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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.001.164 (01)
FYS: Curating Women
F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Kingsley, Jennifer P
Gilman 177
FYS: Curating Women AS.001.164 (01)
From the women who created the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to the "Because of Her" working group across the Smithsonian’s museums, this First-Year Seminar investigates the hidden women of many distinct social positions, racial and ethnic identities whose labor shaped the museums we know today and considers how museums tell the stories of women, including transgender women, in the arts, sciences, and history.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Kingsley, Jennifer P
Room: Gilman 177
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.001.169 (01)
FYS: Inventing a City - Exploring Baltimore Through Maps and Mapping
F 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Denis, Lena Zander, Finkelstein, Lori
Hmwd House Wine Cllr
FYS: Inventing a City - Exploring Baltimore Through Maps and Mapping AS.001.169 (01)
Using maps from the 17th century to the present, students in this First-Year Seminar will explore the historical and contemporary landscape of their new hometown -- Baltimore. These primary sources will show how Baltimore was invented and developed in popular imagination to become the most vital port on the US Eastern Seaboard, but also a symbol American post-industrial decline. Students will have the chance to map how they see Baltimore, by learning and applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and converting geospatial data into visual stories. With the goal of fostering a deeper understanding of this complex city, and a student’s place in it, the class will include explorations outside of the classroom. The course will culminate with the creation of a small exhibit whose content and venue will be decided upon mutually by students during the course of the semester.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 2:30PM
Instructor: Denis, Lena Zander, Finkelstein, Lori
Room: Hmwd House Wine Cllr
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.130.153 (01)
A (Virtual) Visit to the Louvre Museum: Introduction to the Material Culture of Ancient Egypt
MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Arnette, Marie-Lys
Gilman 130G
NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH
A (Virtual) Visit to the Louvre Museum: Introduction to the Material Culture of Ancient Egypt AS.130.153 (01)
This course will present the Egyptological collections of the musée du Louvre in Paris, room by room, as in a real visit. The experience will be enhanced by the study of objects that are not shown to the public but are kept in the reserves of the museum. From the 4th millennium BC to Roman time, the iconic “masterpieces” of this world-renowned art museum, as well as its little-known artifacts, will allow us to explore the history and material culture of ancient Egypt. We will also learn to observe, describe and analyze archaeological objects, in a global manner and without establishing a hierarchy between them, while questioning their place in the museum and its particular language. The objective will be to go beyond the objects themselves and answer, in fine, the following questions: What do these objects tell us about the men and women who produced them, exchanged them, used them, and lived among them in antiquity? What do they also reveal about those who discovered them in Egypt, several millennia later, about those who collected them and sometimes traded them, and what does this say about the relations between Egypt and the Western countries over time?
The courses will be complemented by visits to the rich Egyptian collections in Baltimore.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
Instructor: Arnette, Marie-Lys
Room: Gilman 130G
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.130.247 (01)
Digging for Legitimacy Archaeology, Museums, and Ideology
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Shippelhoute, Karlene Dee Ann
Bloomberg 178
NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH
Digging for Legitimacy Archaeology, Museums, and Ideology AS.130.247 (01)
Archaeology was born out of Western Colonial endeavors into Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Large scale excavations conducted by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States resulted in the removal and transfer of valuable (culturally and monetarily) material culture from local stewards and stakeholders to the West. To this day the discipline of archaeology is still saddled by its colonial past and the Hollywood interpretation of archaeologists as saviors of ancient treasures. Today, most interaction between people and ancient objects is facilitated via the museum. In this course we will explore 19th- 21st century archaeological and museum practices and the role they play in modern narratives of identity and representation in the America and the Middle East. Students will engage with the historical, legal, economic, and ethical implications of archaeology and analyze how political, religious, cultural, and academic institutions have leveraged archaeology and cultural artifacts to reify and legitimize their pursuits and ideologies.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Shippelhoute, Karlene Dee Ann
