HUM 598
D. Graham Burnett (History of Science)
This course will examine the relationship between cultures of performance and cultures of pedagogy in the modern period. The last thirty years have seen a range of new creative experiments at the convergence of critical and creative discourse — leading to new categories of thought-theater like the "Performance Lecture," together with various art-space re-imaginings of the scenography/dramaturgy of teaching and learning. This recent history sets the occasion for our inquiry, which will reach back in an effort to recover a genealogy for these contemporary crossings of pedagogy and performance. Our aim? A deeper appreciation of the inosculation of stagecraft and mindwork since 1600.