Study Abroad in China! (Summer 2013)

Join Drs. Elijah Siegler and Piotr Gibas on their China: Religion and Culture trip this summer!

Dates: June 4, 2013 – June 25, 2013

Courses Offered: Religious Studies and International Studies

RELS 205: Sacred Texts of the East

ASST240: Special Topics – Food, Culture and the Environment in China

Deadline to Apply: March 1, 2013

Description: In this program to China, two separate courses will be offered, one concerned with Religion and the other with the everyday lives of the Chinese, including what they eat, their culture and their environments. The Religious Studies course will involve in-depth readings of several important Daoist, Buddhist Confucian, and modern texts. Wherever possible, students will read and discuss texts in the locations where they were written or used. The Asian Studies Course will focus on one of the world’s favorite cuisines and will explore the culinary traditions of China in their social and environmental context.

See this Flyer for full Details!

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Learn More at the Study Abroad Fair!!

Date: January 29

Place: Physician’s Auditorium

Time: 9-2:30

Study Abroad in Morocco! (Summer 2013)

Join Drs. Jack Parson and Abdellatif Attafi on their 10th trip to Morocco!

Dates: May 14, 2013 – June 5, 2013

Courses Offered:
LTAR 250: Francophone Literature in Translation (taught in English),
POLI 339: Morocco and Contemporary Africa (taught in English),
FREN 361: Current Issues in Morocco, OR FREN 490: Special Topics)

You can Sign Up at the Study Abroad Fair:
Date: January 29
Time: 9 – 2:30
Location: Physician’s Promenade

Check out this video from last year’s trip

“I was trying to get with you': Getting with the Politics of South Asian American Masculinity."

Join the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, Health and Human Performance, and Women’s and Gender Studies for a public lecture:

Title: “I was trying to get with you’: Getting with the Politics of South Asian American Masculinity”

Speaker: Dr. Stan Thangaraj, a post-doctoral fellow in Sociology at Vanderbilt University

Date: January 31, 2013

Time: 3:00pm

Location: The Alumni Center of the Education, Health, and Human Performance Building

 

Please consider supporting Dr. Thangaraj’s outstanding research and important work with communities of color in the Nashville and Atlanta communities.

Abstract: As sport is imagined as neutral site structured through meritocracy, South Asian American participation in a quintessentially American sport like basketball provides an interesting venue to understanding the politics of sport, the different relationship of this community to basketball, and the gendered, racial, and sexualized realm of citizenship.  In this paper, I demonstrate how South Asian American men practice a sport masculinity as a means to escape the
queering, emasculating experiences they have had in other public venues.  In the process of performing what they consider a normative masculinity, these young South Asian American men simultaneously expand the contours of South Asian America by foreclosing it to various gendered, sexual, classed, and racial others.  This is an ethnographic project conducted on co-ethnic only South Asian American basketball leagues and is part of book manuscript I am currently working on.

“I was trying to get with you’: Getting with the Politics of South Asian American Masculinity.”

Join the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, Health and Human Performance, and Women’s and Gender Studies for a public lecture:

Title: “I was trying to get with you’: Getting with the Politics of South Asian American Masculinity”

Speaker: Dr. Stan Thangaraj, a post-doctoral fellow in Sociology at Vanderbilt University

Date: January 31, 2013

Time: 3:00pm

Location: The Alumni Center of the Education, Health, and Human Performance Building

 

Please consider supporting Dr. Thangaraj’s outstanding research and important work with communities of color in the Nashville and Atlanta communities.

Abstract: As sport is imagined as neutral site structured through meritocracy, South Asian American participation in a quintessentially American sport like basketball provides an interesting venue to understanding the politics of sport, the different relationship of this community to basketball, and the gendered, racial, and sexualized realm of citizenship.  In this paper, I demonstrate how South Asian American men practice a sport masculinity as a means to escape the
queering, emasculating experiences they have had in other public venues.  In the process of performing what they consider a normative masculinity, these young South Asian American men simultaneously expand the contours of South Asian America by foreclosing it to various gendered, sexual, classed, and racial others.  This is an ethnographic project conducted on co-ethnic only South Asian American basketball leagues and is part of book manuscript I am currently working on.