CEUS-R 290
Introduction to
Central Asia, Mongolia and Tibet: Empires of Central Eurasia
CASE
S&H, CASE GCC
1:00-2:15 TR
This course
tells the greatest story in all of European and Asian history: the great
empires of the Scythians and Attila the Hun, the Tibetans and Turks, Genghis
Khan and the Mongols, and others, as well as the brilliant artistic and
literary culture of the cities, monasteries and colleges of the Silk Road.
Topics include heroic epic poetry and music, the spread of Buddhism and Islam
in the Middle Ages, the perfection of architecture and art in the Renaissance, and
the development of modern societies and economies in recent times.
CEUS-R 292
Introduction to Turkic & Iranian Civilization
CASE
S&H, CASE GCC
5:30-6:45
MW
Persian and Turkic
peoples were not only empire-builders, but also great entrepreneurs and
innovators of culture and science. From the seventh century CE, Turks and
Persians were the two major representatives of the Islamic world. The West
tried to understand, stereotype, and influence them, but they successfully
maneuvered through those challenges. This course will focus not only on
how the two civilizations have evolved and interacted with their neighbors, but
also on how they have made efforts to tackle modern issues.
CEUS-R 294
Introduction to Hungary, Estonia and Finland
CASE
S&H, CASE GCC
2:30-3:45
TR
Introduction
to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland, three European nations whose peoples speak
unique Uralic languages. This course explores how their culture and history has
been shaped both by their Uralic heritage and by Germanic, Turkish, and Slavic
conquerors. Focuses on migrations, national awakenings, struggles for
independence, Communist rule, and their role in Europe today.
CEUS-R 299
Intermediate Topics
in Central Eurasian Studies
Asian
Symbols, Icons, Alphabets: Writing Systems in
Asia
Arranged
Discussed are
the origins and changes of writing systems, systems of graphemes and symbols,
pictography to logography, syllabography, and alphabet; their types, functions
and classifications; orthography; paleography; decipherment of extinct systems;
literacy; script reforms; calligraphy; hand-written and printed forms; relationship
with the sacred and political power as seen in the main writing systems of
Asia.
CEUS-R 299 Intermediate
Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
Istanbul
to Beijing: Travels on the Silk
Road
4:00-5:15 TR
From Genghis
Khan to Buddha, culture and conquest have flowed along the famous Silk Road for
centuries. This course provides a general and chronological survey of the
history, religions and people found along this Eurasian trade route. World
religions, including Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastrianism will be
discussed in historical context and as practiced belief systems. Emphasis
will also be placed on daily life among ethnic groups of the cities, steppes,
oases and mountains.
CEUS-R
302 Finland in the 20th Century
CASE
S&H
11:15-12:30
TR
The course
will stress: Russification and the Revolution of 1905; independence and the
Civil War; domestic and foreign policy during the interwar era; the Winter War
and the Continuation War; postwar foreign policy; the rise of the welfare
state; the changing role of women; Finland as a Nordic country and part of
Scandinavia; cultural developments, including literature, art, and music; and
Finland in the 1990s and the early years of the 21st century, including the
impact of membership in the European Union. Throughout the course Finland’s
development will also be viewed in the larger context of Northern and Eastern
Europe.
CEUS-R 316
Peoples & Cultures of Central Asia
CASE
S&H, CASE
GCC
9:30-10:45
TR
A general
anthropological introduction to the societies and cultures of the contemporary
Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia and the adjacent areas,
i.e., western Turkistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory and the structure
of traditional subsistence strategies (nomadic pastoralism, sedentary farming,
and urban mercantilism); social institutions like marriage, kinship, gender
relations, and religious beliefs and practices; and socioeconomic and political
transformations under tsarist and Soviet Russia, and the modern nations Iran
and Afghanistan. The collapse of the former USSR and war on terrorism, volatile
sociopolitical conditions, and future prospects for the peoples of this region
will be also critically examined.
