Monday, January 20, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
MALAS 600C.01/HIST 527 HOLOCAUST FEATURE FILMS Prof. Yale Strom Mondays, 7pm to 9:40
HOLOCAUST FEATURE FILMS
Prof. Yale Strom
Mondays, 7pm to 9:40
Holocaust in Feature Films (History 527/MALAS 600D) will examine the medium of film and how it has been used as a creative tool to confront and help the audience imagine the most unimaginable in terms of facts and figures. The Holocaust has become a metaphor for suffering, a template for the worst horrors ever visited upon mankind in modern times. Films about the Holocaust provide images of smoke, barbed wire, sealed train cars, skeletal bodies, torture, etc. These films help to make clearer why and what happened to millions of people to university students four generations removed from this catastrophe and to understand why genocide still happens in our world today. The class will be taught in three sections: 1. Hitler, Germany and The Final Solution, 2. Jewish and Gentile Responses to the Holocaust, and 3. The Lingering Impact of the Holocaust.
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New MALAS Seminar, Spring 2020: Linguistics 526 / MALAS 600D Discourse Analysis with Professor Betty Samraj
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Linguistics 526 / MALAS 600D
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Professor Betty Samraj, Chair, Department of Linguistics
Course Description
Theories of discourse structure. Text and context. Different frameworks
for analyzing written and spoken discourses such as genre analysis,
conversation analysis, critical discourse anlaysis, discourse and grammar,
speech act theory, and corpus linguistics. Applications of discourse analysis
such as cross-cultural misunderstanding and identity construction.
Prerequisite: LING 420 or 501
Student Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
-- discuss concepts such as the
relationship between text and context;
-- identify and describe
significant patterns in talk and text organization;
-- read critically the
literature in discourse analysis;
-- formulate relevant research
questions in discourse analysis and collect appropriate data to explore such
questions;
-- analyze instances of spoken
and written discourse using appropriate methodologies;
-- report in an academic paper
analyses of discourse using appropriate conceptual frameworks and
-- demonstrate understanding of
the various ways in which the methods and findings of discourse analysis can be
used to address real life problems.
New MALAS Seminar with Professor Bosco, Geography: GEOG 760 Space, Place, and the Politics of Memory
Spring 2020
This seminar will explore the connections between space, place and the politics of memory and remembering. People remember, interpret, and construct the past in different ways, sometimes attempting to legitimize their own version of history or to challenge hegemonic versions of it. This is often done by creating places of memory (e.g., memorials and monuments, museums, historic neighborhoods, heritage sites) or by performing spatialized acts of remembering (e.g., commemorative ceremonies, parades, temporary and make-shift memorials, art, media and exhibitions, food festivals). But the representation of memory in place and through spatialized acts is often riddled with different types of politics. For example, conflicts often occur when less powerful or marginalized groups confront and/or challenge more powerful actors’ attempts to create places of memory that reflect official or institutionalized views of the past. Often, conflicts about place-based representations of the past are not really about the past, but rather about the present and, quite often, about the future.
In this seminar we will explore questions such as:
Professor Fernando J. Bosco
Mondays 3:30 to 6:10 pm
This seminar will explore the connections between space, place and the politics of memory and remembering. People remember, interpret, and construct the past in different ways, sometimes attempting to legitimize their own version of history or to challenge hegemonic versions of it. This is often done by creating places of memory (e.g., memorials and monuments, museums, historic neighborhoods, heritage sites) or by performing spatialized acts of remembering (e.g., commemorative ceremonies, parades, temporary and make-shift memorials, art, media and exhibitions, food festivals). But the representation of memory in place and through spatialized acts is often riddled with different types of politics. For example, conflicts often occur when less powerful or marginalized groups confront and/or challenge more powerful actors’ attempts to create places of memory that reflect official or institutionalized views of the past. Often, conflicts about place-based representations of the past are not really about the past, but rather about the present and, quite often, about the future.
In this seminar we will explore questions such as:
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How do places contribute to the construction of collective memory?
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How does collective memory influence the trajectories of place?
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How do social movements and activists spatialize the politics of memory?
