Summer 2021 Graduate Courses
Last updated: Friday, April 16th, 2021. Red text denotes a new or changed course since the previous update.
Summer A Graduate Seminars
AHIS GR8006 Problems in Curating: The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig’s Sphere, 9/11, and the Politics of Memory
H. Klein
T/R 5:30-8:40
This seminar introduces graduate students to questions and problems that guide curatorial practice. It is intended to allow prospective curators the opportunity to build relevant skills around the preparation of a specific exhibition, entitled The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig’s Sphere, 9/11, and the Politics of Memory. This exhibition is scheduled to be on view at the Wallach Art Gallery from September 10–November 14, 2021, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and responding to a vibrant popular and academic debate about the role and function of memorials and public monuments and the struggle to define appropriate ways to commemorate significant historical events, figures, places, or movements and to communicate them to future generations, the exhibition The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig’s Sphere, 9/11, and the Politics of Memory will focus on a number of interrelated themes surrounding the issues of memory, trauma, postmemory, and the power of art to mediate fundamental human experiences across time. The seminar and exhibition will focus on a number of interrelated themes: the oeuvre of the German sculptor Fritz Koenig, the memory of 9/11 and its memorial(s) twenty years after the attacks, and the issue of monuments and memorials on Columbia’s campus on Morningside Heights and beyond.