Word: necipoglu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court.” The course name might be formidable, but the work isn’t; tests aren’t graded harshly and the workload is minor. Professor Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar’s lectures tend toward disorganization, with lots of confusing slides, which makes the class boring but pretty easy. Speaking of slides, there’s B-21, “The Images of Alexander the Great.” The course is a legendary gut, and requires little actual work except...
...Gulru Necipoglu, the Aga Khan professor of Islamic art, says there is an advantage to the reclaiming of area studies by departments—“it does not dilute or water down the seriousness of specialist study,” she says...
...Area studies has the advantage of having everyone under the same building, like at Princeton; however scholars tend not to know what is going on in other departments and are unable to relate their study to larger issues,” Necipoglu says...
...center gives an umbrella net and integrates special disciplines within a global framework in addition to opening up the field to non-specialists,” Necipoglu says...
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