Myriam Gurba @ SDSU | sponsored by MALAS and Robotic, Erotic, Electric {engl 220}

sponsored by MALAS and Robotic, Erotic, Electric

MALAS is Helping to Cross-Promote the Annual SDSU Burnett Lecture | Helen Morales on Scandal and the Artist's Model

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From: Rebecca Moore
Subject: Burnett Lecture this Friday at 1:30 p.m.
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:33:14 -0700
To: calfolk


Dear Colleagues,

You are all invited to attend the 42nd Annual Gail A. Burnett Lecture in Classics on April 29, at 1:30 p.m. in Hardy Tower 140.
Dr. Helen Morales of U.C. Santa Barbara will discuss “Celebrity, Scandal, and the Artist’s Model: Ancient Answers to Modern Dilemmas.”

The lecture examines the stories and anecdotes told about Phryne, a celebrity prostitute said to have lived in the 4th century BCE and to have been the model for the notorious statue, Aphrodite of Cnidos. Dr. Morales argues that Phryne’s exploits allow for reflection upon questions that were important in the ancient world and are still urgent today: In what ways are images powerful? How should God be represented? What is the model’s role in the creative process?

Dr. Morales has authored Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2007), has edited Petronius Satyricon (Penguin forthcoming), and is the author of Pilgrimage to Dollywood (Chicago, forthcoming).

The event is sponsored by the Department of Classics and Humanities at San Diego State University. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments follow the lecture.

Rebecca Moore
Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Interim Chair, Department of Classics
and Humanities
San Diego State University

MALAS Approved Summer Graduate Courses

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Be aware that all of these classes have prerequisites--write the individual professors, identify yourself as a graduate student in the MALAS program, and get clearance to take these seminars! Cheers, your fearless leader,


Bill Nericcio
Director, MALAS


ps: Thanks to new, incoming Fall 2011 MALAShead, Francisco Miramontes, for spelunking the meager SDSU summer course listings--let me know if you run across a killer summer SDSU course, 500-level and above, that should be added to this list.  Who belongs on the list? Top-shelf professors teaching cutting edge topics regardless of field...  That's the MALAS credo, "always curious, always learning"...

the OBSCENE machine: Lyle the Robot

the OBSCENE machine: Lyle the Robot

a short film by MALAS coordinator McHANK!

MALAS is Remodeling for the Spring!

out with the old cellular motif...

in with the new neuron-driven look...

MALAS Helping Bring SAM QUINONES to SDSU...

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MALAS touts FULBRIGHTS! Apply Today!

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Great Lecture on Tijuana Wednesday @ USD! Paul Vanderwood and "Satan's Playground"

More info!

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MALAS Professor YALE STROM: In Concert

MALAS Co-Sponsors Arts Event in San Ysidro, California

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?

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