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Cupples II / L009

Garcia Liendo

May 9 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM

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THE SIXTIES IN LATIN AMERICA. The Global Sixties was a time of political turmoil and cultural change: for some, an era of frustrated opportunities for social justice; for others, a continued source of nostalgia or optimism. How were the Sixties experienced in Latin America? During this tumultuous decade, internal and external forces challenged longstanding sociocultural, economic and political models, sparking pivotal debates that would shape the future of the region for decades: modernity versus revolution, counterculture versus culture industry, Latin Americanism versus the Americanization of life, public intellectuals versus emerging youth cultures, military repression versus the activism of new political actors and the politicization of urban and campesino subaltern subjects. More than 50 years later, the resulting social and cultural changes, along with some of its other outcomes-dictatorships, foreign military and economic interventions-are still being reevaluated, underscoring the significance of the decade's legacies for understanding contemporary Latin America. This course offers an exploration of the Latin American Sixties from a cultural history perspective. We will study the Latin American literary boom and the cultural market; youth cultures and countercultures (music, cinema, comics); mass culture, popular culture and neo-imperialism; the Cultural Cold War; and revolution, internationalism, and Liberation Theology. We will combine a close reading of cultural artifacts and texts, with a contextualization of Latin America within the post-1945 global order. Among the materials to be discussed are writings by José Donoso, Gabriel García Márquez, and José María Arguedas, folklore and nueva canción latinoamericana, Mafalda comics, Latin American communication studies, art interventions, pop posters, and essays by intellectuals, politicians and priests.

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International Relations of Latin America

L45 LatAm 4201

This course examines Latin American foreign relations in the world from the 1820s to the present with a primary emphasis on the period since 1945. Focusing on inter-state and transnational relations, it seeks to historically contextualize and analyze long term patterns and trends between Latin American states and between Latin America and the United States, Europe, and the global South. Given Latin America's shared experience with imperialism and more recently with neo-imperialism, special attention will be paid to the ways Latin America has sought to manage and/or resist foreign domination, especially U.S. hegemonic pretensions. To this end it will analyze patterns of inter-American conflict and cooperation. When, why, and under what conditions Latin America articulated an independent foreign policy, forged anti-imperialist blocs, embraced U.S. sponsored diplomatic efforts and military alliances, and pursued Latin American unity and solidarity will be closely examined. To better understand the continuities, discontinuities, contradictions, and complexities of Latin American foreign policy, this course will also assess the influence of changing regional and national political cultures from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. In doing so, it explores how elite culture, the balance of domestic social forces, ideological and economic development, and shared cultural identities and meanings informed national political cultures and how these in turn shaped Latin American foreign policies.

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

Unpredictable / History

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1:00P-2:30P

Sever / 300

Hirsch

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Anthropology and Development

L45 LatAm 4517

What is 'development'? Economic progress for all? A slow and gradual 'improvement' in the human condition? Helping people with 'projects'? Westernization? Modernization? The sorting out of bodies that are useful and can be put to work from those less useful bodies that must be contained, imprisoned, or killed? The militarized accumulation of capital? The commodification of labor? The exhaustion of nature? In this advanced seminar we will consider how anthropologists - as writers, analysts, and theorists - have engaged the theories, meanings, practices, and consequences of (sometimes externally directed) economic and political change. We focus on issues of the contemporary moment: oil; urban poverty and inequality (sex work, migration, water, debt, and cash transfer programs); and cultures of militarism. The course is designed to provide a graduate-level introduction to theory and ethnography based on intensive reading, discussion, critique, and writing, with revision. It is open to advanced undergraduates and fulfills writing-intensive (WI) requirements, as well as capstone requirements for some majors.

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

Unpredictable / History

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9:00A-12:00P

McMillan / 150

Gustafson

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Gender and Modernity in Latin America

L45 LatAm 457

The purpose of this course in to introduce students to the particular forms modernity assumes in Latin American countries and to the ways in which national cultures, identity politics, and gender issues interweave during the 20th-century. The course will discuss three particular articulation of this topic: 1) Gender and the national question in Argentina: Eva Peron; 2) Gender and Visual Arts: Frida Kahlo; and 3) Gender and Ethnicity: Rigoberta Menchu. Through these iconic figures students will be introduced to the specific features that characterized three very different but representative cultural scenarios in Latin America. In each case, the context for the emergence of these highly influential public figures will be studied from historical, social and cultural perspectives. In order to explore the cultural and political significance of Eva Peron, Frida Kahlo and Rigoberta Menchu, the course will utilize literary texts (speeches, letters, diaries, etc.), visual materials (photography, films, and paintings) and critical bibliography.

