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Explores the politics, history, cultures, art, and literature of societies and nation-states across the South Asian continent. Focus on issues such as urbanization; internal/external migration; linguistic, religious, and ethnic identities and conflicts; the impact of colonialism, development, and globalization. Instructor: Ewing
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Reconsidering the nexus of cultures and societies in Asia. Critical, transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on two or more Asian cultures and their interactions in the world. Variable concerns and texts from history, literature, current affairs, cinematic, visual, and pop-cultures. Topics framed in local, regional, and global contexts. Instructor: Kwon
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Asian dance and dance theater performance genres and the cultural aesthetics that inform them. Cultural traditions of China, Korean, Japan, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Religious, ritual, folk and royal court forms of artistic performance. The mythology, legends and symbolic interpretations that underlie the thematic core of these performance traditions; spiritual importance of disciplined training; the intercultural translation and adaptation of Asian performance disciplines to the West. Instructor: Shah
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Focus on Al-Qaeda, its roots, ideology, and its terrorism. Examination of Al-Qaeda's ideology, political culture, and development by exploring the origins and the narrative discourse of modern Islamic organizations dating back to the Salfi Movement of the nineteenth century. Presentation of the patterns and ramifications of Al-Qaeda's terrorist activities. Use critical thinking in order to differentiate Muslim proper narrative discourse from that of Al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups. Instructor: Lo
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Explores religious revival in the Islamic world: revival as reinterpretation of sacred texts, revival as revolution, revival as social movement, revival as spiritual awakening, revival as political mobilization. Focuses on Wahabism, Salafism, the renaissance/enlightenment of the late 19th century, ijtihad and jihad, grassroots movements, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, the awakening (sahwa/yaqza) of the 1970s and 1980s, the Iranian revolution, Khomeini, Ali Shariati, feminist theologies in Islam, and the role of the media in circulating religion. Instructor: McLarney
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Explores religious revival in the Islamic world: revival as reinterpretation of sacred texts, revival as revolution, revival as social movement, revival as spiritual awakening, revival as political mobilization. Focuses on Wahabism, Salafism, the renaissance/enlightenment of the late 19th century, ijtihad and jihad, grassroots movements, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, the awakening (sahwa/yaqza) of the 1970s and 1980s, the Iranian revolution, Khomeini, Ali Shariati, feminist theologies in Islam, and the role of the media in circulating religion. Instructor: McLarney
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Topics may vary. Instructor: Yoda
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1.00 Credits
Space and Trauma across Asia. Introduces theoretical framework of "trauma discourse;" examines how the experience of space in Asia broadly defined has shaped historical traumas, which have marked the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. Focus on Israel/Palestine, India/Pakistan, China/Taiwan, Japan/Korea; examine how critical terms originating in one historico-geographical context are translated across geographical boundaries. Instructor: Kwon, Ginsburg
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National and regional forms of dance and dance-theatre of India. Ancient treatises on Indian dramaturgy, and the expressive interpretation of the poetics in the traditional forms of performance. Rasa theory of aesthetic rapture and audience reception. Social forms of entertainment in their cultural context. Colonialism and nationalism in relation to classical dance; dance as an integral component of the national and regional identity of the people; dance as an emerging public culture in post-independence India; Indian dance in Diaspora. Guest artists, videos, and dance demonstrations. Instructor: Shah
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The examination of contemporary Israeli culture through art, film, architecture, and literature. Concentration on interdisciplinary critical approaches to culture; interconnections of culture and Zionist ideology in the Israeli projection of the nation. Instructor: Ginsburg
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