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COMPLIT 296 - Mobility and Materiality: Case Studies in Networks of Collecting and Displacement

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
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Description: This course is built around the conjoined paradigms of circulation and thing theory. Students will select a case study to work on early in the semester, and together we will probe the ways in which material culture intersects with processes of cultural exchange. The case studies might involve the transplantation of objects as well as subjects across borders, calling into question established conceptions of national and regional boundaries.
 

ROM-STD 250 - Mahindra Humanities Center Workshop

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
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Description: A workshop style course designed to offer intellectual exchanges based on the different activities and conversations convened by the Mahindra Humanities Center.  Some of the highlights include the Norton Lectures, the Mellon Seminar on Migration, and the Hauser Forum.  Each student will choose three or four events a month, and we will discuss the ways in which they add depth and complexity to our thinking.  Permission of the Instructor needed.

Course Notes: Permission of the Instructor needed.

SPANSH 113 - Cultural and Political Myth-Making: Eva Peron, Che Guevara, Simon Bolivar and La Malinche

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017
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Political power rests on concrete factors involved in the administration of public resources and the implementation of governmental policies.  But it cannot be fully understood without examining cultural strategies of self presentation and the ways in which social groups respond to them.  Myth-making is intrinsic to politics, and we will trace its workings in a few Latin American cases.