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Harvard - Where Does Your Morality Come From?

What are the sources of morality, law and rights? This seminar explores these sources through a variety of readings: The Brothers Karamazov, excerpts from the Old and New Testaments and the Koran as well as from my book, The Genesis of Justice), psychology (Steven Pinker, Marc Hauser), philosophy (Robert Nozick, Socrates, Cicero), jurisprudence (my book, Rights From Wrongs, Ronald Dworkin) and positive law (the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and foundational documents from other countries).
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Harvard - "Civilization and Barbarism" and its Discontents

"Civilization and Barbarism" is a defining binary dualism in Latin America, one that we will both study and challenge. We examine the theoretical foundations of these concepts, and their relationship to the continent's problematic modernization. Finally, we consider the contemporary emergence of "new barbarians" in cities like Buenos Aires, Mexico D.F. and Rio de Janeiro. Readings include Montaigne, Freud, Sarmiento, da Cunha, Gallegos, Fonseca, and Aira. Films by Meirelles and Gonzalez Inarritu.
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Harvard - "French Modern", 1848-Present

Examines impact of and responses to political and cultural modernity in France from the mid-19th century forward. Themes and topics include: citizenship and its exclusions; social revolt and reform; urbanization and mass culture; population anxiety, anti-Semitism, and racism; imperial expansion and rule; war and decolonization; postwar development and May '68; "multiculturalism" and contemporary challenges to the republican model.
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Harvard - "If There is No God, All is Permitted": Theism and Moral Reasoning

This course will examine the ways in which a concept of God has informed Western moral discourse trying to help students engage the literature as they consider why one might think "if there is no God, all is permitted" and why one might think if there is a God, human moral achievement is impossible.
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Harvard - "Our Homegrown Borges": Avatars of Jorge Luis Borges in 20th Century Literature

Borges is one of the central figures in 20th-century literature. An international standard to which other authors can be compared in ways immediately understandable, he has given western consciousness new ways to read the world. He is, also, an intensely Argentine writer. This course explores this dual nature, local and global. The first half of the course covers Borges' work; the second half traces his presence in European, North American and Latin American authors.
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Harvard - "The Golden State" as North, East, and West

The history and literature of California from the Mexican War through World War II. Course will focus on texts by and about migrants to the state and will explore such events as the Gold Rush, immigration restriction, the diversion of water for the development of Los Angeles, the consolidation of corporate agriculture, the construction of Hollywood and the film industry, the growth of the defense industry, Japanese internment, and the Zoot Suit Riot.
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Harvard - "The Words to Say It": Women Writing in French from Colette to Satrapi

Motherhood, romantic love, independence, sexuality, citizenship, fantasy, death: these are just some of the themes explored in women's novels, written in French, in the postwar period. We will read 8 novels together, exploring how they have finally become classics, even given what they say about life and what it means for women to write about it.
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Harvard - (LHB). Disease-Centered Tutorial Clinics

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Harvard - (LHB). Disease-Centered Tutorial Clinics

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Harvard - 17th- and 18th-Century Performance Practice

Articulation, ornamentation, improvisation, and other stylistic domains are considered from the perspectives of historical evidence and modern performance.
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Harvard - 17th-Century Poetry and Prose

Examines a wide range of poets and prose writers, men and women, in a cultural milieu (1600-1660) extraordinarily rich in literary achievement and intellectual ferment. Primary attention to four major poets Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell and to the development of genres (love poetry, religious meditation, essay, others) for analyzing the literary self.
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Harvard - 18th-Century Music: Seminar

Unfinished Musical Works from Bach to Schubert. Studies in manuscript sources, analysis, and aesthetics.
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Harvard - 18th-Century Russian Literature: Conference Course

Major literary authors, movements, and genres (poetry, narrative prose, letters and autobiography, drama), and European influences; cultural practices within courtly, private, and public spheres; pastoral, erotic, and utopian themes; imperial history; architecture and visual arts.
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Harvard - 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature: Doctoral Conference

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Harvard - 19th- and 20th-Century Music

Music of the Last Ten Years.
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Harvard - 19th-Century American Fiction

The nineteenth century American literary career, with attention to the development of fictional modes (sketch, tale, romance, novel), exigencies of publication (the periodical press, transatlantic distribution networks) and evolving notions of fiction's place in American culture. Emphasis on Hawthorne, Melville and James but some attention to other authors.
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Harvard - 19th-Century Music: Seminar

Late Beethoven.
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Harvard - 19th-Century Religious Thought: Theology and the Critique of Religion

The 19th-century formulated many of the questions and frameworks that continue to dominate theology and religious reflection in the West. We consider the developing interplay between modern Christian theology (primarily continental) and the principal philosophical and social critiques of religion in the 19th-century. Topics include human nature, religion, the divine-human relationship, religious knowledge, the social, and historicity. Readings from Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Harnack, and Troeltsch.
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Harvard - 19th-Century Ukrainian Poetry

A survey of the major poets: Kotljarevs'kyj, Hulak and the pre-Romantics, Shevchenko, Kulish, Rudans'kyj, Franko, and Lesja Ukrajinka.
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Harvard - 19th-Century and 20th-Century Performance Practice

Evolution of performance style from the Classical era to the present day. The decline in the creative role of the performer and rapid technological developments are explored. Examination of contemporary treatises and performance styles. A dialogue between scholarship and performance is encouraged.
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Harvard - 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode

What are some alternatives to (or subversions of) realism in fiction? We will examine four major experimental currents or movements in 20th-century imaginative writing: Surrealism, the nouveau roman, the Oulipo, and ecriture feminine. Discussion of works by Breton, Bataille, Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Queneau, Perec, Duras, Wittig, Cixous, as well as selected critical essays.
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Harvard - 20th-Century Irish Literature

A survey of plays, poetry, essays and fiction written from the beginning of the Irish Revival to the time of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Authors include Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, Beckett, O'Casey, Flann O'Brien, Friel, Trevor, and Heaney. Readings will focus on the preoccupation of these writers with Irish history, myth, and the literary construction of a national identity.
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Harvard - 20th-Century Japan

Explores Japan's emergence as a world power and the Japanese experience of modernity. Examines politics, social movements, and culture of the imperial era; the experience of World War II and postwar occupation; the "economic miracle" and postwar political economy; social and cultural transformation. Concludes by considering historical context for issues of the present day ranging from economic crisis to tensions with Japan's Asian neighbors.
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Harvard - 20th-Century Music: Seminar

Early African American Musical Theatre. Explores the rich history of African American musical theatre from In Dahomey (1898) through Carmon Jones (1943 stage, 1954 film), encompassing shows with all-black performance and creative teams as well as those of mixed-race lineage.
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