COVID-19 and International Relations

INTL RELATIONS OF COVID-1

Welcome to “International Relations of COVID-19.” The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic has sent political shockwaves around the world, affecting almost every aspect of international political life. From how countries cooperate with one another to redefining what constitutes national security, to recasting pressures for globalization and de-globalization, the world as we knew it prior to February 2020 appears to be dramatically changing. At the same time, scholars and policymakers are increasingly divided about how to understand and respond to many of these challenges.  Is the COVID era truly new or will it actually accelerate recent trends in international politics and global governance? What are the similarities between this pandemic and previous global health crises and what lessons should we draw for managing international order?  What are the implications for US leadership, and broad perceptions about the erosion of the US-led liberal world order, and how have strategic competitors like China dealt with the crisis globally? Finally, what are the tools, resources and networks available to researchers and policy makers interested in making more evidence-based assessments about international public policy? What are the challenges?

The intensive nature of this colloquium is reflected in two ways- preparation and focus. First, the course carries a substantial reading load designed to inform and prepare students for each course session. These assignments will mostly be academic readings, but may also include podcasts, news articles, and digital archival materials. New materials and resources dealing with the course topic are added daily and may be added to the syllabus, so please check the Courseworks syllabus before each meeting for the current assignments. Importantly, our class lectures, group activities and individual assignments will build upon, not review, the assigned materials for the session.

Second, the remote nature of the course will require active listening and focus. Each session typically will be split into 2 segments, roughly of 55-60 minutes each. Many of these segments will feature guest lecturers or experts who will give 25-30 mins presentations on their topic and then field questions. During our limited time for Q&A students should ask single, concise questions.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• M 11:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander A Cooley
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

Black Shakespeare

This course examines Shakespeare’s role in shaping Western ideas about Blackness, in processes of racial formation, and in Black freedom struggle. As one of the most enduring  representations of a Black man in Western art Shakespeare’s
Othello
will be a focal point. However, this course will examine other “race” plays as well as works perceived as “race-neutral” in tandem with Black “respeakings” of Shakespeare’s works. This class is antiracist in intent and is shaped by several interlocking questions: What is Black Shakespeare? Can creators and scholars separate Shakespeare from the apparatus of white supremacy that has been built around his works? What are the challenges for BIPOC actors performing Shakespeare on the dominant stage? What are the challenges and obstacles for BIPOC scholars working on Shakespeare in academia? Can performing Shakespeare be an activist endeavor

• Department: Africana Studies (AFSB)
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Kim F Hall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING LAB II

Biomedical experimental design and hypothesis testing. Statistical analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of experimental measurements. Analysis of variance, post hoc testing. Fluid shear and cell adhesion, neuro-electrophysiology, soft tissue biomechanics, biomecial imaging and ultrasound, characterization of excitable tissues, microfluidics.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS

Prerequisites: an introductory programming course. Fundamentals of computer organization and digital logic. Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, basic gates and components, flipflops and latches, counters and state machines, basics of combinational and sequential digital design. Assembly language, instruction sets, ALU’s, single-cycle and multi-cycle processor design, introduction to pipelined processors, caches, and virtual memory.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel S Rubenstein
  CULPA: 29 Info
• 3 points

Happily Ever After (?): Fantasies of Nin

Fantasies of 19c. Romance

Why are we so invested in the fantasy of nineteenth-century romance? From a craze for Jane Austen to Shonda Rhimes’ Bridgerton, we keep coming back to balls, dashing heroes (and anti-heroes), and the marriage plot. Who, and what, do these fantasies empower? Who gets left out of the romance? This course examines both the realities of nineteenth-century marriage, love, and sexuality, and the fantasies that emerge in their modern re-imaginings. We cover gendered readership during the nineteenth-century print boom, the idea of canonical literature, and the role of race, class, and sexuality in both society and romantic narratives, as well as the difference between “high” and “low” culture, filmic adaptation, and fan-culture. Our texts include poetry, novels, film, diaries written in code, fairy tales, and Youtube adaptations.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Atesede Makonnen
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• 4 points

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR

In this class, we will think about the various ways in which philosophers, social theorists, historians and anthropologists have thought about war, violence, and responsibility. The course focuses on a set of themes and questions: for example, the nature of violence and the question of responsibility or accountability, shifting technologies of warfare, and the phenomenology and aftermath of warfare, for civilians and for combatants. The reading list incorporates different approaches to such questions—from historical to philosophical to ethnographic accounts.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Museums of New York City

New York City is home to one of the world’s best museum ecologies.  This seminar studies that ecology by museum type, against the backdrop of the city’s cultural, economic, and social history.  How can theories of collecting explain different museum types?  How do museums anchor municipal identity?  Class sessions will alternate between discussion sessions at Barnard, and field trips to museums.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Anne Higonnet
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR

A year-long course for outstanding senior majors who want to conduct research in primary sources on a topic of their choice in any aspect of history, and to write a senior thesis possibly leading toward departmental honors. Field(s): ALL

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rhiannon Stephens
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• Instructor: Michael F Stanislawski
  CULPA: 66 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Natasha J Lightfoot
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Anna K Danziger Halperin
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• 4 points

CULTURE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HEALING IN E

CULTURE,HEALTH,HEALING E.

