It’s Giving… Academic
Comes at the end of your introduction. It serves as the roadmap for your paper.
What is thesis?
Artistic approach that moves away from literal representation in order to emphasize qualities like movement, shape, rhythm space, or representation.
What is abstract?
This California museum is named after the Indigenous man who was taken from his community and exhibited as “Ishi.” Name the location.
What is Phoebe Heart Museum?
The right of a people or nation to govern itself without external control.
What is self-determination?
Unlike a “hot war,” this type of conflict involves political, economic, ideological, and cultural competition without direct large-scale military combat between the main opposing powers.
What is Cold War?
What is an argument?
Palestinian dance of resistance.
What is dabke?
Name one dancer or choreographer we studied who participated in a Cold War cultural diplomacy project.
Answers vary (may include Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Alicia Alonso, Arthur Mitchell, etc)
Name one country that was part of the non-aligned movement
What is India, Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Algeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Cuba, Kenya, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Iran, Uganda, Sudan, Cyprus, Malaysia, Pakistan
Strategies such as cultural diplomacy, economic aid, and propaganda are examples of ways a country can influence others without using military force. Name the concept.
What is soft power?
Summarizes your project in 250-350 words. It includes thesis, objectives, and findings.
What is an abstract?
This term describes a real place that exists outside, challenges, or disrupts the ordinary spaces and rules of society. Identify one example and defend your answer.
What is heterotopia?
Name three countries that were communist during the Cold War or are currently governed by communist parties.
What are Cuba, China, USSR, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Mongolia.
Though historians debate the exact years, the Cold War took place between these decades.
What is 40s-90s (1947-1991)
This term describes nations emerging from colonial rule that sought political and economic independence while navigating pressure from the United States, Soviet Union, and former European empires.
What is Third World?
Careful attention to what you can directly observe in a source without immediately interpreting its meaning.
What is description or observation
This political and economic ideology seeks to eliminate private ownership of the means of production, while this related system generally advocates collective or public ownership but can coexist with some private property.
What is communism and socialism
This 1955 conference brought together leaders from Asian and African countries to discuss anticolonialism, sovereignty, and cooperation outside the major Cold War blocs. Name it.
What is Baldung Conference.
This combination of economic crisis, political instability, neoliberalism, and the end of the Cold War contributed to the decline of this political project.
What is the Third World Movement?
These two communist countries exchanged ballet dancers, teachers, and training during the Cold War, including exchanges involving dancers such as Alicia Alonso.
What is Cuba and the Soviet Union
Document that describes a work of art in words.
What is ekphrasis?
This concept describes how governments and institutions regulates bodies, populations, health, reproduction, and which lives are valued or protected.
What is biopolitics?
Name two countries where the United States or Soviet Union used dance or other cultural projects as a form of diplomacy, based on our course readings.
What are Cuba, Senegal, India, Israel, etc.
This 1966 festival in Dakar, Senegal, celebrated African and diasporic arts and culture as part of a broader political and cultural movement.
What is the Pan-African Movement
This Cold War phenomenon reveals a central tension of cultural diplomacy: a performance could be sponsored by a superpower to project its ideology, yet audiences and performers could interpret, experience, or use that performance in ways the state could not fully control. What concept from our course captures this tension between political intention and lived experience?
What is the difference between cultural diplomacy as state strategy and culture as lived experience?