Monday, January 7, 2013
New Spring 2013 Courses
ARTHIST 760: Alive: Art, Architecture, Performance
Mondays, 2-4:40 pm, Mitchel 158
Professor Jennifer Johung, johung@uwm.edu
Anthropology 940: Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Mondays, 2-4:40 pm, Mitchel 158
Professor Jennifer Johung, johung@uwm.edu
Anthropology 940: Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
"Global Crises, Critical Theory and Engaged Anthropology"
Tuesday, 5:30-8:10 pm, Sabin Hall 281, UWM
Professor Tracey Heatherington
Geography 934: Seminar in Urban Geography
Topic: Exploring Neoliberalization, Collaborative Governance and Citizen Participation
Thursday, 2.30 pm to 5.10 pm, Bolton Hall 487, UWM
Professor Rina Ghose, rghose@uwm.edu
History 940: "Mass Media in World History"
4:00 PM-6:40 PM, MER G47, UWM
Professor Christine Evans
Professor Christine Evans
ARCH 531-001: HISTORIC CONCEPTS OF ARCHITECTURE (19th Century Architectureand Urban Design Theory)
Mondays 5:30-8:10PM, AUP 183
Professor Linda Krause, lrkrause@uwm.edu
LA 677: "Cultural Resource Preservation & Landscape History"/Folklore 530 "Cultural Landscape Conservation" (3 cr.)
Mon, Wed. 2:30-3:45, Ag Hall Room 14Professor Janet C. Gilmore, Landscape Architecture, Comparative Literature; Folklore Studies, jgilmore@wisc.edu
Mon, Wed. 2:30-3:45, Ag Hall Room 14Professor Janet C. Gilmore, Landscape Architecture, Comparative Literature; Folklore Studies, jgilmore@wisc.edu
METHODS IN AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE: MATERIAL CULTURE OF MADISON
Art
History 563 (SPRING 2013)
TUESDAYS,
2:00-4:00
Prof.
Anna Andrzejewski, avandrzejews@wisc.edu
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
New Public History Course
History 715: Research Methods in Local History
Instructor: Michael Gordon
Thursdays, 4pm-6:40 PM, Holton 341
This course offers training in methodologies that are vital for any individual interested in historically oriented work in museums, historical societies, historical preservation, genealogy, and documentary film. The course is required for students pursuing an MA in public history and is of interest to graduate students in history and other disciplines including architecture, anthropology, geography, sociology, and political science. Students will read five examples of local histories—a frontier town (Jacksonville, Illinois), a mid-nineteenth century changing urban neighborhood (New York’s Five Points), a late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban working-class neighborhood (Chicago’s stockyards area), a city and its environmental context (Seattle, Washington), and a new ethnic community (Los Angeles’s Mexican American neighborhoods). Workshops will explore methodologies and sources. Students must write critical reviews of two assigned books, do assignments learning how to write for popular audiences, and, as a final class project, conceptualize a local study of a small Wisconsin town or city during the Depression of the 1930s in the form of a proposal for a master’s thesis or seminar research paper. History 715 is the required research methods course for UWM public history students. Other students are welcome to enroll.
Dr. Michael Gordon mgordon@uwm.edu led UWM’s Public History Program until his retirement in 2011. Author of The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (Cornell U. Press, 1993), His work intersects with the fields of public, oral, labor, and Wisconsin history.
Instructor: Michael Gordon
Thursdays, 4pm-6:40 PM, Holton 341
This course offers training in methodologies that are vital for any individual interested in historically oriented work in museums, historical societies, historical preservation, genealogy, and documentary film. The course is required for students pursuing an MA in public history and is of interest to graduate students in history and other disciplines including architecture, anthropology, geography, sociology, and political science. Students will read five examples of local histories—a frontier town (Jacksonville, Illinois), a mid-nineteenth century changing urban neighborhood (New York’s Five Points), a late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban working-class neighborhood (Chicago’s stockyards area), a city and its environmental context (Seattle, Washington), and a new ethnic community (Los Angeles’s Mexican American neighborhoods). Workshops will explore methodologies and sources. Students must write critical reviews of two assigned books, do assignments learning how to write for popular audiences, and, as a final class project, conceptualize a local study of a small Wisconsin town or city during the Depression of the 1930s in the form of a proposal for a master’s thesis or seminar research paper. History 715 is the required research methods course for UWM public history students. Other students are welcome to enroll.
