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    Reading and Research

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    Fall

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    2015
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    HAA 300 003 
    Melissa M. McCormick

    Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings.

    Thesis Research and Writing

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    Spring

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    2016
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    RSEA 300

    Yukio Lippit
    Melissa M. McCormick
    Eugene Wang

    Candidates for the A.M. degree in Regional Studies_East Asia may undertake A.M. thesis reading and research in an approved area of their choice under the direction of a member of the Faculty.

    Thesis Research and Writing

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    Spring

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    2016
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    RSEA 300

    Michael Szonyi, Ryuichi Abe, Theodore Bestor, Edwin Cranston, Nara Dillon, Carter Eckert, Mark Elliott, Rowan Flad, Andrew Gordon, Janet Gyatso, Helen Hardacre, Nicholas Harkness, Michael Herzfeld, David Howell, Alastair Johnston, William Kirby, Sun Joo Kim, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Wai-Yee Li, Jie Li, Melissa M. McCormick, Felicity Lufkin, Yukio Lippit, Ian J. Miller, Mary Steedly, Susan Pharr, Elizabeth Perry, Xiaofei Tian, Karen Thornber, David Der-Wei Wang, Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Tomiko Yoda, Eugene Wang, Alexander Zahlten, Alison Jones, C.-T....

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    Topics in Chinese Art

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    Fall

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    2015
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    HAA 280R
    Eugene Wang

    The seminar explores ways in which heaven is visualized in Chinese art. Topics include astrology, ceiling decoration, heaven-earth correlative cosmology, macro-microcosms, etc. Media include tombs, caves, buildings, and other structures. The periods covered range from the early to late imperial times. Students will be presented with a general body of literature and encouraged to explore their own specific topics.

    Chinese Apocalyptic Art: Anatomy of an Dunhuang Cave

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    Spring

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    2016
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    HAA 282G
    Eugene Wang

    The seminar focuses on a Dunhuang cave with vexed ties to Harvard. Mural fragments acquired by Langdon Warner-led Harvard team now reside in Harvard Art Museums. Visually restoring the fragments to the existing cave, the seminar explores the programmatic integrity of the cave decoration. In particular, it seeks a deep understanding of the role of apocalypse in the cosmic vision the cave evokes. The seminar also aims to create an educational media presentation of the cave.

    Reading and Research

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    N/A

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    2015
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    HAA 300 021
    Yukio Lippit

    Individual work in preparation for the General Examination for the PhD degree or, by arrangement, on special topics not included in the announced course offerings.

    History 13E: History of Modern Mexico

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    Spring

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    2016
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    Professor: Kirsten Weld. This course explores the history of Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, emphasizing the importance of historical approaches to understanding critical phenomena in contemporary Mexican affairs. Topics covered include colonial legacies, race and ethnicity, the Mexican Revolution, the border, nation-building and development, Mexico-US relations, popular culture, economic crisis, the Zapatista rebellion, narco-violence and the "war on drugs," and migration.

    History 1513: History of Modern Latin America

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    Fall

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    2015

    Professor: Kirsten Weld. This course surveys Latin America from its 19th-century independence movements through the present day. How did the powerful legacies of European colonialism, and the neocolonial economic order that emerged to replace it, shape the Americas' new nations? Themes include nationalism and identity, revolution and counterrevolution, populism, state formation, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, social movements, the role of foreign powers, inequality and social class, dictatorship, democratization, and human rights.

    History 2510: History and Memory in Latin America: Seminar

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    Fall

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    2015

    Professor: Kirsten Weld. In this seminar, participants will use archival resources available at Harvard to carry out original research on a topic of their choice related to the seminar theme of history and memory in Latin America. Early sessions will be devoted to a series of foundational readings; later sessions will be spent workshopping and presenting research-in-progress.

    AFRAMER 124Y: Afro-Latin America: History and Culture

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    Spring

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    2016

    Professor: Alejandro de la Fuente. This course explores how African cultural expressions influenced colonial societies and later national cultures in Latin America. How did peoples of African descent shape the formation of Latin American national cultures in areas such as literature, religion, visual arts, music, dance, and cinema? Some scholars have debated whether African religious, musical, medical and communitarian practices were reproduced in the New World or whether they were creolized through fusion with other (European and indigenous) practices. Others have sought...

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    AFRAMER 198X: Scientific Racism: A History

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    Fall

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    2015

    Professor: Alejandro de la Fuente. This course focuses on the history of "race" as a category of difference and explores why "race" has become a globally-accepted idiom to classify humans. It assesses the prominent roles that science and scientists have played in the process of naturalizing "race" and analyzes how "scientific" theories of race were developed and disseminated globally in the modern period. We trace the formation of these ideas in the North Atlantic, their diffusion to various areas of the world, and the manner in which cultural and political elites adopted...

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    History 2707: Comparative Slavery & the Law: Africa, Latin America, & the US: Seminar

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    Fall

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    2015

    Professor: Alejandro de la Fuente. This seminar surveys the booming historiographies of slavery and the law in Latin America, the United States, and Africa. Earlier generations of scholars relied heavily on European legal traditions to draw sharp contrasts between U.S. and Latin American slavery. The most recent scholarship, however, approaches the legal history of slavery through slaves' legal initiatives and actions. These initiatives were probably informed by the Africans' legal cultures, as many of them came from societies where slavery was practiced. Our seminar puts...

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    History 1930: Literature and Social History: A View from Brazil

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    Fall

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    2015

    Professor: Sidney Chalhoub. The objective of this course is to study major authors and works of nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction. Writing fiction from a spot deemed to be in the “periphery” of the western world meant a difficult and complex engagement with European literary and intellectual traditions. The course will focus primarily on the evidence regarding changes in the politics of social dominance in the period –from slavery and paternalism to the worlds and meanings of “free” labor. Questions of class, gender and race in the general context of defining and...

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    History 1931: Slavery, Disease and Race: A View from Brazil

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    Spring

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    2016

    Professor: Sidney Chalhoub. Slavery and emancipation were major issues in nineteenth-century Brazilian history. In the 1870’s and 1880’s, with the drama of emancipation unfolding, yellow fever meant death to European immigrants and a major obstacle to achieving a social configuration that valued the whitening ideal and excluded people of African descent from social and economic opportunities. Although the primary focus of this course is Brazil, students may opt to write a final paper that compares an aspect of the social history of slavery and/or race and/or disease in...

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