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The last emperors of China were ethnic Manchus who expanded the Qing empire to include Mongolia and Tibet. This class will explore the social world of the imperial family (women played an important role) and the Tibetan Buddhist lamas who were responsible for court rituals. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course focuses on the role of secular voices in three historical periods-the post-Constitutional Revolution era, which led to the emergence of the novel and short story as literary genres in Iranian literature, the era of the Pahlavi dynasty, when modernization processes influenced the cultural context, and the of post-1979 Revolution era, when the Islamization of the country inhibited open secular practices. Examining through selected literary texts dominant gender relations, life styles, acceptance or rejection of women in the public sphere, and the extent of misogyny towards women, we will investigate the impact and spread of secular ideas throughout Iranian society. This course seeks to show that secular voices and life styles were not diminished over the 20th century. Rather, attempts to reproduce them have provided a dynamic challenge to fundamentalism in Iran. - Moossavi 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course studies, across time, the notion of the Islamic city from its invention in the French colonial period, through its debunking in the 1980s, to its revival and appropriation by urban planners, social scientists and architects in the Islamic world today, ranging from Rabat, Morocco to Ahmadabad, India. Issues to be explored include public and private space, gendered space, notions of real estate and ownership, and various social and public institutions that were thought to characterize a city as Islamic. We will first examine how these topics were conceived by medieval and early modern Muslim scholars in different geographical places and different historical periods. Then we will study how French and British colonial scholars developed a set of criteria for evaluating the "Islamicness" of a city as they worked alongside and within colonizing projects. Finally, we will see how these issues and criteria have been re-interpreted and embraced as a vernacular urban planning style. The course will draw upon passages from translated Arabic texts that discuss and describe historical cities, writings by historians on cities in the Middle East and the Islamic world, and critiques of the concept of the Islamic city. Throughout the course references will be made to the other conceptions of the urban environment that existed alongside the so-called Islamic city in any specific region under consideration. (Also offered under History.) 1.00 units, Lecture
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Born as trading centers, colonial cities grew into bifurcated social zones (the colonizer's city and the city of the colonized). Algiers, Batavia, Calcutta, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore are a few celebrated examples. We will trace the history of these cities, the way they were built and the way they were represented, as well as the kinds of popular urban cultures that grew across the segregated spaces, and the anti-colonial movements within the cities that incubated new forms of national urbanism. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Africa is a rapidly urbanizing region of the world; the most rapidly urbanizing by World Bank standards. Contemporary urbanization in Africa has stimulated new scholarship on the history of African cities, African urban economies, urban politics and urban identities, among other topics. African urban studies has produced some of the most thoughtful and engaged work on Africa to date. In this course we will be exploring major themes in the field of African urban studies to gain deeper appreciation of the history of African cities, their contemporary iterations, and their future possibilities. 1.00 units, Seminar
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The modern Indian city is shaped by the processes of colonialism and nationalism, of neoliberal desires and the reality of inequity. We shall investigate the early development of colonial port cities (Bombay, Madras, Calcutta), the colonial urban formations (cantonments, civil stations, hill stations), the creation of capital cities (New Delhi, Chandigarh, Bhubaneshwar and Gandhinagar), the planning of refugee towns (Faridabad, Nilokheri, and Gandhidham), the formation of industrial cities (Jamshedpur and Bhadrawati), and the mega-cities of the present. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A review of the attempt to develop generalizations about the structure of Caribbean society. Theoretical materials will focus on the historical role of slavery, the nature of plural societies, race, class, ethnicity, and specific institutions such as the family, the schools, the church, and the political structure. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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An examination of the art and architecture of sub-Saharan Africa as modes of symbolic communication: the ritual context of art, the concept of the artist, the notion of popular art, and the decorated body. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units min / 2.00 units max, Independent Study
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