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#PostElectionSyllabus

November 12, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Lisa Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitcs” Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth […]

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Contemporary American Fiction: Graduate Seminar (Fall 2016, Syllabus)

August 16, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

DESCRIPTION This seminar examines works of American fiction published within the past two decades with a special focus on the novel. The reading list highlights the growing diversity of authors […]

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How to Predict a Future with Climate Change

May 20, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

  In Venice (of all places!), I’ve been teaching a course entitled “The Artful Things of Climate Change.” Its focus was on the relationship between culture and this phenomenon that […]

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Artful Things of Climate Change (Syllabus)

April 18, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

Description As we reach a rough consensus that global warming is happening and that human activity is the primary driver of this warming, the really difficult questions emerge with greater […]

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Italy Journal: The Ladies by the Water

April 18, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

There are young women dressed in fancy but obviously fake medieval dresses and masks who stand around the fondamente near San Marco, on San Zaccaria. They make their living taking […]

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Italy Journal: The Humanities in an International Context

April 8, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

I’m in Italy for the semester, teaching at the Venice International University. I’m about halfway through my time here, and I thought (belatedly) I’d start writing periodic posts about everything […]

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Why Sanders?

March 9, 2016by Min Hyoung Song

I’ve been wondering, why Sanders? How did a 74-year-old Jewish man born in Brooklyn, a self-described democratic socialist, and a longtime resident of the largely rural state of Vermont become […]

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Italy Journal: Becoming Immigrants

January 13, 2016by Min Hyoung Song 1 Comment

We are in Italy. I was offered an opportunity to teach in Venice during the Spring term, and my family and I jumped at it. What a chance to try […]

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Reading Laudato Si’ in the Wake of the Charleston Massacre

June 18, 2015by Min Hyoung Song

Today has obviously been filled with mourning over the Charleston church shooting, during which nine African American parishioners were killed. The likely perpetrator has since been identified as Dylann Storm […]

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Policing the Present

January 22, 2015by Min Hyoung Song

This is the text of a talk I gave on a panel at Boston College entitled “Race in the USA: Expectations, Concerns, and Hopes in 2015.” * What is the […]

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