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Clash of Cultures: Academia

Clash of Cultures: Academia. In Popular Culture. “ Two worlds collide, rival nations It's a primitive clash, venting years of frustrations”. American Cinematographer , February 2001. Connections, Exchanges, Accommodations, Commensurability. Kasr al-Bahr/ Castelo do Mar, Safi, built 1508.

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Clash of Cultures: Academia

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  1. Clash of Cultures: Academia

  2. In Popular Culture “Two worlds collide, rival nationsIt's a primitive clash, venting years of frustrations” American Cinematographer, February 2001

  3. Connections, Exchanges, Accommodations, Commensurability

  4. Kasr al-Bahr/ Castelo do Mar, Safi, built 1508

  5. “The Moors say I am a Christian, and the Christians say I am a Moor, and so I hang in the balance without knowledge of what I should do with myself […] people call me a traitor, clearly and openly” - SidiYahya-u-Ta’fuft, July 1517 What can SidiYayhya-u-Ta’fuft’s case teach us about the predicament of go-betweens?

  6. Ethnography ‘had nothing particularly Western or European about it’ (Sanjay Subrahmanyam) - Discuss Subrahmanyam’sclaim with reference to Ma Huan and Evliya Çelebi - How does Evliya Çelebi represent Christian Europe, and how does he position himself in relation to it? Evliya ÇelebiSeyahatname(VTR documentary, 2011)

  7. What are the forms of mediation Ma Huan practiced? • What other forms of border crossing does his memoir bear testimony to?

  8. ‘Perhaps he wants to use his teachings to change our Confucian learning, but surely that would be silly, and must not be the case.’ Letter by Chinese scholar Li Zhi describing Matteo Ricci, ca. 1599 - How did Ricci and his contemporaries mediate difference in the Chinese-Christian encounter?

  9. Mid-term evaluation • What do you like about the module/ would you like to see more of? • What do you not like about the module/ would you like to see less of? • Is there anything else you’d like to include for after reading week?

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