访问教授Enrique Rodriguez Larreta《当代世界的同一性与差异性》教学大纲

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授课教师: Enrique Rodriguez Larreta(巴西Candido Mendes University,¬社会人类学家、思想史学者)
课程名称:《当代世界的同一性与差异性》
开课时间: 2016年秋季,周二、四(第3-16周,9月20日至12月20日),上午9:00-11:00,闵行校区人文楼5303
授课对象:全校硕士、博士研究生,开放选修 (3学分)

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Curriculum Vitae
  Enrique Rodriguez Larreta , Social Anthropologist and Intellectual Historian, Director of the Institute of Cultural Pluralism at Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro Brazil. He received his PHD from the University of Stockholm. His main research interest are 1) Transcultural intellectual history mainly in relation with nationalism and global modernities, 2) Social and Philosophical Anthropological theory in relation with intellectual history and philosophy. His books include Gold is Illusion, the Garimpeiros of Tapajoz Valley in the Brazilian Amazon , Gilberto Freyre , A Cultural  Biography and several edited volumes and Book Chapters as Media and Social Perception (Ed), The Self in the Network ( Ed) The Global Clash of Inequalities ( book chapter) in English, Spanish, French and portuguese.
  He is the Academic Advisor of the international Conferences of the Academy of Latinity and former coordinator with Professor Candido Mendes of the UNESCO initiative Agenda of the Millenium.(1998-2001) organizing more than 40 Conferences around the world under the last 15 years with the participation of more than 200 oustanding scholars from different regions and countries.
  Professor Larreta’s actual research is about the Cultural and Social transformations of National Spaces in the context of formation of a possible Global Ecumene in the Age of Globalization. Besides his academic work Professor Larreta has worked in the field of Art and Politics of Memory about the kidnapping of people and torture in the Latin America’s dirty war. (The Orletti Rapport, Installation and Exhibition presented in Montevideo ( Uruguay) and Buenos Aires (Argentina ) and he has been active  active in the public debate in Latin America on political and cultural issues under many years.

TEACHING PROPOSAL
1、LECTURES
  The three Lectures/ Seminars are related with the subject of my suggested course at the SI-MIAN INSTITUTE. They explore central topics in our global circumstance today connecting relevant epistemological issues with case studies and examples from a comparative perspective.
1) A Catholic Modernity? Reflections on an Argentinian Pope in the Age of Globalization
2) Populism and Post Populism in the Contemporary World :A Genealogy. With special concentration in the Latin America experience.
3) Navigating between Signs . An Anthropology of Reading in the Digital Global Age. Buenos Aires , Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai

2、COURSE
  IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD . MAPPING THE GLOBAL CIRCUMSTANCE

3、Required Reading.
  Course Reader: Selection from the following books:
  NiklasLuhmann Globalization or World Society. ? Martin AlbrowThe Global Age. Karl Marx. Communist Manifesto Fredric Jameson (Ed) The Cultures of Globalization Vincent Descombes Puzzling Identities Enrique Larreta( ed) Identity and Difference in the Gobal Age
  Lu Xun On Face Erwin Goffman On Face-Work
  Philip Gleason Identifying Identity: A Semantic History David Hollinger Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. Gilberto Freyre . New World in the Tropics and The Racial Factor in Contemporary Politics. WenHsinYeh . (Ed) Becoming Chinese Lydia Liu. Translating National character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith. Charles Taylor A Catholic Modernity? Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo.Religion( Stanford) Michel Carrithers ( Ed) The Category of Person : Anthropology, Philosophy History. Ulf Hannerz Transnational Connections. Serge GruzinskiThe Mestizo Mind: the Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
Serge Gruzinski.The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America. PrasenjitDuara  AsiaRedux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our times Walter Mignolo The Idea of Latin America.
Enrique Larreta: Borges And China
Enrique Larreta: On the Grotesque: China in Walter Benjamin
Richard  J. Smith.  I Ching . A Biography Moises Naim The End of PowerJoshuaMeyrowitz. No Sense of Place. The Impact of Electronic Mediaon social Behavior.
The Course is coming to be organized in one two hour lecture  everyweek based in interrelated  topics:  The Global;Identity;Culture, Hybridity and Soft Power;GlobalHistory,;Globalization and New Regionalism,;
Anthropology of Reading in the Digital Age

The course is conceived for the Fall semester, and the beginning of thespring semester. ( Lectures), Six Month period of lectures and research at the Institute. I ‘m finishing two research related to China: Borges andChina and The Idea of Asia and Latin America, A Genealogy. And Ihope complete this work at the Si-Mian Institute using some of theresearch findings and analysis in my lectures and course

4、Language:
English

5、Target Audience
Postgraduate Students in History, Social Sciences and Humanities

6、Examination Criteria
Participation in Class, Book or article review Paper about one of the topics of the course

7、Teaching Methods
Distribution in advance of a Rationale of the class

8、Use of Power Point.
Use of visual resources, video clips and films.