RMST100
Italian Fashion Cultures Cross-listed with ITAL110 In 2022, Italy’s newly-elected, right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, re-named a previous trade ministry as the “Ministry for Business and Made in Italy,” thereby invoking a key marker of Italian commercial, group, and cultural identity. Since the end of the WWII, the garment and accessories sector has been traditionally […]
FREN395A
La représentation de Lyon dans les médias This course is an experiential learning and immersive summer intensive 3 weeks course that takes students outside the classroom to engage in the course material in a real world setting, through visits of Lyon and the complex connections between art and the real world. We will work towards […]
FREN556B
Race, Ethnicity and Language This course is based on the fundamental idea that discourse practices are an important indicator of wider social and cultural structures. Language has a key role to play in the racial and ethnic boundary-making processes, as it is a vehicle for the ideologies that get attached to racialized and ethnicized subjects. […]
ITAL232
Nation, Empire, Democracy in the Age of Modern Capitalism: Italy as a Model Case The two recurring, competing (but, also, interwoven) issues of national identity vs. global empire (lat. Imperium) are explored in this course by studying historical, political, literary, cinematographic and cultural evidence from Italy: a country which, despite its miniature size by world […]
FREN485
Early Encounters: Travel Literature and Colonial Writing in French This course explores narratives of travel and exploration in French from 1500 to 1800 and their relationship to colonization, gender, unfamiliar culture and nature, knowledge production and representations of the self and others. We will study “early encounters” across the globe positioning France within a planetary […]
RMST341
How Things Change: Shifting Identities and Perceptions in Medieval and Early Modern Italy This is a course that aims at blending the visual and the literary arts that flourished in the Italian peninsula from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. We will follow a chronological order, moving from Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio to Pico, Machiavelli […]
RMST454
Cross-listed with ITAL 404 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 […]
RMST324
Indigenous Literatures and Cinema of Quebec In a province where debates on the status of the French language and Quebec sovereignty often take center stage, where do Indigenous people’s rights, languages and voices stand? How do Indigenous writers and filmmakers of Quebec contend with the lines drawn around language, territory and race? In this course, […]
SPAN405A
From Text to Palate: Literature, Food, and Society in Spain and Latin America The ancient link between food and books is particularly significant in the Hispanic World where eating has always been essential in defining individuals, groups, cultures, societies, and nations. Through an interdisciplinary approach to Hispanic short texts from a wide range of authors […]
RMST260
Introduction to the Analysis of Portuguese and Brazilian Cultures Cross-listed with PORT222 Welcome to the study of Lusophone Cultures! Lusophone cultures are the cultures of places where Portuguese is spoken. In this course, we will focus on the cultures of Portugal, the cradle of Lusophone Culture, and Brazil, the country with the largest Lusophone population. […]