A&S IQ: HUM Arch: HUM Art: HUM EN: H

Every 1 or 2 Years / History

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4:00P-7:00P

Eads / 102

Moraña

May 4 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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Labor and Labor Movements in Global History

L45 LatAm 4622

Moving away from a traditional national approach to labor history, this course explores the connections between work, types of workers, workers' movements, labor ideologies, and labor politics from a global historical perspective. It focuses on the period from the mid-19th century until the present. This temporal focus corresponds to the first (c.1860-1930) and second (c.1980-present) ages of globalization. Global phenomena such as expanding world trade, international labor markets, industrialization, urbanization, colonialism, imperialism, capital and labor mobility, and the spread of radical ideologies will be analyzed to assess their impact on the nature of work, labor relations systems, labor organization, and workers' collective action. This course will introduce students to key topics and themes in global labor history. These themes are varied and complex and range from working-class formation, immigration, state-labor relations, labor regimes, patterns of racialized and gendered work, competing labor ideologies, and transnational and transcontinental relations between workers in different regions of the world. The history of Latin American workers and labor movements will receive special attention.

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

Every 1 or 2 Years / History

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10:00A-11:30A

Simon / 021

Hirsch

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Central American Geographies of Violence

L45 LatAm 4662

This course provides an in-depth examination of the geographies of violence in Central America. As a region frequently characterized as endemically prone to violence, it is vital to analyze and contextualize the violence. Approaching violence in Central America from a geographic perspective involves not only locating and "placing" the violence, but also thinking relationally about the multiple, overlapping scales of activity, both within and beyond the region. The course is divided into five parts. In the first two sections of the course, we begin with an overview of the physical and human geography of the region and outline key historic moments and their legacies, including colonization, international relations (with an emphasis on U.S. interventions), civil war, genocide and torture. Simultaneously, we delve into various theoretical approaches for understanding the nature of multiple types of violence. In the third section of the course, we focus on neoliberal violence, insecurity and development and address issues such as urbanization, violent crime, issues with free trade and labor, and environmental issues. For the final two sections, we draw from contemporary case studies in the region (reading the four required books noted above). We will address identity and violence (discussing indigenous issues, racism, genocide and gender) and in the last section we will cover migration, gangs, drug-trafficking, U.S. security responses, and re-militarization. While we will continue to consider these types of violence through the various theoretical frameworks introduced in the first part of the course, we will also examine and analyze reports on contemporary violence and policy recommendations from multiple sources (multilateral organizations, governments, think tanks, and other nongovernmental organizations). Throughout the course we will also discuss current events occurring in Central America and how they directly or indirectly relate to the topic of geographies of violence.

A&S IQ: LCD, SD EN: H

No Longer Offered / History

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4:00P-5:30P

Simon / 018

Clouser

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Studies in Literature of 16th and 17th Centuries: Colonial Masculinities /Masculinidades Coloniales

L45 LatAm 512

The class will address the ways in which religion, empire and cultural contact converged to create new masculine identities in colonial Hispanic America. We will examine how European models of masculinity were shaped through contact with a religious and cultural "other" to produce a series of new colonial masculinities. We will read theoretical and critical works which will provide us with the tools to analyze masculinity not as a fixed and consistent concept, but rather as an evolving and contested idea which challenged Western notions of idealized manhood and revealed the anxiety behind society´s need to maintain this same ideal. We will examine a series of texts authored by men and occasionally women whose work allows us to interrogate the construction of series of key masculine figures including the conquistador, the missionary, the "savage" and the martyr. Primary readings will include authors such as Ignatius of Loyola, Bartolomé de las Casas, Hernán Cortés, Guaman Poma, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Valle y Caviedes. Secondary critical readings will feature, among others, selections from Connell, Wiegman, Laqueur and Breitenberg.

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2:30P-4:30P

Eads / 215

Kirk

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Studies In the Literature of Latin America: Mexican Literature in the 21st Century

L45 LatAm 515A

This class proposes a reading of key works of Mexican literature of the 21st century along three axes. First, the class will discuss the ways in which Mexican writers negotiate with an institutional landscape defined by high levels of economic investment in literature from the State and the gradual consolidation of publishing structures into two corporations (Penguin Random House and Planeta), the State and a group of independent presses (Sexto Piso, Almadía). Second, the course will engage with the ideological transformations in Mexican literature resulting from the so-called "transition to democracy" as well as the increase in political and criminal violence. Finally, the course will debate various concepts utilized to understand the aesthetics and politics of Mexican literature, including "necroescritura," "desapropiación," "narconarrativa" and "postliteratura." These study will be conducted by focusing on key authors who are at the center of literary practice today, such as Juan Villoro, Valeria Luiselli, Cristina Rivera Garza and Julián Herbert, as well as writers who are proposing fundamental changes of paradigm in literary writing: Yuri Herrera, Guadalupe Nettel, Sara Uribe and Jorge Humberto Chávez, among others.

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2:00P-4:00P

Lopata Hall / 201

Sánchez Prado

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