Courses and Seminars

Helen Solterer, Elvira Vilches, Roberto Dainotto, and Deborah Reisinger led 12 Romance Studies seminars linked to inTransit, 3 per semester from fall 2016 to fall 2018, which investigated the arts and politics of migration in Romance regions of Continental Europe and North Africa, examining major concepts, critical questions, and case studies.

Spring 2017

  • ​(FR 325S) Global Displacement: Voix Francophones.
    Reisinger
  • (SP 490s) Travel : Spain and the Americas.
    Vilches
  • (FHI) Social Practice Lab.
    Lasch
  • (ARTSVIS206) Digital Imaging.
    Salvatella
  • (ARTSVIS497S) Advanced Visual Practice.
    Lasch

Fall 2017

  • FR 325S) Global Displacement: Voix Francophones.
    Reisinger
  • (SP 490s) Travel : Spain and the Americas.
    Vilches
  • -(FHI) Social Practice Lab.
    Lasch
  • (ARTSVIS206) Digital Imaging.
    Salvatella
  • (ARTSVIS497S) Advanced Visual Practice.
    Lasch

Spring 2018

  • (RS/ARTSVIS202/FR 419) Imagining Europe.
    Solterer
  • RS/ARTSVIS/SP 4621) Commerce/Merc Culture/Lit Mod. Sp.
    Vilches
  • (RS) Europe in Theory.
    Dainotto
  • (FHI) Social Practice Lab.
    Lasch
  • (ARTSVIS140 / VMS 140) Create, Innovate, Act!
    Lasch

Fall 2018

  • (FR325S) Gbl. Displacement: Voix Franc.
    Reisinger
  • (SP300/400/500) Cervantes: Experiences of Displacement and Belonging.
    Vilches
  • Research & Production Teams (Group Independent Studies: AAHVS, FHI, CMAC, MFA-EDA).
    Lasch
  • (ARTSVIS281) Motion Design.
    Salvatella
  • (ARTSVIS206) Digital Imaging.
    Salvatella

In the spring, students in the seminar RS-AAHVS “Imagining Europe: Arts of Migration (Solterer) pursued projects in the Nasher’s Academic Focus Gallery, using it as a critical space for designing the Incubator exhibit.

In the fall, students in the seminar FR “Global Displacement: Francophone Voices” (Reisinger) worked with refugees from French-speaking Africa in Durham.

​Also, offered in the Fall 2018, SPA “Has the Future Already Happened? Cervantes and the Ethics of Migration” (Vilches)

Bernhard von Breydenbach, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctum, c. 1440-1497

Bernhard von Breydenbach, Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctum, c. 1440-1497

Pedro Lasch, Flags, 2015

Pedro Lasch, Flags, 2015