Fall 2024 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Law and History (32449)
- Instructor(s)
- https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/chambers" target="lookup">Sarah Chambers
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 7 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- Topic: Law and History Description: This graduate seminar focuses on the role of law broadly across time and space from the ancient to the modern world. The course offers students an opportunity to explore how individuals, states, and societies throughout history have engaged with law, rules, and legal institutions, and introduces major approaches to legal history that students can think about in relation to their own scholarly interests. We will consider questions such as: how law forms and challenges regimes of power; how legal categories and concepts are shaped by and shape society, economy, culture and individual and group identities; how legal consciousness develops and spreads; and how different legal regimes and normative systems coexist and compete.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32449/1249
Fall 2024 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- The Human Rights of Asylum (32453)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024UMTC, West Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32453/1249
Fall 2024 | HIST 8960 Section 003: Topics in History -- Sawyer- Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives (32451)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Thu 01:30PM - 03:00PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1210ABC
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32451/1249
Spring 2024 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- HistoryLab: Public History Project with the USHMM (66198)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 225
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- TOPIC: HistoryLab: Public History Project with the USHMM The HistoryLab is a public history project in collaboration with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Graduate students participating in this seminar will curate a primary source collection for the museum's Experiencing History platform, a digital learning tool geared for college classrooms and used in K-12 education as well. During most of the semester, we will be working with remote access to USHMM's archives to locate, evaluate and narrate relevant primary sources. Between Feb 29-Mar 2, we will visit the museum in DC, meet with stakeholders and review on-site archival material (travel, accommodation and food expenses will be covered). Participants in this seminar will gain practical experience working in the public history and public education fields. Our meetings will also be used to critically engage with the field of public history, its importance and its challenges.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66198/1243
Fall 2023 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Problems in US Women's & Gender History (32774)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue 02:30PM - 04:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1048
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (3 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- TOPIC: Problems in US Women's & Gender History Course Description: This course explores new as well as key older works in US women's and gender history. We will pay special attention to histories of racialized and indigenous women, key works in trans history. and the intersection of systems of gender with sexual, economic and political systems, and narratives that treat dissidence and resistance. Students can expect to learn more about the theoretical and methodological questions that permeate women's and gender history, including the instability of binary gender systems, the deeply divergent experiences of women, and the power of gender as an analytic framework. Assignments include regular reading responses as well as a longer essay that will be worked out in consultation with students and the instructor.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32774/1239
Fall 2023 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Modernity, Disenchantment, Secularization (32775)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue 02:15PM - 04:15PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- TOPIC: Modernity, Disenchantment, Secularization: A Critical Interrogation of a Modernist Cliché A brief course description: Although recent critical scholarship has begun to pick apart the foundational jumble that ties together global modernization with presumedly determinative processes of planet-wide secularization and disenchantment, this essential modernist triad remains present and often unthought as an unquestioned fact of modernity in countless discourses across many fields of the arts, the sciences, and the humanities, as well as within popular culture overall. This course will expose this fundamental ligature of modernist thinking and historiography to critical scrutiny, looking specifically at the origins of this master historical paradigm from both a longue durée and a planet-wide perspective. It will also examine recent efforts to liberate global historical understandings of human civilization and consciousness from the pervasive, and still stubbornly persuasive, conception of a recent global death of God and religion, and a corresponding "Disenchantment of the World." A readings seminar, the course will require substantive weekly readings and discussions, spurred by student presentations, and a ca. 5000-word final paper pursuing the themes of the course with respect to a concrete case or primary source document or artifact chosen by the student. The course is intended for graduate students, but is open to advanced undergraduates who obtain permission to enroll from the instructor.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32775/1239
Fall 2022 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- History and the Environment (34224)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue 02:00PM - 03:55PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 105
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34224/1229
Spring 2022 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Global Migration and Public History (68787)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 225
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (3 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68787/1223
Spring 2022 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Memory,Human Rights &Hemispheric Cultural Activism (68974)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HSPH 8010 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Wed 05:00PM - 07:30PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 211
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (6 of 6 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68974/1223
Fall 2021 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- The Newspaper and Its Worlds (35188)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Wed 03:25PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (3 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35188/1219
Spring 2021 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Genocide: The History of a Crime and a Concept (67722)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery ModeTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue 03:25PM - 05:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67722/1213
Spring 2021 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Marx at the Margins (67723)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 20 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery ModeTopics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Wed 03:30PM - 06:00PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 7 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67723/1213
Spring 2020 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Food, Magic, Medicine: Atlantic World 1500-1800 (66812)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66812/1203
Spring 2020 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Premodern Art-Science: Working to Know before 1800 (66813)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- ARTH 8320 Section 001EMS 8250 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (4 of 6 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- The course examines premodern ways of knowing through entangled histories of art, craft, science, and medicine in Europe before 1800. Whether through the visual representations of naturalists, or the manipulation of matter by artists/artisans to render nature meaningful, useful, or both, premoderns made knowledge in ways that defy modern disciplinary divisions. We will study premodern knowledge work through their disciplinary understandings, not ours, and we will enter their world directly by exploring the research methodology of reconstruction, i.e. the argument that we must reconnect material objects with texts, and both with laboratory research practices, to fully understand premodern knowledge work.
