Course Requirements
and
Assignments:
Weekly Schedule
January
14th
.
Art, Social
Movements, and Social Change:
How do artists in
different media
address social issues? A sampling of artists’ works focused on
human
rights, inequality, gender, and social justice.
- Readings:
T.V. Reed: Introduction
- Time
Cover
- Art
and Public Policy for Change
- What is Art for Social Change?
- Howard
Zinn
Week
II: January
21st.
The
Mythology of Violence: Ackerman and Duvall, pp 457-468
Ahimsa: The
logic of Nonviolence
Ontology
of Nonviolence
Readings: Howard
Zinn,The
Power of
Nonviolence, Retaliation,
,Introduction
& 5-7 , The trial of
Scott Nearing, 42-44, and Gandhi: 45-46
Why We Fight
The
Cost of War
Calculator
Week III:
January 28th
Nonviolent
Resistance and political
Power
The
Top Ten Most Influential Resistances/revolts
Readings:
Reading: T.V. Reed,
The
Art of
Protest: Chap.VI
Another Realism: The Politics of
Gandhian Nonviolence
Howard Zinn
- Apartheid,
and the
Politics of Rock Music; activism 'benefit rock'
- Nelson Mendala
- Did
the
song "We Are the World" change the world or reinforce Western
ethnocentric racism?
February
4th
The Begening
Tunisia and Egypt: Arab
Spring
Readings:
J. Gelvin; The Arab Uprising, 34-66
- Arts of Arab
World
- From
Fear to Fury: Tunisia
Pays Tribute
- The
Political Transformation of the Middle East and North Africa
February
18th
The
Crisis In Egypt,
Revolutionary Walls: Nonviolent
Activism in the Middle East,
Bahia
Shehab: A thousand times no
Readings: Civilian
Jihad, Kefaya, S. Mansour ,
205-218
- We
are all Khalid Said
- Egypt,
- Egypt We are
Watching You
- Ideas
from Arab Youth: Demand for Democracy and Human Rights.
- Readings:
J. Gelvin; The Arab Uprising, 1-32
Study
Questions
February
25.
Libya
Bengazi
,
Photographic
Truths
As an outlier
Yemen
Class will Discuss The
Controversies around Nonviolence Practice in the
Middle East and role of New Media in bringing about social change.
March 4th.
March
11th. Global Human Rights
Human Rights Crisis Syria,
Today, Syria Country
Profile.,
Refugee
Crisis
Artists for Human Rights in Syria
The
graphic image as art;
the role of graphic art in the struggle for
global human rights
March 8th International Women's
Day
March
11th
Actup , Aids
and Gay Rights
- T.V. Reed -179-216 : ACTing UP:
- http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html
March
18th.
Guest Speaker : Heather Davis
community
arts using friendship as method
Readings
1.
Reading :"Performance, Aesthetics, and Support" from
Jackson, Shannon. Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics.
London: Routledge, 2011
March 25th:
Spring Break , No Classes
April
1st,
Technologies of Protest: Public Square and Social Change
"Surveillance and
Sousveillance"
- When the Watched Become the Watchers"
- Keep an
Eye on Hasan Elahi
April 8th.
Political
Power of Social Media
Ai
Weiwei: The Dissident
- "Never Sorry"
- Human
Rights, New Media and Underground documentary
- 3.
The
Art of Protest by filmmaker and illustrator Temujin Doran
Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/02/23/the-art-of-protest/#ixzz1JEXd2awI
April
15th,
Anti
- Corporate Protest and Capitalist Crisis: The
Art of Occupy Movement
Globalization and new models of wealth: coalitional
movement against corporate globalization which attend only to the
rights of corporations and nation-states.
Rise and Occupy
Molly
Katchpole
BOA
April 22 &
29th : Students Make
Art For Social Change.
" Which Image opened your eyes to Human Rights"
Students will research,
design, execute, and present a piece of art, on an issue, related to
"Human Rights"
- Reflections
on the Cultural Study of Social Movements."
- http://culturalpolitics.net/social_movements/
Student
Presentations make art for social change: