This short course will familiarise you with readings related to posthumanities and recent advances in anthropology and equip you with the capacity to evaluate recent debates in this new field.
When it's run
1 March - 5 April 2021
Mode of delivery
Online
Duration
5 weeks
Honours and postgraduate students in Anthropology, the theoretical humanities, and the environmental humanities.
The course has two main aims:
Two online quizzes held in week 2 and week 4 of the course (60%; 30% each quiz)
Successful participation in online group discussion
A short text, blog, podcast or artwork
Mix and match any four courses of your choice and gain a Professional Certificate in Creativity or Professional Practice.
Stephen Muecke is a senior scholar in the Humanities. Recent books are Latour and the Humanities, edited with Rita Felski, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and The Children’s Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia, co-authored with Paddy Roe, Rowman and Littlefield International 2020.
He has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität, Berlin and at Paris XIII. He also works on fictocritical writing, cultutal theory and has published a special edition of New Literary History (“Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour”), 2016. He has a long record of work with Indigenous people (a new edition of Paddy Roe’s Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley appeared with UWA Publishing, 2016), and current research involves ethnographic documentation of Goolarabooloo county north of Broome, Western Australia, using a ‘multirealist’ approach.
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