In collective memory the shtetl (small Jewish town) has become enshrined as the symbolic space par excellence of close-knit, Jewish community in Eastern Europe; it is within this idealized shtetl that the international blockbuster Fiddler on the Roof is enacted. Our image of the shtetl derives from Yiddish literature; Fiddler on the Roof itself was based on a Sholem Aleichem story. In this seminar we shall analyze the varying depictions of the shtetl in Yiddish literature from the nineteenth century to the post-Holocaust period. We shall also focus on artistic and photographic representations of the shtetl. The seminar will include a screening of Fiddler on the Roof followed by a discussion of this film based upon a comparison with the text upon which it is based, Tevye the Milkman.
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This seminar will focus on womens experiences of the French Revolution, from the politically tumultuous years of the pre-Revolution to the passage of the Napoleonic Code in 1804. Many scholars have viewed this period as one of the most formative and, alas, destructive eras in womens history, as gender roles became politicized to an unprecedented degree and women came to be relegated definitively to the margins of a new, masculine bourgeois public sphere. And yet, the French Revolution may also be seen as a golden age for womens active involvement in national politics, when they were able to draw advantage from the social and political upheavals of the age to carve out a new space for themselves as integral players in the Revolutionary drama. It is this complex phenomenon that we will be exploring during the course of this seminar.
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Abraham Lincoln is remembered as one of the greatest heroes of American history. But what do we really know about Lincoln, and how do we know it? In this course we will explore Lincoln's life and writings. We will also look at how people have memorialized Lincoln, beginning during his own lifetime. What can histories, poetry, monuments, and films about Lincoln tell us about changing understandings of American history, the presidency, slavery, and the Civil War? We will explore Chicago Lincolniana--streets, schools, parks, monuments, and museums--and if schedules permit, we will visit Springfield.
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For many years, and for Americans from across the political spectrum, Ronald Reagan has been the face of the Republican Party, and the figure most associated with its rise to power since the 1970s. While most Americans agree that Reagan was a transformative figure, many disagree sharply on his record and legacy. This course examines Reagan's role in U.S. politics and culture, from his Hollywood years to his California governorship in the 1960s and 70s and on through his presidency and post-presidential years, including his continued influence today. We will discuss a range of materials, including Reagan's speeches and diary entries, reporting on Reagan and commentaries about him, memoirs and books by his critics and admirers, even his films. Through such sources we will seek to better understand this controversial figure and what he reveals about recent American life and politics.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century Italian Futurism, a radical, innovative movement of revolutionary poets and artists, spread revolutionary ideas that are the root of many avant-garde movements. Italian Futurists incited street riots to proclaim the destruction of all museums and libraries, the right to absolute freedom of expression, free sex, the abolition of marriage and all cultural traditions, and scorn for parliamentary politics and romanticism. Their path-breaking artistic practices marked all European avant-garde revolutions and influenced contemporary avant-garde expressions, including Pop Art, Arte Povera, and the Punk movement. In this course, we will explore the philosophical and aesthetic undercurrents of Futurism and investigate to what extend its ideas and practices are still relevant for us today. The course takes into consideration different aesthetic and expressive forms, such as visual art, literature, and music.
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Are there Extra Dimensions under your bed? Current theories of Space-Time and their relation to mathematics and experimental physics. Particle physics, the Universe, Grant Unified Theories.
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We often hear that (t)he test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). The popular and scientific press are chock-full of exciting information about the remarkable capacities of infants and young children. But what about the invisible children of our nation, the 13 million children growing up in poverty? In this seminar, we will focus on these children, and on a side of America that is all too often ignored or shunned. What is life like for children growing up in poverty in America? What are the consequences for the children, their families, and our nation of growing up poor? How has our nation responded to the challenges posed by children in poverty? What more can be done? How much should be done? Students will take advantage of a wide variety of academic and not-so-academic resources (including research articles, popular press books, guided interviews with children and with agency representatives, observation, and documentary films) to explore these issues and to discover the consequences of a dream deferred.
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This course will examine the sociological story of black social life in America in the early to mid-twentieth century. Using classic sociological texts, we will explore the racial, sexual, class and gender contexts in which these popular novels were produced. We will pay special attention to the representation of regions and communities the role they (do or do not) play in the overall story. Using these novels as a source of evidence and data, we will also seek to complicate the conventional historical /sociological story of that time, including the segregated South, the Great Migration(s) and life in northern cities.
