Fall 2024 Anthropology GR6653 section 001

Porous Bodies

POROUS BODIES

Call Number 10696
Day & Time
Location
F 12:10pm-2:00pm
467 EXT Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Vanessa L Agard-Jones
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description How are bodies in the world? How is the world in bodies? Building from these deceptively simple questions, ours will be an interdisciplinary reading seminar on how bodies (mostly human, but sometimes nonhuman) are made and remade in and through their environments and via their relationships to the material world. Privileging porosity as a rubric, we consider the ever-permeable boundaries between bodies and the other beings (be they viral, chemical, microbial or otherwise) with which they become entangled. Alongside the monographs under study, we will tackle article-length engagements with theories of new feminist/queer materialisms, decolonial and critical science studies. Further, a key aim of this course is to provide students the opportunity to hone some of the most important skills we have in our toolbox as academics, relative to our teaching, our public voice/s as critics, and to our own research.
Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 17 students (14 max) as of 9:06AM Friday, December 13, 2024
Status Full
Subject Anthropology
Number GR6653
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Prerequisite: Instructors permission. To apply, please con
Section key 20243ANTH6653G001