Abstract
The course will be taught as part history/part survey of visual and performing arts, including poetry and literature. Each class, with a few exceptions, will start with contextualization of the historical moment, and will then investigate those moments through the lens of the visual and performing arts. There will be public programs that help to broaden discourse regarding specific media, and that will draw a larger public audience.
The course will be taught in three parts:
1. “Roots”: origins of Zionism and Arab and Palestinian Nationalism through the creation of the state of Israel in 1948
2. “Renovations” changes in national realities, national narratives, and individual narratives at “renovating” points such as the 1967 war, the first Lebanon War, the first Intifadeh, and the peace process through Camp David II
3. “No Resolutions”: the second Intifadeh, the second Lebanon War, Crises in Gaza, Trump Administration