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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.070.604 (01)
The Idea of Africa
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mohamed, Sabine
Mergenthaler 439
The Idea of Africa AS.070.604 (01)
This seminar interrogates the numerous ways that Africa, as a concept, has been generative in history, as well as in political and social thought. Although in the long arc of history, the period of European colonialism on the continent was brief, it fundamentally reshaped how we think about Africa as a space and place. Africa has long existed as a crucial “other” in European culture. But how do we think of Africa outside of this limiting history? The idea of Africa has also existed as an important rubric for African scholars to counter such colonial inheritances and for diasporas to re-engage the black Atlantic. The emergence of Pan-Africanism as well as liberation movements across the continent have pushed back against a reading of Africa simply as a site of exploitation, but as home (“Africa for Africans”), space (Afrofuturism), and as a site of radical politics. In this course, we explore the different histories, futures, and potentialities of Africa as an idea, re-sorting its geographies and stories.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/7
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.617 (01)
Methods
T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Han, Clara
Mergenthaler 439
Methods AS.070.617 (01)
The seminar will offer a forum for students to reflect on preliminary field research and think further about problems of ethnographic method. We will proceed in the manner of a workshop for ongoing projects. Open to anthropology graduate students only.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Han, Clara
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.634 (01)
Contemporary Anthropology
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Khan, Naveeda
Mergenthaler 426
Contemporary Anthropology AS.070.634 (01)
Graduate students are encouraged to register for the departmental research colloquium in anthropology. The colloquium meets most (but not all) Tuesday afternoons during the semester.
Credits: 2.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.674 (01)
Readings in Anthropology
Th 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Mohamed, Sabine
Mergenthaler 439
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: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.656 (01)
Anthropology of Religion
M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Khan, Naveeda
Mergenthaler 439
Anthropology of Religion AS.070.656 (01)
Pairing classics in the anthropology of religion (e.g. Durkheim, Weber, Turner, Asad) with contemporary writings (ethnography, literature), this course will explore the jagged edge of religious self-making, experience and expression and its intersections with the state, capital and nature.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:30PM
Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.801 (01)
Dissertation Research
Angelini, Alessandro
Dissertation Research AS.070.801 (01)
Credits: 5.00 - 10.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.801 (02)
Dissertation Research
Das, Veena
Dissertation Research AS.070.801 (02)
Credits: 5.00 - 10.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Das, Veena
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.659 (01)
Proposal Writing
T 10:30AM - 12:30PM
MacLochlainn, Scott
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: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.631 (01)
Politics of Language
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
MacLochlainn, Scott
Mergenthaler 426
Politics of Language AS.070.631 (01)
How does language become a site of contestation? From the attention to speech on social media, discrimination and exclusion based on how people sound, the realism of ChatGPT, to debates regarding what constitutes proper and improper language in school textbooks, we seem to increasingly talk about how we talk. How do we study language in these spaces, and amidst contestation and social change? Moving between a number of different contexts, this course explores how language becomes a focal point of agreement and disagreement. Topics include the history of code-switching, language identities around the world, AI and chatbots, indigenous revitalization projects, and how language is thoroughly embedded in our understandings of gender, race, and the concept of the social “other.” Throughout the course, we will read some classic linguistic anthropology texts as well as a contemporary literature, that together provide a foundation for how to think about the role of language in our lives.