Why do certain mental illnesses only appear in specific regions of the world? What processes of translation, adaption, and “indigenization” take place when Western psychiatric diagnostic categories, pharmaceutical regimens, and psychodynamic treatments travel to China, South Korea and Japan? How do East Asian therapeutic modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and the practice of qigong destabilize biomedical assumptions about the etiology and treatment of mental illness? This course engages these and other questions through anthropological analysis of the experiences of people struggling with mental illness, the mental health practitioners who treat them, and the broader economic, social and political contexts that shape these interactions.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

CULTR,MNTL HLTH,HLING E ASIA-DISC

CUL,MNTL HLTH,HLING E ASI

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• M 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• R 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• R 5:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 0 points

ADVERTISING AS CULTURE IN MODERN AND CON

ADVERTISING AS CULTURE SP

Advertising emerged in modern societies as they developed into bourgeois market economies. As a creative industry involving verbal/visual communication and technology, it is intertwined with cultural production in general, and many of its products can be seen as artistic in their own right. As it both caters to and creates a consumer public with needs and desires, it is intertwined with broad social and ideological currents, and can provide an angle for their historical analysis. This course posits analysis of a “discursive formation” that includes the language of advertising as well as literary, cinematographic, and other social languages engaging publicity as a vehicle for the study of modern/contemporary Spanish cultural history, from the birth of the modern constitutional monarchy (1812), through the Franco dictatorship (1939-75), and into the transition to present-day democracy. Topics will include the evolution and professionalization of Spanish advertising itself, advertising and aesthetics, early bourgeois reflection on art vs. commerce, the special role of women as both publicity and public, changing views on consumer culture, and marketing’s function in consolidating substate political identities.

• Department: Spanish and Latin American Culture
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Wadda Rios-Font
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Human Rights & Public Health: Advanced S

ADV HUMAN RTS & PUBLIC HE

As we face the triple threats of inequalities, climate change, and a pandemic, the dignity and well-being of many people are under attack or at imminent risk.  Exploring several specific issues through the lens of human rights principles and public health standards will provide students with a strong analytic framework for understanding the challenges of and potential for systemic change to address these threats.  Specifically, we will be looking at disparate health impacts and how to understand what drives the disparities; intellectual property laws and how they apply during a global crisis; the double-edged sword of digital technology particularly as it applies to health surveillance; the strengths and weaknesses of a biomedical model dominating the public health discourse; and, the politization of health policy. Specifically, we will explore systems of oppression that drive inequalities and lead to disparate health outcomes; the lack of a transnational accountability framework to address both climate change and the rights of those most impacted by it; and how a corporate-driven intellectual property regime has put access to essential medicines, including vaccines, beyond the reach of people living in poverty.  Finally, looking at reports ripped from the headlines, we will look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown open the door to widespread digital surveillance with few safeguards to protect privacy rights or to address the biases in many of the algorithms driving this technology.

• Department: Human Rights (HRTB)
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Widney Brown
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

Feast/Famine: Food Environment China

FEAST/FAMINE CHINA

Food has always been a central concern in Chinese politics, religion, medicine, and culture. This course takes an ecological approach to the provision, preparation, and consumption of food in Chinese history, from the Neolithic times to the post-socialist era today. In examining Chinese approaches to soil fertility, healthy diet, and culinary pleasures, we explore alternative food systems for a more sustainable future.

• Department: History @Barnard
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothy Ko
  CULPA: 16 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WARS OF INDOCHINA

Saigon and Hanoi served as competing capitals of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) in the south and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in the north (1954-1975). They were symbols of warring states, one home to a fledgling republic, the other the seat of communist power. Since the late 19th century, they have also been sites of Vietnam’s most dramatic transformations. As such, they occupy an important place in the historiography of modern Vietnam, not least in ongoing debates over the Indochina wars, Vietnamese nationalism, and regional difference.

 

This course examines Saigon and Hanoi as social, political, and cultural spaces, and as representations of their respective states during the war. We first consider the significance of regionalism in fashioning “new ways of being Vietnamese” and examine how colonial rule reinforced those distinctions. We devote the rest of the semester to reading an array of works on the history of these cities. For the colonial period, we examine colonial urbanism, the lives of the poor, intellectuals and their ideas, as well as currents of political agitation and cultural iconoclasm. For the post-World War II period, we will focus on the distinct political cultures that took shape in the RVN and DRV. Finally, we end by looking at Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) and Hanoi in the post-war era, particularly after the Socialist Republic of Vietnam instituted sweeping economic reforms in the 1980s. Each week, we will discuss works social, cultural, and political history of Saigon and Hanoi, all the while keeping in mind their divergent trajectories in the three decades following World War II.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lien-Hang Nguyen
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH IN NYC

