Comparatism 2:
Territory and Cosmology
Michaelmas 2018
Tuesdays 12-2
Schedule
October 9
Introduction
October 16
Philippe Descola
“Humans and nonhumans sharing worlds: an Amazonian case”
October 23
Nicholas Lackenby
“Who we are and whose we are: rootedness and rightness amongst Serbian Orthodox Christians”
Carlotta Santini
“Form and Cosmology: Frobenius and Warburg on the Ife Table Model”
October 30
Aaron Kachuck
“Cosmos and Cubiculum: Virgil, Augustus, and the Cult of Vesta”
Elizabeth Turk
“From homeland to state spirit: modernist cosmopolitics and territorialized state reverence in post-Soviet Mongolia”
November 6
Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp
“Connectivities to transcend territories and cosmologies? Trans-territorial pilgrimage in far western Nepal”
Chloe Nahum-Claudel
“The Diplomatic Affordances of Circular Space”
November 13
Caroline Humphrey
“Are women’s landscapes different from men’s?”
Lea Niccolai
“The space of reason: Neoplatonic mappings of the world”
November 20
Maya Feile Tomes
“The circle and the sphere: representing world space from antiquity to America”
Selena Wisnom
“The world according to Enūma eliš: an unusual Babylonian account of creation”
November 27
Renaud Gagné
“Territory, Trees and Cosmos: Archaic Delphi”