printer friendly pageHISTORY 308: Biography and History (HISTORY 207)
The relationship between biographical and historical writing, primarily in Europe and America. Problems of methodology, evidence, dispassion, and empathy. Texts: biographies, critical literature on biographical work, and novels (A. S. Byatt's
Possession, Bernard Malamud's
Dubin's Lives) that illuminate the intellectual underpinnings of biographical labor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 308A: Science and Law in History (HISTORY 208A)
How the intertwined modern fields of science and law, since the early modern period, together developed central notions of fact, evidence, experiment, demonstration, objectivity, and proof.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Riskin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 309A: Postcolonial Theory and Universal History
Key texts and motifs from postcolonial theory: empire, class, exile, suffering, textuality, archive in juxtaposition to 20th-century philosophical questions about universal history and the relevance of humanist inquiry.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Kumar, A. (PI)
HISTORY 309B: The Century: Problem of the Present in Twentieth-Century Thought (HISTORY 209B)
What is the present? Can it stand on its own, without invoking history and without promising a future? How did the 20th century make sense of itself, as violent and ruptured from all preceding centuries as it was, yet so prolific and promising in its revolutionary achievements and futures? The century through four concepts: time, ambiguity, cruelty, and crisis. 20th-century politics through what happened to dialectic, humanism, history, and Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Kumar, A. (PI)
HISTORY 30C: Culture and Society in Reformation England
(Same as
History 130C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 130C.) Focuses on the appeal of both Reformed and Catholic ideas in the political and cultural contexts of early modern Europe. Topics include: the Lutheran revolt; the spread of Protestant ideas; Calvin's Geneva; the English Reformation; Tridentine reform and the Jesuits; toleration and the underground churches; wars and religious violence; and the making of European confessional identities. Sources include sermons, religious polemic, autobiographies, graphic prints, poetry, and music.
HISTORY 311: Body, Gender, and Society in Medieval Europe (HISTORY 211)
Historical, literary, theological, and anthropological sources. Issues: transformations in representations of the body, gender, sexuality, and in women¿s place in society or social representation in W. Europe from the 3rd-14th centuries. Were these processes related to one another and to social changes? Analytically straddles the realm between bodification of spiritual powers and control or manipulation of the body in society, from the cult of relics to asceticism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Buc, P. (PI)
HISTORY 311E: Ancient War (CLASSHIS 235A)
Seminar on Greco-Roman warfare, looking at why and how wars were fought, their causes and consequences, and the experience and expense of fighting. Emphasis on comparative approaches, juxtaposing ancient Mediterranean war with warfare in other parts of the world, wars in earlier and later periods, and conflict among other species.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Morris, I. (PI)
;
Scheidel, W. (PI)
HISTORY 311F: Ancient War (CLASSHIS 235B)
Continuation of 235A. Seminar on Greco-Roman warfare, looking at why and how wars were fought, their causes and consequences, and the experience and expense of fighting. Emphasis on comparative approaches, juxtaposing ancient Mediterranean war with warfare in other parts of the world, wars in earlier and later periods, and conflict among other species.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Morris, I. (PI)
HISTORY 319B: Secularity
Classic theories of secularity. Is a secular world possible? How does, historically seen, the notion of the secular emerge, impose itself, and get challenged? Readings include Max Weber, E. Durkheim, R.A. Markus, Carl Schmitt, and Hans Blumenberg, and studies bearing on the Middle Ages, English monastic secularization, the French Revolution, and 20th-century political religions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Buc, P. (PI)
HISTORY 320G: Demons, Witches, Holy Fools, and Folk Belief: Popular Religion in Russia, 19th and 20th Centuries (HISTORY 220G)
Popular religion in Russia, focusing on life in the provinces and villages in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The double faith of Orthodox Christianity combined with folk beliefs. Topics include: parish priests, witchcraft, possession, Holy Fools, Old Believers, spiritual elders, saints, icons, religious cults,and women's lay religious movements.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Kollmann, J. (PI)
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