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NYU Buenos Aires is seeking a part-time lecturer to teach the course CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Visible and Invisible Cities Beginning this August. The course fulfills one of the core requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences. Classes are taught in English and in-person in Buenos Aires. NYU's Fall semester starts in August and ends in December, 2023.

CORE-UA 400, Texts and Ideas: Topics—Visible and Invisible Cities

This course is being offered as part of New York University's College Core Curriculum. Texts and Ideas courses introduce students to humanistic inquiry based on critical engagement with a range of original texts that have expressed ideas that remain both vital and contested in the contemporary world. They can invite us to question hierarchies of value imposed on these texts and critically rethink our own assumptions and values about fundamental concepts. In this way, humanistic study can inform our active lives as citizens. For more information on the NYU College Core Curriculum and Texts and Ideas, please see the NYU College Core Curriculum website.

Invisible Cities

The experience of living in a city is one vital thread that connects us with our ancient, medieval, and early modern ancestors, and that continues to provide a unifying element in millions of our contemporaries' disparate lives across the globe. Urban life is a constant environment and stimulus, whether you find yourself in Madrid, New York, Florence, Accra, or Shanghai. Our aim is to supply conceptual frameworks and historical contexts for this experience by exploring the ways that human communities have been theorized and imagined throughout history.

The primary texts encompass utopian writings and works of political theory, but also texts describing and analyzing real-world communities as well as visual and cartographic representations of cities and urban space. The course will ideally make thorough use of the city of Madrid both as a resource (archives and museums, eg) and an object of analysis. A sample syllabus can be found at this link.

The lecturer should hold a Ph.D. in a field such as Literature, History, Anthropology, or Cultural Studies, and should have teaching experience.

Please send your CV (in English) to Jorgelina Loza, Assistant Director for Academic Programs at NYU Buenos Aires: jml19@nyu.edu until May 26th, 2023.

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