Day: Tuesdays
Time: 11:00-12:00 p.m.
Location: Phelps 6320
Enrollment Code: 25528
Description:
This seminar will explore the relationship between art and civic engagement.
Can reading an essay or novel, viewing a film or a group of photographs,
visiting a museum, or hearing testimonies of survivors of atrocity stimulate
engagement? What role does the media play in creating empathy? In
promoting apathy? What are the responsibilities of education in promoting
awareness and activism? These are some of the questions we will consider
through our readings of short written pieces and viewing of images from the
contemporary world.
Professor Susan Derwin, German & Comparative Literature, areas of research and teaching include the Holocaust, 19th- and 20th- century European and American novel and memoir, and critical theory.
Email: derwin@gss.ucsb.edu