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Why are some diseases so dangerous? What makes societies vulnerable to epidemic disease? How do pathogens exploit these vulnerabilities? In this course we use the tools of epidemiologists to examine epidemics from the germs perspective, and the tools of social scientists to think about epidemics from the societal perspective. Course topics include avian flu, HIV/AIDS, and cholera in John Snows London.
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The course introduces grammar, 900 single characters and 2000 compound words of standard modern Chinese, e.g., vernacular Chinese or Mandarin. It emphasizes reading as well as writing. Students will learn to read essays and short stories. They will also learn to write notes, letters, and essays. They will also learn to make speeches to public in Chinese. The textbooks that we use are compiled by Beijing Language Institute, Princeton University and Beijing University.
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This introductory Turkish class is open to undergraduate and graduate students. This is a part of a sequence of 3 courses from Fall to Spring. The course presents the essential points of modern Turkish grammar, with special emphasis on the features that differentiate Turkic languages from other language groups. The goal will be to achieve proficiency in using the case endings, vowel harmony, basic verb conjugations, and nominalizations and participles in reading and writing. Through the use of communicative exercises in class, oral proficiency skills should reach the novice high level by the end of the first year
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This intermediate Turkish class is open to both undergraduate and graduate students who have completed first-year Turkish or the equivalent. Students with some background in Turkish may also qualify with the permission of the instructor. This is the first of a year-long sequence of three courses running from fall to spring. It will stress the features that differentiate Turkic languages from other language groups, and will complete the coverage of Turkish grammar that was begun in the first year, using the same two texts and additional sources as well. Audio materials, recorded selections, and in-class communicative exercises will further sharpen speaking and listening skills. Attention will be given to the areas of interest of individual students, in order to develop appropriate practical vocabulary.
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This year-long elementary Persian course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. This will be a 3-course sequence running from fall to spring quarters. A variety of materials will be used. Besides the main textbook and its accompanying CD, workbook exercises will be used for training in the Perso-Arabic script. Films, music, and lab projects will also play a role in the course. Oral proficiency skills should reach the novice high level by the end of the first year. Elementary and Intermediate Persian can be used to satisfy the WCAS 2-year language requirement.
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This year-long intermediate Persian course is open to both graduate and undergraduate students who have completed first-year Persian or the equivalent. Students with some background in Persian may also qualify with permission of the instructor. This will be a 3-course sequence running from fall to spring quarters. A variety of texts will be used, some for grammar refinement, some for exposure to different sorts of Persian literature (classical or contemporary prose and poetry, journalistic or scholarly styles), some to develop familiarity with the oral colloquial language.
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This is an advanced level course in Hebrew. Literary works from Old Testament to contemporary Hebrew prose and poetry will be read, discussed and analyzed orally and in writing.
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This course is designed to further improve students' reading and writing abilities in Chinese language and Chinese literature. Students will be exposed to essays, prose, movies, short novels, and poems in their original form either in classical Chinese or modern Chinese. In terms of authors, students will be introduced to Gao Xingjian, Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Hu Shi, Jiang Menglin, Xiao Qjan, Long Yingtai, Mao Dun, Wu Jingzi, Cao Xue Qjin and the Three Sus, ranging from novelists, playwriters, to poets covering from the period of 1000 AD to today. Students will discuss these readings in class and then write their argumentation papers either in Chinese or in English.
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Japanese IV is a series of four advanced Japanese language courses. Each course (318-1,2,3 and 4) is designed to provide the students with opportunities to further develop their overall Japanese language proficiency, to deepen their understanding of Japanese culture and socio-linguistic elements, and to familiarize them with various styles of language use. Each course prepares the students to be more autonomous users of Japanese language. The courses need not be taken in numerical sequence. 318-3 "Newspaper reading and News listening" focuses on reading and listening comprehension skills of various news on contemporary Japan. Class hours are spent on discussion of issues dealt with in the news articles.
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This class will explore the evolution of African American literature from the turn of the twentieth century through the turn of the twenty-first. We will read and consider several genres within the African American literary tradition: fiction, poetry, non-fiction prose, drama, and spoken word with the goal of developing an understanding of what the major political, social, and aesthetic concerns were for African Americans during the twentieth century. Central to this course, and to understanding and engaging the literature, will be a critical appreciation of the historical moments that surround the writing. We will look closely at how twentieth-century African American writers fashioned themselves in the world and how such fashioning reflected their conceptualization of selfhood and identity.
