Comedy in American Film and Media (1900 – 1950)
We will study the history of comedy in the United States from a perspective that is at once aesthetic, cultural, and institutional. Examples of early cinema, slapstick comedy, and musicals will help to examine the role of gag, character, and narrative in both short and feature films. The circulation of jokes, performers, and comic routines […]
Art in public spaces
In this course students will have the chance to study the relationship between artworks and their environment. Starting from the observation of historic and contemporary works – ranging from monuments to street art- we will question the different forms of dialogue between art and public space, including their urban, cultural and political context. Students are […]
Devenir-fem.me(s) : Militances Guattari 2022
C’est avec une certaine colère et beaucoup de perplexité que les contemporain·e.s féministes de Félix Guattari, psychiatre à La Borde et militant dans diverses associations de gauche, accueillirent en août 1975 le concept de « devenir-femme » qu’il venait de lancer dans un entretien pour La quinzaine littéraire. Un Devenir-femme ? porté par deux voix-hommes […]
Ecologie des pratiques critiques: Memorized sound by Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler is a Scottish artist, filmmaker and musician born in 1978. From archives, he has developed a singular and collaborative practice, poetic and political, structural and documentary, but above all deeply human. With an emphasis on community practices, heterodox thinkers and the history of the left, his 16mm films tell the story of alternative […]
E-textile et pratiques artistiques numériques
This workshop-laboratory offers an introduction to the basics of textile creation and electronics, and training in e-textile and associated technologies, by creating an artistic object for a public exhibition. Its objective is to discover an emerging field that falls within the field of digital humanities. The smart textile here becomes a sensor (of pollution level, […]
Zoopoétiques & écoféminismes & textes et pensées
Depuis plusieurs années des écrivain.e.s et des philosophes féministes, ont fait apparaître la nécessité et l’urgence de repenser l’horizon des relations entre l’humain, l’animal, le vivant, au-delà de l’anthropocentrisme et des hiérarchies humain-non humain. Si le terme écoféministe a commencé à circuler depuis les années 70 (inventé par Françoise D’Eaubonne en 1974), les philosophes de […]
Customs & Business Case Studies
This course is part of the Master in International Trade Management degree. It will focus on the airport industry, in partnership with the Alliance Charles de Gaulles.