Israel-Palestine: Public Humanities

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This seminar will engage current debates on heritage, traditions, and history in Israel-Palestine with a focus on shared as well as antagonistic cultural and artistic spheres. It will explore how contested narratives can produce diverse perspectives and positions with regard to past and current events. The focus will be on cultural productions in Israel-Palestine and on diasporic Israeli and Palestinian communities in Europe and the US. In addition, examples from the visual and performing arts, museums and public spaces, film and media will illustrate how cultural expressions and events can foster dialogue. Students will work individually and together to design and implement a public event for the Brown and larger Rhode Island community and beyond on the subject of Israel-Palestine, bridging the divides of the region’s diverse ethnic and religious populations through cultural dialogue.