ROM-STD 191 - Crowds

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This digital humanities seminar explores the place of multitudes in the Western cultural and socio-political imagination between 1789 and the present, whether from the standpoint of theorizations of the collectivity (Lombroso, Tarde, Le Bon, Sighele, Freud, Ortega, Canetti, Negri) or from that of visual or literary imaginings (Guys, Ensor, Carra, Rodchenko, Sironi, Krueger; Baudelaire, Valera, Manzoni, Zola, D'Annunzio, Marinetti). Assignments include writing semantic histories and curatorial oversight over a digital gallery.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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