Art History 290cv - Colloquium: Topics in Art History-Colonialisms and Their UnMaking: Land, Water, Bodies, Belongings

Colq:T-Colonialisms&UnMaking

Spring
2025
01
4.00
Dana Leibsohn

TU TH 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
ARH-290cv-01-202503
Hillyer 103
dleibsoh@smith.edu
How does conquest by foreigners change the ways that images, objects, and environments (built and otherwise) are created and used? How do different forms of colonialism—settler, extractivist, etc.—remake values and thus objects, civic spaces, humans, and other living beings? What kinds of loss does colonization produce, what kinds of resilience? Focusing on recent scholarship, this class addresses these questions, highlighting the 16th–19th centuries. Discussion include: the production of colonial spaces and buildings; exchanges that brought people and objects into contact (and conflict); nationalist museum and archival projects; and current debates about decolonization, repatriation, and reparation. Counts for ARU. Restrictions: ARH 290 may be taken for credit a total of 4 times with different topics. Enrollment limited to 20.

[CE] ARH 290 Limit

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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