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Class number:
3237
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Title: Antarctica: Culture and Crisis |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 8 |
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Available seats: 11 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM, SH - N215 |
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Instructor(s): Hubert, Rosario |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Although the Antarctic plateau is a center stage in global discussions of climate change, this desert has been somewhat overlooked in the Latin American cultural tradition; strangely though, given many South American countries' geographical proximity and long-standing claims over parts of its territory. This course recovers extraordinary sources such as the first photographs and images of the continent; the debates over polar sovereignty during the time of the Antarctic Treaty (1959); and the visual work of choreographers, feminist artists, and contemporary musicians from Latin America and beyond, to answer why such an exceptional desert that has become the epitome of inhospitality -a place devoid of native population, political autonomy, and of extreme weather conditions- has continuously conveyed both fantasies of timelessness and of a future of global warming. |