[CW-Grad] FW: Winter 2013 CPLT Seminars

[Bryan G Bradford]

For those of you grad students considering clases that would fulfill your outside-of-program seminar requirement.

From: Nicole A Bogner
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:59 AM
To: Alesha Serene Jaennette; Anna M Wire; Bryan G Bradford; Deisy Escobedo; Gerardo R Sanchez; Katrina Oskie; Tina Feldmann
Cc: Margherita Long
Subject: Winter 2013 CPLT Seminars


Dear All,
Can you please forward these CPLT seminar descriptions to your graduate students?

Winter 2013 Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages Department Seminars http://complitforlang.ucr.edu/graduate/current_seminars.html

CPLT 215B - Issues in Contemporary Theory
Topic: New Directions in Feminist Thought
Professor Margherita Long
Tuesdays, 4:10-7:00pm, HMNSS 1502
This course is designed to help students in the humanities build qualifying exam lists in feminist theories.  We begin with a unit on Sophocles' Antigone to appreciate the respective strengths of two approaches of particular interest: 1) cultural constructivism/queer politics, beginning with Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim, and 2) the "new materialism," beginning with Luce Irigaray's Sexes and Genealogies.  We spend the rest of the quarter studying four mind/body concepts of perennial interest to feminist thought, especially literary thought: hysteria, melancholia, abjection and fetishism.  For each term, we consider foundational feminist definitions focusing on gendered corporeality, and more recent attempts to expand corporeal ethics to questions of global economy and environment.  Authors include:
Stacy Alaimo, Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Kan? Mikiyo, Sigmund Freud, Elizabeth Grosz, Donna Haraway, Luce Irigaray, Vicki Kirby, Julia Kristeva, Hagio Moto, Gayle Rubin, Vandana Shiva, Isabelle Stengers, Ueno Chizuko, Elizabeth Wilson, Slavoj Zizek
CLA 250 - Seminar in Classics
Professor Lisa Raphals
Wednesdays, 2:10-5:00pm, SPR 2360
This course focuses on the problem of divination (mantic practices) in their dual aspect as a set of intellectual orientations and a set of social institutions, and examines some of the many ways in which divination profoundly affected Greek culture. Topics include: mantic practitioners and consultors; oracles, especially Delphi and Dodona; the independent mantis (military and otherwise), divination and gender, rhetorical aspects of divination, and divination, philosophy and systematic thought. Readings will include relevant selections from Homer, Herodotus, and some inscriptional material. Part of each class will be devoted to reading Greek texts.
Course Requirements:

  *   Class attendance and participation, including Greek readings 30%
  *   Oral presentation 20%
  *   Seminar paper (20-30 pp.) 50%
CPLT 267 - Colonialism and Postcolonial Criticism
Professor Sarah Valentine
Mondays, 4:10-7:00pm, OLMH 420
In this course we review and interrogate the major works for critical theory that comprise the discipline of postcolonialism in literary, media and cultural studies.  We focus on the formation of minoritized subjectivities, transnational identities and migration, and on rethinking the center-periphery dynamic that has dominated the thinking on how art, literary and cultural forms and knowledge are disseminated.  Instead we look to minor-to-minor dynamics, the Global South, and triangulate the traditional First World-Third World axis by adding the post-socialist world back into postcolonial discourse. Theorists/critics considered include Said, Jameson, Achebe, Ngugi Wa'Thiongo, Bhaba, Butler, Spivak, Derrida, Fanon, Morrison and many others.  Students will have the opportunity to choose and present an article for the class to discuss that corresponds with their particular research interests.  Final term paper.

Thank you,

Nicole Bogner

Graduate Student Affairs Asst.

Department of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages
Department of Hispanic Studies

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