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3.00 Credits
What cultural, political, and historical forces collide to produce and organize a sphere named "religion" How might we think "religion" in i"actuality," as multiple, contested discourses and practices intervening in the present How is "religion" shaped through struggle in ways thresist and reproduce relations of domination How are notions and activities named "religion" mediated by gender, race, class, sexuality, andnation What history of the present can be written through an interrogation of religion in relation to colonization, globalization, nationalism, capitalism, subjectivity, bodies, terror, politics, ethics, secularism, and histories of thought What do these clashes in the present allow us to think, regarding identity, community, knowledge, culture, difference, and justice
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
What are some of the ethical and political issues within contemporary feminist thought/praxis How do critical discourses locate oppression and resistance as diverse and contradictory How is gender as discourse and practice contingent on class, race, power, gender, and sexuality; culture, memory, identity, desire, and experience; borders, nation-nationalisms, institutionalizations, and religion; violences; inevitable and uneven subjectivities How might gendered counter-memory contravene the present This course is situated within anthropologies of gender, interrogating the processes of social organization, cultural decentering, reassertion, and resignification to enable complex understandings of postcolonial social relations and political labor.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Is it possible to eradicate sexual violence through law Can marriage/domestic partnerships be inscribed outside the domain of exchange Is human rights discourse the best solution for mainstreaming gender justice issues In this seminar, we examine a few discursive trajectories through which feminists have theorized the law, tracing the development and transformation of some core tools in feminist jurisprudence as a lens to understand the imbrications of the law in kinship, sexuality, and the state.
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3.00 Credits
We examine two thinkers important to a critical analysis of, and reflections on, Western culture. Through contextualizing their work historically, with close textual readings of key books and essays and secondary interpretations from leading scholars, plus lectures, class discussion, and dialogue "with present concerns," we will excavate the unconscious of our cultural practices and forms of thought. Through their work we willconduct rigorous inquiry into "systems of truth and ways of being." Truth, power, subjectivity, history, identity, "difference," cultural changand social movements will occupy our attention as we use Nietzsche and Foucault to think the present.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
What is the role of historiography in the constitution of counter-memory This course examines contemporary scholarship that intervenes in dominant regimes of truth and social relations of injustice. Engaging research, writing, and thinking that utilize genealogical approaches, including our own work, we will elaborate on "deconstruction as justice" (Derrida, Spivak) in feminist and postcolonial frames. Throughgenealogy, we will problematize present discourses and practices to proliferate critical reflection and social experimentation (Foucault). We will focus on analyses of nation, religion, and majoritarianism; gendered violence and resistance; self-determination struggles; diaspora, hybridity, and identity politics; international organizations, law, and transnational border crossings.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
The doctoral dissertation in the Anthropology program at CIIS is based on applied research. It is conceived in collaboration with department faculty that students perceive as key to their dissertation work. It is also conceived in collaboration with communities of practice relevant to the research. A dissertation proposal is a scholarly document designed to demonstrate critical knowledge in the student's area of inquiry. It demonstrates the ability to design and conduct applied and participatory research. The proposal explores research alliances and themes, delineating relevant discursive, cultural, and methodological frameworks, and contributions to the discipline of anthropology and to social change.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Advanced Seminar Series B
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3.00 Credits
Advanced Seminar Series A
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This seminar assists students in finding and developing skills for the production of a Prior Learning portfolio. Students will have the chance to discover themselves as writers as well as ways to generate ideas, get started in the writing process, organize their work, match content and expectations, find documentation, and integrate theory into their writing. Students will also receive information on the formatting of the portfolio and information about the review and evaluation process.
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3.00 Credits
This course will unlock the mysteries of academic literature research, for a term paper or a dissertation literature review. It covers not only "consuming" research (how to identify, find, and evaluate other scholars' writings) but also "producing" research (strategies for getting yown work published). These skills will be grounded in discussions of labyrinth learning, learning styles, and other pedagogic theories; there will be discursions into using technology efficiently, recent politics and economics of the information industry and intellectual property, and strategies for academic success.
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