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Immigration and Race Politics in the USA Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Victoria Hattam We are living through the third great immigration wave in American history. How are demographic changes over the last 40 years affecting the contours of cultural and political life How do immigrants position themselves in terms of race How does the state classify immigrant groups What are the future possibilities of political alliances between immigrants and African- Americans Drawing on recent work across the social sciences as well as extensive primary sources, the course examines the politics of immigrant and racial difference in the 20th- and 21st-century United States. Special attention will be given to Jewish immigration in the early twentieth century and Mexican immigration across the 20th century. Cross-listed as GPOL 5311. GHI S 5114 Gandhi and his Interlocutors Spring 2009. Three credits. Faisal Devji and Vyjayanthi Rao In 1926, after the failure of his first movement of civil disobedience, Gandhi paused to rethink the meaning of nonviolence. He brought to light many complicated relations, making them available to political thought in productive new ways. Among his conclusions were the following: that violence was a positive phenomenon, and nonviolence a negative phenomenon with no life of its own. Moreover violence could not survive without nonviolence, which gave the former a legitimacy it did not otherwise possess. For Gandhi, these seemingly contradictory statements proved that violence and nonviolence were not opposed phenomena, but intimately related to one another in complex ways. Whatever else the Mahatma accomplished, Gandhi is only the most famous among many who have thought about the relationship of violence and nonviolence in South Asia. While this thinking is distinctive because it emerges from the distinct history of South Asia, it is by no means peculiar to it. The region's history has produced not only distinctive forms of violence and nonviolence, but equally distinct ways of thinking about their relationship, whose relevance is not confined to geography. This course explores some of the theories by focusing on the social life of violence and non-violence in contemporary South Asia. Cross-listed with Anthropology, GANT 5225.
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Historical Roots of a "Fiasco": Iraq Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Eli Zaretsky The American invasion of Iraq has been described as a fiasco. In Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas E. Rick supports this view by characterizing the administration's actions as the errors or bad intentions of the political right: e.g., the neoconservatives and the cabal around Bush. By contrast, this course explores the weaknesses and failures of American liberalism and the political left in providing the opening for the Bush presidency. The model for this approach is Marx's explanation (in his Eighteenth Brumaire) of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat in 1851. Otherreadings include both long-term critiques of American liberalism, such as those by Richard Slotkin and Patricia Seed, and more focused studies of the post-1989 period. Cross-listed as LHIS 4568 and GSOC 5044. 60 GHI S 5116 and Time, Life, and Matter: Topics in the Histories of Science, Technology, and Media Spring 2009. Three credits. Orit Halpern This course will be a preliminary survey of the latest methodological and theoretical approaches in science and media studies as they intersect with critical history and historiography. Topics to be covered will include histories of subjectivity, race, and gender in relationship to the life and information sciences; post-humanism; the production of "nature" and "culture" categories of analysis and structures for the production of historical time; and histories of representation and perception. Students read texts from science, history and philosophy of science, and media studies. Readings may include: Gilles Deleuze, Georges Canguilhem, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Fredrich Kittler, Hayden White, William James, Henri Bergson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Grosz, Donna Haraway, and others. Cross-listed with Sociology, GSOC 5050.
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The Great War in Narrative Perspective(s) Spring 2009. Three credits. Ann-Louis Shapiro The legacies of World War I continue to be felt nearly a century later. Because it was a "total war," it drew virtually all aspects of human lifeinto its orbit. Yet these legacies have been understood differently by authors writing in different times, in different genres, and within different historiographical frameworks. This course expores the various resonances and interpretations of the "Great War" by asking: How did eyewitnessaccounts shape the war story How did the understanding of the war's legacies change in light of subsequent conflicts What role did novelists and filmmakers play in telling the war story And how have popular accounts intersected with those of professional historians What are the important differences of interpretation that have emerged from various analytic frameworks In addressing these questions, the course uses primary and secondary documents, novels, and films to explore the creation and transformation of historical knowledge. Cross-listed with Liberal Studies, GLIB 4505.
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Becoming Other: Mimesis, Alterity, and History in Time-Based Media Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Orit Halpern This course explores how genealogies of time-based media might serve as critical tools to think about difference. Our focus in the course is twofold. First, we explore methodological approaches to the history of technology, media, and subjectivity. Some questions we investigate are: How can we expand our conception of "media " How would we approach a history ofthe senses and perception How would one even historicize the very idea of time Second, we inquire into the ethical possibility such historical inquiry might offer for rethinking subjectivity, difference, and politics. Some of the questions we investigate: How might we consider these new historical forms of inquiry as modes of thinking about difference How do different accounts of mimesis, performance, and temporality specific to time-based media help us think about subjectivity, politics, and aesthetics How can these historical approaches complicate our thinking about nature and culture, machines and organisms, ourselves and others
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3.00 Credits
Iran in Revolution: 1800-Present Fall 2008. Three credits. Neguin Yavari By the time the Qajar dynasty established itself in Iran in 1779, Shi'ism had already established its religious hegemony over Iran and the 18th and 19th centuries saw further evidence of its consolidation and institutionalization. How does the religious architecture of Shi'ism help explain the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911 and the success of the Islamic revolution in 1979 in the absence of a strong Islamic movement And why did Iranians, clerical and lay, and in the heyday of colonialism, turn to a Western-inspired ideology in the early decades of the twentieth century, and then turn completely against Westernization some seventy years later This course studies social change in Iran during the past two centuries, focusing on the interaction of political thought with religious authority and cultural transformation, to suggest that the Islamic revolution of 1979 is better explained in the lexicon of revolutionary transformation than in that of religious resurgence or a revival of the past. Readings will include Bayat, Bulliet, Goldstone, Khomeini, Moaddel, Mottahedeh, Owen and Skocpol. Cross-listed as GHIS 5119, and as LHIS 4514. Cross-listed with Political Science, GPOL 5119.
