May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topics for Fall 2025-- Section A1: Global Philippines through Adobo. This seminar interrogates the limits and possibilities of telling the history of a place through food. How can reading about cooking and eating Philippine adobo reveal global histories of migration and colonialism from the early modern period through today? Section B1: The Photography of Persecution. Explores the use of photography by state and nonstate actors to criminalize, control, and crush vulnerable social groups. Examines claims of photographic objectivity, the circumstances of photographic production, and visual genres from mugshots to memes, memento mori to mass murder.

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