2010 SEMINARS
Sponsored by PIIRS in conjunction with the Office of International Programs

Global Seminars Information Session
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
6 p.m.
PIIRS
3rd Floor Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall
Pizza will be served.

Application deadline February 15, 2010. Application information and materials can be found on the seminar Web sites.

“Diversity of China: History, Culture, and Globalization”
June 20-July 31, 2010
Fudan University, Shanghai, and Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Taught by Ping Wang, Princeton University, and Chunling Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
This course presents an interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary China and its traditions to help students develop an understanding of its people, history, everyday life, culture, and religious beliefs.

“The African American Atlantic: Modernity and the Black Experience”
June 20-July 31, 2010
Accra and Cape Coast, Ghana, and Queen Mary University of London, England
Taught by Simon Gikandi, Princeton University.
This seminar offers students the opportunity to understand how the Atlantic Ocean, historically associated with the pain of slavery and the violence of enslavement, is now recognized as the conduit through which Africans encountered the modern world and set out to redefine the nature of modern identity itself.

“Religion and Politics in Indian Art and Architecture”
June 4-July 17
Goa and Madurai, India
Taught by Mallica Kumbera Landrus, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, and Esther da Costa Meyer, Princeton University.
This seminar examines how religion, ritual, patronage, and politics combined to influence art and architecture in India by examining architectural stylistic developments and the emergence of new ideas produced under the political authority exercised by different religious groups. 

“Dreaming, Mapping, Living: The City in the Korean Imagination”
Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, South Korea
June 20-July 31
Taught by Joy S. Kim, Princeton University, and Steven Chung, Princeton University.
This course traces the transformation of Korean cities in the tumultuous twentieth century as well as the ideological contests waged over their reconstruction and reimagination.

“Islam, Empire, and Modernity: Turkey from the Caliphs to the 21st Century”
June 12-July 24, 2010
American University, Cairo, Egypt, and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Taught by M. Sükrü Hanioğlu, Princeton University, and Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University.
This course is presented for the third year. It is structured around the history, culture, language, and literature of Turkey—the capital of both the Eastern Roman and Ottoman empires and the seat of military might, ceremonial pomp, and state policy for sixteen centuries—which is undergoing a modern cultural renaissance.

“Vietnam: The War and Beyond”
June 13-July 24, 2010
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Taught by David Leheny, Princeton University, and Christina Schwenkel, University of California-Riverside.
This course is being offered for the fourth year. Following a brief history of Vietnam, the seminar considers the events that led to the “American War,” the anti-war demonstrations in the U.S., and the political and military policies of the Johnson and Nixon administrations that culminated in the negotiations of the 1973 Peace Accords.

2009 SEMINARS
Sponsored by PIIRS in conjunction with the Office of International Programs

“America and Vietnam at War: Origins, Implications, and Consequences”
Vietnam National Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
Taught by Desaix Anderson, former diplomat, U.S. foreign service, with David Leheny, Princeton University, and Christophe Robert, consultant and Vietnam scholar
June 6–July 18, 2009

“The Future Is Now: Revolution and Utopia in Early Soviet Culture”
Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Taught by Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University, and Devin Fore, Princeton University
June 15–July 24, 2009
                    
“Race, Culture, and Identity in Brazilian Modernism”
Universidad Federal da Bahia, São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; Pontifica Universidade Católica,  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Taught by Esther da Costa Meyer, Princeton University, and Antonio Sergio Guimarães, University of São Paulo
June 27–August 8, 2009

“Sustainable Design: Creating New Solutions for Global Development"
Kokrobitey Institute, Accra, Ghana; and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Taught by Wole Soboyejo, Princeton University, with Makeba Clay, Seminar Director
June 15–July 24, 2009

“Islam, Empire, and Modernity: Turkey from the Caliphs to the 21st Century”
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Taught by M. Sukru Hanioglu, Princeton University, and Erika Gilson, Princeton University
June 15–July 24, 2009

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