Dr. Michael Gordon mgordon@uwm.edu led UWM’s Public History Program until his retirement in 2011. Author of The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (Cornell U. Press, 1993), His work intersects with the fields of public, oral, labor, and Wisconsin history.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Spring 2011 Course
ENG 885: The Nonhuman Turn
This seminar takes up the “nonhuman turn” that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. Intensifying in the 21st century, this nonhuman turn can be traced to a variety of different intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the 20th century: actor-network theory, particularly Bruno Latour’s career-long project to articulate technical mediation, nonhuman agency, and the politics of things; affect theory, both in its philosophical and psychological manifestations and as it has been mobilized by queer theory; animal studies as developed in the work of Donna Haraway, projects for animal rights, and a more general critique of speciesism; the assemblage theory of Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Latour, and others; new brain sciences like neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence; new media theory, especially as it has paid close attention to technical networks, material interfaces, and computational analysis; the new materialism in feminism, philosophy, and marxism; varieties of speculative realism like object-oriented philosophy, vitalism, and panpsychism; or systems theory in its social, technical, and ecological manifestations. Such varied analytical and theoretical formations obviously diverge and disagree in many of their aims, objects, and methodologies. But they are all of a piece in taking up aspects of the nonhuman as critical to the future of 21st century studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Running roughly parallel to this nonhuman turn in the past few decades has been the “posthuman turn” articulated by such important theoretical works as Katherine Hayles’s How We Became Posthuman and Cary Wolfe’s What Is Posthumanism? Thinking beyond the human, as posthumanism is sometimes characterized, clearly provides one compelling model for 21st century studies. But the relation between posthumanism and humanism, like that of postmodernism to modernism, can sometimes seem as much like a repetition of the same as the emergence of something different. Thus one of the questions that this seminar will take up is the relation between posthumanism and the nonhuman turn, especially the ways in which taking the nonhuman as a matter of critical, artistic, and scholarly concern might differ from, as well as overlap with, the aims of posthumanism.
The seminar will operate as well as preparation for the C21 spring conference on “The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies.” Several of the readings will be from scholars who have been invited to speak at the conference, which will provide an excellent opportunity for seminarians to engage with many of the issues that will be debated at the conference in May. In addition to smaller writing assignments throughout the semester, students will each write a seminar paper relating some elements of the nonhuman turn to their own areas of interest in their graduate research.
Richard Grusin
Director
Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Curtin Hall 929
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53211
grusin@uwm.edu
www.C21.uwm.edu
This seminar takes up the “nonhuman turn” that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. Intensifying in the 21st century, this nonhuman turn can be traced to a variety of different intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the 20th century: actor-network theory, particularly Bruno Latour’s career-long project to articulate technical mediation, nonhuman agency, and the politics of things; affect theory, both in its philosophical and psychological manifestations and as it has been mobilized by queer theory; animal studies as developed in the work of Donna Haraway, projects for animal rights, and a more general critique of speciesism; the assemblage theory of Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Latour, and others; new brain sciences like neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence; new media theory, especially as it has paid close attention to technical networks, material interfaces, and computational analysis; the new materialism in feminism, philosophy, and marxism; varieties of speculative realism like object-oriented philosophy, vitalism, and panpsychism; or systems theory in its social, technical, and ecological manifestations. Such varied analytical and theoretical formations obviously diverge and disagree in many of their aims, objects, and methodologies. But they are all of a piece in taking up aspects of the nonhuman as critical to the future of 21st century studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Running roughly parallel to this nonhuman turn in the past few decades has been the “posthuman turn” articulated by such important theoretical works as Katherine Hayles’s How We Became Posthuman and Cary Wolfe’s What Is Posthumanism? Thinking beyond the human, as posthumanism is sometimes characterized, clearly provides one compelling model for 21st century studies. But the relation between posthumanism and humanism, like that of postmodernism to modernism, can sometimes seem as much like a repetition of the same as the emergence of something different. Thus one of the questions that this seminar will take up is the relation between posthumanism and the nonhuman turn, especially the ways in which taking the nonhuman as a matter of critical, artistic, and scholarly concern might differ from, as well as overlap with, the aims of posthumanism.
The seminar will operate as well as preparation for the C21 spring conference on “The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies.” Several of the readings will be from scholars who have been invited to speak at the conference, which will provide an excellent opportunity for seminarians to engage with many of the issues that will be debated at the conference in May. In addition to smaller writing assignments throughout the semester, students will each write a seminar paper relating some elements of the nonhuman turn to their own areas of interest in their graduate research.
Richard Grusin
Director
Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Curtin Hall 929
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53211
grusin@uwm.edu
www.C21.uwm.edu
Friday, July 22, 2011
New BLC Course
City, Environment, and Nature
Geography 905
Fall 2011
Instructor: Ryan Holifield
Brief course description:
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.
Most of our readings will be available via D2L, but we will also read all or most of three required books, all available as inexpensive paperbacks at the UWM Bookstore or through online vendors:
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City.
Robbins, Paul. Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.
