printer friendly pageHISTORY 308B: Women Activists' Response to War (HISTORY 208B)
Theoretical issues, historical origins, changing forms of women's activism in response to war throughout the 20th century, and contemporary cases, such as the Russian Committee of Soldiers Mothers, Bosnian Mothers of Srebrenica, Serbian Women in Black, and the American Cindy Sheehan. Focus is on the U.S. and Eastern Europe, with attention to Israel, England, and Argentina.
HISTORY 309E: History Meets Geography
Focus is on developing competence in GIS computer applications and applying it to historical problems. Previous experience with GIS not required. Recommended: complete the GIS tutorial in Branner Library before the course starts.
HISTORY 309F: Historical Geography Colloquium: Maps in the Early Modern World
The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such artifacts performed for their patrons, viewers, and subjects. Contributions of indigenous knowledge to imperial maps; the career of the map in commerce, surveillance, diplomacy, conquest, and indoctrination. Sources include recent research from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
HISTORY 311A: Family, Gender, and Production in Ancient Rome (CLASSGEN 220)
Seminar. The household as the basic unit of production in Rome in the context of family relations and ideologies of gender. Methodological challenges of doing social and economic history from literary, epigraphic, and literary texts. Demography of family and kinship in ancient Rome. Ideologies of gender and family roles and their influence on economic production. Economic theories of the family and human capital.
HISTORY 311B: Jews under Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages (HISTORY 211B)
Addresses the relationship between the Jews and the host Islamic and Christian societies during the Middle Ages (AD 500-1500). Themes, covered in a comparative context, include: the Jews' legal status, economic and political rule, toleration and persecutions, adaptation and acculturation, and religious polemics.
Instructors:
Irish, M. (PI)
HISTORY 311G: Big Ancient History (CLASSHIS 312)
How the shift away from thinking about European history in terms of a western civilization model toward embedding it in stories of how global history affects research and teaching on ancient Greece and Rome. Conventional, evolutionary, and global history narratives of the past 5,000 to 15,000 years and some new ideas about how Greco-Roman history might fit into different storylines.
HISTORY 312: Holy Wars: Medieval Perspectives (HISTORY 212)
Cultural and societal factors at play in Christian holy war from late antiquity to the early modern era. Topics include: the Crusades and their meanings; armed struggle against heresy; and the wars of religion. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HISTORY 313: Core Colloquium in Medieval European History
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 314: Graduate Core Colloquium in Medieval European History
HISTORY 316A: Muslims and Infidels: Islam and the Crusades (HISTORY 216A)
The impact of the Crusades on the Muslim world and consciousness from the Middle Ages and to the present. Primary and secondary sources. Themes include: jihad; cultural interaction between Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land; and military, political, and ideological developments in the 12th and 13th centuries. Modern interpretations and debates about jihadist theology and global jihad.
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