Syllabus Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series
Spring 2011
Chandra Khan
Tuesday 6-9 pm Langley
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
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.