Examines the relationship between urban experience and debates on modernity/postmodernity in art, architecture and social theory. Topics: nostalgia and modernization, cultural archeology and architecture of transition, memorial, museum and public art, national identity and cosmopolitan imagination, metropolis and megapolis.
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The objective of the course is to provide a feminist analysis of methods and methodologies as intellectual frameworks within the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. We will focus on how feminist scholars challenge dominant theories of knowledge, engage feminist epistemologies, and employ feminist methodologies in working on a research project over the course of the semester in each student's area of interest.
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A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.
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Major topics in literary/cultural theory addressed by specialists in the Department. Emphasis on both theoretical canons and current disciplinary controversies. Topics include: formalism; semiotics; structuralism; post-structuralism; Marxism; psychoanalysis; deconstruction; cultural, post-colonial, feminist, and queer studies.
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Tolstoy and his major fiction from diverse cultural and theoretical perspectives. To what extent do the texts themselves seem to invite such approaches?
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Research seminar devoted to the theory and methods, possibilities and challenges of cross-cultural studies in the history of medicine and the body.
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An examination of evil in western thought, with focus on conceptions of human freedom and divine will, the distinction between natural and moral evil, and responses to the challenge of theodicy. The final project asks students to apply tools of analysis developed in the course to a situation or topic of their choosing. Readings include philosophical, theological and literary texts.
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Present basic concepts, principles, and applications of environmental chemistry for students in environmental engineering, geology, chemistry, biology and related fields. Goal is to explore and apply the fundamental chemical principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, chemical bonding, and mass transfer to understand Earth processes and solve complex environmental problems. Survey a variety of environmental chemistry topics, including acid-base chemistry, aqueous speciation, solution-mineral-gas equilibria, oxidation-reduction reactions, kinetics, precipitation/dissolution, and atmospheric chemistry.
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An introduction to Arabic Logic.
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Imitation and Verification in Ash'ari Theology.
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The class covers archaeological method and theory emphasizing the 1950s onwards. Large-scale trends in social theory will be balanced with attention to the ideas and writings of significant anthropologists and archaeologists.
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Focus on physical science and engineering methods and techniques used by archaeologists in the reconstruction of time, space, and human paleoecology, and analysis of archaeological materials. Topics include 14C dating, ice core and palynological analysis, stable isotope chemistry of paleodietary foodwebs, soil micromorphology and site formation, Pb isotope sourcing of metal artifacts, and microstructural and mechanical analyses of cementitious materials used in ancient monumental buildings.
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Numerous theories are advanced for the structure of the ancient economy. Different perspectives on the nature of trade, the market, reciprocity-redistribution, etc. will be reviewed. An evolutionary and global perspective will be pursued from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
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The first half of the course introduces students to archaeological data from the Graeco-Roman world (inscriptions, architecture, sculpture, coins). The second half consists of seminars in Greece and Turkey during May and on-site meetings with archaeologists.
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Archaeological data recovered from Harvard Yard provide a richer and more nuanced view of the 17th through 19th century lives of students and faculty in Harvard Yard, an area that includes the Old College and Harvard Indian College. Students will excavate in Harvard Yard and process and analyze artifacts and report on the results. Additional topics to be covered include regional historical archaeology, research design, surveying, archival research, stratigraphy, and artifact analysis.
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Open to students who participated in the fall term investigations in Harvard Yard, this course focuses on the detailed analysis of the materials recovered in the excavations, within the context of archival and comparative archaeological and historical research. The analysis will also include an evaluation of the results of the ground-penetrating radar surveys conducted prior to the excavations, as part of the research design for the next season of investigations of the Indian College site.
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An exploration of production in archaeological contexts. Topics include specialization, craft production, production and power, the practice/performance of production, production and gender, ritualized production, and the production of memory.
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A chronological survey of the archaeology of the Levant in which material culture provides a window on human evolution, society, economy, and religion from the Lower Palaeolithic to Hellenistic times. Special topics include the earliest colonization of Homo erectus, the origin of modern humans, the emergence of farming and pastoral societies, the formation and dissolution of Bronze Age city-states, and the rise and fall of Iron Age kingdoms such as Israel, Moab, and Edom.
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Focuses on controversies in the interpretation of archaeological remains from northwestern South Asia. Readings in the primary, interpretative, and popular literature and from the press and Internet form the foundation for discussion of such topics as: agricultural origins, the Indus Civilization and its relations to later cultures, the Aryan invasion theory, and the Ayodhya affair. The nature and use of archaeological evidence, logic of academic versus popular discourse, and role of belief form underlying themes.
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Essentials of Latin comparative and historical grammar, with readings of early Latin inscriptions, legal texts, and selections from Livius Andronicus, Plautus, Ennius, and Cato.
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Explores contradictions of the modern experience in literature, philosophy, arts and architecture. Topics for 2010: nostalgia and modernization, public freedom and cross-cultural memory, archeology and the creative mapping of the urban space, culture and politics. Special attention to the relationship between critical theory and creative practice. Reading from Benjamin, Simmel, Shklovsky, Nabokov, Kafka, Arendt, Certeau, Lyotard, Derrida.
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