CILAS is inviting applications to its online/offline fall course cycle until September 15th 2021.
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Sacred Landscapes, Violence, and Resistance – Examples from Kurdistan
Mondays (offline ) from 10 Am to 12 pm by Benjamin Raßbach, starts 27th September, through 8 weeks. Systems of symbols have widely been used to mark landscapes and lay claim on them. Such land-claims can be turned into an effective tool for governance by nation states or be used by political groups pursuing other aims. The course will inquire how religiously derived land claims can be understood as a form of resistance against the seemingly all-encompassing power of the nation state? How does the term religion "work" in this context? And how do secularist actors justify their claims within the same discursive space? As it has become obvious today that secularism is no less ideological than religion, it is worthwhilediscussing the theoretical considerations outlined here by taking into account anthropological, political and historical material from Kurdistan. |
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Benjamin RASSBACH loves stories of all kinds – be they handed down by tradition or made up by imaginative minds. The passion for religions, philosophies, politics and languages has brought him to many middle eastern countries, where he did academic research, long-term documentaries in collaboration with photographers - and sometimes sheep herding, gardening and hitch-hiking.He has completed a BA and an MA in both anthropology and science of religion, next to many years of courses in Arabic, Turkish and Persian.
For the proposed course flow see here.
لوحة "العمل في الحقل" للفنان حسن سليمان عام 1962
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(قراءات ومشاهدات عن العمل) :العمل:اناء الليل وأطراف النهار
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علي حسين العدوي، (مواليد 1985),مقيم فني وباحث ومحرر وكاتب وناقد للصور المتحركة والممارسات الفنية الحضرية والتاريخ الثقافي. نظم عدة برامج عروض أفلام وندوات مثل «سيرج دانيه … تحية و استعادة» (٢٠١٧) و«هارون فاروقي: جدل الصور… عن الصور التى تكشف/تحجب صوراً أخرى» (٢٠١٨). نظم أيضا بالتعاون مع بول كاتا، معرض «فن التوهان في المدن: برشلونة والإسكندرية» (٢٠١٧) وهو أحد مؤسسي مجلة «ترايبود» الالكترونية لنقد الأفلام والصور المتحركة (٢٠١٥ – ٢٠١٧) وكان أحد محرري منصة «ترى البحر» الالكترونية والمطبوعة للممارسات الفنية والحضرية في الإسكندرية (٢٠١٥ – ٢٠١٨).
For the proposed course flow see here.
Healing, Rituals, and Spirituality – An introduction to
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SohaylaEL FAKAHANY is a healing practitioner at heart and an academic by practice. Her MA thesis ‘Meanings of Mindfulness and Spiritual Awakening: Affliction and Holistic Healing in Contemporary Cairo’ analyzes spiritual practices and debates in conversation with medical, religious, and magical anthropology as they pertain to the growing interest in alternative and complementary healing in Egypt.
For the proposed course flow see here.
View My Desire: Psychoanalysis and Film
Sunday nights (offline) from 6:30-8:30, by Cassidy Crawford, movie night on Wednesday, starts 26th September, through 8 weeks.
This course will examine psychoanalysis from two perspectives: first, as a theory of subjectivity, and second, as a method of reading text. We will begin with an introduction to Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts in order to establish a mutual understanding of the Lacanian split subject. This split in subjectivity means that the subject is a mystery even to herself, and that meaning is revealed accidentally; any attempt at authentic self-expression is necessarily thwarted by our alienation from the world of language and, therefore, from ourselves. In the clinic, the analyst treats the patient’s words as a text, looking for slips, contradictions, and excesses that can expose some truth unacknowledged by the subject. Our work in this course will be to read cinematic text the same way that an analyst reads psychic text; we will seek to uncover meaning “through isolating the point at which meaning fails” (Lacan and Contemporary Film). Through these readings, we will gain a deeper understanding of desire, fantasy, ideology, and even political possibility.
Sunday nights (offline) from 6:30-8:30, by Cassidy Crawford, movie night on Wednesday, starts 26th September, through 8 weeks.
This course will examine psychoanalysis from two perspectives: first, as a theory of subjectivity, and second, as a method of reading text. We will begin with an introduction to Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts in order to establish a mutual understanding of the Lacanian split subject. This split in subjectivity means that the subject is a mystery even to herself, and that meaning is revealed accidentally; any attempt at authentic self-expression is necessarily thwarted by our alienation from the world of language and, therefore, from ourselves. In the clinic, the analyst treats the patient’s words as a text, looking for slips, contradictions, and excesses that can expose some truth unacknowledged by the subject. Our work in this course will be to read cinematic text the same way that an analyst reads psychic text; we will seek to uncover meaning “through isolating the point at which meaning fails” (Lacan and Contemporary Film). Through these readings, we will gain a deeper understanding of desire, fantasy, ideology, and even political possibility.
Cassidy CRAWFORD completed an undergraduate degree in International Studies at American University in 2014. After graduation, she spent winters teaching in Cairo and summers sailing Penobscot Bay as the first mate on a hundred-year-old schooner in Camden, Maine. She recently completed her Master’s degree in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck in London, UK. Her thesis was entitled ‘The Me Too movement: a psychoanalytic exploration of the limits of Law and possibilities beyond it.’ Her interests include Lacanian psychoanalysis, post-Lacanian feminist inquiries.
For the proposed course flow see here.
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Ab/Uses of the Erotic
Mondays (offline ) from 6 pm to 8 pm , by Omar Alsayyed, starts 18th October, through 8 weeks. How has the erotic been deployed as a colonial and racializing technology? How might the eroticscramble, however fleetingly and flimsily, the coherence of racialized and colonial relations?Lingering with this dialectic of ab/use, we consider how the erotic has been aesthetically andtheoretically taken up—not despite but precisely because of the violence that haunts it. |
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Omar ALSAYYED is a doctoral student at NYU whose research interests include cultural theory, critical race and indigenous theory, queer/trans/feminist theory, and contemporary Palestinian cultural production.
For the proposed course flow see here.
