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Syllabus

Orientation Session
Saturday, April 28, 9am-1pm (10383 Bunche Hall, 88 Kinsey Hall)

Session One
Wednesday, May 2, 8am-3pm
Morning: Mary Hancock, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
Embodied Transformations: Coming of Age in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Afternoon: Mark Elinson, James Monroe HS/Law Magnet
Stolen Dreams: The Plight of Working Children

Session Two
Wednesday, May 30, 8am-3pm
Morning: Veronica Cortinez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
In Between Two Worlds: The Lost of Innocence in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Elena Castedo
Afternoon: Randal Johnson, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
Screening and discussion of the film Central Station (Brazil). Media Lab/270 Powell Library

Session Three
Wednesday, June 13, 8am-3pm
Morning: Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Ambivalence and Maturity in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
Afternoon: Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Screening and discussion of the film Bashu (Iran). Media Lab/270 Powell Library

Required Readings

Session One
Benson, Susan. "Inscriptions of the Self: Reflections on Tattooing and Piercing in Contemporary Euro-America" in Written on the Body, ed. Jane Caplan (Princeton, 2000), pp. 234-254

Kapchan, Deborah. "Moroccan Women's Body Signs" in Bodylore, ed. K. Young (Philadephia, 1993), pp. 3-34

Turner, Victor. "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage" in The Forest of Symbols, by V. Turner (Ithaca, 1967), pp. 93-111.

Herdt, Gilbert. "Sambia Nosebleeding and Male Proximity to Women" Ethos, vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 189-231 (Fall 1982)

Session Two
one of the following:
Carlos Fuentes, Good Conscience
Elena Castedo, Paradise

Session Three
one of the following:
Naomi Shihab Nye, Habibi
Gina Nahai, Cry of the Peacock