Sicily 2000 - field class
Plans for 2008-2009
Fall 2008
The archaeological imagination: the class - for Stanford Continuing Studies
Winter 2009
Ten things: an archaeology of design - STS 112, CLASSART 113, CLASSART 213 - a lecture course
Eight great archaeological sites in Europe - ARCHLGY 21Q, CLASSART 21Q - a sophomore seminar
Spring 2009
Urban sustainability: long term archaeological perspectives - a lecture course for undergraduates and graduates, part of the Urban Studies program
Pragmatogony: archaeological perspectives on the origins of things - a graduate seminar
Ceramics: art and science - multidisciplinary approaches and hands-on experiment - higher level undergraduates and graduates
2007-2008 - I am on sabbatical
Spring 2007
Archaeology and photography - CLASSART 141, CLASSART 241 - [link]
(Tue and Thu 10.00-10.50 am Building 500 - Metamedia Lab)
New and old media and explorations of the archaeological imagination.
Digital Humanities - HUMNTIES 198S, CLASSART 198S - [link]
(Mon and Wed 10.00-10.50 am Wallenberg Hall - 120)
A broad introduction to key issues in the contemporary Humanities, in the light of digital culture.
A core course in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Program [link].
Winter 2007
Ten things - science, technology and design STS 112, CLASSART 113, CLASSART 213
(Tue and Thu 10.00 am Building 370)
Part of the STS (Science, technology and society) Program at Stanford.
Fall 2006
Human and machine - IHUM 57
Class web site - [link]
From Plato to cyborgs - a team taught class from Stanford Humanities Lab and part of the Freshman Program Introduction to the Humanities -[link]
Eight great archaeological sites in Europe - ARCHLGY 21Q, CLASSART 21Q
(Monday and Wednesday 9.00-10.50 Wallenberg 326 and Fourth Floor)
Fused media and psychogeography.
Spring 2006
Digital Humanities - HUMNTIES 198S, CLASSART 198S
(Tuesday and Tursday 9.00 - 9.50 am Archaeology Center, Building 500)
A broad introduction to key issues in the contemporary Humanities, in the light of digital culture.
A core course in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Program [link].
Seminar - Media and archaeological futures - Nordic Graduate School, Turku April 2006
Winter 2006
Eight great archaeological sites in Europe - ARCHLGY 21Q, CLASSART 21Q
(Mon and Wed 11.00 am 250-251K)
I am very proud of this one - it is Stanford's first accredited class in digital authoring - part of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Ten things - science, technology and design STS 112, CLASSART 113, CLASSART 213
(Tue and Thu 11.00 am Building 500 - Stanford Archaeology Center)
Part of the STS (Science, technology and society) Program at Stanford.
Archaeography - the class - Archaeology and photography - CLASSART 141, CLASSART 241
(Tue and Thu 9.00 am 60-62L)
This turned out to be an opportunity to rethink the materiality of photography in archaeological terms and to propose a new understanding of "archaeography", indeed of photography as mode of engagement, and not primarily as representation. Among other things, this challenges the distinction of analog and digital, questions the status of the photograph as evidence, and instead connects photographs with rhetorical arguments for a particular engagement with time and materiality.
Seminar - Chorography - against landscape - Thessaloniki February 2006
Fall 2005
Human and machine
A team taught class from Stanford Humanities Lab
We used multiple learning technologies and pedagogical environments - lectures, performance-based learning, project-based learning, social software, gaming, small seminars.
Class wiki - 1800 pages, 250 thousand interactions over 10 weeks - http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/projects/HumanAndMachine/Home
Spring 2005
Performance, place and the past - CLASSART 211
Ancient urbanism - CLASSART 212
Science, technology, and culture - the design of ten artifacts - STS 112 CLASSART 113
something of an archive - http://metamedia.stanford.edu/~mshanks/courses/index.html