This course is being taught in partnership with faculty at Brown University and will include funded travel to Providence, RI over spring break and a symposium at the University of Minnesota from May 6 through
8. Students enrolled in the course must be able to participate in both of these activities. Because of these required components involving funded travel, interested students are required to attend an informational meeting that will be held on Tuesday, December 3 at 4 PM
in Heller 1024. Admission to this course is at the discretion of the instructors and priority will be given to EMS minors. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66813/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 November 2019
Fall 2019 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Decolonization in the Middle East and North Africa (33978)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1048
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (2 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33978/1199
Spring 2019 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Migration & Mobility in the Early Modern Atlantic (67685)
- Instructor(s)
- https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/chambers" target="lookup">Sarah Chambers
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67685/1193
Spring 2019 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Seminar in the Study of Newspapers & Print Culture (68848)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 1-122
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (3 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68848/1193
Spring 2018 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Food, Magic Medicine: The Atlantic World,1500-1800 (51786)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51786/1183
Spring 2018 | HIST 8960 Section 004: Topics in History -- The Politics of Land: Colony, Property, Ecology 2 (52561)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Fri 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 1-122
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52561/1183
Spring 2018 | HIST 8960 Section 005: Topics in History -- Western Imperialisms (68631)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68631/1183
Fall 2017 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- The Politics of Land: Colony, Property, Ecology 1 (35313)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Fri 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 105
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35313/1179
Spring 2017 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History (52801)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 35
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?skari002+HIST8960+Spring2017
- Class Description:
PROVINCIALIZING MARX
While Marx's corpus of writings remains formative and generative for left theory and praxis, the universality of its conceptualization of political economy, capital's deep structure, and capitalist dynamics has been questioned almost from its birth. For instance, an extraordinarily rich body of scholarship in the field of agrarian studies has long posed knotty questions about the 'nature' of capitalist development in at least three registers: ‘nature' as external world ('environment', 'ecology'), ‘nature' as internal world ('human nature', subjectivity) and ‘nature' as foundation or ontology (what 'is' the being of capital?). There is also a rich body of scholarship around the ‘social question'--the question of how to think the ‘rights' of marginal social groups: not just the proletariat, but landless laborers, lumpenproletariat, peasants, Dalits, blacks, and other minorities. These groups have at best a tenuous claim to the two sets of rights that constitute liberal democracies--the egotistical "rights of man" grounded in private property, and the "rights of citizen" they formally possess. And the marked differences in the tenuous relations of these various groups with the two sets of rights raises difficult questions about Marx's conceptions about the sociality of capital, or of resistance to it.
The agrarian question and the social question are symptomatic of fundamental puzzles about how we might theorize the dynamics of capitalist development, capital's articulations with and parasitic existence on other logics, the 'outsides' and 'limits' to capital, capital in the ‘peripheries' (as contrasted to the ‘core'), and the political forms (progressive and conservative) that emerge in the interplay with capital's solvent forces.
This seminar asks how tarrying with "the agrarian question" and with "the social question" puts Marx and Marxist political economy in 'crisis', and what this ‘crisis' demands from theory. After this crisis, how should we think about the geographies and temporalities -- indeed, the constitution -- of 'capital' (and its dialectical other, 'labor')?
