Bagheri, Golsheed | Public & Applied Humanities

gbagheri@arizona.edu

Bagheri, Golsheed

Adjunct Instructor

Goli Bagheri is a teacher and an aspiring artist. Trained as a sociocultural historian of the modern era, she focused much of her academic work on cultural production, popular culture, youth movements, media consumption, consumerism, resistance and revolution, with regional expertise in Southwest Asia and North Africa. Since obtaining her doctorate in 2018, she has expanded her research interests to include art, mythology, political economy and postcolonial studies. Goli is deeply committed to public education and also teaches Humanities at Pima Community College.

Currently Teaching

PAH 160D1 – Play: An Interactive Introduction

This course introduces students to the study of play, from ancient games of chance to cutting edge playgrounds like amusement parks, escape rooms, and even workplaces. Students will learn and practice a set of critical and practical skills designed to help them both understand how play regularly changes the world around them, and how to use play as a tool for personal, professional, and political transformation. Over the course of the semester, we will: 1) survey the origins of play, paying particular attention to how the act of play is used to change or solidify the status quo; 2) examine research-informed case studies to learn and practice techniques for theorizing about how and why play does real work in the world; and 3) experiment with a variety of tools and techniques for using play to alter how individuals, communities, and organizations interact.

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PAH 160D4 – Life in the City of Tomorrow: Time Travel, World Building, and Speculative Futures

This course explores the past, present, and future of urban life by looking at speculative representations of cities. We focus especially on practices of time travel and world building used by futurists and creatives as tools for thinking about how our cities ought to be. In addition to engaging with a range of materials that demonstrate these practices over the course of the term, we will also experiment with using these practices as methods for problem solving, critical study, and the creation of urban futures in the real world, taking into particular consideration markers of identity such as race, gender, or class.

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