printer friendly pageHISTORY 208C: History of Death and Dying (HISTORY 308C)
The changing realities of, attitudes towards and ways of coping with death drawing on examples from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The role of death in shaping the modern world via the global slave trades, imperial conquest, pandemics, wars and genocides. Changing rituals relating to death, intellectual and philosophical debates about the personal and social meanings of death, and the political and personal consequences of particular ways and patterns of dying.
Last offered: Autumn 2011
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 209S: Research Seminar for Majors
Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop analyses. Autumn quarter focuses on European Lit and Arts; winter quarter on U.S. History and Colonialism; spring quarter on modern Europe, ancient China and early modern Europe.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 215K: The Crusades: A Cultural History
This seminar follows the trajectory of the Crusades in Europe and the Middle East from the late eleventh to the fifteenth century. A particular emphasis will be placed on cultural developments such art and architecture in both regions, the depiction of Crusaders in Muslim sources and of Muslims in Christian chronicles, and on the cultural assimilation of the Crusaders into the Holy Land as they settled there and became acquainted with local customs. The first crusade, started at the initiative of pope Urban II in 1095, brought Jerusalem under Christian rule for the first time since the early 7th century. This event was perceived as crucial in both Muslim and Christian sources, and the transformation of the architecture of the city soon began, with mosques being converted to churches, some of them thus returning to their initial function. Other buildings, such as the Dome of the Rock, built for Muslim worship in 689-691, were given new meaning. The direct contact between Christians and Muslims had an effect also on Europe, which now increasingly heard first-hand reports from the Holy Lands, and received objects such as glass, metalwork, and textiles produced in Syria or Egypt for its church treasuries. Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn b. Ayyub, better known in the West as Saladin, regained Jerusalem in 1187, an event that started further crusades and brought Richard Lionheart to the Holy Land. The fourth crusade in 1204 brought the sack of Constantinople, traumatic for the Byzantine Empire, yet influential for the artistic production of Western Europe as new relics, icons, and jewelry arrived. Venice received the famous bronze horses that still adorn the facade of the basilica of San Marco. In 1270, the French king Louis IX died in Tunisia during his second attempt at crusade. In 1292, the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria captured Acre, the last Crusader stronghold on the Levant, yet the notion of Crusade as religious conflict was to persist over centuries to be inserted into present-day political discourse.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Blessing, P. (PI)
HISTORY 219C: Science, Technology, and Modernity in the Soviet Union (HISTORY 319C)
Science and technology were integral to the Soviet claim to offer a vision of modernity superior to that of Western capitalism. Science and technology would flourish; society would develop on a scientific basis. The results were more complex than the vision. Topics to be covered: science and Marxism-Leninism; the Lysenko affair; the R&D system; the role of the secret police; the atomic project; the space race; missile development; Andrei Sakharov; technology and innovation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Holloway, D. (PI)
HISTORY 221A: Men, Women, and Power in Early Modern Russia, 1500-1800
Social values, gender relations, and social change in an era of rapid change; challenges to established norms by new constructions of deviance (witchcraft, religious reform, and revolt) and new standards of civility; encounters with non-Russians and the construction of national consciousness. Social values as political ethos: patrimonial autocracy and the reality of female rule in the late 17th and 18th century.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI
HISTORY 221B: The Woman Question in Modern Russia
Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of rights to women as a basic principle of social progress. The social status and cultural representations of Russian women from the mid-19th century to the present. The arguments and actions of those who fought for women's emancipation in the 19th century, theories and policies of the Bolsheviks, and the reality of women's lives under them. How the status of women today reflects on the measure of freedom in post-Communist Russia.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors:
Jolluck, K. (PI)
HISTORY 223: Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia (HISTORY 323)
Poetry, novels, symphonic music, theater, opera, painting, design, and architecture: what they reveal about the politics and culture of tsarist Russia.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 224A: The Soviet Civilization (HISTORY 424A)
Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; the Soviet understanding of mass violence, political and ethnic; and living space. Primary and secondary sources. Research paper or historiographical essay.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
HISTORY 224C: Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention (HISTORY 324C, PEDS 224)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the Cold War. The pre-1990s discussion begins with the Armenian genocide during the First World War and includes the Holocaust and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Coverage of genocide and humanitarian intervention since the 1990s includes the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, the Congo and Sudan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Patenaude, B. (PI)
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Magnus, D. (SI)
HISTORY 225: The Soviet Civilization, Part 2 (HISTORY 424B)
Prerequisite:
HISTORY 224A/424A
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Weiner, A. (PI)
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