The seminar will be co-taught by Professors Vinay Gidwani (Geography and Global Studies) and Ajay Skaria (History and Global Studies). You may enroll for it in either Geography (GEOG 8980) or History (HIST 5960/8960) with prior permission of the relevant instructor. Format will be a mix of lecture and discussion. Students must be prepared to engage closely with challenging texts, and think cooperatively and generously. While a reading list is yet to be finalized, texts are very likely to include long excerpts from several of Marx's or Marx & Engels' writings, as well as selections from Locke, Kant, Kautsky, Gramsci, Luxemburg, Ambedkar, Arendt, Fanon, Shanin, Wolpe, Laclau, Hall, Derrida, Spivak, Balibar, Castels, Federici, Moten, Hartman, Karatani, Ranciere, Chakrabarty, Tomba, and van der Linden.- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52801/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 November 2016
Spring 2017 | HIST 8960 Section 003: Topics in History (52802)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 184
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?pjm+HIST8960+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52802/1173
Spring 2017 | HIST 8960 Section 004: Topics in History (68275)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- EMS 8250 Section 001HIST 5960 Section 004
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 04/12/2017Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 122904/13/2017Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 1-13604/14/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- The Early Modern Archive
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68275/1173
Fall 2016 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Europe for Graduate Students (33700)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Wed 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- Media, Communications and Technology http://classinfo.umn.edu/?wolfe023+HIST8960+Fall2016
- Class Description:
General Description
Europe: A Multi-Disciplinary Survey for Graduate Students is a course for any student interested in constructing for themselves a sense of that kaleidoscopic entity we refer to with the handy term, "Europe." It will approach Europe as a plural object of knowledge, something given form by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, literary critics, novelists and philosophers. Because of these multiple perspectives, the course will also be an encounter with other disciplines' ways of thinking, writing, and creating - in short, to the diversity of modes of thought that define a college of liberal arts and a university.
American scholars engaged in the examination of cultural, political, economic, or social aspects of European societies face the problem of the isolation of different scholarly approaches in separate academic departments. This isolation is necessary for intense mastery of complex literatures, but the risk is that students lose touch with the fact that theirs is but one disciplinary approach among others. My assumption is that it is vital for young scholars grappling with the imperative of interdisciplinarity to develop more than a superficial impression of the contemporary landscape of the disciplines. The literature about Europe in any one field is enormous, and our goal is obviously not comprehensive coverage. Nor will we privilege one disciplinary approach over any other. Rather the course will move back and forth between the position of a general learning "about" Europe to more self-reflective questions about the ways disciplines frame their objects.
One final note about the attitude we hope to cultivate in the class. Because each of us is an "expert" in only one discipline and (usually) only one place, our strategy will be to approach the readings and discussions as beginners. Each of us will thus "try on" these other disciplinary optics not in order to confirm our own personal choice or to condemn other approaches as alien or strange, but in order to broaden our understandings of both a place and practices of knowledge. Our assumption is that every student will benefit from encountering the ways their colleagues are grappling with their disciplines and their demands. The course will not focus on critique as much as on what is offered by a discipline's main questions, and on how these specific texts assist us with our understanding of this protean place. Writing assignments will vary, depending on each student's relationship to a reading and/or theme, but in general we can say that students will not be asked to critique readings, as much as to use readings as jumping off points for reflections on what a given text or approach can contribute to their own work, to efforts to understand prior experiences in Europe, and to broadening their ongoing engagements with European issues.
- Workload:
- 100-150
30 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33700/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 July 2016
Spring 2016 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Postcolonial Theory (55155)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 278
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Postcolonial Theoryhttp://classinfo.umn.edu/?pohla001+HIST8960+Spring2016
- Class Description:
Theory is itself a practice, no less than its object is. It is not more abstract than its object. It is a conceptual practice, and it must be judged in terms of the other practices with which it interacts. (Gilles Deleuze)
This is an intensive reading and writing seminar for African history graduate students and other graduate students with an interest in Africa or postcolonial studies. Through a close reading of several texts, this seminar will address the postcolonial in (African) history less as a chronological than as a theoretical concept. The term postcolonialism (post-colonialism) is frequently taken literally to mean the period of time after colonialism. In this iteration it is (mis-)understood as a temporal concept, meaning the time after colonialism has ended or the time following the politically determined Independence Day on which a country broke away from its governance by another state. We will consider postcolonialism not simply as a teleological sequence which superseded colonialism, but rather as an engagement with and contestation of colonialism's discourses, archives, power structures, and social hierarchies.
