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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.070.629 (01)
Play, Performance, And Personhood
Th 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Angelini, Alessandro
Mergenthaler 439
Play, Performance, And Personhood AS.070.629 (01)
To approach social life as performative marked a pivotal moment in anthropology and related disciplines, and even as an implicit framework it continues to undergird more recent theoretical orientations. Revisiting foundational works in ethnography and critical theory and tracing their resonances in contemporary turns and experiments, this seminar explores play and performance as both subject and method.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.633 (01)
Sustainable Design
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandian, Anand
Mergenthaler 426
Sustainable Design AS.070.633 (01)
Sustainable design involves the development of socially engaging and ecologically sensitive interventions and alternatives, a task both social and technical in nature. Through interdisciplinary readings and collaborative workshops in social science, environmental engineering, and planning and design, this seminar focuses on both theoretical and practical dimensions of this challenge. The first of a two-course sequence, to be followed by a studio practicum in the spring semester.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandian, Anand
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 6/6
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.635 (01)
New War/ Civil Conflicts/ Policing
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena
Gilman 77
New War/ Civil Conflicts/ Policing AS.070.635 (01)
This is an advanced course in which we will interrogate the boundaries between war, civil conflict and techniques of policing. Students should be prepared to work through texts of an interdisciplinary character.”
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Das, Veena
Room: Gilman 77
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.659 (01)
Proposal Writing
M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Degani, Michael
Mergenthaler 439
Proposal Writing AS.070.659 (01)
The seminar will offer a forum for students to discuss research projects, prepare grant proposals and think further about issues of ethnographic methodology and writing. Open to Anthropology graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Degani, Michael
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/6
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.672 (01)
Rumors, Conspiracy Theories And Disinformation
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Khan, Naveeda, Tobias, Rochelle, Wegenstein, Bernadette
Gilman 77
MLL-GERM
Rumors, Conspiracy Theories And Disinformation AS.070.672 (01)
Our present is said to be rife with more rumors, conspiracy theories and disinformation than ever before. Is this moment so different from previous, historical moments of crisis? Haven't these modes of expression always been present, albeit at the margins of the political order? What does it say about knowledge to have multiple “regimes of truth” (Foucault)? How does a new media landscape based in algorithmic modularity, and particularly social media, change the set up from an old analogue media economy? This course, co-taught by an, a literary theorist, and a media theorist, aims to provide a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives to help us examine the current state of reality.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Khan, Naveeda, Tobias, Rochelle, Wegenstein, Bernadette
Room: Gilman 77
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): MLL-GERM
AS.070.674 (01)
Readings in Anthropology
M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Han, Clara
Readings in Anthropology AS.070.674 (01)
In this course we will engage classical texts from the anthropological archives and explore debates and contemporary salience.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Han, Clara
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.676 (01)
Semiotics and its Discontents
T 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Haeri, Niloofar
Semiotics and its Discontents AS.070.676 (01)
The relationship between speakers, communities, and forms of language-in-use (ritual, everyday life, oral literature) can only partly be captured by conceptions of language as a sign system. In this course, we will review structuralist approaches most closely identified with semiotics and move on to explore the concept of “presence” and its explanatory potential for anthropological attempts in understanding language.