The syllabus and full reading list for this new seminar is under construction. For more information, please contact the instructor at the following email address: holifiel@uwm.edu.
Geography 905
Fall 2011
Instructor: Ryan Holifield
Brief course description:
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.
Most of our readings will be available via D2L, but we will also read all or most of three required books, all available as inexpensive paperbacks at the UWM Bookstore or through online vendors:
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City.
Robbins, Paul. Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.
The syllabus and full reading list for this new seminar is under construction. For more information, please contact the instructor at the following email address: holifiel@uwm.edu.
Monday, July 18, 2011
CFP VAF 2012 IN MADISON
Call for Papers for VAF 2012 Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, June 6-10, 2012. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but we encourage papers that explore topics related to the following conference themes: the relationship between rural landscapes and regional urban centers; placemaking as it pertains to the relationship between work and home; regional trends in modernism (particularly in the Upper Midwest); ethnicity and heritage preservation; and evolution of Midwestern rural buildings and landscapes. We particularly welcome papers that explore the relationship of environmental history and cultural landscapes around these themes. Papers should be twenty minutes in length, although proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome.
Proposals must be one page, fewer than 400 words, and include paper title, author's name, and email address. You may include up to two images with your submission. Please state clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content. Attach a one-page CV to your proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 12, 2011.
Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference by April 1, 2012 will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on Saturday June 9. There may be limited financial assistance, in the form of Presenter’s Fellowships, to offset registration costs to students and recent graduates.
Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are preferred. Please send email proposals to Andrew Dolkart at asd3@columbia.edu or hard copies to:
Andrew Dolkart:
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
413 Avery Hall
New York, NY 10027
For general information about the Madison conference, please contact:
Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
Department of Art History & the Buildings-Landscapes Cultures Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
avandrzejews@wisc.edu
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, June 6-10, 2012. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but we encourage papers that explore topics related to the following conference themes: the relationship between rural landscapes and regional urban centers; placemaking as it pertains to the relationship between work and home; regional trends in modernism (particularly in the Upper Midwest); ethnicity and heritage preservation; and evolution of Midwestern rural buildings and landscapes. We particularly welcome papers that explore the relationship of environmental history and cultural landscapes around these themes. Papers should be twenty minutes in length, although proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome.
Proposals must be one page, fewer than 400 words, and include paper title, author's name, and email address. You may include up to two images with your submission. Please state clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content. Attach a one-page CV to your proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 12, 2011.
Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference by April 1, 2012 will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on Saturday June 9. There may be limited financial assistance, in the form of Presenter’s Fellowships, to offset registration costs to students and recent graduates.
Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are preferred. Please send email proposals to Andrew Dolkart at asd3@columbia.edu or hard copies to:
Andrew Dolkart:
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
413 Avery Hall
New York, NY 10027
For general information about the Madison conference, please contact:
Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
Department of Art History & the Buildings-Landscapes Cultures Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
avandrzejews@wisc.edu
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Harry Van Oudenallen, 1944- 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
On Saturday morning June 18, 2011-Harry, aged 67, slipped peacefully away at home, after a short battle with cancer, surrounded by his family. Harry was a senior professor and scholar associated with the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures area. The faculty and students at BLC remember him for his steadfast support and leadership. He led the urban rebuilding and New Orleans effort as part of the BLC curriculum.
Born in Den Hague, Netherlands in 1944, he moved two years later to Singapore, spent the next four years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and finally moved to Long Island, New York where he graduated from Bethpage HS in 1962. Harry received his BA from Harvard College in 1966, and a Masters Equivalent in Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1971. Unique, absolutely-while at Harvard he played football, and was the first left footed soccer style punter.
His career, service and projects would keep Harry smiling and traveling for the rest of his life. He joined the faculty at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM in 1979, and from the very start excelled as a teacher. There are hundreds of students who were profoundly influenced and mentored by Harry. Among the awards he won in his career, perhaps the ones he was most proud of were, the UWM Undergraduate Teaching Award and the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award. He was, this year, elected by his peers at the ACSA to serve as the Vice Chancellor of this distinguished group of scholars and teachers.
Harry was a contagiously likable person and will be remembered for his enormous smile, and rich laughter. He was, though, a talented and skilled professional with a substantial career. He was a founding member, with Nick Cascarano, in 1996 of Architectura, Inc., an award winning firm that produced outstanding architectural designs. He won many awards-winning or placing in design competitions which included the: Milwaukee Lakefront National Competition, Milwaukee Performing Arts Center Master Plan Competition, Merit Hall Competition, Timber Holdings Competition, Pier Wisconsin Competition, Newark Visitor Center Competition, Denver Public Market Competition, and the Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial.
We will remember you Harry and we will strive at BLC to reach the standards that you expected of us.
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