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Humanities Seminars Program
Приєднався 21 сер 2013
Housed in the Dorothy Rubel Room in The University of Arizona's Helen S. Schaefer Building - also home of The University of Arizona Poetry Center - the Humanities Seminars Program offers the community a wide range of classes from astronomy to archeology and from Shakespeare to film noir. The Seminars have been one of the university's most successful self-supporting functions. Enrollments have grown to the point where classes are now offered year-round. During its almost 30-year history, 247 not-for-credit seminars have been offered to more than 13,000 community members.
Karl Flessa - The Colorado River: Science, History, Literature, Policy
One hundred and one years since the signing of the Colorado River Compact, 24 years into a mega-drought, and two years away from new guidelines on sharing the waters, it’s time to take a close look at the past, present, and future of the Colorado River. Where does the water come from, and where does it go? What are the effects of climate change on the river? Whose priorities - tribes, nature, farms, cities, states, countries - supersede the others? Who decides? In this course we will examine all of these important questions and more.
This course is an updated version of one first offered by the Humanities Seminars Program in Spring 2023. New or expanded content for 2024 includes Tribal rights and priority, the groundwater connection in Arizona, the river-runners from Powell to today, and developing the new rules for the river.
This course is an updated version of one first offered by the Humanities Seminars Program in Spring 2023. New or expanded content for 2024 includes Tribal rights and priority, the groundwater connection in Arizona, the river-runners from Powell to today, and developing the new rules for the river.
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Відео
Peter Medine - Shakespeare's Comedy
Переглядів 19Рік тому
Concentrating on five of Shakespeare’s comedies, this seminar will inquire into the ways in which Shakespeare’s development of comedy’s distinctive theme of romantic love enabled him to explore a range of issues. These include hetero- and homosexual love, parent-child relationships, as well as broader political concerns. Essential to the endeavor will be the analysis of character, language, and...
Matthew Mugmon - The Symphonies of Gustav Mahler
Переглядів 111Рік тому
The monumental symphonies of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), which have captivated and challenged musicians and audiences for more than a hundred years, stand as landmark works of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In each of the unique works, Mahler drew heavily on the established Romantic musical tradition but also expanded the landscape of the symphony as a musical genre in unprecedented way...
Charlie Scruggs - The Fiction of Edith Wharton and F. Scott Fitzgerald
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After Fitzgerald sent a copy of The Great Gatsby to Wharton, she wrote him back, saying that his was the fiction of the future, hers “the literary equivalent of gas chandeliers.” Although Wharton saw herself as an American Victorian as opposed to Fitzgerald the “Modernist,” they connected as writers in more ways than one. According to Wharton’s biographer, Fitzgerald “revered” Wharton because s...
Bruce Chamberlain - J.S. Bach's St. John Passion 300 years later
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The two extant passion settings by J.S. Bach continue to move audiences of all faiths as profound artistic expressions and rank as some of the most poignant musical compositions ever written. Holy Week of 2024 celebrates the 300th anniversary of the first time that the Leipzig congregants heard the ST. JOHN PASSION, changing the scope and magnitude of Passion composition forever. This four-sess...
Tyler Meier - Four Poets: Larry Levis, Ada Limón, Carl Phillips, and Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Переглядів 54Рік тому
In this course, we’ll explore the work of four writers contemporary to each other, week by week: Larry Levis, Carl Phillips, Ada Limón and Brigit Pegeen Kelly. We’ll spend time together learning about what makes them the celebrated writers they are-what formal choices they might be making on the page, and how their unique styles as poets create a singular quality to their work. Each course sess...
Daniel Englejohn - Truth in Food Labeling: It's Anyone's Guess
Переглядів 6Рік тому
Food is essential for living. What and how much food is consumed impacts both quality and longevity of life. For some people, knowing where and how the source of their food was raised and harvested impacts that person’s ethical and moral beliefs. On the other hand, food manufacturers are economically motivated to entice consumers to select their product over that of a competitor. How one food m...
John Bauschatz - Crime and Punishment in the Ancient World
Переглядів 45Рік тому
This course explores the history of criminal justice systems in the ancient Mediterranean through close examination of select primary sources. Its primary focus is Greece and Rome, but it will also cover Pharaonic Egypt and the Ancient Near East. We shall move chronologically, geographically, and topically, treating a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence. Law codes from Mesopotam...
Alison Futrell - Cleopatra: Performing Power
Переглядів 59Рік тому
This course focuses on Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE), the far-famed last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt and a key powerbroker during a period of important political change. Her legacy in the western world emphasizes her actions as a “romantic” agent, a deployer of “feminine wiles”, a hostile representation drawn by her opponents. A broader examination of Cleopatra's context demonstrates her connections t...
Astrobiology: Exploring Other Worlds
Переглядів 65Рік тому
How are astronomers approaching their search for life in the universe? What have we learned from the surge of exoplanet discoveries? How likely is it that Earth does not host the only life in the Universe? In this course, we explore the field of astrobiology, an emerging multidisciplinary field. Progress in astrobiology is driven by telescopes on the ground and in space, and by new insights on ...
