“Artillery of
Heaven”
JMM707 CLASS-MEETING THURSDAY MARCH 5
DR. ANNA VIDEN [email protected]
http://www.philographikon.com/maps
asiaminor.html
Agenda
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1. Lecture + Introduction of the concept of religion in International
Relations and the concept of Orientalism
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2. Discussion of the Hurd and the Makdisi readings
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3. Q and A
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4. Discussion of next week’s assignment
Concepts and Key Words
Discussed
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Secularism
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Orientalism
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International Relations
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Cultural Imperialism
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Colonialism
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Coexistence
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Plurality
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Maronite Christian
Ussama S. Makdisi
Professor of History
Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab
Studies Rice University
Professor Makdisi is the author of Faith
Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab
Relations, 1820-2001(Public Affairs,
2010). His previous books include Artillery of
Heaven: American Missionaries and the
Failed Conversion of the Middle
East (Cornell University Press, 2008.
Associate Professor of Political
Science
Northwestern University
Edward Said was University Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the
author of more than twenty books. A leading literary
critic, public intellectual, and passionate advocate for
the Palestinian cause, he was born in Jerusalem in 1935
and died in New York in 2003.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/resources/edwa
rdsaid.html
Web Links
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Orientalism as a tool of Colonialism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdE18HdfanI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4GB5fPXdY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4cnvt8_OHU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYIQmgH9Ko
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In Search of Palestine