[Soasiastudents] Spring Courses Available

[Keith Snodgrass]

The South Asia spring courses are open for registration now. Full details
are at
http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/currentcourses.shtml

There are many great courses, but here are a few highlights:

ART H 400 B(/ART H 521 graduate): *Art and Empire in South Asia, 1750-1900*(5cr)
 KHULLAR
This course will survey transformations in the visual arts between the
Mughal and the British empires in modern South Asia. While previous
generations of art historians tended to regard this period as one of decline
in artistic patronage and production, we shall consider emerging
interdisciplinary –from history, anthropology, literary studies, and art
history— scholarship on the rich and diverse array of images and objects
produced in South Asia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth
century. We shall consider changes in artistic production, patronage,
publics, and viewing protocols in the contexts of the court and bazaar. We
shall examine the emergence of new technologies and its impact on visual
forms, media, and genres, focusing on the exchange between photography,
print, and painting. We shall explore the role of institutions of art –the
art school, the museum, and the related disciplines of art history,
archeology, and architecture– and the professions and practices they
engendered. Throughout we shall assess how the materials of our study –both
visual and textual— reframe the relationship of concepts such as
authenticity and hybridity, tradition and modernity, colonialism and
nationalism.

ASIAN 207 *Special Topics: Indian Literature and Popular Cinema* (5cr)
PAUWELS
This course focuses on how Indian literature is transformed in film and on
television, including the creative appropriation of scripture on the screen.
The goal is to foster understanding of Indian aesthetics for appreciating
literature and film as well as to question the use of literature for
socio-political agendas. The class raises questions at the interface of
cinema and literature, such as how popular Indian films change the way
literature is read, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations,
and shift plots, stories, and characters to accommodate the medium and the
economics of the genre. We explore the multiple agents at work in such
processes, paying special attention to political, sociological,
psychological and economic forces of the market place.

SISA 202/ HSTAS 202* Introduction to South Asian History, 1500 – present *(*
5cr)
*DHAVAN
  This class will trace the history of South Asia from the late Mughal
period to the current time. We will begin by examining how ideas of
political power, social networks, and cultural identity changed as
indigenous states were replaced by colonial rule, study the effects of
colonial rule in the nineteenth century on South Asian communities, and then
focus on the major social, economic, and cultural developments in the period
after India and Pakistan became independent. Throughout the quarter we will
focus on how changes in economic and political policies impacted the lives
of every-day people in South Asia during this period. We will also explore
the ways in which concepts of religion, gender, nationhood, and identity
evolved and changed.

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Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center, Box 353650
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650
w: http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/
p:206.543.4800
f: 206.685.0668
e: snodgras at uw.edu
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