| Date |
Weakly
Readings/ Resources |
| PART
ONE: REPRESENTATION : |
Required Text: Texts followed by an asterisk are in , Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman’s Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader |
| January 18th |
Introduction, Colonized Subjects Interview with Edward Said Orientalism, Orientalism As a tool of Colonialism Readings, * Said, and Dennis Porter, 125-150 |
| January 25th. |
Photographic Practice in the
Late Ottoman Era Woodward ML, Between Orientalist Cliches and Images of Modernization Sheehi, Stephen. “A Social History of Early Arab Photography or a Prolegomenon to an Archaeology of the Lebanese Imago.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 39 (2007): 177-208 Discussion |
| February 1st. |
Ali Behdad, Orientalism in the
Age of Colonial Dissolution , Introduction Interviews Discussion |
| February 8th |
Lecture Series First
Speaker ALI BEHDAD, “The Orientalist Photograph” February 8th, Tuesday, 7:30 pm, Langley at CALARTS |
PART TWO: TRANSLATION February 15th |
Review Part One, Gayatri C. Spivak: The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work Readings, *Can the Subaltern Speak? 53-66 |
| February 22 |
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| March 1st |
GCS, Translation as culture, parallax, 2000, vol. 6, no. 1, 13–24, |
| March 8th |
GCS,
The Ethics of Translation |
| March 15 |
GCS,
Rethinking Comparativism |
| March
17th Thursday |
GAYATRI
CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK, “Double Bind of Translation”March 17th, Thursday, 6
pm, Ahmanson Auditorium at MOCA Grand Avenue |
| March
22 Tu. PART THREE: Resistive Choreographies |
Review
Part 2 Ananya Chatterjea : Butting out: reading resistive choreographies, Weselyn Univ. Press 2004. 1-72 Interview |
| April 5th Tu. |
Ananya Chatterjea, Choreographies of Daily life and Struggle; South Asian Popular Culture, Vol 8 # 1. April 2010, 5-15. |
| April 14th Thursday |
Contemporary
South Asian Aesthetic: TheValue of ʻDifferenceʼ from the perspective of
practice. Discussion |
| April 19th Tu. |
ANANYA CHATTERJEA, “In Search of
Choreographies of Resistance” April 19th, Tuesday, 7:30 pm, Langley at CALARTS Paper Proposals Due |
| April 26th |
Review
Part 3 Approved proposals returned |
| Work on Final Papeer April 26 - May
17th, |
Final Papers
Due May 17th. |