The GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies) Center and the University of Hawai’i Study Abroad Program invite applications for the 2007 summer session on Culture and Performance. Two parallel 5-week intensive courses are offered:
Tango, National Identity and Cultural Translations—Professor: Marta Savigliano
(includes practice sessions and fieldtrips to tango clubs and shows)
Machos: Latin American Masculinties—Professor: Jeff Tobin
(includes fieldtrips to soccer clubs and asados (barbecues))
Both courses are taught in English. Course credits: 3 units each. Undergraduate and Graduate students are welcome to apply. Credits towards degrees at any University are processed through University of Hawai’i Study Abroad Program. Students interested in taking Spanish courses, at any level, should contact Marta Savigliano or Jeff Tobin directly.
Marta E. Savigliano (UCLA) and Jeffrey Tobin (Occidental College), are professors and scholars specializing in the anthropology of Argentina, as well as gender and performance studies. They will be assisted by local guest specialists in the field.
Machos: Latin American Masculinites, Professor: Jeff Tobin. This course encourages students to think critically about the concept of machismo by reviewing a variety of ways of being manly throughout Latin America with a focus on Buenos Aires. Case studies include men's roles in tango clubs, sames-sex tango practices, soccer fans, asado (Argentine barbecue), and the military repression of 1976-1983. (Anth 315: Sex and Gender or WS 495: Selected Topics--3 credits, A-F only.)
Tango, National Identity and Cultural Translations, Professor: Marta Savigliano. Introduction to tango history, tango styles, movement analysis, and movement experience. This course explores the politics of popular culture, tracing tango’s travels from the brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris and the shako dansu clubs of Tokyo; from Hollywood screens to Finnish popular festivals to Broadway stages. Films and texts will be used to take a critical look at exoticism and auto-exoticism. Local and international struggles over tango’s meanings and representations will be analyzed and discussed including gender, sexuality, class, race, and national identity that interweave in the making of different tango styles, tango bodies, and tango communities. Tango studio classes (to learn tango argentino movement techniques as currently practiced in dance clubs or milongas) are an integral part of the course. Studio classes, taught by professional tango dancers, will be offered three times a week at introductory and intermediate levels. (DNCE 495: Topics in Dance-- 3 credits, A-F only.)
Facilities: Library, computer lab (with broadband access), offices, and classroom are located in the GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies) Center in downtown Buenos Aires, two blocks away from the national Congress building and its Library.
Costs: $3,707 (US dollars) including study abroad and instructional fees for 6 credits, library and computer lab access, supplies, shared accommodations, meals, laundry, airport transfer, subway passes, excursions, welcome and farewell dinners, health insurance, and International Student Identity Card. Single accommodation is available with a $122 supplement. Airfare and personal expenses are not included. Housing is provided in centrally-located residence hotel, ten minutes subway ride from the GLOSAS center.
For admissions requirements and applications go to: www.studyabroad.hawaii.edu. For additional information contact:
Valerie Chong (vchong@hawaii.edu)
Jeff Tobin (tobin@oxy.edu)
Marta Savigliano (martasa@arts.ucla.edu).
Application Deadline March 12, 2007