ARTH 515

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Seminar in Ancient Art

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Credit: 4 hours.

Research seminar in subject selected from the art and architecture of the ancient period.

Same as CLCV 515. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	72550	Seminar	1	5:00PM -7:40PM	M	316 Art and Design Building	Forde, J Weissman, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Title: The Entangled Lives of Objects Section Info: Topic: The Entangled Lives of Objects: Mobility and Materiality. Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have long studied objects of material culture, viewing them as things made by, and/or operating in service of, human beings. Whether these objects were tools used to accomplish various tasks, or works of art created to provoke thought and wonder, attention to material objects has traditionally been concerned with revealing the human “agents” behind them. In recent decades, however, this perspective has been flipped upside-down in various disciplines: scholars in art history, anthropology, literature, and other fields have paid increasing attention to how material objects actively shape human experience, how we come to depend on them, and how they bring together diverse networks of relationships. Indeed, it may be possible to speak of artworks and other items of material culture as having lives and “agency” all their own. In this seminar, we will immerse ourselves in the latter more recent streams of thought surrounding material culture, alternatively known as New Materialism, Materiality, Thing Theory, and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). We will read seminal theoretical works by authors in a number of different academic disciplines, including Bruno Latour, Bill Brown, Alfred Gell, and Tim Ingold. We will also read article and monograph-length case studies that apply these ideas in analyses of different works of art and material culture objects from across the globe. An overarching goal of the course will be to provide students with potentially new perspectives through which to approach their own particular research interests. One theme that the course will highlight is how by focusing on the ways in which material objects circulate through space and time, concerns with materiality can foster broader, even global approaches, that put scholarship from different time periods and parts of the world into conversation with one another. As such, this seminar is meant to be similarly wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, and graduated students from all fields and backgrounds are welcome.