JWST 371 - The Fishman Seminar

Semester Offered: Spring
0.5 unit(s)

The course is offered by the Fishman Fellow in Jewish Studies, appointed annually to lecture on his/her scholarly concerns in the field of Jewish history, texts or culture. Students are encouraged to take note of the fact that each Fishman Seminar is uniquely offered and will not be repeated. Since the topic changes every year, the course may be taken for credit more than once.

Topic for 2019/20b: Looking at Jews: Representations of Jews and Jewishness from the Medieval Period to the Graphic Novel. The course has at its heart a number of urgent issues, including inequity, power, stereotyping, xenophobia, forced migration and fake news. From the outset, it challenges students to consider these concerns through the lens of the literature of both past and present so that they may better appreciate the historical roots of contemporary prejudices and unconscious biases. The course equips students to face these issues in their political, social and intellectual lives while offering them an appreciation of the relevance of studying the humanities more broadly. Stewart Brookes.

Second six-week course.

One 2-hour period.