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Eads / 209

Valerio

Dec 13 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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AFRO-LATIN AMERICA: BODIES AND VOICE. This class will introduce students to Afro-Latin American culture and literature from its inception to the present through representative textual and audiovisual culture. We will define the concepts of Afro-Latin American culture and literature. We will address the questions of what, who, where, why, how is Afro-Latin America? The course will privilege the black perspective, reading representations of black cultural practices against the grain. The aim of the course is to help students understand the role people of African descent and black culture has had and continues to have in the development of Latin American society and culture. The course seeks to deconstruct and expand our notions of Afro-Latin America. Students will become familiar with concepts such as race, ethnicity, confraternity, palenuqe/quilombo, and cultural agency. Classes will combine lectures by the instructor, student presentations, collective debates and cooperative learning, and will entail the use of required bibliography and audiovisual materials.

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11:30A-12:50P

TBA

cancelled

Dec 17 2019 10:30AM - 12:30PM

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MEXICAN IDENTITY: LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES. In this course, we will look at intermedial cultural productions in Mexico during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that helped forge a sense of identity. Through a study of film, literature, the illustrated press, photographs, essays, the arts, events, and cultural happenings, we will analyze the different methods by which fictions like citizenship and Mexicanness, or lo mexicano, were constructed and sold to the world as "geniune" ways of being a Mexican. For instance, the Mexican golden age of film during the 1940s and 1950s included the movie Maria Candelaria (Fernandez 1944), which contributed to stereotyping indigenous culture as essentially Mexican, while simultaneously marginalizing the breathing members of that culture. Theoretical readings on topics such as culture, race, and nation will inform a variety of interpretations of the materials. Some events that will serve as milestones include the following: the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the appropriation of oil by the Mexican government in 1938, the Mexican Golden Age of film (1940s and 1950s), the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968, and the Mexican Cinematic New Wave of film that started in the 1990s.

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The Arab & Muslim Americas: Feminist Perspectives

Waits Not Allowed

L45 LatAm 439

Migratory movements from the Middle East and North Africa into the Americas were precipitated by multiple and intersecting factors. This course will examine the historical and contemporary waves of Arab and Muslim migrants and refugees into the Americas from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It will explore how empire, globalization, and war influenced and continue to influence the flow of people across borders and impact policies and ideas of belonging in receiving nation-states. We will examine Arab and Muslim identity in light of gendered, ethnoreligious, class, and national affiliations and investigate the racialization of Islam and the gendered-Orientalist constructions of Arabs and Muslims in Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Honduras, Cuba) and the US. Utilizing interdisciplinary texts in Transnational Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies, and history, we will trace the ways that specific diasporic subjects have been incorporated into host nation-states and analyze, through a comparative framework, the receptions and rejections of Arabs and Muslims in the US and Latin America.

A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SD, SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

L77 439 L22 4390 L75 439 L97 4390

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2:30P-5:20P

McMillan / 221

Munem

No final

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Twentieth Century Latin American Revolutions

L45 LatAm 4633

Latin America was arguably one of the most "revolutionary" regions of the world in the twentieth century. It registered four "great revolutions": Mexico 1910, Bolivia 1952, Cuba 1959, and Nicaragua 1979. These social revolutions entailed a substantial, violent, and voluntarist struggle for political power and the overthrow of the established political, economic, social, and cultural orders. In the wake of these successful revolutions, new revolutionary institutions of governance were founded, radical structural changes were implemented, and a new revolutionary ethos was adopted. With the exception perhaps of the Bolivian Revolution, these revolutions had a profound impact on Latin American and world politics. The primary aim of this course is to analyze and compare the causes, processes, and outcomes of the Mexican, Cuban, and Nicaraguan revolutions.

A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SD, SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

Every 1 or 2 Years / History

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10:00A-11:20A

Seigle / 111

Hirsch

No final

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The objective of the course is to introduce students to different aspects related to the representation of youth in Latin America, particularly through the depiction this sector receives in the realm of popular culture. The course will focus on the relationship between youth and social /political conflict and on the literary and cinematic representation of juvenile sectors in cultural production, in different Latin American countries. The role of music, melodrama and the media will be studied in connection to the construction of subjectivity and collective identity. The course will also analyze the involvement of juvenile sectors in narco-culture, gangs, maras, and the like, as well as the impact of violence, fear and social inequality in early life. The analysis of films, literary texts, critical studies and cultural practices will be approached through a combination of biopolitical analysis and the analysis of representational strategies utilized in the elaboration of symbolic materials. This course fulfills the Seminar requirement for LAS majors and minors. PreReq: 165D or another Latin American Studies course.