A single definition of the postcolonial is elusive. Like postcolonial theory - as an epistemology, ethics and politics - it is a plural concept reflecting multiple and diverse approaches. In this course, we will follow the convention of using the hyphenated version of post-colonial to indicate the time after colonialism (chronology) and assume the single word postcolonialism to refer to theoretical and conceptual meanings attributed to the word.
Seven books will stand at the center of this seminar, but suggested readings will range widely across the continent and beyond, and among topics and authors. Authors will include selections from Chakrabarty, Fanon, Mbembe, and Foucault as well as those listed below, but participants in this reading group are encouraged to range widely across and delve deeply into the theoretical literature that informs the works we are reading according to their own interests. This course will consider topics such as history, historiography and disciplinary reason, heritage and memory, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, the cultural turn, the archival turn, relationships of power and the control/production of knowledge, and the postcolonial critique of apartheid and similar systems and institutions of power.
Students will be expected to complete all readings, participate actively in and lead seminar discussions, write responses to two of the Special Focus Topics, post weekly discussion questions or comments, and complete a major paper on a topic of their choosing.- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55155/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 January 2016
Spring 2016 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Comparative Legal History (68133)
- Instructor(s)
- https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/chambers" target="lookup">Sarah Chambers
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 278
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Comparative Legal History http://classinfo.umn.edu/?welke004+HIST8960+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68133/1163
Spring 2016 | HIST 8960 Section 003: Topics in History -- Food, Magic, Medicine: History of Atlantic World (68134)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 003EMS 8500 Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Food, Magic, Medicine: History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kgerbner+HIST8960+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Topic Title: Food, Magic, Medicine: History of Atlantic World
"Food, Magic, Medicine" introduces the age of exploration as an era of encounter and exchange. Rather than focusing on conquest, it asks how Native and African cultures transformed European, American and global history during the early modern era. While imperialism relied on an ideology of supremacy, both in politics and culture, colonists were often dependent on Native and African knowledge, food and expertise. Paying careful attention to the social meaning of specific foods, such as sugar and chocolate, as well as cultural practices like scientific collecting and healing, this course will interrogate the revolutions in taste, knowledge and belief that took place in the Atlantic world between 1500 and 1800. Part 1, "Taste," examines eating, drinking and smoking as socially constructed experiences that have major economic, political and religious implications. Focusing on crops rather than specific regions, it views the culture of consumption as a vital force fueling transatlantic transformations. Part 2, "Knowledge," asks how individuals made sense of the massive amount of information that circulated throughout the Atlantic World. It investigates the European culture of collecting alongside Afro-Atlantic and Native American forms of knowledge production that both challenged and contributed to the development of a "Western canon." Part 3, "Belief," examines cultures of belief on a regional basis, using case studies to contextualize religious, political and economic movements within an Atlantic framework. Students will be asked to pair microhistorical analysis with a broad transatlantic and, at times, global framework to recognize the importance of locality in Atlantic and world history. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68134/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2015
Spring 2015 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Framing Modernity-Big Histories Scientific Stories (55835)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 1-122
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- ?Framing Modernity: Big Histories and Scientific Stories, ? will examine recent attempts to interpret and explain both large and small developments in human history using concepts, vocabulary and theories from the natural sciences. The phrase ?Big History`? has been popularized by the historian of Eurasia, David Christian, who in his book Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, places the history of human beings into a larger, encompassing history of the earth, the solar system, and the universe. His book was read by Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, who found it so compelling that he invested millions of dollars into creating and implementing a K-12 curriculum based on Christian's work. For Christian, hard sciences like geology, physics, and chemistry offer important ways to rethink the place of human beings in the universe, and to tell a more complete and urgent story of the human's relationship to nature and the cosmos. Another ?big historian,? Daniel Smail, looks to the life sciences for a better understanding of history and historical processes in his book On Deep History and the Brain. He uses recent advances in biology, neurophysiology, and cognitive science to narrate a history of human beings that, he suggests, sheds important new light on the smaller scale social, political, and cultural processes that are the more common themes of historians? attention. Our course will be an interdisciplinary inquiry into big and deep history as an intellectual, social, and scientific phenomenon. We will try to make sense of practitioners? points of view as well as their relationship to disciplinary history. We will be asking: how do we read ?big history,? and how does ?big history? ask to be read? Where might ?big history? fit in the politics of historical production and of intellectual production more broadly? How does ?big history? use disciplinary knowledge? What assumptions does it make about the relationship of scienctific inquiry to humanistic inquiry? How does it claim and enact the authority of historical explanation? We will also ask how ?big history? is different from older Enlightenment and 19th century attempts to place man in the history of the cosmos? In other words, how is big history's claim to be a vitally useful explanation in the present different from other grand narratives? And finally, how might we imagine a response to the claims that big history is a vital way of reimagining the education of young people not only in the United States but around the world? We welcome student from any discipline and field interested in puzzling over these questions about time, scale, human and non-human agency, and the production of knowledge.
