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Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that explores the social and historical shaping of science and technology. This course provides an introduction to STS with special focus on South Asia. We will consider questions such as: Is Bangalore simply an Indian version of Silicon Valley? Does outsourcing truly result in a 'flattening' of the world? What issues result from virtual migration and body shopping? What is the role of national identity in constructs of Hindu or Islamic science? How do South Asian electronic cultures relate to pirate modernity? Does cell phone culture vary globally?
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The course provides an introduction into contemporary Russia. Through fiction, film, and academic studies, we will analyze how Russia is being transformed today. First, we explore modifications of individual and collective identities ( "gender"; "age"; "class") after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then we look at the role of market relations in defining new cultural tendencies ("consumption"; "criminality", "globalization"). Finally, we examine ways in which Russian people re-establish their relations with the Soviet past and envision their future ("nostalgia"; "dystopia"). Knowledge of Russian is not required.
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A survey in English of major literary developments and fictional texts in Russian culture up to the mid-19th century. After a brief introduction to Russian traditional narratives (saints lives and folklore), the course concentrates on master prose writers of the Romantic and Realist periods: Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, and the early Dostoevsky.
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An examination of significant trends in Russian literature from the 2nd half of the 19th century to the Russian Revolution and a bit beyond. The course focuses on many masterpieces of 19th & 20th-century Russian literature. The works (mostly novels) are considered from a stylistic point of view and in the context of Russian historical and cultural developments. The course also focuses on questions of values and on the eternal "big questions" of life that are raised in the literature. Authors read include Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, Nabokov, and Kharms.
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The course surveys salient literary phenomena and developments in the period between the October Revolution and the end of Khrushchev's Thaw. We will examine works by avant-garde poets, proletarian writers, and by so-called "fellow-travelers" or "dissident" authors. The discussion of these representative texts will aim at a general understanding of Soviet culture of this period in its various currents and phases. Topics on which we will focus attention include: modernism and the fate of art; the Russian intelligentsia and the revolution; from modernist culture to Stalinism; the nature and method of socialist realism.
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The course will focus on the interaction between the historical project of socialism and the medium of film in the context of the "Soviet experiment." It will examine the ways in which the changing notions of what socialism is or should be affect cinema on the level of artistic representation, as well as on the level of institutional structure (organization of film production, ideological controls, relationship with the audience, marketability, etc.). The course will survey prominent visual texts from the early days of the Soviet establishment in the 1920s to its final reincarnation during Gorbachev's perestroika period (late 1980s).
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One is aware of Konstantin Stanislavsky's importance to Hollywood and Broadway's indebtedness to Mikhail Chekhov, but how well are we aware of the diversity of the tradition that sustained them? The present course offers a survey of 20th c. Russian non-conformist theater and drama (Mikhail Bulgakov, Daniil Kharms, Mikhail Kuzmin, Evgeny Zamiatin) as well as its theoretical foundation. A performance component is an integral part of this course.
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This course traces the development of the Russian short story from the 1830's to the present. The entire course is conducted in Russian and special emphasis is placed on active use of the language.
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This course will focus on Russian Jewish visual and literary culture from the end of the 19th c. through the 20th. We will examine the ways in which it represented Jewish identity; reflected changing notions of selfhood and nationhood; and refracted anti-Semitic predispositions. Most of the course will unpack the impact of the Russian revolution and the transformatoin of a traditional, pious, and provincial Jewish ecosystem into an urban-dwelling, Russian-speaking secular society.
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The seminar will analyze the way totalitarian oppression was represented and resisted in literature of the second part of East-Central European 20th century. We will look through the lens of literature at the main political and historical issues that afflicted Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and other countries of the region. We will study texts (essays, memoirs, novels, short stories, plays, and poems) which offered various ways to resist moral and political oppression. The authors will include George Orwell, Franz Kafka (as a precursor), Hannah Arendt, Vaclav Havel, Tadeusz Borowski, Bertolt Brecht, Heda Kovaly.
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