Science and its Neighbors - Richard Poss
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Humanities Seminars Program Summer 2023 This seminar is a critical examination of the many areas which lie near science but which are not (for the most part) science, often called “marginal science” or “pseudoscience.” We will begin by examining scientific method and discovery science, falsifiability, and the nature of truth. Then each session will be devoted to a set of practices, asking quest...
The Poetry of Federico García Lorca: Redefining the Avant-Garde - Malcolm Compitello
Переглядів 94Рік тому
Humanities Seminars Program Summer 2023 Before his tragic murder at the hands of fascist rebels against Spain’s democracy in 1936, Federico García Lorca had established himself as one of Europe and the Hispanic World’s most promising young writers. His poetry brought to the explosion of avant-garde innovation of the first decades of the 20th century a grounding in the historical and cultural ro...
The History of the World Written in Tree-Rings - Charlotte Pearson
Переглядів 101Рік тому
Humanities Seminars Program Summer 2023 This course will focus on the scientific field of dendrochronology (from dendron=tree and chronos=time), or tree-ring science, and what it can tell us about the past, present and future. We will explore the fascinating history of how the science was developed by a pioneering astronomer interested in solar cycles; how it works; how it has fed into other di...
Dostoevsky’s Demons: Satire and Prophecy - Benjamin Jens
Переглядів 40Рік тому
Humanities Seminars Program Summer 2023 Dostoevsky’s Demons (1872) - according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1970 - “are crawling across the whole world in front of our very eyes, infesting countries where they could not have been dreamed of” and “announcing their determination to shake and destroy civilization! And they may well succeed.” Often viewed as prophesying the 1917 Bolshevik Revolutio...
Writing… And then Writing Again - Marie Darrieussecq
Переглядів 58Рік тому
Humanities Seminars Program Spring 2023 Sometimes it is easy to start writing, but it is never easy to go on. When I was very young, I was a specialist in first chapters. Later in life, I often had in mind the beginning and the end of a novel, the head and tail, but the belly of it resisted me. Developing the story’s middle, all those character elements, events, twists and turns often seemed ab...
Between France and Morocco: Abdellah Taïa’s Stories of Migration - Denis Provencher
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Between France and Morocco: Abdellah Taïa’s Stories of Migration - Denis Provencher
Haydn’s 'Creation:' Which Libretto, Which Language - Bruce Chamberlain
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Haydn’s 'Creation:' Which Libretto, Which Language - Bruce Chamberlain
How America Became a Right-Wing Nation: Lessons from the 1970s - David Gibbs
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How America Became a Right-Wing Nation: Lessons from the 1970s - David Gibbs
US - China Relations in the Modern Era: Competitors or Enemies? - Andy Onate
Переглядів 30Рік тому
US - China Relations in the Modern Era: Competitors or Enemies? - Andy Onate
Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) - Peter Medine
Переглядів 40Рік тому
Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) - Peter Medine
The Colorado River: Past, Present, and Future - Karl Flessa
Переглядів 157Рік тому
The Colorado River: Past, Present, and Future - Karl Flessa
The Erotic, Laughter, and Spirituality - Albrecht Classen
Переглядів 55Рік тому
The Erotic, Laughter, and Spirituality - Albrecht Classen
World War I and the US: Causes and Consequences - Juan Garcia
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World War I and the US: Causes and Consequences - Juan Garcia
DEEP DIVE - Perception and Reality: Russia and America in the 2020s - J. Pat Willerton & Judy Brown
Переглядів 115Рік тому
DEEP DIVE - Perception and Reality: Russia and America in the 2020s - J. Pat Willerton & Judy Brown
Deep Dive Seminar: Language and Identity - Grace Fielder
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Deep Dive Seminar: Language and Identity - Grace Fielder
J.S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello - Theodore Buchholz
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J.S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello - Theodore Buchholz
Representing the Other: Jews in German Texts from 1500 to Present - Thomas Kovach
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Representing the Other: Jews in German Texts from 1500 to Present - Thomas Kovach
Progressive Politics in the Midterm Elections and Beyond - Thomas P. Miller
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Progressive Politics in the Midterm Elections and Beyond - Thomas P. Miller
Like Vathek by William Beckford. Wonderful read.
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I’d be all over a course like this. I was already reading Nancy Drew and Victoria Holt’s gothic romances when my mother kept me up late one night to see one of her favorite old films, The Innocents, based on the Turn of the Screw. It scared the hell out of me, and I acquired the novella not long after. I was young and it was hard to read...but that was the beginning of my love for classic supernatural stories.
terrific narration! I love Gothic, Edwardian and Victorian Ghost Stories ......just can't get enough except the Masters are gone RIP
I wish there were more professors interested in offering courses like the one you mention here. I would love and enjoy attending a course on the haunting classics. Victorian fiction is of great interest to me. Hopefully in the future I could attend a course like yours...Arizona is too far from my house :( I can't afford traveling every week u.u
How very exciting and interesting....outstanding presentation
Peter. Enjoyed your presentation with Dr George Davis on Colorado Plateau. Glad to hear of your continued accomplishments as a nature photographer in the geosciences.