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Duncker / 109

Garcia Liendo

May 7 2019 1:00PM - 3:00PM

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IMAGINING THE ANDES: ETHNICITY, MODERNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN PERU. This course explores the main cultural transformations that occurred in the Andean region during the past century, taking Peru as a case study. Borne out of the union of indigenous, Western, African, Asian, and Amazonian traditions, Andean cultures have been a crucial arena for the study of indigeneity, diversity, popular culture, migration, politics, and ecology in Latin America from colonial times to the present. The course will begin by exploring ethnic identities in colonial and postcolonial history, and then will delve into four major topics: (1) indigenismo, nation, and rural cultures, (2) migration and urban cultures, (3) political violence and the struggle for memory and human rights, and (4) the Amazon, indigeneity, and nature conservation in globalized times. In order to offer an interdisciplinary approach to these topics, course materials will include myths, folklore, music, autobiographical accounts, photography, film, journalism, anthropology, literature, and essay. Course taught in Spanish. Readings in Spanish and English.

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This course explores language and power through ethnographic and historical readings on coloniality and Indigenous languages. The course surveys key paradigms in linguistic anthropology and theories of power, rule, and the state, with a particular focus on coloniality. These provide frameworks for examining language (and linguistics) as an instrument and target of colonial violence and rule, yet also as vehicles of resistance, subversion, and decolonial refusal. Historical and contemporary cases include Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, and the Andes. The course is primarily focused on Indigenous languages of Latin America, but we will also sample from canonical works on colonial Africa, India, and Southeast Asia.

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11:30A-1:00P

Cupples II / 230

Sklodowska

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THE PARADOXES OF CONTEMPORARY CUBA: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE IN-BETWEEN. In the wake of such momentous events as president Obama's visit to Cuba (March 2016), Fidel Castro's death (November 2016) and the end of Raul Castro's presidency (April 2018), for many Americans the island has advanced from the category of a forbidden and exotic fruit to a full-fledged reality. Now is a good time to ask not only "What is next for Cuba?" but also "What can we learn from Castro's revolutionary experiments"? This course explores the paradoxes of Cuban lives on the island and in the diaspora-the good, the bad and the in-between-along with the intertwined histories of the United States and Cuba. Using a combination of literary texts (Carpentier, Cabrera Infante, Ponte, Bobes, Obejas, Morejón, Padura), films ("Strawberry and Chocolate," "Guantanamera," "The Promise," "The New Art of Making Ruins"), artwork (Mendieta, Bruguera, Garaicoa), political speeches, and unique visual materials compiled by the instructor throughout her many research trips to Cuba, we will look at the island's contemporary reality through the lens of its colonial and postcolonial past. Topics include ethnic and gender identities, the "myths" of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, African-Cuban spirituality, popular music, political oppression and dissent, and the interplay of migration and exile, along with multiple perspectives on everyday life (foreign tourism, food rationing, dual-currency economy, restoration of colonial Havana, education, and healthcare).

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

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9:00A-12:00P

McMillan / 150

Gustafson

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Latin American Populism and Neo-Populism

L45 LatAm 4611

A salient feature of Latin America in the 20th and early 21st centuries has been the recurrence of populism. Mass-based political and social movements animated by nationalist and reformist impulses dominated Latin American politics in the 1920s, 1930s-60s, and 1980s to the present. This course provides a general historical and theoretically informed analysis of the origins, internal dynamics, and outcomes of classical populist and neo-populist governments and parties. Among the notable populist and neo-populist cases to be examined include: Peronism in Argentina , Velasquismo in Ecuador, Cardenismo in Mexico, APRA in Peru, Varguismo in Brazil, Garcia/Fujimori in Peru, Menen/Kirchners in Argentina, and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. Issues pertaining to leader-follower relations, populist discourses, citizenship rights, populist gender and racial policies, labor and social reforms, and mass mobilization politics will also be explored.

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

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10:00A-11:30A

Wrighton / 260

Hirsch

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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, SC, SD, SSC Arch: SSC Art: SSC EN: S

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1:00P-2:30P

Lopata Hall / 201

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 three parts. In the first section of the course we begin with an overview of the foundations for understanding violence in Central America. In addition to covering the physical and human geography of the region we also delve into various ways of defining violence, with a particular emphasis on how geographers conceptualize violence. In the second section, we delve into various theoretical approaches for understanding the nature of multiple types of violence and draw from historical and contemporary events in Central America. In the third section of the course we take a closer look at specific case studies in the region, covering topics such as genocide, alcoholism, immigration, gangs and drug-trafficking. Sophomore standing or above.

