Bryn Mawr Stories
360掳: Borderlands
This cluster focuses on the core issue of borderland encounters, and addresses a variety of common themes such as the concept and nature of borderlands, cultural exchange, power relations, ethnic experience, human- environmental interactions, and (trans)nationalism.
360掳: Migrations
This 360掳 uses the lenses of cultural studies, history, and sociology to critically and comparatively examine migration in different national contexts and historical moments.
360掳: Decolonizing Knowledges
This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences.
360掳: Exhibiting Modern Art
This 360掳 will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.
360掳: Origins of Freedom
How might human beings live according to nature? Is property natural? Is freedom or unfreedom? How can studying human societies in the past inform collective organization in the present?
360掳: Climate Change: Science and Politics
This cluster integrates philosophical, scientific, and policy perspectives to highlight both the complexity of climate change and the many innovative ideas being developed to address it worldwide.
360掳: Learning and Narrating Childhoods
Incorporating a visit to the Titagya school in rural Ghana, this 360掳 explores how children grow and develop in different contexts (e.g. schools, communities, households) and cultures (e.g., the United States, West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa) and how this growth and development is conceptualized and represented鈥搃n texts and theories鈥搈ainly by adults, across cultures and fields of study.
360掳: Textiles in Context
This cluster provides a multidisciplinary approach to the technical analysis, historical interpretation, and museum display of early Byzantine textiles.
360掳: China and the Environment
This 360掳 cluster, comprised of courses in philosophy, history (East Asian Studies), and economics, will look at the many environmental problems and issues that beset our contemporary world. We will explore the environment from the perspective of several disciplines: philosophy (both "Western" and "Eastern"), economics, history, politics, and natural science.
360掳: Energy Afterlives
What comes in the wake of energy extraction? This cluster will examine the afterlives of coal, oil, and nuclear energy through the lenses of the arts, political science, and earth science.
360掳: Changing Education
Changing Education, the first 360掳 offering at Bryn Mawr, is inspired by the College's 125th anniversary in 2010-11.
Zenzi Tholo '25
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