Courses of Study 2015-2016 
    
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SHUM 4504 - Temporalities of the City: Asia

(crosslisted) ASIAN 4423 FGSS 4504 , PMA 4504  
     


Fall. 4 credits.

Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

A. Fuhrmann.

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack the spatial and cultural forms of density and the layered histories that define the contemporary urban fabric of cities such as Hanoi, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. The course combines the investigation of the cinemas and literatures of the region with the study of recent writing on temporality and cities from Asian studies, film studies, queer theory, religious studies, cultural geography, literary theory, and anthropology.

For longer description and Fellows’ bios please visit www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/index.html.



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