Stories

Professor Arlo Weil

360簞: Origin Stories

This year-long cluster explores the intersections of scientific, philosophic and humanistic ways of thinking about, writing about, and visually representing ways we look at origin stories.

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Mongolia at the Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve 3

360簞: Eurasia in Flux: Trans-Siberian Perspectives on Russia and China

This 360簞 cluster focuses on the unique ties between Russia and its largest neighbor to the East, China.

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Photograph of Katharine Hepburn holding and looking into a hand mirror

360簞: Mirroring the Self

Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.

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Artwork on a bulletin board

360簞: Identity Matters

This cluster of courses, which have been co-designed by professors with shared interests in disability studies, gender studies, human development, literature, social work, visual studies and writing, will consider how multiple systems of identity, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson says, intertwine, redefine, and mutually constitute one another.

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China and the Environment 360 on factory tour

360簞: China and the Environment

This 360簞 cluster, comprised of courses in philosophy, history (East Asian Studies), and economics, will look at the many environmental problems and issues that beset our contemporary world. We will explore the environment from the perspective of several disciplines: philosophy (both "Western" and "Eastern"), economics, history, politics, and natural science.

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Century of Self Expression Exhibition

360簞: Exhibiting Modern Art

This 360簞 will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.

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360簞: Food and Communication

This cluster focuses on the idea that food is a medium, a cultural vehicle that transports and is transportable and transportive.

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360簞: Contemporary Cuban Culture and Society in a Global Context

This cluster brings together students and faculty to understand a country whose past and future are bound up deeply with the United States and the rest of Latin America even as it has charted very different courses within contemporary history and social policy.

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Detail from Oil Symposium

360簞 Symposium: Flourishing Beyond the Legacy of Oil

The symposium brought together students, academics, government, legal, and planning representatives, and industry professionals, to talk about the future of cities like Philadelphia, as they deal with the transforming influence of oil and other energy sources.

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Students and faculty gather in two rows in front of a fountain, with green trees behind them.

360簞: Empires

This 360 cluster consists of three courses that examine different aspects of empires. It brings together historical, linguistic, and scientific perspectives in the study of imperial experiences and their present-day implications.

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Mural of pioneering women

360簞: Changing Education

Changing Education, the first 360簞 offering at 91勛圖厙, is inspired by the College's 125th anniversary in 2010-11.

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detail of work by artist Bethany Collins. Zoomed in to reveal erasure of text and remaining text "but he continued to grieve for his native land, dragging his steps up and down along the shore of the sounding sea in great distress.

Bethany Collins

March 17 - May 28, 2023, and ongoing

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