Asia
ASIA_V 570-B_042 – Indigenous Environmentalism in Asia [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Pasang Sherpa
Term 2, Tuesdays, 12:00pm-3:00pm, Classroom: BUCH B312
This course will examine human-environment relationships through the works of Indigenous scholars from different parts of Asia to understand the position, the context, and the material with which they illuminate Indigenous environmentalism. By centering Indigenous communities and their experiences, students will learn about a rich variety of ways Indigenous environmentalism is embodied, expressed, and experienced.
China
ASIA_V 508-A_017 – Topics in Pre-modern Chinese History and Institutions [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Leo Shin
Term 2, Tuesdays, 3:00pm-6:00pm, Classroom: IBLC 265
Introduction to selected problems in the historiography of China. Emphasis will be on the later imperial period, but specific themes will be determined in consultation with interested students.
ASIA_V 590-B_004 – Topics in Chinese Literature [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Alison Bailey
Term 2, Thursdays, 3:00pm-6:00pm, Classroom: BUCH D319
This course will focus on philosophical, literary and visual representations of emotion in pre-modern and modern China, tracing various themes, definitions, concepts, categories and trajectories across time. We will explore certain typologies of emotional expression in a range of texts, visual images, and contexts to navigate the vast and complex histories of emotion, using a variety of different lenses and approaches to try to understand what, who, how, which, where, and when shape, define and articulate emotion.
Japan
TBA
Korea
ASIA_V 584_008 – Topics in Traditional Korean Literature [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Ross King
Term 1, TBA.
Korean Buddhist Narrative, with a Focus on the Mulian Story (目連經)
South Asia
Theories, Methods & Pan-Regional
ASIA_V 591_010 – Critical Issues in Asian Studies [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Harjot Oberoi
Term 1, Wednesdays, 5:00pm-8:00pm. Classroom: IBLC 460
Proseminar introducing major methodological and conceptual themes in the contemporary study of Asia, modern and pre-modern. Required of all Asian Studies PhD students, normally in their first year.
ASIA_V 590_036 – Thinking with the Body: Embodied, Sensory, and Non-Representational Methodologies [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu
Term 2, Fridays, 1:00pm-4:00pm, Classroom: IBLC 265
This course begins with a premise that research is a multisensorial, corporeal activity and approaches scholars’ (our) bodies critically as sites of knowing. While each of our bodies is unique, specific, and differently situated and emplaced, they are also places of inter-corporeal encounters with other human and non-human bodies and objects. We will examine, together and separately, how knowledge is generated through our classed, gendered, racialized, (dis)abled bodies as we move through the street, reading a story and becoming sentimental, being touched by “haptic images,” smelling a particular odor, and being haunted by “ghostly matters.”
This is an interdisciplinary course. Students will be exposed to embodied, sensory, and non-representational approaches developed and emerging in various disciplines and fields, including Anthropology, Geography, Sociology, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Sound Studies, and Visual Studies. Throughout the term we will exercise “sensory embodied reflexivity,” examining how our positionalities, past experiences, and relationalities affect the way we make sense of the reality. The course format will be a mix of conventional seminar discussions and workshops informed by the weekly materials. Students will bring their research topic/project/object to class and work with it through various embodied approaches over the course of the term.
ASIA_V 592_005 – The Profession of Asian Studies [3.0 credits]
Instructor: Dr. Bruce Rusk
Term 2, Wednesdays, 5:00pm-7:30pm, Classroom: Buchanan B312
Introduction to essential skills for academic and professional work in Asian Studies. Outlines career trajectories in the PhD and beyond, including grant applications, cv-writing, and job searches. Required of Asian Studies PhD students, normally in their first year.
Note: This course is required for all first-year Asian Studies PhD students. PhD candidates in Asian Studies a year or two before their expected graduation are encouraged to audit the course. PhD students in other programs may enrol with the permission of the instructor.