الربيع ٢٠٢٥، القاهرةمقرر قصير

Beauty Will Save the World

التسجيل مغلق

تفاصيل المقرر

الدورة: الربيع ٢٠٢٥، القاهرة
يبدأ: الثلاثاء، ١١ فبراير
المواعيد: الثلاثاء، ١٨:٠٠–٢٠:٣٠
المدة: ٦ جلسات
طريقة الحضور: حضوري
لغة التدريس: الإنجليزية

ناقشه مع الذكاء الاصطناعي

اختر مساعد الذكاء الاصطناعي الذي تفضّله.
ستُفتح علامة تبويب جديدة، وستجد النص التوجيهي جاهزًا للاستخدام.
اضغط على إرسال لتبدأ استكشاف الصفحة من خلال الحوار، على طريقة سيلاس.

عن المقرر

How can beauty save the world? This six week interactive discussion class may unleash the possibility of such transformation. Beauty can change perception, inspiring respect, and surprising responses to difficult situations. Sometimes beauty is dangerous. As we enter into 'beauty' we'll be as imaginative as we are analytical, guided by the wisdom of a variety of writers, thinkers, and activists, such as: Solzhenitsyn, Simone Weil, Dostoyevsky, John Keats, Aristophanes, William Blake, Langston Hughes, and Native American Elders. You're encouraged to bring examples of Egyptian and/or Arabic beauty to each class, enhancing luminous discussion, and informing your final project. Our class culminates in a 'Beauty Salon' wherein you'll each present an imaginative scenario -a story, a poem, artwork, a video, a plan - in which beauty alters and transforms a person, a community, a place, a country, or the whole world. Beauty is at the heart of Utopian thinking that's needed now.

مَن يقدّم المقرر

درّست العلوم الإنسانية — الأدب والدين وفنون الأداء — في الصين وروسيا والسويد والولايات المتحدة وبريطانيا (حيث نالت الدكتوراه من أكسفورد)، ونشرت أكثر من عشرين مقالًا وكتاب «Blake’s Jerusalem As Visionary Theatre»، وعملت بأبحاث سلام وفنون تناول الشباب المشردين في شيكاغو.
من زميل التدريس
When Solzhenitsyn and Dostoyevsky survived gulags they both affirmed: 'Beauty will save the World.' How can this be? 'Beauty' (as a word) has being, and it's related to other dynamic nouns, like 'truth,' 'forgiveness,' 'imagination,' 'peace.' As we enter into 'beauty' we'll be as imaginative as we are analytical. You'll each be asked to present a creative response to our readings, and to bring in examples of Arabic poetry, stories, or ideas compatible with the texts we're discussing. And, you're enjoined to create a scenario in which beauty saves a world: this can be an essay, a story, a poem, a video, a puppet show, a piece of art. Utopian thinking can have practical ramifications.

مسار المقرر

يُعرض ٦ جلسات

فبراير ٢٠٢٥

How does this idea work? Where is beauty? What does it do?
How can beauty be truth?
- Nobel Address: Beauty Will Save the World?Solzhenitsyn.
- "The Russian Monk"Dostoyevsky. From Brothers Kamarazov.
- Ode on a Grecian UrnKeats.
How many people don't die?
How effective is erotic diplomacy?
- Book of JudithChapters 10-14.
- Book of EstherExcerpts.
- LysistrataAristophanes. A short scene.
Can beauty be a social structuring principle? What ecological benefits come from that? How is beauty both spiritual and material? Is beauty stronger than death?
- Braiding Sweetgrass (Iroquois Thanksgiving)Robin Wall Kimmerer. From.
- Navajo Night Chant
في الجلسة
تمرينStorytelling Workshop: The Iroquois League Foundation Story.
تمرينIn this session we'll chant, we'll sing, we'll embody the story. The power of beauty goes into hearts souls, body and mind.

مارس ٢٠٢٥

After reading Blake's words allowed we'll begin to imagine how all things interconnect, a web of beauty. Could aesthetics be more important than economics? Would that save the world?
- Songs of Innocence & of Experience5 poems.
- Auguries of Innocence
How does perception affect what we see? How do forgiveness and beauty interrelate? Why does Simone Weil think that humanity can be saved by aesthetics?
- Forms of the Implicit Love of GodSimone Weil.
- Thank You Ma'amLangston Hughes. A very short story.
- Between Heaven and EarthJames Hubbell. Video on art, architecture, sculpture.
We'll end with a mosaic of insights imagining how the beauties we cultivate can and will uphold truth and wisdom. How can your work have practical implications?
في الجلسة
عرض تقديميYou'll each present creative work, accompanied by a brief analysis of how your project relates to at least one of the texts we've considered.