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Data last updated: May 15 2009 11:09am
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| K20.1403 - THE GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOODS OF LOWER MANHATTAN Show Description | ||||||||
| This course explores three downtown Manhattan neighborhoods: the Lower East Side, Chinatown, and the West Village. What are the historical and political roots of these communities? What are the social and economic forces shaping their identity, from architecture to public space and community organizations? How is globalization transforming them? How are their residents fighting back? Through lectures, readings, walking-tours, films, class presentations, and field work with community-based-organizations, students will gain a first hand understanding of the idiosyncrasies and struggles that make New York City such an unique place. Reading assignments include Janet Abu-Lughod, Jack T. Chen, Saskia Sassen, Neil Smith, and Sharon Zukin. | ||||||||
| 001 | 70452 | MTWR | 09:30am - 01:00pm | SEM | 4.0 | POITEVIN, RENE | ||
| This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009 | ||||||||
| MAY INTENSIVE COURSE. | ||||||||
| K20.1425 - THE PHILOSOPHIC DIALOGUE Show Description | ||||||||
| In this course, we will read philosophical dialogues and their modern successors, poetic prose pieces and a play whose subjects are art and rhetoric. Ancient to modern writers have been fascinated with the power of art, and for each, ideas about art are connected to those about language and society. In our reading of Ion and Gorgias we will look at Plato’s ideas on art, rhetoric (oratory), and power before his Republic. Phaedrus, written later, complements the discussion in earlier texts, developing Plato’s ideas about the relation of the intellect, the emotions, and the appetites. We will then discuss Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew, which revisits some of Plato’s themes from the perspective of the eighteenth century and the changing world of the Enlightenment. Finally, we will explore the dialogue form in the twentieth century through Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia and excerpts from works of modern writers. In our dialogue, we will explore not only at what these writers say, but how they say it, and speculate on how and why conversation, rather than monologue, can give rise to knowledge. Among the questions I hope we consider are the following: How are ideas born from conversation (and, I hope, our conversations)? What is the importance of human relationship in intellectual inquiry? How does the dialogue imply, and necessitate, our participation as readers? Readings may include works by Plato, Diderot, Stoppard and selected excerpts from Bakhtin, Mallarmé, and Murdoch. | ||||||||
| 001 | 71295 | MTWRF | 01:30pm - 04:15pm | SEM | 4.0 | PIES, STACY E | ||
| This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009 | ||||||||
| MAY INTENSIVE COURSE. | ||||||||
| K20.1551 - SCIENCE IN THE THEATRE Show Description | ||||||||
| Science is full of human drama—persecution and inspiration, betrayal and tragedy—and theater’s ability to distill these tropes provides a powerful way to see how science informs and is informed by the wider culture. This course will explore classic plays built around scientific themes through both close readings of the scripts and a deep engagement with the technical, historical, and philosophical issues that motivate them. We will particularly pay attention to how science and scientists are represented in theater, and how that shapes the public understanding of science. We will read Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen alongside David Cassidy’s work on Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project; Brecht’s Galileo informed by Galileo’s own writings and records from the Roman Inquisition; Inherit the Wind with Edward Larson’s Pulitzer-prize winning account of the Scopes Trial; and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia along with Newton’s Principia Mathematica and the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence. | ||||||||
| 001 | 71296 | MTWR | 09:30am - 01:00pm | SEM | 4.0 | STANLEY, MATTHE | ||
| This section meets from 5/18/2009 to 6/5/2009 | ||||||||
| MAY INTENSIVE COURSE. | ||||||||
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