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MLCS 299

Special Topics

3 units

Winter 2023

Topics

  • Critical refugee studies
  • Forced migration
  • Refugee literature and media
  • Historical and contemporary displacement

Readings

  • Fire at Sea. Directed by Gianfranco Rosi, 2016. Film.
    required
  • Limbo. Directed by Ben Sharrock, 2020. Film.
    required
  • Human Flow. Directed by Ai Weiwei, 2017. Film.
    required
  • Children of Men. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, 2006. Film.
    required
  • Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena, et al., editors. The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Oxford University Press, 2014.
    recommended
  • El Akkad, Omar. What Strange Paradise. 1st edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
    unspecified
  • Gurnah, Abdulrazak. By the Sea. New Press, 2001.
    unspecified
  • Boochani, Behrouz, et al. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. Anansi International/House of Anansi Press, 2019.
    unspecified
  • Lanchester, John. The Wall. W. W. Norton, 2019.
    unspecified
Fall 2018 · Topics in Popular Culture / Special Topics

Topics

  • Fashion in literature, film, and photography
  • Consumption
  • Globalization
  • Gender and identity

Readings

  • P. Antonelli and M. Fisher. Items: Is Fashion Modern? MoMA, 2017.
    unspecified
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