Oral presentation

Papers

AIS

cultural studies

GIS 2000, HON, PJ, AIS

classes

Dr. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi 
Office: SAC 268,

Phone: 610-519-3069
Office hours:

M-W 4:15 - 5:15 pm or by appt.

Topic

Reading

Introduction.  What is cultural studies?  

Resources: Voice of the Shuttle

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Cultural studies - definitions and challenges

Stuart Hall: "Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies" CSR 97-108.

R. Morrow: "The Challenge of Cultural Studies"

Extracurricular

Sultans of Satire (Arab American comedians)

7:00 pm. Rosemont College

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MLK birthday - no class

Modernity / Postmodernity

Resource: Postmodern terms
Jean François Lyotard: "Defining the Postmodern" CSR 142-146

Geraldine Brooks lecture: People of the Book

2:00 pm. Great Hall, Bryn Mawr College

 Globalization: World Culture Theory.

F. Jameson: "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"

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Foucault: Power / knowledge

links

Foucault and discourse "Epistemology"

links

4

Colonization / colonial discourse.

The use of language

Cohn: "The Command of Language, the Language of Command"

Postcolonial theory / discourse / literature

Resource: Bibliography

"Identity Jam and the Postcolonial Predicament"

11

Alterity. Edward Said: Orientalism

Video: Said: Orientalism, (1-4 parts)

Reading: Orientalism: "Introduction," "Knowing the Oriental"

Conflict in the Middle East: Palestine-Israel

Global Solidarity Network

Mandatory postings: Instructions

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Discussion of the Palestine/Israel conflict

Readings and video Global Solidarity Network site

Live Discussion of the GSN postings with

Tom Garofalo, former CRS Country Representative, Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza

GSN readings and video

Susan Abulhawa: The Scar of David

Shohat: "Reflections of an Arab Jew"

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Terrorism

 Eqbal Ahmad: Terrorism, Theirs and Ours

Paper # 1 is due

March 2-4

 Spring break, no class

Clash of Civilizations

Huntington: The Clash of Civilization

E. Said: "The Clash of Ignorance" 

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Barbara Harlow: Resistance Literature  Harlow: After Lives.

Questions of censorship

"Media moments"

18

Religion and fundamentalism

Islam

Irshad Manji Faith Without Fear,

Confessions of a Muslim Dissident

Satrapi: Persepolis. Video: Marjan Satrapi

Muslim World

Bernard Lewis: What Went Wrong (introduction)

Juan Cole: "Informed Comment"

Said: "Impossible Histories"

Class canceled in exchange of mandatory conference participation

"Mirror images: Challenges for Arab and Islamic Studies" Connelly Center

April 1-4

Conference Participation

"Mirror images: Challenges for Arab and Islamic Studies" Connelly Center

Gender and Representation

"The Postcolonial Female Subject"

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Women in the Middle East

Malek Alloula: Colonial Harem, Betts: "Wanted Women..."

"Politics of the Veil"

Easter break, no class

Writing by Women

L. Abouzeid: Year of the Elephant

Hall: "Year of the Elephant, a Postcolonial Reading"

Paper # 2 is due

Migration,

White: "Geography, literature and migration"

Yaghmaian: Embracing the Infidel

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The beurs, the second generation

"French Figs"

Postmodernism revisited

Appiagnesi: Postmodernism

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Review

Bring questions