Multicultural London: The Literature of Migrants and Immigrants
Esther Schor (English)
This Rapid Response grant supports a redesign of a Spring 2021 course, “Multicultural London: The Literature of Migrants and Immigrants.” Training students in the tools of archival digitization–mapping, timelines, annotation–the project also supports class visits that aim to offer a “virtual London” experience for students who were prevented by COVID-19 from studying abroad.
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
Eduardo Cadava (English)
This Rapid Response grant supports course materials and class visits for a new Spring 2021 graduate seminar, “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility.” The course will trace work by photographers and artists from the late 1970s to the present moment, understanding art as offering resources for political action and strategies for resistance and activism.