- Grading:
- 60% Reports/Papers
10% In-class Presentations
30% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 10% Film/Video
60% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
15% Student Presentations
5% Guest Speakers - Workload:
- 150-200 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55835/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2014
Fall 2014 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Historical Approaches to Women's Work (34666)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- HIST 5980 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 260
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: Historical Approaches to Women's Work
- Class Description:
- Society & Politics in Modern Europe: The History and Historiography of Class Relations in Modern Europe The general aim of this seminar is to introduce students to historical scholarship about selected problems of modern European social and political history since the late eighteenth century. The thematic focus for Spring 2011 is on the history and historiography of class relations, mainly in France, Germany, and Great Britain. Weekly sessions are organized thematically within a broad temporal frame ranging from the era of the French Revolution through the 20th century. We will examine approaches to historical class analysis through scholarly works on various dimensions of class relations. The course's historiographic dimension is explicit ? that is, as we look at different topics we will also be examining how historical approaches to class analysis have varied over time and across nationally specific historiographic traditions. The reading list thus includes both ?classics? from the past forty years and more recent or revisionist approaches. We will also work with various types of documents and methods. Weekly Topics and Readings Week 1. January 20 Introduction to the course Weeks 2-3. January 27 and February 3 Unit I: Historicizing class analysis: theory and history Week 4. February 10 Unit II: The French Revolution - ?bourgeois? revolutions? Weeks 5-6. February 10-17 Unit III: Class formation and class conflict at points of production in the emergence of ?industrial capitalism? ca. 1750-1850 Weeks 7-8. February 24 and March3 Unit IV: Class formation class identities at sites of reproduction 9 March 17 ? SPRING BREAK Week 10. March 24 Unit V: Markets, consumption, class identities, and class strategies Week 11. March 31 Projects: Consultation, independent reading and development of proposal and bibliography Week 12. April 7 Unit VI: Spaces of class formation: urban/rural class formation; the ?public sphere? and class formation; neighborhoods; leisure spaces; classing and re-classing spaces (gentrification) Week 13. April 14 Unit VII: Modern states and class relations Weeks 14 and 15. April 21-28 Projects: Reading and writing individually or in small groups Week 16. May 5 Projects: presentations of drafts Final papers (10-20 pages) due Thursday May 12 Grade distribution: Six reaction papers (3-4 pages each) = 30% Other forms of class participation (including class attendance; preparation for class as indicated by postings of questions and comments on WebCT as well as participation in in-class discussion) = 30% One ?student choice? book review = 5% ?Historians in class history? biography = 10% Project (research or historiographic) presentation and paper (ca. 10-20 pages) = 25%
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34666/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 November 2010
Fall 2014 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- German-Jewish Transnationalism (35151)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1-4 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- GER 8300 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 20
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Notes:
- SEMINAR TITLE: German-Jewish transnationalism
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35151/1149
Spring 2014 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Empire and Nations in the Middle East (61038)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- HIST 5547 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 225
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/61038/1143
Spring 2014 | HIST 8960 Section 003: Topics in History -- Histories and Cultures of Capitalism (67049)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Fri 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 278
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67049/1143
Spring 2014 | HIST 8960 Section 004: Topics in History -- Food, Magic, Medicine: History of Atlantic World (67050)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 004
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Thu 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- "Food, Magic, Medicine" introduces the age of exploration as an era of encounter and exchange. Rather than focusing on conquest, it asks how Native and African cultures transformed European, American and global history during the early modern era. While imperialism relied on an ideology of supremacy, both in politics and culture, colonists were often dependent on Native and African knowledge, food and expertise. Paying careful attention to the social meaning of specific foods, such as sugar and chocolate, as well as cultural practices like scientific collecting and healing, this course will interrogate the revolutions in taste, knowledge and belief that took place in the Atlantic world between 1500 and 1800. Part 1, "Taste," examines eating, drinking and smoking as socially constructed experiences that have major economic, political and religious implications. Focusing on crops rather than specific regions, it views the culture of consumption as a vital force fueling transatlantic transformations. Part 2, "Knowledge," asks how individuals made sense of the massive amount of information that circulated throughout the Atlantic World. It investigates the European culture of collecting alongside Afro-Atlantic and Native American forms of knowledge production that both challenged and contributed to the development of a "Western canon." Part 3, "Belief," examines cultures of belief on a regional basis, using case studies to contextualize religious, political and economic movements within an Atlantic framework. Students will be asked to pair microhistorical analysis with a broad transatlantic and, at times, global framework to recognize the importance of locality in Atlantic and world history.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67050/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 November 2013