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RSRCH NYC

This course provides the aspiring anthropologist with an array of primarily qualitative methodological tools essential to successful urban fieldwork. As such, it is a practicum of sorts, where regular field assignments help build one’s ability to record and analyze social behavior by drawing on several key data collection techniques. Because we have the luxury of inhabiting a large, densely populated, international city, this class requires that you take a head-first plunge into urban anthropology. The NYC area will define the laboratory for individually- designed research projects. Be forewarned, however! Ethnographic engagement involves efforts to detect social patterns, but it is often a self-reflexive exercise, too. Readings provide methodological, analytical, and personal insights into the skills, joys, and trials that define successful field research.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
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• 4 points

GENDER& MIGRATN:GLOBAL PERSPC

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Sophomore Standing. Explores migration as a gendered process and what factors account for migratory differences by gender across place and time; including labor markets, education demographic and family structure, gender ideologies, religion, government regulations and legal status, and intrinsic aspects of the migratory flow itself.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Jose Moya
  CULPA: 19 h-index: 18 Info
• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR II

Prerequisites: Must complete ANTH BC3871x. Limited to Barnard Senior Anthropology Majors. Offered every Spring. Discussion of research methods and planning and writing of a Senior Essay in Anthropology will accompany research on problems of interest to students, culminating in the writing of individual Senior Essays. The advisory system requires periodic consultation and discussion between the student and her adviser as well as the meeting of specific deadlines set by the department each semester.

• Department: Anthropology @Barnard
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

LISTENINGS: AN ETHNOG OF SOUND

LISTENING: AN ETHNOG OF SOUND

We explore the possibilities of an ethnography of sound through a range of listening encounters: in resonant urban soundscapes of the city and in natural soundscapes of acoustic ecology; from audible pasts and echoes of the present; through repetitive listening in the age of electronic reproduction, and mindful listening that retraces an uncanniness inherent in sound. Silence, noise, voice, chambers, reverberation, sound in its myriad manifestations and transmissions.  From the captured souls of Edison’s phonography, to everyday acoustical adventures, the course turns away from the screen and dominant epistemologies of the visual for an extended moment, and does so in pursuit of sonorous objects.  How is it that sound so moves us as we move within its world, and who or what then might the listening subject be?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Dissent and Culture in 20th-Century Spai

Dissent & Culture 20th-C

The course focuses on public and private nature of dissent in twentieth-century Spain in the frame of cultural studies. We will explore different forms of political dissent and attempt to produce a conceptual framework for the definition of dissent as a historically produced--and therefore historically changing--notion. Historical dictatorships, nation-building processes, class and gender conflicts, human rights, poverty, legal rights, freedom of expression and censorship, the workplace, social movements, communal rights, and environmental dispossession will be at the center of our discussion. Several questions will be raised (and hopefully answered) along this journey: How can we engage with dissent as not simply a moment of protest or resistance? How can cultural and aesthetic practices challenge or modify a given social order or way of living/thinking? What is the specificity of Spanish forms of political dissent in the Euro-Atlantic scenario? To address these issues, we will read essays, short stories, graphic novels, as well as theoretical texts that offer varied approaches to history, aesthetics, and politics. The works by writers Federico García Lorca, Ángela Figuera Aymerich, Carmen Martín Gaite; film-makers like Cecilia Bartolomé, Carlos Saura, Helena Lumbreras; or philosophers and historians such as Marina Garcés and Helen Graham, among others, will be some of the materials from which to study the logics and moments of dissent.

• Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ana M Fernandez Cebrian
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

THE MONGOLS IN HISTORY

Study of the role of the Mongols in Eurasian history, focusing on the era of the Great Mongol Empire. The roles of Chinggis and Khubilai Khan and the modern fate of the Mongols to be considered.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Morris Rossabi
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Joshua Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
  h-index: 126 Info
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Olson
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Shunichi Homma
  h-index: 88 Info
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Milan N Stojanovic
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• Instructor: Stavros Thomopoulos
  h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
  Wikipedia h-index: 132 Info
• Instructor: Qi Wang
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• Instructor: Stephen H Tsang
  Wikipedia h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figuero
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
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• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Kaveri A Thakoor
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• 0 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Esposito
  h-index: 22 Info
• Instructor: Oleg Gang
  h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• Instructor: Aaron Moment
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• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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• Instructor: Mijo Simunovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
  h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Alan West
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info
• 0 points

UNDERGRAD RES IN APPLIED MATH

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied mathematics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Kui Ren
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Shanyin Tong
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• Instructor: Vladimir Kobzar
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• Instructor: Joseph Kraisler
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• 0-4 points

UNDERGRAD RESRCH-APPLD PHYSICS

This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in applied physics or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Gerald A Navratil
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 46 Info
• Instructor: Latha Venkataraman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Nanfang Yu
  h-index: 48 Info
• 0-4 points

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT

Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Scott Banta
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 0-6 points