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

No Longer Offered / History

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4:00P-7:00P

Seigle / 206

Clouser

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Media Cultures in Latin America

L45 LatAm 468

One of the key topics in Latin American Studies today is the history and theory of media and the way in which media cultures have shaped the nation, social subjectivities and the reigion's relationship to modernity. This course is a study of both the history of key audiovisual media in Latin America (print, radio, television, cinema, cybermedia) as well as of the key paradigms for media studies regarding this production. After discussing foundational concepts (media, mediation, cultural industry, popular culture), the course proceeds by in-depth studies of the role media played in different countries from the 19th century, through the different national processes of the 20th century to the present. In doing so, the class engages with questions of technology, identity, indigenous culture, urbanization and other theoretical concerns. This course fulfills the "Seminar Requirement" for Latin American Studies majors and minors. PreReq L45 165D or a 300-level course on Latin American culture.

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

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4:00P-7:00P

Eads / 115

Sánchez Prado

May 3 2019 6:00PM - 8:00PM

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TransAmerica: The US and Mexico Between the Wars

L45 LatAm 4744

Many areas of 20th century US culture between World Wars I and II were inspired by post-revolutionary Mexico. The Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) profoundly reoriented modern Mexico, introducing new cultural and aesthetic forms and historical themes over subsequent decades. Mexican artists contributed to a new national consciousness drawing on indigenous Mexico and on the new politics of workers and peasants, given monumental expression in mural painting. The bidirectional exchange between US and Mexican artists was of great importance for the cultural revitalization of the New Deal and after in the US. Among artists, writers, anthropologists, and tourists, the vogue for things Mexican was fed by many sources, including increasing travel, diplomatic exchange, and a yearning for alternatives to US modernity. The seminar will support travel to Mexico City, funded by the Art History and Archaeology Department. Must be a graduate student, or an undergraduate major or minor in Art History and Archaeology. Recommended courses: one 300- or 400-level course in 20th c. US art or history; or one relevant course in Latin American Studies program.

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6:00P-9:00P

Kemper / 103

Miller

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Latin American Studies: Critical and Theoretical Approaches

L45 LatAm 502

The course constitutes an advanced introduction to Latin American Studies and focuses on basic concepts, theories and debates that are crucial to the understanding of the field, its connections to other areas of study and its projections into global scenarios. Some of the issues that will be analyzed in this course are the historical and cultural circumstances that surrounded the emergence of area studies in general and Latin American Studies in particular, the academic, intellectual and political elements that became part of the Latin American field from its inception, the evolution of the field during and after the Cold War, and the connection of the field to theoretical approaches such as those provided by Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, postmodern theories, trans-Atlantic studies, Border Studies, and the like. From a methodological perspective, the course will introduce students to the understanding of inter/multi/post-disciplinary perspectives and to debates surrounding the notions of humanism, national cultures, "Third-World, Occidentalism, "lettered city", cultural diversity, cultural difference, collective memory, etc. Finally, the concepts of syncretism, heterogeneity, hybridity, "anthropofagia", transculturation, peripheral modernity, will studied as key concepts for the understanding of Latin American cultural history, from colonial times to the present. Through the critical study of these topics, students will get acquainted with the critical works of some of the most important scholarship produced in/about Latin America by authors such as Enrique Dussel, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Antonio Cornejo Polar, Beatriz Sarlo, Nelly Richard, Jesús Martín Barbero, Néstor García Canclini, Angel Rama, Walter Mignolo, Martín Lienhard, Aníbal Quijano, among others.

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Eads / 209

Moraña

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The Production of Culture: Jos Mara Arguedas and the Migrating Andes

L45 LatAm 537

Taking the oeuvre of writer, folklorist, and anthropologist José María Arguedas as a case study, this graduate seminar will examine the way 20th-century intellectuals dealt with material transformations in the production and circulation of cultures in the Andean region. Through the analysis of literary texts, ethnographies, journalism, practices of cultural promotion and recordings, we will explore the role of orality, writing and other, more recent technologies (such as the voice recorder, the radio, and music records), as well as that of capitalist markets and cultural commodification, in the configuration of public spheres in the Andes. Similarly, we will analyze the impact of the emergence of said public spheres on the imaginaries and materialities of nation, ethnicity, and the political dimension of culture. Conceptualizing immigration and urbanization as the key historical processes for our case study, the seminar will offer a historical and theoretical framework for understanding the transformations. rural and urban cultures in the Andean region region underwent during the past century, paying close attention to the classical debates these transformation generated in the field of Andean studies. This seminar will have a strong interdisciplinary appproach, combining topics such as cultural production, intellectual and cultural history, media studies, culture history, and public sphere. Readings in English and Spanish; course taught in Spanish. Prereq: Graduate standing.

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4:00P-6:30P

Eads / 211

Garcia Liendo

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Beyond Survival: Black Agency in Colonial Latin America

L45 LatAm 561

Through the analysis of primary sources, where available, this seminar will examine the varied ways through which men and women of African descent garnered and exerted agency in colonial Latin America. Topics to be discussed include: archival politics, race, slavery, resistance, legal consciousness, family, clothing, corporate organization, military service, and festive and ritual practices. The seminar focuses on a lesser-studied aspect of the colonial experience and is intended to engage graduate students with a growing area of study in the field of Latin American literary and cultural studies. Prereq: Graduate standing.

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2:30P-4:30P

Eads / 208

Valerio

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