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Ways in which gender and sexuality are conceptualized in selected performance cultures. Interprets these historically constituted social formations through an examination of the diverse cultural constructions of gender meanings, representations and ideologies as interpreted and expressed in dance and theatre. Symbolic meanings of gender in relation to forms of social life and theatrical experience. The Devadasi in India, the concept of the male embodied Onnagata, and the notion of the female embodied Otokoyaku in the dance-theatre of Japan. Instructor: Shah
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Introduces cinemas in different colonial contexts, such as British in India, French in Africa, and Japanese in East Asia. Surveys colonial cinemas produced by the colonizer to legitimate colonial enterprises and their postcolonial counterparts. Examines the decolonial strategies registered in postcolonial cinemas as responses to, or ¿reflections¿ of, their colonial legacy. Maps the larger historical contexts of colonialism since the late 19th century and reflects on the current transnational trend of globalization. Instructor: Hong, Kwon
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The diverse locales, practices, and ethnicities. Topics include: basic tenets of Islam, Islam in America, African American Islam, mosque and school, interfaith and pluralism, and Islamic feminism. Includes field trips and group projects in the local community. Instructor: McLarney
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Melodrama as a genre in literature and as a mode of representation in film and other media. Issues include: gender construction, class formation, racial recognition, and national identity-building. Emphasis on comparative method attending American and Chinese cultures and the politics of cross-cultural representation. Instructor: Hong
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Survey of works in Chinese from Confucius to the Qing Dynasty including short stories, novels, autobiographical writings, and poetry. Topics include the role of the educated elite in relation to literature and culture and how the literati portray themselves in their works. Relations between orthodoxy and marginalization of the literati and its impact on their writing. Instructor: Baird
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Beginning with the early neolithic cultures, focus on the evolution of Han civilization, the formation of the imperial state system in China, ecological adaptations and foundations of the agrarian economy, the coming of Buddhism to China, and China's contacts with other peoples and regions of Asia up to A.D. 1400. Instructor: Mazumdar
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Development of political thought in different parts of the world, with focus on Europe and China. How some ideologies such as nationalism or communism turned into powerful movements in China and parts of the West. Central aspects of modern Chinese and Central European History. Instructor: Sachsenmaier
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A cultural study of the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and failure of Israeli and Palestinian doves to transform their respective communities and to change conditions on the ground. Focus on self-criticism as manifested in Israeli and Palestinian literature and cinema and on its limits. Instructor: Cooke and Ginsburg
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A cultural study of the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and failure of Israeli and Palestinian doves to transform their respective communities and to change conditions on the ground. Focus on self-criticism as manifested in Israeli and Palestinian literature and cinema and on its limits. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor: Ginsburg
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East Asian musicians and their instruments, genres, performance traditions, and contexts. Study of the relationship of music to social, religious, historical, and philosophical trends informed by listening to the musical forms themselves in recorded and live performances. Instructor: Kramer
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