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Spring 2023

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 1

Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon

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Credits: 2

This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course

Visual Arts

Wearable Paper Prints Experiment — PRI4215.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline

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Credits: 4

This course will explore the potential of wearable paper prints. To start, we will learn and practice simple printing methods that allow us to make prints into “use objects” that can be worn on the body. We will begin by looking at simple examples of paper dresses, party favors, disposable protection gear, and halloween costumes, as well as historical examples ranging from Dada

Dance Music Visual Arts

Witchcraft and Magic in Premodern Europe — HIS4104.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carol Pal

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Credits: 4

What is magic? What is a witch? Who is a witch? And in the increasingly rational culture of Europe after the Renaissance, how and why did nearly 100,000 people – predominantly women – come to be tried for the crime of witchcraft? In many ways, the investigation of these questions hangs on another question: how do we differentiate science, magic, and religion? In premodern

Society Culture and Thought

Women and Human Mobility — APA2213.03

Spring 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

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Credits: 1

Human mobility has been an inherent human condition throughout history. From earliest human history, women and men have migrated in search of a better life, to populate other places on the planet, or to escape and survive human-made or natural dangers. Today migration is a fact of life for an increasing number of people around the world: there are more than 244

Advancement of Public Action

Woodcut Printmaking on the Vandercook Proofing Press — PRI2123.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Corinne Rhodes

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Credits: 2

Vandercook Proofing Presses were once a vital aspect of the printing industry and have been adopted widely by artists for letterpress printing and book arts. 51�� is fortunate to possess three Vandercooks, housed in the Word and Image Lab. Using type-high plywood blocks, oil-based and non-toxic, water-soluble inks, we will examine different

Visual Arts

Working With Light — DRA2234.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Michael Giannitti

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Credits: 2

Lighting design has the powerful ability to shape the experience of an audience. Its practice incorporates elements of artistry and craft, and should interest those working in all aspects of visual and performing arts. In addition to hands-on work with theatrical lighting equipment in and outside of class, awareness of light, play analysis and conceptualization, color, angle,

Dance Drama

Writing a Life — LIT4510.01) (time change as of 11/11/2022

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ben Anastas

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Credits: 4

In this course, we will move chronologically through a life, from childhood to old age, with the help of sixteen different writers. We will read broadly (novels, plays, short stories) and focus on one key question at every life stage. As kids, we will investigate imperfect narrative voices and strategic silences. As teenagers, we will explore writing about politics with humor,

Literature

Zen Buddhism — CHI4218.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Ginger Lin

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Credits: 4

Although it was born in India, Buddhism has had a deep and profound influence on Chinese and East Asian culture, but this philosophy remains relevant to modern life in both the East and West. Students will be introduced to the spirit of Buddhism through modern Mandarin interpretations of classic Chinese Buddhist poems and stories. Students will explore Chinese Buddhist concepts

Cultural Studies and Languages