2018-2019 Fall

This year’s cycle of Humanities Core is organized around the theme Empire and Its Ruins, which will emphasize how humans have made sense of the rise and fall of societies and the effects of dominant structures on people who are marginalized. This quarter, we will address the formation and maintenance of the Roman Empire, the concept of “ruins” in Enlightenment-era philosophy and visual art, and the impact of the American ideology of Manifest Destiny on indigenous communities. We will reflect on how empire structures the way we think about “civilization,” otherness, community, legitimacy, property, progress, resistance, and oppression by analyzing these ideas in written texts, images, and film.

Lectures are held:
M/W (not on Fridays) 9:00-9:50am in BS3 1200
M/W (not on Fridays) 11:00-11:50am in BS3 1200
Tu/Th 9:30-10:20am (not till 10:50am) in ALP 1300

Students in Humanities Core enroll in a lecture and in a corresponding writing seminar. This calendar (subject to change) provides information about the lecturing faculty, reading and viewing assignments, and special events such as Friday Forums. The reading or viewing assignment for each lecture should be completed before the lecture. The password for downloadable pdfs will be provided to enrolled students. When lecture slides are available for a particular lecture, a link to download them will be provided.

For information about your writing seminar, please sign in to MyEEE and find the link for your class.