Frantz Fanon is among the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century whose writings are critical in rethinking our world. In this course we read Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, plus essays in A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution. We read authors Fanon studied like Césaire, Capécia, Mannoni, Wright, Sartre, and Hegel, as well as recent scholars who interpret Fanon for our times like Ato Sekyi-Otu, Homi K. Bhabha, Achille Mbembe, Reiland Rabaka, Hamid Dabashi, Glen Coulthard, Anthony Alessandrini, and Gamal Abdel-Shehid and Zahir Kolia.

Studies concepts, methods, and projects that have shaped the environmental humanities (EH) as a transdisciplinary field. Compares EH approaches to environmental sciences and environmental movements while considering the field's intellectual commitments to, among others, narrative, epistemology, cultural critique, and social and ecological justice. Examines current EH collaborations and centers that address extractive capitalism and the climate crisis through variously community-based, site-specific, and public work. (These include the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, KTH EH Laboratory, and Oregon Center for Environmental Futures.)

This seminar offers a critical survey of recent trends in media theory with an eye to their relevance to questions of aesthetic form and of representation in general. We focus specifically on six approaches around which work in media theory has coalesced in the last two decades: cultural techniques, disability studies, media archaeology, elemental media, network theory, and assemblage theory.

The seminar introduces graduate students to central problems, themes, concepts and methodologies in the history of science and neighboring fields. We explore past and recent developments including the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Actor-Network Theory, the study of practice and experimentation, the role of quantification, the concept of paradigms, gender, sexuality and the body, environmental history of science, the global history of science, and the role of labor and industry, amongst others.

Situated between the academic study and museumization of premodernities and contemporary art, the course examines curation as a transdisciplinary practice of care that preserves, values, and claims knowledge of objects and periods marked in colonial modernity as "ancient" or "classical." How is antiquity shaped as an object of expertise and attention within the university and the museum? In what ways does curating distant pasts construct, challenge, or remake communities in the present? Drawing on case studies from Greece and India, we also ask how comparison both abets and blocks the theorization of antiquity as an object of care.