Room: Bloomberg 178
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/16
PosTag(s): NEAS-ARTARC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.130.248 (01)
Up the Nile: New Approaches to the History of Egyptology and Nubiology
TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Moroney, Morgan E
Smokler Center Library
NEAS-HISCUL, ARCH-ARCH
Up the Nile: New Approaches to the History of Egyptology and Nubiology AS.130.248 (01)
King Tut, Napoleon, Champollion, Ozymandias, Nefertiti: the history of Egyptology is filled with big characters, huge monuments, and glimmering objects. But it is also made up of colonialist practices, looted sites, and forgotten scholarly contributions. “Up the Nile” examines the antiquarian, colonialist, racist, Western-centric, and patriarchal roots of modern Egyptology and Nubiology, and addresses how scholars and enthusiasts alike are continuing to grapple with these lasting legacies and biases. This class investigates how the Egyptians and Nubians thought of their own histories, as well as how other ancient cultures viewed the cultures of the Nile. It moves roughly chronologically, tracing understudied and marginalized voices from the Islamic, Medieval, and Ottoman periods into the 20th and 21st centuries. It examines the origins of scholarship, modern collecting, Egyptomania, and museums, delving into the problems and repercussions that still haunt us today. “Up the Nile” will engage with important and difficult aspects regarding Egyptology’s and Nubiology’s colonialist, racist, and sexist past and present. It asks: who decides who writes history, then and now?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Instructor: Moroney, Morgan E
Room: Smokler Center Library
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/18
PosTag(s): NEAS-HISCUL, ARCH-ARCH
AS.211.329 (01)
Museums and Identity
MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Spinner, Samuel Jacob
Hodson 305
INST-GLOBAL, ARCH-RELATE
Museums and Identity AS.211.329 (01)
The museum boom of the last half-century has centered largely around museums dedicated to the culture and history of identity groups, including national, ethnic, religious, and minority groups. In this course we will examine such museums and consider their long history through a comparison of the theory and practice of Jewish museums with other identity museums. We will study the various museological traditions that engage identity, including the collection of art and antiquities, ethnographic exhibitions, history museums, heritage museums, art museums, and other museums of culture. Some of the questions we will ask include: what are museums for and who are they for? how do museums shape identity? and how do the various types of museums relate to one another? Our primary work will be to examine a variety of contemporary examples around the world with visits to local museums including the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian.
Introduction to the Museum: Past and Present AS.389.201 (01)
This course surveys museums, from their origins to their most contemporary forms, in the context of broader historical, intellectual, and cultural trends including the social movements of the 20th century. Anthropology, art, history, and science museums are considered. Crosslisted with Archaeology, History, History of Art, International Studies and Medicine, Science & Humanities.
Ancient Color: The Technologies and Meanings of Color in Antiquity
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Balachandran, Sanchita
Gilman 150A
MSCH-HUM, ARCH-ARCH
Ancient Color: The Technologies and Meanings of Color in Antiquity AS.389.315 (01)
What role did the colorful surfaces of sculptures, vessels and textiles play in the ancient world? We examine historical texts and recent scholarly and scientific publications on the technologies and meanings of color in antiquity, and use imaging and analytical techniques to study polychromed objects from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Balachandran, Sanchita
Room: Gilman 150A
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/15
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM, ARCH-ARCH
AS.389.325 (01)
Women of the Book: Female Miracle Workers, Mystics, and Material Culture, 1450-1800
W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Champagne, Kelsey Elizabeth, Havens, Earle A
BLC Macksey
Women of the Book: Female Miracle Workers, Mystics, and Material Culture, 1450-1800 AS.389.325 (01)
From psycho-spiritual autobiographers to mystical bi-locating nuns, convent crèche-keepers to choristers of sacred music, from rock-star-status mystics to the hidden careers of women printers, engravers, and miracle-makers, this course will explore the remarkable intellectual, cultural, and imaginative contributions of women who found refuge, agency, and power within alternative lives.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Champagne, Kelsey Elizabeth, Havens, Earle A
