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Have you ever wanted to curate a museum exhibition, or explore alternative ways of studying history, beyond the term paper or article? In this hands-on class, we will research and design a real museum exhibition, to be staged at the Silicon Valley Archives inside Green Library. Students will learn archival research methods, design and build exhibition cases and panels, the theory and practice of museum curation. Students will create individual projected, centered around the core theme of the class: the global history of information technology and Silicon Valley.

The purpose of this seminar is to examine the evolution of modern warfare by closely following four modern battles/campaigns. For this purpose the seminar offers four mock staff rides, facilitating highly engaged, well-researched experience for participants. In a mock staff ride, students are assigned roles; each student is playing a general or staff officer who was involved in the battle/campaign. Students will research their roles and, during the staff ride, will be required to explain "their" decisions and actions. Staff rides will not deviate from historical records, but closely examine how decisions were made, what pressures and forces were in action, battle outcomes, etc. This in-depth examination will allow students to gain a deeper understanding of how modern tactics, technology, means of communications, and the scale of warfare can decide, and indeed decided, campaigns. We will will spend two weeks preparing for and playing each staff ride. One meeting will be dedicated to discussing the forces shaping the chosen battle/campaign: the identity and goals ofnthe belligerents, the economic, technological, cultural and other factors involved, as well as the initial general plan. The second meeting will be dedicated to the battle itself. The four battles will illustrate major developments in modern warfare.

This course explores intellectual life and culture in Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. We will study canonical texts in the history of modern European philosophy and social theory. Key themes we will trace across the texts include the nature of freedom, power, and the relationship between the individual and society. Texts include works by Olaudah Equiano, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault. We will spend each class closely reading the text and reconstructing the arguments. We will also seek to understand these thinkers in the context in which they wrote. How did historical events and movements - slavery, the Enlightenment, revolutions, industrialization, abolition, feminism, and the Holocaust - shape modern ideas about power, freedom, and the self? As we move through the term, we will also be able to see how authors build on one another and put texts in conversation.

What are the Police? In this colloquium, we will develop an historical and theoretical understanding of police power from a world historical perspective. Each week is organized thematically and will address a dimension of the history of police power in the modern world, engaging with literature from various regions of the world such as the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. Themes will include theoretical discussions of the nature of police power, its unfolding within structures of racial capitalism, the nature of police work, the lives of police workers, the policing forms in colonial empires and in histories of decolonization, police brutality, intelligence history, and urban policing. Students from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome.

Designed along the lines of the PBS series, "In the Actor's Workshop," students will meet weekly with some of the leading literary biographers writing today. Included this spring will be "New Yorker" staff writer Judith Thurman -- whose biography of Isak Dinesen was made into the film "Out of Africa" -- as well as Shirley Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin, now at work on a book about Anne Frank. Professor Zipperstein will share with the class drafts of the biography of Philip Roth that he is now writing. Critics questioning the value of biography as an historical and literary tool will also be invited to meetings with the class.

"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." The writer Edna O'Brien's portrait of Irish life encapsulates a history shaped by colonialism, famine, forced migration, and enduring political struggle. This course explores the global story of Ireland, a small land of 4.8 million that since 1800 has produced a diaspora of some 10 million people worldwide. Colonized and colonizers, freedom fighters and slave-owners, the starving and the wealthy, pious and irreverent-- the Irish reveal their past through memoirs, poetry, novels, music, film, and television.

In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With these big questions in mind, the primary focus will be on the history of Europe and European empires, but substantial readings deal with other parts of the world, particularly China and the Indian Ocean. HISTORY 307C is a prerequisite for HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).

Colloquium on the history of transgender practices and identities. Readings will include scholarly texts from the emerging historical field of transhistory as well as adjacent fields within gender history. Colloquium will investigate avenues for deepening transhistory through further historical inquiry.

What did the "world" mean before the modern age, and who got to imagine it? This course explores how people across empires - from the Ottoman and Mughal courts to Iberian colonies, African kingdoms, and Chinese and Japanese polities - envisioned and represented the globe between 1400 and 1800. We will examine how exploration, conquest, trade, and migration connected distant societies and how those encounters inspired new ways of seeing and mapping the world. Rather than treating globalization as a modern or Western invention, we will trace its deeper roots in the early modern era, a time when goods, ideas, and beliefs moved faster and farther than ever before. Through travel accounts, maps, cosmologies, artworks, and literary texts, we will compare how different cultures understood the planet and their place within it. Along the way, we will also explore how these connections brought about colonization, displacement, disease, and environmental change, as well as creativity, adaptation, and resistance.