Unit 6: How to Survive a Plague
Week 22: Bodies of Christ
| Tues Mar 22 | What is the (Catholic) body and how should it be treated? | Watch or listen to **one** of these four options; if you’ve already watched/listened to something previously, watch/listen again or choose a different item: 1.) “81 Words” (podcast, 57 mins.; 2002) 2.) “The Normal Heart” (film, 124 mins.; 2014) 3.) “5B” (film, 95 mins.; 2019) 4.) “How to Survive a Plague” (film, 110 mins.; 2012) And read the following: D. Von Hildebrand and M. Shivanandan, “Sex,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Gale, 2003), 13: 44 – 47; R.F. Collins, “Sex (in the Bible),” 13: 47 – 51; P. T Camelot, “Virginity,” 13: 544-48. | Plenary in Hance; Write 250 words about the item you selected to watch/listen to; this is your “engagement with unit 6” for the portfolio. Upload it to the portfolio |
| Thurs Mar 24 AM | Other kind of (Catholic) bodies – the Incarnation, the Church, the Eucharist | D.N. Power, “Eucharist in Contemporary Catholic Tradition,” New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Gale, 2003), 5: 415 – 431. | Plenary in Hance |
| Thurs Mar 24 PM | Bodies in Catholic Christianity | Cardinal Ratzinger, “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons” (October 1986) | Meet in sections |
Week 23: Paris is Burning
| Tues Mar 29 | What do Catholic descriptions of human bodies leave out? Why? | Watch “Paris Is Burning” (1990) Michel Foucault, “Scientia Sexualis” and“Domain,” in The History of Sexuality, vol. 1: An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1990), 53-73 and 103-114. Optional reading: bell hooks, “Is Paris Burning?” | Plenary |
| Thurs Mar 31 AM | Larry Kramer and ACTUP | Larry Kramer, “1,112 and Counting,” “The FDA’s Callous Response to AIDS,” and “Before the President’s Commission,” in Reports from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist (New York: St. Martin’s, 1989), 33-51, 140-144, 182-185. | Sections |
| Thurs Mar 31 PM | Epes Lecturer, William Deresiewicz in class | Bill Deresiewicz (See Epes Lecture unit link on syllabus) | Hance |
Week 24: Acting Up
| Tues Apr 5 | ACTUP zap: “Stop the Church” | Watch Stop the Church (1991) | Sections |
| Thurs Apr 7 AM | Love and Rage and Art | David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger, and Marguerite van Cook, seven miles a second | Plenary |
| Thurs Apr 7 PM | Political Funerals | Diva TV, “Political Funerals” (read and watch everything you can on this page) | Plenary |
