Schedule for Seeing and Knowing, 2015-2016
Version: Sept. 5, 2015
TERM 1
Sept. 8: first day of classes: Imagine UBC Day (no readings necessary)
Sept. 14: Sophocles, Oedipus the King Robert Crawford
Sept. 21: Plato, Republic Robert Crawford
Sept. 28 Plato Republic Christina Hendricks
Oct. 5: Shakespeare, The Tempest and Greenaway, Prospero’s Books (film) Robert Crawford & Miguel
Mota
Oct. 12: (holiday) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Robert Crawford
Oct. 19: Hobbes Leviathan Christina Hendricks
Oct 26: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality: Robert Crawford
Nov. 2: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience: Miguel Mota
Nov. 9 Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems: Stephen Guy Bray, English dept. (guest)
Nov. 16 Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny and selections from Interpretation of Dreams: Christina
Hendricks and Jason Lieblang
Nov. 23 The 19th century German Novelle: Heinrich von Kleist, The Earthquake in Chile and E.T.A.
Hoffmann, “The Sandman”: Jason Lieblang
Nov. 30 Arthur Schnitzler, Lieutenant Gustl: Kyle Frackman, CENES dept. (guest)
TERM 2
Jan. 4 Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot: Katia Bowers, CENES dept. (guest)
Jan. 11 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness: Robert Crawford
-- maybe also include Coppola Apocalypse Now too?
Jan. 18 Films: Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Grune, Die Strasse; Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will:
Jason Lieblang
Jan. 25 Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber: Miguel Mota
Feb. 1 Poetry package: David Dabydeen, Slave Song, Stephanie Strickland, The Ballad of Sand and Soot:
Miguel Mota
Feb. 8 (holiday) Michel Foucault, selection on the "Panopticon" from Discipline and Punish: Christina
Hendricks
Feb. 15 reading week
Feb. 22 Jon Berger, Ways of Seeing: Jason Lieblang
Feb. 29 reading TBA: Christina Hendricks
March 7 Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," and Hitchcock, Vertigo Christina
Hendricks and Jason Lieblang
March 14 Toni Morrison, Jazz: Miguel Mota
March 21 Osamu Tezuka, Buddha Part I (graphic novel): Jason Lieblang
March 28 (holiday) Paul Auster, City of Glass (novella) and Paul Karasik & David Mazzuchelli, City of
Glass (graphic novel adaptation): Miguel Mota
April 4 Sebald, Austerlitz: Jason Lieblang and Miguel Mota