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The History of Race and Slavery in the New World Spring 2009. Three credits. Robin Blackburn This course furnishes an overview of successive forms of racial oppression in the history of the Americas, with a special focus on the rise and fall of black slavery in the New World covering all parts of the hemisphere, and the whole period 1492-1888. It looks at the ideologies that inspired colonial conquests and settlement in the New World and at the shape of early colonial society. It seeks to explain why Europeans brought African captives to the Americas, and to explore the dynamic of the slave plantations and their link to the development of capitalism. It also looks at the growth of a new social world in the wake of the Atlantic boom of the 18th century and of the revolutionary struggles to which this gave rise in Haiti and elsewhere. Special consideration will be given to the ethnic identities that emerged in the later colonial period and at the relationship of newly independent American states to slavery and race. Slavery was destroyed in the course of a momentous series of wars and revolutions whose course and connections will be considered. Black anti-slavery and white abolitionism became significant and innovative social forces. The experience of slavery itself gave rise to a powerful African-American cultural legacies, but the course will also seek to explain why the suppression of slavery was succeeded by new forms of racial oppression. Cross-listed as LHIS 4465. GHI S 5122 Readings on the Right Fall 2008. Three credits. Julia Ott The class offers a workshop in historical research and writing, with an emphasis on the evolution of conservative thought and politics in the United States. We will trace continuity and change in the meaning of the "conservative" label and in the nature of the groups that identify,or are identified with, conservatism. Students will encounter a range of conservative thinkers, evaluate historians' analyses of conservative movements, and produce an original research paper. This course fulfils the qualitative methods requirement for an MA in political science. Cross-listed with Political Science, GPOL 5122 and LHIS 4506. 61
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Radicalism and Its Discontents: The 1960s-Present Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Eli Zaretsky This course is a history of the Left since the 1960s including the women's movement, gay liberation, ecology, European social democracy, Solidarity and the Samizdat, anti-globalization, global feminism, Mideast democracy movements, and the Chinese "new left. Cross-listed as GLIB 5515, GPOL5020, and LHIS 4515.
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The Middle East: Paradoxes of Modernity & Democracy Spring 2009. Three credits. John VanderLippe In the modern era, the Middle East has been shaped by three great forces: Western domination; expansion of modern states and militaries; and popular demands for sovereignty, autonomy, inclusion, and justice. State-sponsored reform movements, ranging from the Ottoman Tanzimat (Reorganization) to Kemalism, Nasserism and Ba'thism, to Islamism, have responded to exogenous and indigenous pressures with attempts to modernize political, economic, and cultural institutions. But herein lays the paradox of modernity and democracy: statist reform movements have produced powerful bureaucracies and large militaries, but have failed to overcome economic stagnation or lead to democratic, egalitarian, just, and free societies, thus calling into question assumptions that modernity and democracy are intrinsically linked. Beginning with an examination of Western and Muslim writers' views on state and society, this course explores historical relations between the Middle East and West; development of modern states and militaries in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq; and intellectual and popular resistance movements, to explore answers to the question: Is democracy possible in the 21st century Middle East Cross-listed with Political Science, GPOL 5124.
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America's Empires: The Historical Perspectives Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Oz Frankel Empire is a keyword of our time. It has been in frequent use since the American invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq-either to celebrate or to castigate U.S. foreign policy-but even before 9/11, thinking of the United States in terms of empire informed the study of American history. This seminar addresses the utility and feasibility of empire as a term of analysis in U.S. history. It takes an expansive view of empire that includes diverse systems of domination and inequality, inside and outside the formal boundaries of the US, and aspects of private well as public lives. The emphasis is the social, cultural, and daily dimensions of imperial power rather than diplomacy and strategy. Examples, from the conclusion of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, include western expansion, post Civil War Reconstruction, race and domesticity, and the global process of "Americanization," in other words, the transnationalpresence of the United States as a model for social relations, political structures, and popular culture. Cross-listed as HLIS 4567 and GSOC 5043.
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U.S. Immigration and Changing Patterns of Integration Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. Aristide Zolberg This course deals with social change and covers population history, with the contribution of immigration to population change, starting with the slave trade in colonial times, then with immigration policy, but also changing notions of citizenship and membership-referred to as "shifting boundaries"-and changing strategies of integration. Lastly, it deals withongoing normative debates on immigration. Cross-listed as GPOL 5021.
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