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Zahid R Chaudhary
HUM 596
Seattle Campus
Explorations of current research in the humanities, most frequently with interdisciplinary emphasis. Offered by selected UW faculty and scholars-in-residence.
Class description
This course will provide students with a genealogy of the newly-expanding field of visual culture studies through a postcolonial optic. Revisiting debates such as the relationships between materiality and the image, history and simulacra, power and looking, the course elaborates the notions of the aesthetic through the specificity of postcolonial histories.
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