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What are the relations between globalization and discourses and practices of memory?
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What is the relation between memory and the city?
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How is cultural and collective memory performed?
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How do we theorize memory and remembering geographically?
The goal of the seminar is also to encourage graduate students to think about memory, remembering, nostalgia, and the connections between past, present and future in relation to their own research interests in human geography. To that end, participants in the seminar will play an active role in shaping the seminar’s content and discussion
MALAS Seminar in Conjunction With SDSU Women's Studies: Professor Esther Rothblum's METHODS OF INQUIRY IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
WMNST
602 & MALAS
600C
Methods
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Professor Esther Rothblum erothblu@mail.sdsu.edu
Office
Hours: Wed 9:30-11:30 a.m.
This course will familiarize
students with a variety of research methods for giving voice to women's
experience and making visible the frequently invisible and undercounted aspects
of women's lives. Students will become acquainted with current discussions of
feminist epistemology, including feminist critiques of traditional research
methods. We will focus on ways of
incorporating and analyzing literary works, historical archives, film, ethnography,
quantitative surveys, media discourse, and feminist participatory research. We
will also discuss issues such as: How and by whom is knowledge produced and
validated? Do distinctively feminist methods exist? What is the relationship of
the researcher to the researched? How does the social location (race, class,
sexual identity, etc.) of the researcher impact on research? What are the
issues (ethical, political, epistemological, methodological) that arise in
studying "others"? How is feminist theory related to research? How
can research relate to efforts for social change?
The course will provide
students with hands-on experience about some of the joys and dilemmas of doing
research, and students will conceptualize and design their own research project
and write a research proposal. The assignments are aimed at familiarizing
students with a number of methods that they can apply to their own thesis
project. The course ends with students
completing their own thesis proposal, but the course is also applicable for
students who have already proposed their thesis and are working on the thesis
itself.
Several professors will visit
the class with expertise on particular topics. Classes will also be interactive
with open discussions on all readings, as well as discussion on the development
of individual research proposals.
Readings
Sharlene Hesse-Biber (2014)
(2nd Ed.). Feminist Research Practice: A Primer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Articles on electronic reserve on Blackboard.sdsu.edu under Course Documents
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, students should be
able to:
- Understand the differences between feminist and traditional epistemologies and methodologies.
- Use quantitative and qualitative research, archival research, participatory research, literary and film analysis, and discourse analysis in their own thesis.
- Become careful and critical consumers of research presented in the media and in academic texts.
- Complete the SDSU Institutional Review Board criteria for research.
- Design research projects.
- Use the internet and electronic databases for research.
- Interpret and write up research results.
New MALAS Seminar: PHIL 506/MALAS 600A: 20th Century Continental Philosophy Professor Marie Draz, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
PHIL 506/MALAS 600A: 20th Century Continental Philosophy
Professor Marie Draz, Assistant Professor, Philosophy The label “Continental philosophy” is often applied to 19th and 20th century European philosophy. As an umbrella term for a disparate set of ideas and texts, Continental philosophy is associated with philosophical movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. In this course, we will begin with one of the major 19th century touchstones for later Continental philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche. We will take up Nietzsche’s influential account of truth and lies as well as his attention to how philosophy is historically and culturally situated.
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New Spring 2020 MALAS Seminar! ENGL 624 / MALAS 600A GOTHIC BODIES With Professor P. Serrato
ENGL 624/MALAS 600A
GOTHIC BODIES
P. SERRATO
P. SERRATO
SPRING 2020
In this seminar we will delve into some historically diverse works of gothic fiction, concerning ourselves in particular
with the significance of different types of bodies that feature in this fiction. To be sure, many of the bodies that we
will encounter will be anthropomorphic. Some of these bodies will be human but some will not...or they may be
but it is not clear whether they are or are not. In some texts the body will be a social one, or it will be a
manufactured one, or it will be an architectural one. Whatever the case, we will have much to discuss vis-à-vis race,
gender, sexuality, class, history, and politics.
