ITAL385
Neorealism in Italian Cinema from Rossellini to Fellini and Beyond: Neorealist Masters and Their Legacy Cross-listed with RMST355 Does reality matter? Is it subjective – yes … no … to what extent? How do we construe it? Does how we construe reality not depend, to a large extent, on how we represent / (motion)-picture it? […]
ITAL345
Types and Archetypes of Fascism in the Age of the Crisis of Liberal Democracy Cross-listed with RMST345 This course aims at offering students with diverse backgrounds some foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “Fascism” as, in successive incarnations, it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societes and cultures. Since these tragic […]
RMST345
Types and Archetypes of Fascism in the Age of the Crisis of Liberal Democracy This course aims at offering students with diverse backgrounds some foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “Fascism” as, in successive incarnations, it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societes and cultures. Since these tragic events were centred […]
FREN417
How Games Tell Stories: Fiction and Narrative in French Game Culture Games have never been a bigger part of mainstream culture: the video games industry is a behemoth that dwarfs most other fields of entertainment; the last decade has a seen a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) renaissance with the rise of Actual Play shows like […]
FREN578B
Lire, comprendre et éditer les textes en ancien français Instructor: Anne Salamon Language of instruction: French L’édition scientifique a pour ambition de livrer un texte fiable et fixe à la communauté des lecteurs et des chercheurs, à partir du matériau initial que sont les manuscrits, les imprimés anciens, les brouillons d’auteurs ou autres documents d’archive. Il […]
SPAN490E
Peoples and Nations: Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spanish-American Culture The Hispanic Caribbean is the most populous region in the Caribbean and the one with the greatest diversity in political and social terms. In this course, and through a careful reading of short stories from Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico and their diasporas, we […]
SPAN520B
Cervantes: Don Quijote and Beyond Instructor: Elizabeth Lagresa-González Language of instruction: Spanish This course examines Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s masterpiece El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Part I, 1605) in relation to some of his lesser-known creations, the Novelas ejemplares (1613) and Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados (1615). By applying an […]
FREN420
La France et l’identité postcoloniale : crise ou chance ? Au fil de l’héritage de l’impérialisme français, notamment au Maghreb, on a vu émerger, dans la société française depuis les années 1980, des crises autour de questions aussi diverses que celles liées à l’immigration, la laïcité, la citoyenneté, l’amnésie coloniale, l’éducation nationale, le féminisme, voire […]
SPAN504
Cine y fotografía documental en la España contemporánea 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 inmigración y la crisis económica de 2008 a través del análisis de varios documentales y proyectos […]
SPAN590_
La literatura de ideas en América Latina y el Caribe Hispano Instructor: Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martinez Language of instruction: Spanish Este curso se enfocará en la llamada “literatura de ideas” (Carlos Altamirano) en América Latina y el Caribe Hispano, específicamente en la ensayística que aborda el llamado “ser nacional”. Entre otros temas trataremos: el pesimismo de las […]