RICE GLOBAL PARIS: SUMMER PROGRAMS 2024
Unlearning Paris: Sites of Rebellion and Sites of Empire
Paris Session 4 | June 24 - July 12, 2024
Unlearning Paris: Sites of Rebellion and Sites of Empire
Join Dr. Fabiola López-Durán and Dr. Luis Duno-Gottberg for a two course, 3-week summer school intensive in Paris. “Un-learn” the traditional, and often reverential approach to the most iconic European metropolis: Paris.
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Program Details:
- Program Dates: June 24 - July 12, 2024
- Program Location: Rice Global Paris Center | Paris, France
- Who Can Apply? Any Rice Undergraduate (no prerequisites required)
- Program Total Cost: $1,200 per credit hour ($7,200 Tuition for 6 credit hours) + travel to Paris ($1000-$2500) and living expenses for 3 weeks ($1000-$1500).
- What's Covered: The program will provide housing for all three weeks, local travel, course-set excursions/tickets, three group meals, and travel insurance.
- What's Not Covered: Airfare to Paris, passport fees (if applicable), any visa fees (if applicable), ride to and from the airport, any non-course planned travel/excursions/tickets, International phone plans and/or SIM cards, incidentals, and most meals.
- Financial Aid: Students looking for financial aid to help with expenses should contact the Financial Aid Office to see if and how much financial aid they qualify for. Summer tuition qualifies for some assistance, and in some cases, grants are available
- Tuition Assistance: Students can also apply to receive further tuition assistance and some international travel assistance from Rice Global Paris. Application for assistance is included in the course application.
Course Details:
- Credit Hours: 6 credit hours
- Course Instructors: Dr. Fabiola López-Durán and Dr. Luis Duno-Gottberg
- Course Description: Borrowing the term of “unlearning” from the title of Swati Chattopadhyay 2012 book “Unlearning The City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field,” which has inspired recent publications and workshops in the fields of art history, architecture, and radical pedagogies, the two courses in this 3-week intensive deconstructs the city of Paris as a site of contentious memories. The city is to be read as a composite environment built upon the control of land, resources, and bodies enacting a struggle over what is to be remembered and honored, and what is to be erased and forgotten.
- Who is this class for? Any Rice Undergraduate (no prerequisites required)
- Course Zoom Information Session: Click here to view the Zoom information session recording.
For questions, please visit our FAQ page or email pariscenter@rice.edu. The application deadline is January 26, 2024.
Dr. Luis Duno-Gottberg
Professor of Caribbean and Film Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures A Cultural Studies scholar with broad interdisciplinary experience, Luis Duno-Gottberg teaches about Latin America and the Caribbean. He directs the Madrid Program, focusing on visual arts and politics. Duno-Gottberg is an affiliate at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, and serves as Magister of Baker College. He previously served as Magister of Duncan College (2009-15). He won the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching twice in 2015 and 2017. Some of his publications include: La humanidad como mercancía. La esclavitud moderna en América (2014), Solventar las diferencias: La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba (2003) and Albert Camus. Naturaleza: Patria y Exilio (1994). He is the editor of: Carceral Communities: Troubling Prison Worlds in 21st. Century Latin America (2020), The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World (2019), Carceral Communities: Troubling Prison Worlds In 21st. Century Latin America (2020), La Política Encarnada. Biopolítica y Cultura en la Venezuela Bolivariana (2015), Submerged. Sumergido. Alternative Cuban Cinema. (2013), Haiti and the Americas(2013), Miradas al margen. Cine y Subalternidad en América Latina (2008), Imagen y Subalternidad. El Cine de Víctor Gaviria (2003),and Cultura e identidad racial en América Latina Revista de Estudios Culturales e Investigaciones Literarias (2002).
Dr. Fabiola López-Durán
Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, Department of Art History Originally trained as an architect, Fabiola López-Durán earned her Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture from MIT. Adopting a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, López-Durán’s research and teaching interrogates the cross-pollination of ideas and mediums—science, politics and aesthetics—that ignited the process of modernization on both sides of the Atlantic, with an emphasis on France and Latin America. Her broad research agenda focuses on global modernisms and the complicities between capitalism, racism, and the construction of the built environment. She is the author of Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity, recipient of a SAH/Mellon Author Award in 2018 and the Robert Motherwell Book Prize in 2019; and co co-editor and contributor of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative new 2022 book Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South. López-Durán has been the recipient of the 2015 Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Outstanding Teaching/Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, and of the 2018 Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award (Co-winner with Professor Ashutosh Sabharwal, School of Engineering).