-1353, the 1629-1631 Italian Plague, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the Covid-19 pandemic. In the […]
FREN101
Beginners’ French I A course based on the A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference, introducing the French language and Francophone cultures, and opening up their understanding in a worldwide context. With an approach that is communicative and collaborative, and inductive and interactive, the course develops comprehension and the mobilisation of knowledge as savoir-faire. […]
RMST420C
[Cross-listed with Italian 404 and Italian Studies 414] Think Like a Forest: A Dialogue Between Pre-Modern Worldviews, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Knowledge How do we think? Are we aware of the kind of thinking we entertain? What kind of world do our individual and collective, conscious or unconscious thought-processes generate? Do we even have a choice […]
ITAL404
Cross-listed with RMST 454 Eros Unbound: The Ecology of Love at the Edge of Modernity Is there such a thing as an “ecology of love”? The short answer is: “yes”; the long answer is: “we may have forgotten almost all about it.” Can we retrieve the memory of that ecology, and thus free love from […]
ITST414
[Cross-listed with Italian 404 and Romance Studies 420] Think Like a Forest: A Dialogue Between Pre-Modern Worldviews, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Knowledge How do we think? Are we aware of the kind of thinking we entertain? What kind of world do our individual and collective, conscious or unconscious thought-processes generate? Do we even have a choice […]
ITAL401
Upper-Intermediate Italian I L’obiettivo principale di questo corso è di consolidare la competenza linguistica ed interculturale degli studenti. Le strutture e le funzioni comunicative di questo corso sono basate sul livello B2[1] o “independent language learner and user”, come definito nel Common European Framework (CEFR) e prevede i seguenti obbiettivi generali: comprendere i punti principali di argomenti astratti o concreti con letture, […]