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Final essay-exam

Review "Session"

Contemporary Trends Reading List 2019-20 Term 1

Student Presentation &amp; Attendance Information

AS1

AS1 - Study Abroad Students Only

A Defining Exercise - Due by 4 January 2020

AS2

AS3

AS2 - Study Abroad Students Term 2

Term Two Essay Questions - AS2

Mid-term feedback

RESITS: Final essay-exam questions

Presentation Book

Study Aids

How To Ask Good Discussion Questions

Reading in print improves comprehension, study shows

Note-taking and Managing Your Time

Department of Anthropology Seminar Series: Reconsidering Anthropology Race Matters in Europe and Beyond: An LSE-SOAS Initiative

Perfectionism and Procrastination - Some help

Teach Outs

Term Two

Scans: Kapoor, Muehlbach, Truoillot

Term 2-Week 1

Week 1: powerpoint

Week 1 - Ideology - Outline

Week 1 - Bourdieu reading guide

Term 2-Week 2: Neoliberalism

Reading Guide/ Discussion Questions-Narotzky

2. Week 2 Liberalism-Neoliberalism OUTLINE

2. Week 2 Ideology neoliberalism powerpoint

Term 2-Week 3: Education

Week 3 - Term 2 - Education session powerpoint

Buzz Group Discussion Questions - Term 2, Session 3: Education, Neoliberalism, Decolonizing, Academic Freedom

Week 3 Reading Guide : Subramanian, The Caste of Merit

Podcast with Ajantha Subramanian on her book, Caste of Merit

SOAS Decolonizing Toolkit

Podcasts about free speech and universities

Radio 4 interview with Meera Sabaratnam on decolonising SOAS @ 1.13.58 (5 min)

"We ‘Robotic’ Asians and the College Admissions Scandal"

Roundtable: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa

Freire-Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch.2

Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ch.1

An Anthropological Approach: "How I Would Cover the College-Admissions Scandal as a Foreign Correspondent"

Money or meritocracy: "As long as there are large wealth inequalities, there will be colossal differences in the opportunities that children have. No matter what admissions criteria are set, wealthy children will have the advantage."

Learning to Labor - ebook link

The 1911 schoolchildren strikes

Term 2-Week 4: Free Speech

Week 4 - Free Speech - Powerpoint

Reading Guide_Bishara

Discussion Questions: Caroline Rouse

Judith Butler on freedom of speech

Free speech, BDS, and the Palestine exception

See essays on free speech and its limits

Human Rights Act on free speech

Definition of antisemitism - from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Free speech being curbed on UK campuses?

UK Parliament guidance on free speech on campus

Asad lecture on blasphemy

Podcast with philosophy professor re. free speech controversies on US campuses

Podcast with anthropologist Carolyn Rouse on the contextual nature of speech

Free speech, BDS, and the Palestine Exception in the US

Term Two week 5 Race Riots and Revolts

Powerpoint notes week 5

Term 2 - Week 7 - Affect

Term 2, Week 7: Affect - Outline and Reading Guide

Buzz Group: The Mila Controversy--Anthropology and Free Speech

Mila Controversy - Al-Jazeera

Bangstad- An anthropology of hate speech (brief article)

Mazzarella, Affect: What is It Good For?

Term 2 Week 8 - Security

Podcast: Professor Reuben Miller from the University of Chicago about his work on Carceral Citizenship

Term 2 Week 9 - Anthropology of Islam

Term 2 Week 10 - International law

Term 2 Week 11 - Intersectionality - Anthropocene

Article of interest - an anthropologist's take on a "Killer Microbe" and politics: "Iraqibacter and the Pathologies of Intervention"

Student Presentation & Attendance Information

Week 3 - Race & Racism Powerpoint

Week 3 (Race & Racism) - References to works cited in lecture

What can academics do with scholarship in public? Prof. Vincent Brown, historian of American Revolution & slavery, from point 1:02:25- 1:07:20