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2016-2017 Academic Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HUM 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: Performing Commemoration: Ephemeral and Digital Memorials

2 credits (Fall)
Two decades have passed since the play Ubu and the Truth Commission examined the new raw process of Reconciliation in South Africa. Still North America struggles with the legacies of slavery and Native genocide, and though memorialization increases, traditional monolithic monument-making yields to performance and digital revisions in the commemoration of traumatic history. This course will apply an interdisciplinary performance studies lens to the storytelling and place-making of performative and digital commemorations. What links such experiences, and what distinguishes the forms? What can they teach us about audience, narrative, community?

Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: October 25 to November 22. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Shook