Topics we will address in this seminar

Sites of self.
Landscape, thought, & the body.- O’Keeffe exhbition
The Art of Travel (excerpt/handout)
Whither Thou Goest (handout)
Graffiti--leaving a mark (guest presentation by Henry Chalfant)

The senses
Touching the Rock: Seeing with the whole self. (excerpt, Hull, handout)
Minding the Body (essays, poems and short stories excerpted from:)

Narcissus. Looking at and reflecting the self.
Art works. Looking in the Mirror as a motif. Fairy tales.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

About Face.
The Nose. Gogol
Beauty, (Numerous sources).

The Oppressed Self--The Secret Self-The Self as Prison
Arts (Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, others)
Literature (numerous readings)
Theater (Augusto Boal)

Narrating the Self- Andrei Codrescu (speech)
The Jewish Wife (Brecht)
Charlotte Salomon (Life or Theater)
Events of “Beyond the Stigma: Palestine, Israel, USA through the Arts)

Loss of Self vs. Creating the Self
The Shape of Things (LaBute)
Zelig (Woody Allen)-optional
The Darling (Anton Chekhov)

The Embodied Self (numerous writings and art works)

Search/Quest for the Self/ Home
Jung’s Individuation, Myth of the Unconscious, Shadow (either Hesse or Fairy Tales)
An Allegory of Development.
The Juniper Tree. "My Mother, she slew me. My father he ate me--birth and renewal"

Presenting and Posing the Self
Portraits and Self portraits
“The Jewish Wife” Brecht
Susan Sontag on photography
writings on mask and ritual

The Extended Self (the Self in Time)
Memory & Imagination
Retrospective and Prospective

The Fragmented Self- Our many selves
Aghwah (and numerous readings from the coursepack)
Art: Hannah Höch, Kiki Smith, others

The Mask of the Other.
Theater exercises
Photography
“Faking it”

Change and Survival
interviews
numerous readings and art works