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you to believe that the end is near? Are they caused by divine punishment or driven by anthropocentric power? This course proceeds from an understanding that there is a messy overlap between Islamic conceptions of apocalypse on the one hand, and capitalist-driven apocalypse on the other-these are not two distinct apocalypses; rather, they are co-constituting. The course texts reflect this overlap, with the aim of understanding the role of religion in either combatting or accelerating apocalypse broadly understood. This course considers traditionally-shaped apocalyp- tic narratives, as well as how they are reflected in the current debates of war and ten-or and the pursuit of climate justice. Although Islam is the primary lens through which we will consider apocalypse, we will also account for the intersectional impacts of race, ethnicity, nation, gender, sexuality, and class. Readings range from scholarly work to science fiction literature and film. (Anwar and Murphy Offered occasionally) BIDS 235 Healer and Humanist: Frantz Fanon the Revolutionary It is fair to characterize Frantz Fanon as one of the most influential and one of the most controversial thinkers of his time. To some he was a liberator. To others he was a warmonger. In this course we will explore Fanon the humanist and Fanon the healer. One of Fanon’s most notable contributions, the one highlighted in the course, is his understanding of the link between the individual’s mental health and the socialization process for which they are embedded. A socialization process is a tool societies use to reproduce itself. It defines right; it defines wrong. A socialization process delimits normal human behavior, but more ominously, it circumscribes what is and thus names what is not human. Its purpose is to make and remake the society or rather to make and remake the individuals that inhabit the society throughout time. It’s a survival mechanism. We will argue that Fanon believed that the socialization process could also be a process of individual un-making. Through his concepts of humanity, power, and violence, Fanon constructs a theory of social un-making or HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 67 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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and national cultures in Latin America, from Independence to World War II (c. 1825-1945). As Latin American nations broke from Spanish colonial rule, state-builders confronted the colonial past and set out to forger new national identities and cultures. Specifically, state-builders sought to construct social citizenship and fashion national cultures in societies still asymmetrically ordered on the basis of the exclusionary colonial criterion of gender, ethnicity, class, and geography. Popular works of literature frequently cast the desire to reconcile the colonial order and assert mod- ern nationalist identities in gender terms. In particular, the critical problems of state formation in Latin America-the hope and anxiety associated with post-colonial instability; socioeconomic equality, ethnic unity, and spatial consol- idation; the quest for modernity; and the assertion of sovereignty and authenticity-often took on erotic overtones. Unrequited love, sexual union, and marriage became central metaphors for understanding (and naturalizing) national consolidation, and establishing the new hegemonic order. By tracing out the “national romances” of Latin America, we can learn much about the role of gender (writ large) in Latin American State formation, and the position of wom- en in the region’s post-colonial order. As such, this course will offer students parallel histories of the changing role of women in Latin American culture and literature, and the role of gender in the Latin American political imagination. (Farnsworth and Ristow, offered alternate years) BIDS 293 Racial Utopias: Economizing Soul With the continued hunt of black lives and the rising social unrest that the hunt has engendered, this course asks: what would an ideal racial world look like? What would equality or equity be like in such a world? How do visions of the sacred have to compromise with the realities of the profane in such utopias? Utopian visions often include a message of oneness/sameness. How do questions of oneness and same- ness apply to questions of race? Do they separate people? Do they homogenize people? How have they changed over time? What is the role of the religious leader in fashioning these ideal visions? For the economist interested not only in behavior but motivations, racial utopias present the opportunity to study how conflicts between worldview (religion) and habit/behavior (racism) are or are not resolved. For the scholar of religion, racial utopias are unique products of a religious imagination that seeks the Kingdom of God on earth. Interrogating racial utopias will allow all students to examine aspects of their own lives including their image of God, what they hope for, and what they can do to help create their ideal world. We will investigate a number of utopian projects that included racial compo- nents, including The People’s Temple (Jim Jones), Father Divine, the Black Hebrew Israelites, and Star Trek.

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While attractions, pleasures, and possible benefits of alcoholic consumption may be debated, there is little argu- ment about the debilitating effect and enormous costs of heavy drinking and alcoholism on the health of individuals, families, and society in general. The course brings together natural science and social science contrubutions to the interdisciplinary study of this phenomenon by incorporating a variety of academic perspectives including biology, chemistry, social psychology, epidemiology, and sociology, and by making extensive use of multimedia resources. HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 68 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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cal research with creative approaches to place-making in an urban setting. The course will allow students to devel- op familiarity with the critical issues surrounding art design, and the humanities in public, while also applying their knowledge to the creation of a public humanities project During the first part of the semester, students go over the methods and ethics of public scholarship and programming and gain skills in visual communication, graphic think- ing, and the politics of public display. Students work with the instructors in the second part of the semester to build a collaborative public project which asks to you apply your skills. The project will explore creative solutions that promote and affect social engagement and community building. Guest artists/scholars and field trips are important parts of the course learning experience. Course themes vary from semester to semester.

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in society - after all, we quarantine the sick from the healthy. However, history teaches us that pandemics expose societal divisions. Depending on the context, these divides could be along racial, gendered, class, or ethnic lines. Recognizing this reality leads us to asking urgent questions about how these divisions were constructed and why they persist. It leads us to question why Black, Brown, and working-class communities face disproportionate share of the deaths from Covid-19? Why did the outbreak lead to a summer mass protests around the country? How ought we best understand this political moment? Exploring both the South African and American pasts, this course is anchored in post- colonial thought, critical science studies, and critical race theory. By thinking through the rela- tionship between 400+ years of Settler Colonialism, the development of race as a political category, and the current environmental threats humanity faces with COVID and climate change, this course will prepare students to think through the transformations they will participate in after the graduate in the wake of this monumental crisis. BIDS 390 The Video Essay This course examines the video essay and its corresponding or emerging forms in video- graphic criticism, the essay film, and written essays, including personal narrative, creative nonfiction, or hybrid texts. Students explore source material and develop media competencies that encompass video, sound, image and text in order to critically analyze content that explores facets of identity or dimensions of culture. In addition, students col- laborate on lo-fi and more developed video projects that explore the formal dimensions of narrative and criticism, By maintaining a focus on the poetic and rhetorical dimensions of the video essay, students address broader concerns in and around fair use and copyright while determining how the video essay impact them as producers and consum- ers of media forms. HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 69 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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