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Advanced Seminar
WiSe 22/23: Politics and Society in the Middle East
Erol Saglam
Information for students
The course may be held online!
Comments
This seminar aims to familiarize students with ongoing debates on politics and society in the Middle East from a global perspective. The discussions we are going to held each week are to help us conduct a comparative analysis of socio-political, economic, and cultural processes unfolding across the region as well as their global reverberations at the intersections of gender, colonialism, religion, nationalism, state-making, identity, and dissessus. As one of the most widely debated regions in the contemporary world, Middle East presents us with productive threads to reflect on the fashionings of subjectivities, states, nations, pieties, and gender identities as well as to reveal the multifaceted operations and their everyday reverberations.
The seminar is designed to equip students with relevant theoretical knowledge and argumentative skills to analyze contemporary developments across the world and their research questions from a cross-disciplinary and transregional perspective. To this aim, the literature we will cover throughout the course demonstrates an interdisciplonary character and draws on scholarly works from anthropology, sociology, political science, history, gender studies, film studies, and literature.
Since this is an advanced seminar, students are expected to actively contribute to the discussions through their thoughts, objections, critiques, questions, and reviews.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2022-10-20 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-10-27 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-11-03 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-11-10 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-11-17 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-11-24 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-12-01 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-12-08 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2022-12-15 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-01-05 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-01-12 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-01-19 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-01-26 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-02-02 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-02-09 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2023-02-16 16:00 - 18:00