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This course examines the African American experience from the end of legal slavery in 1865 through the dawn of the modern Civil Rights Movement in 1954. Major themes include an assessment of the successes and failures of Reconstruction; the rise of Jim Crow segregation, disenfranchisement, and lynching in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; the impact of migration and urbanization on Black communities; the growth of the arts and cultural institutions in the 1920s and 1930s; and the Great Depression and World War II as catalysts for Black activism. Special attention will be given to the various responses of Black leadership to discrimination and African American perspectives on American foreign policy from the 1930s onward.
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This course considers the meaning of Black representations as modern political, social and cultural phenomena that transcend a single nation, circulating transnationally, marking the contours of what has become known as the Black or African Diaspora. In particular it discusses the ethnographic differences and conceptual meanings associated with three exemplars of Black representation: Black Bodies, Black Movements and Black Geographies. These are examined in relation to the contested dimensions of modernity/coloniality and race/gender. Taking as its historical point of departure the period from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th century, it considers what might be a comparative national framework for analysing the Black/African Diaspora, which avoids treating a single nation (e.g. the United States) as the privileged site of Black representation. Consequently it emphasises the transnational constitution and circulation of Black representations as the dominant defining logic of Diaspora.
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In this class we ask: How does hip hop encapsulate and contend with some of the critical racial and gender issues that exist within and are framed by American culture at large? In this comparative course, students will engage with a gendered analysis of American popular culture by focusing on the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in hip hop. We will apply theories from racial, gender and cultural studies to their analyses of the production and consumption of popular culture. Particular attention will be paid to: the racialized construction of masculinity and femininity in popular culture; the appropriation of racial and gender identities; the role of capitalism and the market in the production of American popular culture. Specific topics include: the appropriation of Black racial and sexual identities by non-Black consumers of hip hop; misogyny and the potential for feminist hip hop; and the political potential of hip hop for understanding "difference."
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Structured around the phenomenon of travelactual, virtual, or imaginativethis course will use novels, film, and folktales, as well as dramatic texts and theoretical readings on tourism and museum displays, in order to explore the ways in Americans remember slavery, integral to the constitution of the New World. Given the recent presidential election, we will necessarily grapple with the questions such as: Why bother to remember slavery now? Or, how should slavery be remembered, as the nation seeks to chart new directions?
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From Lucy Terrys poem Bars Fight (1746)--the first known African American literary product to the present--black women have directly and indirectly influenced African American literary production. This course will be an intensive, multi-genred examination of the ways in which writers such as Toni Morrison and Terri McMillan; Lorraine Hansberry and Suzan-Lori Parks; Frances E.W. Harper and Danzy Senna; Toni Cade Bambara and ZZ Packer have directed the trajectories of African American literature. In addition, we will consider the factors and figures influential in the reception of their works.
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This course will introduce students to the films and videos produced by self-identified black lesbians. Students will explore the work of independent filmmakers as well as commercially successful artists, such as Cheryl Dunye, Michelle Parkerson, Dee Rees, Hanifah Walidah, Yvonne Welbon, Tiona M., and Campbell. In addition to the films, the course will introduce students to major concepts and thinkers in Black queer theory. Weekly screenings are required.
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This is a reading/discussion based seminar that comparatively examines colonial spaces and relationships across the globe. Its central goals are twofold: 1) to enhance our understanding of the unique role that race has played in structuring lives, space, identities, and relations of power in modern social formations, and 2) to facilitate a dialogue about how African American history and politics fits into a broader schema of colonial, de-colonial, and post-colonial discourses. Potential geographic areas of foci are: India, Mexico, Pakistan, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Brazil, Iraq, Haiti, South America, Palestine, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, Kenya, Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bisau), and Africa. Potential assigned authors are: Michael Taussig, Aime Cesaire, Walter Mignolo, Huey P. Newton, Peter Fitzpatrick, W.E.B. Dubois, Homi Bhabha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Emma Pérez, Edward Said, Tzvetan Todorov, Haunani Kay Trask, Michel-Rolf Trouillot, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Tariq Ali, Walter Rodney, Amilcar Cabral, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oi, Robert J.C. Young, and Peter Hallward
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