Fall 2025 Anthropology UN3851 section 001

Theatricality & the Political

Theatricality & the Polit

Call Number 10148
Day & Time
Location
F 2:10pm-4:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Maria Jose de Abreu
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course addresses the articulation between theatricality and the political from a cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective. From the Renaissance theater to the profuse baroque, to the modernizing logics and aesthetics, to so-called “neo-baroque”, the course addresses logics and grammars within past and present dramaturgies of the social. How do certain theatrical traditions articulate with various power formations? How do these connect and complicate the relation between power and resistance, colonialism and liberation, center and periphery, particular and universal, actors and audiences? What technical apparatuses, cultural structures, ethical dispositions and bodily repertoires are mobilized? And how do old and new media technologies reconfigure protocols of stage-form in ancient and contemporary political theater?

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 0 students (18 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Subject Anthropology
Number UN3851
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To Barnard College, Columbia College, General Studies
Note Undergraduate students only. Majors preferred.
Section key 20253ANTH3851W001