Fall 2013 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- History, Power, and Pragmatism (30846)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Wed 03:35PM - 05:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 115
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- HISTORY 8960, HISTORIES AND GOVERNMENTALITIES, is a course that will examine the thought of Michel Foucault, and in particular his writings on governmentality, or what he called "the conduct of conduct." We will read some of Foucault's works, but then key works that have extended Foucault's thought in various directions: books by Nikolas Rose, Timothy Mitchell, and Patrick Joyce. Students will write one bibliographic essay and one analytic essay that applies some of these authors' ideas to their possible dissertation topics. And in groups, students will also design projects that extend the analytic project of this governmentality literature into arenas of contemporary life. The goal of the class is not simply to more clearly grasp this framework of analysis, but to investigate its applications and extensions into everyday life, both within and outside the academy.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/30846/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 December 2009
Fall 2013 | HIST 8960 Section 002: Topics in History -- Bourdieu, Latour, Agamben and Feminists (30847)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- HIST 5960 Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Fri 11:15AM - 01:45PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 225
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/30847/1139
Fall 2013 | HIST 8960 Section 090: Topics in History -- Public History: Guantanamo Public Memory Project (35847)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- AMST 8920 Section 001HIST 5960 Section 090
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- This course is both a graduate-level introduction to public history and an examination into the contentious history of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It provides an introduction to the theory, methods, practice, and politics of public history. The course allows students to explore the possibilities and challenges of the production and dissemination of histories in nonacademic settings. Students will develop collaborative public projects that will be presented as part of The Guantanamo Public Memory Project Travelling Exhibit when it is installed at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul in February 2014. These projects will either address the history of the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo or explore Minnesota connections to Guantanamo, broadly defined, including the meanings and impacts of post-9/11 security and anti-terrorism policies in Minnesota as well as the connections between US immigration and citizenship policies and local refugee communities. The instructor will work with students to identify collaborative partners as well as technological resources and expertise. This is an interdisciplinary graduate public history course created to appeal to students in a wide range of programs. Upper-level undergraduates who demonstrate a commitment and capacity to handle the rigors of a graduate course may contact the instructor (kpmurphy@umn.edu) to request permission to enroll. The Guantanamo Public Memory Project, headquartered at Columbia University, is a collaboration involving eleven universities and across the United States. The University of Minnesota has participated in the project since 2012. More information can be found at: http://gitmomemory.org.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35847/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 May 2013
Spring 2013 | HIST 8960 Section 001: Topics in History -- Early Globalities (56560)
- Instructor(s)
- Geraldine Heng
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Meets With:
- EMS 8250 Section 001FREN 8120 Section 001HIST 5960 Section 001MEST 5610 Section 004MEST 8110 Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Wed 01:00PM - 03:30PMUMTC, West BankWalter W Heller Hall 1229
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics not covered in regular courses.
- Class Description:
- Early Globalities II envisions the lived worlds of human experience in dynamic interconnection, within a flexible time frame of about a thousand years, roughly 500-1500 CE. We will focus on Maghrebi and Sub-Saharan Africa, the multi-confessional worlds of the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Americas. We will structure our investigation along three axes of global interaction: 1. environments: how these are made, sustained, and transformed through contact across regions 2. circulations: of peoples, technology, material culture, ideas, and non-human agents like bacteria, and 3. beliefs: how human societies organized spiritual life and defined religious differences and commonalities across cultures. The seminar will feature several distinguished visiting scholars who will lead classes on their particular areas of expertise.
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
50% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
75% Discussion - Workload:
- 100-200 Pages Reading Per Week
15-25 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56560/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2012
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