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GCLR Seminar: Urban Experiential Learning: Concepts and Pedagogical Methods

6206C Phelps Phelps Hall, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

This seminar will focus on the concepts, pedagogical designs, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three years. The central principle underpinning the course is the ways in which any given city might be used to generate a toolkit of concepts and methods for understanding other cities, ...

Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara

Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings, from Glas to his last texts, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war ...