Memory and Landscape
CWL 561
Thursday 1-3:50
Professor Brett Kaplan, bakaplan@uiuc.edu

What is the relationship between memory and landscape? How do landscapes exercise an influence on us? What are the limits of landscapes when the word now applies to urban landscapes, media landscapes, political landscapes, and more? Are there still sacred landscapes? Can landscapes be said to be gendered? This course will address these and other questions by studying landscapes in their different forms. Moving through seminars on power, memory, photography and fiction, landscape architecture, symbolism, gender, painting, urbanity, sacred space, and cemeteries, this course will explore the complex intersections of memory and landscape. I hope that students from diverse departments will participate in the seminar and I welcome suggestions for material/media to look at together; if you are thinking about taking the course, please email me your ideas.

For more information on the course, click here: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-12382501_2-t_r1Jtp3m0