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New Course for January Term! |
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EALC
314/RELB 312 -
Contemporary Tibet: Reframing the Crisis and
Possibilities for Social Change |
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How should we understand contemporary Tibet in this period of dramatic socio-political crisis and equally dramatic cultural change? This course draws on cross-disciplinary scholarship, research, tools and approaches to develop critical perspectives on the shifting currents underway in the Tibetan region. |
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New Courses for the spring! |
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ANTH (Number TBA) -
Transnational East Asia: Focus on China and South Korea |
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Through cross-cultural comparison of China and South Korea, this course asks in what ways have border crossing-activities and mobility within circuits of global capitalism altered the way life is lived and imagined both at home and in Korean and Chinese communities overseas. |
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ANTH 367 - Tibet and the Himalayas |
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This course aims at providing a balanced, anthropological outlook on a complex and culturally diverse area, on which the West and others have massively projected their own fantasies: Tibet and the Himalayas |
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ANTH 557 Minorities in China: Recent Ethnography |
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This course explores the distant and recent history of Han and non-Han nationalities in the Chinese empire and nation-state, primarily through the medium of recently published ethnographies. |
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ARTH 571 The Golden Age of East Asian Buddhist Art in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries |
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This seminar examines the formation of an International Buddhist style under the Tang dynasty, which became a classical idiom adopted throughout East Asia (China, Korea and Japan) in the seventh and eighth centuries (and beyond) . |
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HIEA 100 Science and the Making of Modern Japan |
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This seminar aims at demonstrating how the autonomous and extraordinary developments in (proto)scientific theories and practices in early modern Japan not only facilitated the adoption of Western science in the late 19th century, but also had an enormous influence in the scientific research of twentieth century Japanese scientists. |
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Japan Study Abroad Information Session |
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Returnees from various study abroad programs will talk about their experiences. Anyone interest in studying in Japan is welcome! |
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Wednesday November 5th, Shea House conference room, 5:00 pm |
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“Tibetan Life: Writing as Technology of Enchantment” |
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Andrew Quintman, Princeton University |
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Friday November 7th, New Cabell Hall 324 at 3:00pm |
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