Remember! MALAS Graduate Students Share an iPad that can be checked out!

See McHank, our groovy administrative coodinator 

in Nasitir Hall for all the particulars:

Location: Nasatir Hall 203

Office Hours: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday

Phone: (619) 594-4826

Fax: (619) 594-1325

Mail Code: 4423

RELIGION and MUSIC, Spring 2011 | A MALAS Seminar with Yale Strom

SPRING 2011
MALAS 600D
SEM: RELIGION AND MUSIC
Sched# 21847
Seminar 4:00pm-6:40pm
MCSQ-202
YALE STROM 
(more on Strom and his band here)

The Hebrew/Christian bible mentions the importance of music as early as Genesis 4:21, which tells of Jubal, the son of Lamech, who played the flute and harp. This class will explore three major religions and their musics: Judasim (Khasidism), Islam (Sufism) and Christianity (Eastern Orthodox). The founder of the Khasidic movement, Rabbi Israel Eliezer, said: “Khasidim say that this daily procession of children singing was as pleasing to the Almighty as was the singing of the Levites in the Temple.” The great Sufi mystic and poet Jalauddin Rumi said: "Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened; don't open the door to the study and begin reading, instead take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do." And the development of Christian music in the form of the canon by Saints John of Damascus and Kosmas of Jerusalem (both eighth century) became an essential part of the orthodox liturgy through today. In the class "Religion and Music" we will study historical texts, musical examples and screen films. Students will learn how music has been an important and vital spiritual art form of religion in the past and present times and how some of these musical genres have crossed over to popular culture throughout the world.

Course Reading Will Be From: Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim’s Rock Star’s Revolution, by Salman Ahmad, An Introduction to the Orthodox Christian Churches by John Binns, The Book of Klezmer by Yale Strom, and Hasidism: The Movement and its Masters” by Harry M. Rabinowicz.

Let's Bring Ben Goldacre to Give a MALAS Lecture @ SDSU! Who is in?

source: boingboing.net

MALAS' Style of Cultural Anthropologist! Genevieve Bell from the pages of FORTUNE MAGAZINE | byline Michael V. Copeland

Friends of MALAS, what do you think about inviting Dr. Bell to lecture here at SDSU in the Spring or Fall of 2011?! Let me know what you think on our Facebook page.  Happy Holidays!

Rodchenko Inspired MALAS Logo

MALAS is EVOLVING...

An adaptation of a cool graphic (and a cooler t-shirt!) by Jeremy Kalgreen.

Coral McFarland Concert @ SDSU | Co-sponosored by MALAS! | November 30, 2010

Here is short video from the Coral McFarland concierto on the sixth floor of Arts and Letters! MALAS is proud to have co-sponsored such a cool cultural arts event!  Pictures from the concert follow below...

New Spring 2011 Supplemental MALAS Courses Listed!

Click the image above to be instantly teleported to the supplemental class listings!

Candid Shots from MALAS 600A Symposium: Party Power

With Classics and Humanities Professor Joseph Smith's course on Symposium: Party Power coming to an end in a couple of weeks, this is the best time to share some candid spy shots taken during a recent seminar on Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.

¡RADICALLY CHICana/o! A New MALAS Seminar Taught by Professor Daniel Widener! Spring 2011

MALAS 600A | SPRING 2011

RADICALLY CHICana/o

Next-Generation Ethnic
American Cultural Studies

MALAS 600A Section:1 | Units:3 Schedule # 21845 | Seats:25 Meetings: 4:00pm-6:40pm, Tuesdays | PSFA 113

DO YOU?

• Think Mil Mascaras is a beauty product?


• Think Subcommandante Ramona is an east county realtor?


• Confuse Anthony Ortega and Anthony Quinn?


• Confuse Dolores and Vanessa del Rio?


• Do you think Santeria is a Sublime song?


• Do you think Salt of the Earth is an organic food product?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, please enroll IMMEDIATELY in Radically CHICano/a—Next Gen Ethnic American Cultural Studies. The course serves as an emergency tutorial in the politics of Mexican American culture. Our course is intended for anyone with an interest in how art can lead to social change, or simply wants to learn about ideas, behaviors, and images that are likely to dominate California for generations to come. The course is open to our fantabulous MALAS graduate students but graduate students and advanced undergraduates from Chicana/o Studies, Africana Studies, Women's Studies and other departments across the College of Arts and Letters are encouraged to add this innovative course to their package of Spring 2011 delights.

From Mexican Muralism to Lucha Libre (Professional Wrestling,) with stopovers for Political Posters, Customized Cars, Hip Hop, the EZLN, Graffiti, Donald Duck comic books, and Charlton Heston films, our course will jaywalk through the intersection of revolutionary aesthetics and aesthetic revolution. Along the way, we will ask questions like A) what does expressive culture tell us about Chicano/a identity and politics? B) are ideas like cultural imperialism and cultural resistance still helpful? Were they ever? C) what is this “Mexican” in Mexican-American, and how has it incorporated African Americans, whites, Asians, and other Latinos? D) and what’s up with all those skeletons, anyhow? Course texts will include avant-garde films, scathing novels, and barrio walls, though the precise names of each remain to be determined.

{editor/MALAS Director's note: Dr. Daniel Widener has been raided from his usual intellectual hive, UCSD, for this special MALAS class; Widener "teaches African American history, cultural studies, and twentieth-century political radicalism. He began his educational career at the Echo Park-Silverlake Peoples’ Childcare Center. He studied at Berkeley and New York University. He has written on the politics of black culture in postwar Los Angeles, black-Latino and Afro-Asian issues, and the Korean War."More on this dynamic southern California thinker is here. You can check out his new book and more here.}

Spring 2011 MALAS Seminar with Peter Atterton @ SDSU | Decomposing the Human

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Eyegiene: The Televisual Age of Sex and Race: What Are You Up To on November 19, 2010 at 10am!? ...

Eyegiene: The Televisual Age of Sex and Race: What Are You Up To on November 19, 2010 at 10am!? ...: "I am going to be delivering a piece from my new book EYEGIENE as part of a lecture series at the San Diego Museum of Art, SDMA on the morni..."

Spring 2011 MALAS Classes Now LIVE! The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, San Diego State University

Hit the image below for details; course descriptions coming SOON!