Dr. Christie
  Logan
office hours: T/TH 1-2, 
Wed 5:30 - 6:30 & by appointment
*Check this online schedule regularly for changes*
| DATE | TOPIC | Reading / Assignment Due | 
| Week 1: 1/22 
 | Introduction / Overview of Course Definitions & Processes: | *Note: Many online readings require Adobe Acrobat Reader: free download here Info sheets 
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| Week 2: 1/29 1/31 | Performance and Cultural Processes | 
         **new: read pp. 151-54
            in PS.  | 
| Week 3:  | 
 Performance and Cultural Processes | **new: The Melancholia of AIDS: interview with Douglas Crimp | Art Journal, Winter 2003. 
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| Week 4: 
 2/14 | 
 Ritual, Tradition and Power | 
 
 online: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11," TDR 47,1, Spring 2003 | 
| Week 5: 2/19 2/21 | Eruption and Performance: 
 | new
              **PS: pp. 75-77 Steve Lopez, "Fires
            in Malibu Ignite Rage"          (10/22/07) and "Katrina
              Comparisons..." LA
            Times 10/26/07. | 
| Week 6:  2/28 | Analyzing Performance Processes: Efficacy and Power | 
 
 301 RDR: | 
| Week 7:  3/6 | Resistant Performance and Social Change view Couple in a Cage | online: Coco Fusco, "The
            Other History of Intercultural
Performance," TDR 38,1 (1994) | 
| Week 8:  
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 Identity and Culture |          | 
| Week 9: | Spring Break 
3/17 - 21 | |
| Week 10: 
 3/27 | Semiotics of Consuming Practices 
 
 
 | 301 RDR: 
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| Week 11: 
 
 | Performing Consumption, "Consuming" Performance 
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 A Life Revealed: Afghan Girl Special Report - National Geographic, 2002. 
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| Week 12: 
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 Ethics of Ethnography 
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 Olorisa Omi Osun Olomo (Joni L. Jones), "Performance and Ethnography, Performing Ethnography, Performance Ethnography," SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies, 2006. 339-45. 
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| Week 13: 4/15 
 
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 Performing Ethnography view Broken Circles Performance Ethnography as Critical Method | 301 RDR: online: Joni L. Jones, "Performance Ethnography: The Role of Embodiment in Cultural Authenticity," Theatre Topics 12, 1 (2002) 1-15. 
 set performance ethnography groups | 
| Week 14: 4/22 4/24 | Public Space and Everyday Performance 
 Tourism as Performance | 301 RDR: online: 301 RDR: | 
| Week 15: 4/29 5/1 | 
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| Week 16: 5/6 5/8 | 
 Group presentations | |
| Week 17: 5/13 | Final Exam  | Group presentations completed Individual Papers due | 
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Last Update: April 24, 2008 
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