This seminar is both a critical survey of empirical evidence on foreign aid, trade, and investment and an introduction to modern quantitative research methods used in international political economy. Substantively, the seminar will examine the relationships between economic instruments and human rights, conflict, public opinion, and other topics.
Reading, analysis, and research on modern Japan.
Field(s): EA
Why do governments and leaders cooperate? What is the role of international institutions in world politics? This course is an introduction to the scientific study of international cooperation and institutions. The course emphasizes recent empirical and theoretical research across issue areas.
Reading of advanced texts chosen in consultation with the student's advisor.
Field(s): EA
Prerequisites: Chinese-History G4815-G4816 or the equivalent.
Selected problems and controversies in the social and political history of the Sung dynasty, approached through reading and discussion of significant secondary research in English.
Field(s): EA
Subjects a well defined body of theory to scrutiny and assessment. Examples: The Warburg School of Aesthetic Theory (E. Cassirer, E. Panofsky, E. Gombrich, R. Wittkower, etc.); Phenomenological Theory in relation to architecture dealing with the theoretical work (E. Mach, M. Merleau-Ponty, G. Bachelard, C. Norberg-Schulz, A. Perez-Gomez); tracing the impact of the evolution of Post-Structuralist/Deconstructionist Theory on architecture (P. de Mann, J. Derrida, M. Wigley, P. Eisenman).
This course will study the materials, techniques, settings, and meanings of skilled craft and artistic practices in the early modern period (1350-1750), in order to reflect upon a series of issues, including craft knowledge and artisanal epistemology; the intersections between craft and science; and questions of historical methodology and evidence in the reconstruction of historical experience. The course will be run as a “Laboratory Seminar,” with discussions of primary and secondary materials, as well as text-based research and hands-on work in a laboratory. This course is one component of the Making and Knowing Project of the Center for Science and Society. This course contributes to the collective production of a transcription, English translation, and critical edition of a late sixteenth-century manuscript in French, Ms. Fr. 640. In 2014-15, the course concentrated on mold-making and metalworking; in 2015-16, on colormaking. In 2016-17, it will focus on natural history, researching the context of the manuscript, and reprising some color-making and moldmaking techniques. Students are encouraged to take this course both semesters (or more), but will receive full credit only once. Different laboratory work and readings will be carried out each semester.
How do international and global perspectives shape and conceptualization, research, and writing of history? Topics include approaches to comparative history and transnational processes, the relationship of local, regional, national, and global scales of analysis, and the problem of periodization when considered on a world scale.
This graduate colloquium deals with a rather unordinary topic: the vengeance of the victims. Emerging from a genocide or any other mass murder, the survivors or their relatives are they tempted by revenge? If so, in what way, with what means, what aims and with what magnitude? Even if reactions of pure revenge (murders, lynch justice, retaliations) committed by the victims themselves have been more or less marginal, there were some: in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide (Operation Nemesis), after the Holocaust (against the Germans or their collaborators), or in Rwanda, at a larger scale, after the genocide of the Tutsis. The objective isn’t just to describe some examples of revenge, but to reintroduce this element in the analysis of other post-genocide components, mainly the question of justice and the fight for the acknowledgement of these crimes. To what extent the question of vengeance was present in the postwar trials, from the end of WWI to the recent international trials? Do the resentment played a role in the action of famous Nazi-hunters, like Wiesenthal or Klarsfeld? Why this dimension, theorized for example after the Holocaust by authors like Jean Améry has been completely played down in the recent narratives about memory?
The term "geopolitics" and its cognates emerged at the very end of the nineteenth century in connection to new forms of nationalism and inter-imperialist competition in Europe and the world. Emphasizing the mutually constitutive relationship among power, place, and knowledge, geopolitics has most often been associated with a "realist" and state-centric approach to international relations, although recent decades have seen the rise of a critical geopolitics that includes a far wider range of social actors. This course is both a conceptual history of geopolitics as the term has been defined and applied over the last hundred years, as well as a critical survey of the changing relations among technology, state power, and spatiality in connection to strategies of global competition and conflict. The course includes an introduction to Global Imaging Systems in the second week.
This year-long workshop will meet every two weeks for two hours to discuss the structure of a dissertation prospectus, strategies of grant-writing, and, most importantly, successive drafts of individual dissertation prospectuses. Consistent attendance and participation are mandatory.
All graduate students are required to attend the department colloquium as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted.
Prerequisites: the instructor's and the department's permission.
To register for
G9000
, students must request a section number from the department’s graduate administrator.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in graduate areas in mechanical engineering and engineering science.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in graduate areas in mechanical engineering and engineering science.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in graduate areas in mechanical engineering and engineering science.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in graduate areas in mechanical engineering and engineering science.
Theoretical or experimental study or research in graduate areas in mechanical engineering and engineering science.
Prerequisite: completion of all M.Phil. requirements, and approval of a research proposal by the supervising faculty adviser.
Required for all M.S. students in residence in their first semester. Topics related to professional development and the practice of chemical engineering. No degree credits granted. Intended for M.S./Ph.D. students or doctoral students.
Prerequisites: Requires approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Points of credit to be approved by the department. Requires submission of an outline of the proposed research for approval by the faculty member who is to supervise the work of the student. The research facilities of the department are available to qualified students interested in advanced study.
Prerequisites: Requires approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Points of credit to be approved by the department. Requires submission of an outline of the proposed research for approval by the faculty member who is to supervise the work of the student. The research facilities of the department are available to qualified students interested in advanced study.
Prerequisites: high-quality work in the previous term.
Arrangements must be made with the director of graduate studies. Tutorial work in specialized research topics.