Spring 2024

JEWISH 121 001 - LEC 001

Topics in Jewish Arts and Culture

Mapping Diasporas: Jewish Culture, Museums, and Digital Humanities

Francesco Spagnolo

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

02:00 pm - 04:59 pm

Class #:19846

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Jewish Studies Program

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 1

Enrolled: 20

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 21

Waitlist Max: 0

No Reserved Seats

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.

Final Exam

TUE, MAY 7TH

11:30 am - 02:30 pm

Other classes by Francesco Spagnolo

UGIS 192A 023 023TUT

Course Catalog Description

This course will address topics related to Jewish arts and culture with a format that includes lecture and lab hours.

Class Description

Describing the interaction of places, times, languages, identities, cultural formats, dominant and marginal narratives that characterize cultures in diaspora requires a multidimensionality that traditional maps no longer meet. In today's world, we "map" diasporas through digital narratives, and often perform culture acting as archivists and curators. In this course, students will work with the cultural objects held in The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life-including art, material culture, books, manuscripts, digital assets and data -learning to conduct collaborative research and documentation, to create maps and narratives, and to curate and publish their findings in museum galleries and online. This class will take place at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA,