This seminar applies a social science perspective to the examination of women's lives and women's struggles across Africa. Using memoirs, narratives, and ethnographies as our primary materials, we will use a critical feminist gaze to examine frameworks of international development, humanitarianism, and the African state. We will address women's local experiences in political participation, urbanization, work and gender, familial roles, and health and illness; and consider controversial topics including genital excision, and conflict and displacement.
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Seeks out the voices of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women, with an emphasis on women's writings, and examines methods for uncovering information about women's lives when their own voices are absent from the historical record. Considers ideal images and the daily realities of both men's and women's gendered roles in such areas as life-cycle rituals, livelihood and spirituality.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was a lawyer, scholar, and statesman who experienced, studied, and shaped many defining moments in America's emergence as a unified nation-state and modern industrial society. In this research seminar, Wilson's responses to his changing nation prompt engagement with multiple narratives of epochal events in his lifetime, including: Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, immigration, imperialism, segregation, woman suffrage, progressivism, state centralization, scientific advance, religious fundamentalism, modernism, consumerism, and World War I.
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Texts of the Persian literary tradition that were illustrated constitute our focus, including Firdawsi's Shahnama and Nizami's Khamsa. Study of word and image is staged through key examples to open new lines of inquiry.
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Examines the organization of conceptual and lexical knowledge in the brain. Neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence is discussed in the context of theories of the organization of conceptual knowledge and the lexical system.
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Their writings and relationships. Poetry and prose. Individual research and common discussion. this research seminar assumes some prior study of these writers and their milieu.
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Explores changes in the nature of work and the workplace in recent years. Particular emphasis to trends in wage inequality, conditions of low- and highly-paid work, changes in the requirements of professions, rise of "contingent" and part-time employment, relationship between work and technology, and processes that affect people's work lives inside organizations, with some attention to international comparisons and employment policies.
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A practical introduction to medieval Greek handwriting and manuscripts, tracing the main developments of Greek scripts from the uncial of fourth century texts to scholarly hands of the sixteenth century. Special emphasis on practical skills. Participants will learn to distinguish the major styles of handwriting, to recognize the most common abbreviations and ligatures, and to read with some facility minuscule hands, especially those of the eleventh-sixteenth century. Manuscripts of Classical, Christian, and Byzantine authors explored.
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The topic for the year will be arranged in consultation with interested students. Conducted as a seminar.
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A forum for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by students in metaphysics and epistemology. Open only to graduate students in the Philosophy Department or by invitation of the instructors.
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A forum for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by students in metaphysics and epistemology. Open only to graduate students in the Philosophy Department or by invitation of the instructors.
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A forum for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by students in moral and political philosophy. Open only to graduate students in the Philosophy Department or by invitation of the instructors.
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A forum for the presentation and discussion of work in progress by students in moral and political philosophy. Open only to graduate students in the Philosophy Department or by invitation of the instructors.
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Topics on the interplay between religion and the social sciences.
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Presentations and discussions of new research by members of the community and visiting scholars. Students are exposed to the major paradigms in the field, and see how research articles are developed and refined.
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Presentations and discussions of new research by members of the community and visiting scholars. Students are exposed to the major paradigms in the field, and see how research articles are developed and refined.
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A venue for graduate students and advanced scholars working on all aspects of minority-majority relations, the condition of Afro-Americans and other disadvantaged ethnic groups, and the evaluation of related public policies and programs.
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An in-depth study of works by some of contemporary world cinema's most significant filmmakers in pertinent artistic, historical, and theoretical contexts. Provides close consideration of representative features by Wong Kar-Wai, Hayao Miyazaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnes Varda, David Cronenberg, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jim Jarmusch, and others.
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This seminar addresses the larger question of cultural display as seen through the art and architecture of colonial and world fairs from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century Europe and the US, shaping issues of national identity, ethnicity, race, class, and gender.
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An introduction to five of the world's religious traditions --Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim-- through the voices of modern adherents and interpreters of the tradition. Readings from Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Emil Fackenheim, Pope John Paul II, Tariq Ramadan, and others. How do people in each tradition articulate their faith in the context of globalization, pluralism, and the issues of today? What are the tensions within traditions? What are the dialogues between traditions?
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Investigates religious traditions of the world in the dynamic context of the US, focusing on the presence of these traditions in the increasingly complex and diverse religious life of the Boston area today. Visits to a Hindu temple, a Sikh gurdwara, an Islamic Center, and a Buddhist temple or meditation center. Consideration of encounters, connections, and tensions with Christian and Jewish communities. Each student undertakes research on a particular community or issue in the Boston cosmopolis.
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Viewed together, the two world wars shattered Germany's bid for European domination, revolutionized Russia and extended her influence over Eastern Europe for over 40 years, helped dissolve the colonial empires and create the modern welfare state, and made the US the world's preeminent power. Historical Study B-53 and B-54 examine the origin of each war; the grand strategies of the belligerents and the actual nature of combat; the war economies; response of intellectuals; and the dilemmas of peacemaking. B-53 focuses particularly on critical decisions; frontline experiences; cultural responses; political radicalization; and the fragility of the interwar global order.
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Examines the failure of the Versailles system, the Pacific conflict after 1937, the continental European war of 1939-41, the vast coalition struggle of 1941-45, and the bipolar postwar settlement. Topics include the strategic demands of multifront warfare; the role of city bombing, intelligence, and partisan warfare; occupation regimes, collaboration, and resistance; America's "good war" -the politics and culture of the home fronts; war costs, including the civilian toll; postwar purges, liberation movements, and commemoration.
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