CEUS-R 329
Topics in Central
Asian Studies
Archaeology
of Central Asia
2:30-4:45 R
This is a
course on the archaeology of Central Asia in the Bronze Age, which falls
somewhere between 3500 and 1200 BC. The Bronze Age is considered a crucial era
in the invention of cities and urban life, but it is a period for which there
is limited documentary evidence. There will be discussion about research
methods, epistemology and the politics of interpretation and much less
recounting and memorizing of migration routes, ethnic subgroups, and historical
events. We will work with literature on the archaeology of the Central Asian
Republics, but we will also question the underlying assumptions and
conclusions.
CEUS-R 349 Topics
in Hungarian Studies
Economy,
State and Society: Contemporary Hungary
2:30-3:45
TR
CASE
S&H
Hungary was
once considered a champion of the transformation process, but what made Hungary
unique during the communist era proved to be a serious constraint later. We
will also discuss Hungary’s political and economic history and analyze it as a
new member of the European Union. The course will reflect upon the notion of
“EU as an anchor” critically and will show that the EU has been unable to
really discipline new member states. The last part focuses on the current
global and economic crisis and argues that it would be misleading to link the
current challenges and controversies in Hungary to the crisis exclusively.
CEUS-R 369
Topics in Mongolian
Studies: Mongolian Folklore
CASE GCC Arranged
This course
offers an overview of the rich oral literature of the Mongols, Buriats, Kalmyks
and other Mongolic-speaking peoples, their epic (Geser, Jangar, Alamzhi,
Mergen, etc.) and lyric songs, ballads, myths, tales, triades, riddles,
proverbs, benedictions and maledictions, ritual and ceremonial verses and other
genres, forms and functions, the audience and the performers and keepers of
oral tradition, mutual influence of orality and scriptuality, relations of oral
tradition to music and visual art, worship and the sources and history of
research.
CEUS-R 372
Sino-Tibetan Relations
CASE
S&H CASE
GCC 1:00-2:15 TR
This course
will survey the interaction between Tibet and China from the earliest period of
contact up through the present day. Students will explore this interaction as
it relates to political, cultural, economic, religious and other links. Among
the various areas explored will be the rise of Tibet as a dynamic empire
competing with Tang China, the development of religious links between Tibetan
hierarchs and Chinese rulers, and the ongoing conflict over Tibet's incorporation
into the People's Republic of China.
CEUS-R
399 Advanced
Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
Governance
& Crisis in Europe: History, Institutions & New Members
CASE
S&H
1:00-2:15
TR
Without systematic
change of the economic governance structure of the European Union, both the
sustainability of the monetary zone and the viability of the European
integration process will be undermined. This course provides an overview of how
economic governance developed from the Bretton Woods system. Next we will
elaborate on the current economic and financial crisis. Finally we will analyze
how former socialist economies can accommodate themselves to globalization,
regional integration and national sovereignty.
CEUS-R 399
Advanced
Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
Sources on
Medieval Central Eurasia: The Golden Age
4:00-5:15 TR
This course
introduces the major literary sources for the Golden Age of Central Eurasia and
teaches students how to use them and the secondary scholarly literature on
them. These “primary” sources are mostly literary texts, which constitute the
main sources for historical research on medieval Central Eurasia, and are also
some of the greatest, most interesting, and valuable works of each
literary-cultural tradition. The course will also train students in the
methodology of critical text edition, as well as in general philological
method.
CEUS-R 411
Ethnic History of Central Asia
CASE
S&H
1:00-2:15
MW
The course
provides an historical background for the understanding of interethnic
relations in contemporary Central Asia. We will address different theories of
ethnicity; migrations of peoples and their consequences, the formations of
ethnic groups, the impact of imperial powers upon the construction of ethnic
identity, the relationship between ethnicity, nationalism and the modern state,
ethnicity and language, and the emergence of ethno-genesis in the independent
republics of the former Soviet Union and neighboring regions. Special attention
will be given to the Soviet typology of ethnicity and ethno-genesis.
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