A&S IQ: HUM, LCD Arch: HUM Art: HUM BU: IS EN: H

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Moraña

Dec 16 2019 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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Geographies of Development in Latin America: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges

L45 LatAm 4660

This course provides an overview to the geographies of development throughout Latin America. We will begin by examining a variety of theoretical perspectives, definitions and critiques of 'development'. We will highlight the uneven processes of development at multiple, overlapping scales and the power imbalances inherent in much of development discourse. In the second half of the course we will focus our considerations towards specific contemporary trends and development issues, utilizing case studies drawn primarily from Latin America. These themes will include sustainability, NGOs, social movements, social capital, security and conflict, identity, ethnicity and gender issues, participatory development, and micro-credit and conditional cash transfers. Students will acquire the critical theoretical tools to develop their own perspectives on how development geographies play out in Latin America.

A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SD, SSC Art: SSC EN: S

No Longer Offered / History

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4:00P-6:50P

Simon / 021

Clouser

No final

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Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire

L45 LatAm 4885

This course examines the history of medicine in connection to the politics of colonialism and empire-building, spanning the sixteenth century through the twentieth century. Topics covered include: epidemic disease outbreaks (e.g. smallpox, cholera, malaria); the role of science and medicine in endorsing the "civilizing missions" of empires; tropical climates and tropical diseases as western constructs; tensions between western medicine and indigenous healing practices and beliefs; ideas of race and racism in science and medicine; modern advancements in sanitation and public health and their implementation overseas; and the historical roots of the modern global health movement.

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L22 4885 L22 5885 L85 4885 L97 4885

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Every 1 or 2 Years / History

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2:30P-5:20P

Ridgley / 107

Ramos

Dec 18 2019 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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Students registering for this course must also register for L22 49IR/41 for 1 unit.

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Latin Am Lit: Mexican Literature's Social Contracts: National Emancipation to Democratic Transition

L45 LatAm 515

This course studies Mexican literature of the 19th and 20th Century by engaging in the ways in which literary production has established social contracts in relation the country's various historical and political junctures. Thusly, the class is not a history of the Mexican literary canon, but rather a history of the evolving relationship between literature and society. Each week, the class will discuss a combination of select literary works, relevant literary and cultural theory defining key terms, and major interventions in the scholarly conversation about each subject. Topics will include the foundation of civil society in post-independence Mexico, the cultural representations of the Mexican-American war, the use of literature to frame popular sovereignty during the Liberal Reform period, the formation of the literary fields of Porfiriato and post-revolutionary Mexico, and the construction of the idea of Mexicanness. The class will intertwine in these discussions a conversation on issues like the erasure of women writers from literary historiography, the role of indigenous languages and alolinguistic traditions in literature, the intermedial encounters between literature and media and the idea of Greater Mexico, encompassing the cultures of pre-1847 borders as well as the Mexican diaspora into the United States. Ultimately, the course's goal is a structural understanding of Mexican literature's key moments of configuration throughout history and a reading of canonical and noncanonical works in their material, sociopolitical and ideological conditions. Authors read will include José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Francisco Zarco, Ángel de Campo Micrós, Nellie Campobello, Alfonso Reyes, Elena Garro and others, alongside theorists and critics like Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Franco, and others. Prereq. Graduate Standing. In Spanish.

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2:00P-3:50P

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Sánchez Prado

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Baroque Intellectuals: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Siguenza y Gongora

L45 LatAm 540

The multifaceted intellectual and literary production of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora dominates the cultural landscape of seventeenth -century colonial Mexico. In this class we will examine representative works from both of these authors, addressing a wide variety of genres - history, theology, poetry, theater, scientific writing, autobiography and biography - to plot the contours of elite baroque culture. In bringing these two authors together in one class we will be able to examine in detail the preoccupations of these baroque intellectuals - their inferior status as CRIOLLOS (Mexicans of pure Spanish descent), the challenges involved in disseminating their works, as well as the difficulties imposed by an absolutist state and orthodox religious power structure. We will also focus on the differences in their works and lives that sprang from their respective genders, taking a close look at the production of femininity and masculinity in colonial Mexico. This class will also strive to create a detailed socio-cultural and historical context in which to place the works of these two figures. Primary texts will include PARAISO OCCIDENTAL, REPUESTA A SOR FILOTEA DE LA CRUZ, AUTODEFENSA ESPIRITUAL, INFORTUNIOS DE ALONZO RAMIREZ, TEATRO DE VIRTUDES POLITICAS, NEPTUNO ALEGORICO, LIBRA ASTRONOMICA, CARTA ATENAGORICA, as well as a selection of Sor Juana's poetry and villancicos. Secondary sources will include works by Foucault, Paz, Moraña, Merrim, More, among others. Graduate standing. In Spanish.

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2:30P-4:20P

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Kirk

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2:30P-3:50P

Kemper / 103

Spivak

Dec 16 2019 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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