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As Talal Asad and Gayatri Spivak have argued, to translate another culture's practices into the language of the scholar involves not only a linguistic shift, but an epistemological one as well. This course asks students to think critically about how those practices become subjects of scholarly knowledge production, particularly with respect to questions of gender and sexuality. Gender and sexuality have often been central to producing comparative perspectives on civilization that place the West ahead of the rest of the world.

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This course will explore Native American pictorial narrative manuscripts traditions of the Aztec, Maya, and Mixtec peoples, including historical, religious, and calendrical works, and related visual programs in preserved murals, ceramics, and other media, from monuments to mirrors. These manuscripts continue to play important roles in the preservation of Indigenous identity and solidarity and cultural identity within nation states, and the course will examine public, popular, and fine arts reviving, repurposing, and supporting resistance using this imagery.

This course is the first of a two-semester course leading to a Certificate in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Students must have a strong command of English and an emerging proficiency in at least one other language to enroll. The course introduces students to current research in translation and interpreting studies and to basic practical skills. The task of translating and interpreting texts is understood to include a social, cultural and ethical component as well as a linguistic one.

This course explores the rich world of writing by women in the Middle Ages from the point of view of current theoretical perspectives. Writers include Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Jah?n-Malek K?tun, Hildegard of Bingen, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and others. We will discuss themes including love and desire in women?s writing; representations of women in medieval literature and philosophy; gendered representations of sanctity; and critical approaches derived from feminist theory. No prior knowledge of medieval literature is assumed or required.

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