Orientalism, Colonialism, and Representation

Units arranged · Graduate

Seminar on the politics of representation with special focus on Orientalist traditions in architecture, art, literature, and scholarship. Critically analyzes pivotal texts, projects, and artworks that reflect the encounters between the West and the Orient from Antiquity to the present. Discusses how political, ideological, and religious attitudes inform the construction and reproduction of Western knowledge about the Islamic world. Research paper required. Open to qualified undergraduates. Limited to 16.