Primary texts will likely include:
Eliza Parsons, The Castle of Wolfenbach (ISBN 0977784169) Richard Marsh, The Beetle (1934555495)
William Henry Ireland, The Abbess: A Romance
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (0451531876) Patrick McGrath, Dr. Haggard’s Disease (9780679752615) Rudolfo Anaya, Tortuga (0826336248)
James Purdy, In a Shallow Grave (1948405245) The Nightmare Before Christmas
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight (0316015849)
Heather Kassner, The Bone Garden (1250250536)
For our first class meeting (January 27), please have read all of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (ISBN 9780140443530). For a finalized reading list and schedule, feel welcome to email me at pserrato@sdsu.edu.
Primary texts will likely include:
Eliza Parsons, The Castle of Wolfenbach (ISBN 0977784169) Richard Marsh, The Beetle (1934555495)
William Henry Ireland, The Abbess: A Romance
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (0451531876) Patrick McGrath, Dr. Haggard’s Disease (9780679752615) Rudolfo Anaya, Tortuga (0826336248)
James Purdy, In a Shallow Grave (1948405245) The Nightmare Before Christmas
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight (0316015849)
Heather Kassner, The Bone Garden (1250250536)
For our first class meeting (January 27), please have read all of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (ISBN 9780140443530). For a finalized reading list and schedule, feel welcome to email me at pserrato@sdsu.edu.
New MALAS Spring 2020 Course Description! Lesbian Lives with Professor Jess Whatcott
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Jess Whatcott, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, SDSU
Lesbian Lives and Cultures explores the identities, politics, and communities that women and gender non-conforming people have developed in relation to deviant sexuality. What was the political and cultural significance of identifying as a lesbian in the 20th century United States? What were the specific contributions of black, working class, disabled, and trans women in creating lesbian identity and community? How did both supportive experiences within lesbian community, and experiences of exclusion from lesbianism, inform other political and cultural identities, including queer and trans? In preparation for the Women's Studies department 50th Anniversary, this class will also work on a project to imagine the future of feminist approaches to queer studies.
Spring 2020 MALAS Course Description: IMAGINING HELL with Professor Andrew McClellan
MALAS 600A: Imagining Hell
Dr. Andrew M. McClellan (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)
Humanity has always been obsessed with the idea of the afterlife. Nowhere is this more powerfully – and frighteningly – articulated than in artistic conceptions of “Hell,” a dark, infernal place reserved for those deemed, at best, morally insufficient, and at worst, willfully malevolent. Though Hell for modern audiences carries unavoidable Christian overtones, the basic theoretical and conceptual outlines of a gloomy umbratic netherworld have existed across cultures for many millennia. This course investigates different representations of Hell in a variety of artistic “texts” from antiquity to the present. By studying closely the concept of Hell, students will explore artistic influences, compare different genres, and examine a range of cultural value systems. Some of the texts we will discuss this semester include The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’ Frogs, Plato’s Republic, Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Gabriel Squailia’s Dead Boys, and the film Event Horizon.
Dr. Andrew M. McClellan (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)
Humanity has always been obsessed with the idea of the afterlife. Nowhere is this more powerfully – and frighteningly – articulated than in artistic conceptions of “Hell,” a dark, infernal place reserved for those deemed, at best, morally insufficient, and at worst, willfully malevolent. Though Hell for modern audiences carries unavoidable Christian overtones, the basic theoretical and conceptual outlines of a gloomy umbratic netherworld have existed across cultures for many millennia. This course investigates different representations of Hell in a variety of artistic “texts” from antiquity to the present. By studying closely the concept of Hell, students will explore artistic influences, compare different genres, and examine a range of cultural value systems. Some of the texts we will discuss this semester include The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’ Frogs, Plato’s Republic, Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Gabriel Squailia’s Dead Boys, and the film Event Horizon.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Apply Now and Join the Incoming Fall 2020 Cohort of Graduate Students in MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program at SDSU
MALAS is accepting applications thru March 1 2020 for our new incoming cohort of graduate students! Want to do MA-level work on Sustainability, Ethnic Studies, Social Justice, and/or just about any Interdisciplinary combination under the sun? Join us now!https://t.co/EnXU9f8zdb pic.twitter.com/RwNxFL2SeA
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