Cape Town Course Schedule
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| Week | Seminar Title | Major Theme | Research Tutorial | Project Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to South African Pre-History: understanding the political stakes in post-apartheid South Africa and the implications of liberation. | Pre-History in PASA | Session 1 | |
| 2 | San Rock Art and national memory narratives: enculturation and the past, present, future. | Pre-History in PASA | Session 2 | Choice of collection |
| 3 | The Lydenburg Heads, Linton Panel and Mapungubwe rhino: politics and possibilities of Pre-History collections. | Pre-History in PASA | Session 3 | |
| 4 | The concept of the hybrid object in display and praxis: cultural appropriation and the question of authenticity in curating and collecting in South Africa. | Pre-History in PASA | Session 4 | First component due |
| 5 | Acquisition standards and the ethics of cultural display: art, craft and festivals in marginalized South African communities. | Pre-History in PASA | Session 5 | |
| 6 | The limits of representation in South African Museums: trauma and memory in the wake of apartheid. | Imagination in the Museum | Session 6 | Second component due |
| 7 | Historically based contemporary artworks: a challenge to the regime of evidence or heuristic devices? | Imagination in the Museum | Session 7 | Draft project Submission due |
| 8 | The role of curation in knowledge claims: the curatorial turn in heritage and museum projects from South Africa. | Imagination in the Museum | Session 8 | |
| 9 | The role of film as archive and artwork in contemporary iterations of public memory and national heritage. | Imagination in the Museum | Session 9 | |
| 10 | Cape Town as a living museum: social planning, public art and the contested strategies of cultural tourism after apartheid. | Imagination in the Museum | Session 10 | Submission of final project |