Renana received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University (2015). She is currently serving as a post-doctoral fellow in the Minerva center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law. Her current research examines the phenomenon of mass atrocity from a Big Data perspective.
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Despite the influence of visa law and policy, little research exists on its history and development. When, under what circumstances, and in which politico-geographical space did the “visa” come into existence? “Transit” uses literary and linguistic analysis to develop an intertextual canvas of visa histories. The final product, an interactive digital media map platform, will enable users to trace the development of visa law and policy across time and space.
Poetic Thinking
Poetic Thinking
“Poetic Thinking Across Media” is a course at Stanford University offered to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Our goal is to examine the human aptitude to approach life and the worlds we inhabit poetically, that is in manners of writing, speaking, and artistic creation that are not governed by systematic reasoning. We will consider how poetic works across media raise personal, communal, ethical, and political dilemmas. Studying mythological, religious, literary, cinematic and virtual (web-based) works, we will ask how poetic works think-through or permit us to deliberate with others about how to live our lives by employing various rhetorical strategies and creating complex symbolic systems. Considering how a variety of thinkers, writers, and artists approach such notions as “orientation” or “pilgrimage,” we will also examine how they contemplate, poetically, what love, war, death, and life itself may mean.
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Funding and Support:
Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning
Stanford Dean of Research
Stanford Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning
Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
The Wallenberg Foundation