printer friendly pageHISTORY 382C: Women in the Modern Middle East (HISTORY 282C)
Historical changes in factors structuring women's status and sociopolitical roles: the rise of Islam and Muslim orthodoxy; less formal expressions of women's religiosity and sexuality; the integration of the Middle East into the world market and its effects on women's labor; and social movements concerned with women's status. Case studies of women's participation in anti-colonial revolutions. Sources include historical studies, primary texts, fiction, memoirs, and films.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Prakash, A. (PI)
HISTORY 382F: History of Modern Turkey
Social, political and cultural history of Modern Turkey from the last decades of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century until Today. Themes include transformation from a multi-national empire to a national republic; Islam, secularism and radical modernism; military, bureaucracy and democratic experience; economic development, underdevelopment and class; Istanbul, Ankara and provincial Turkey; socialism, conservatism(s), and Kurdish challenge; Turkey in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia; gender, sexuality and family; popular culture, soccer, and film industry; Post-Modernism, Neo-Ottomanism, and the New-Turkey; The class also include reading works of Turkish literature and watching movies by Turkish directors.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
HISTORY 382G: Israel from the Margins
Although secular, European Jews form a minority of the population of the State of Israel, and its history is typically narrated and interpreted from that perspective. Israel looks like a rather different place if it is seen and understood from the point of view of Middle Eastern and North African Jews,including those indigenous to the country before the advent of the modern Zionist movement, orthodox and ultra-orthodox Jews, Palestinian Arabs (nearly twenty percent of Israel's population today), migrant workers (about 200,000), and women. This course does not suggest that their perspectives are necessarily more real or true, only that an understanding of Israel that does not adequately consider them is necessarily false.
HISTORY 383: The New Global Economy, Oil and Origins of the Arab Spring (HISTORY 283)
This class uses the methods of political economy to study the trajectory of global capitalism from the end of World War II to the current phase of neoliberal globalization. The argument is that the role of oil, and its primary repository " the Middle East " has been central in the global capitalist order and that neoliberalism and the oil economy are closely linked to the eruption of the Arab uprisings of 2011.
Last offered: Winter 2015
HISTORY 383G: Place, Nature, and Life: Spacetime through Ottoman Texts (HISTORY 283G)
Prerequisite: Reading ability in Ottoman-Turkish and/or Arabic. This course explores how women and men in the early modern Ottoman world (16th to 18th centuries) imagined their physical and spiritual environment, their past and future, their immediate places and far geographies, life and afterlife. The theoretical framework of discussions will be heavily based on Henri Lefebvre's Production of Space and primary readings include various texts in Ottoman-Turkish, such as The Descriptions of Places of Matrakç Nasuh (d.1564) and The Travels of Eviya Çelebi (d.1682). We will also examine the Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts in Green Library.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Yaycioglu, A. (PI)
HISTORY 384F: Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World and Beyond, 1500-1800 (HISTORY 284F)
Focuses on political regimes, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Balkans and Middle East to Central and South Asia. Topics include complex political systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; experiences of various Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Hindu, as well as urban, rural and nomadic communities; consolidation of transregional commerce and cultural exchange; incorporation of the Islamic world in the global economy; transimperial networks of the Muslim and Non-Muslim merchants, scholars and sufis.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
HISTORY 385A: Core Colloquium in Jewish History, 17th-19th Centuries (JEWISHST 385A)
Last offered: Autumn 2015
HISTORY 385B: Graduate Colloquium in Modern Jewish History (JEWISHST 385B)
Instructor consent required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 385C: Jews in the Contemporary World: Faith and Ethnicity, Vulnerability and Visibility (CSRE 185B, HISTORY 185B, JEWISHST 185B, REES 185B)
(Same as
HISTORY 85B.) This course explores the full expanse of Jewish life today and in the recent past. The inner workings of religious faith, the content of Jewish identify shorn of belief, the interplay between Jewish powerlessness and influence, the myth and reality of Jewish genius, the continued pertinence of antisemitism, the rhythms of Jewish economic life ¿ all these will be examined in weekly lectures, classroom discussion, and with the use of a widely diverse range of readings, films, and other material. Explored in depth will the ideas and practices of Zionism, the content of contemporary secularism and religious Orthodoxy, the impact Holocaust, the continued crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians. Who is to be considered Jewish, in any event, especially since so many of the best known (Spinoza, Freud, Marx) have had little if anything to do with Jewish life with their relationships to it indifferent, even hostile?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
;
Daniels, J. (TA)
HISTORY 385K: History of Modern Antisemitism: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The articulations of anti-Jewish hatred from the advent of Jewish emancipation in Europe. The legacy of premodern Christian demonization and its modern protean transformations as they penetrated and annexed new currents of ideology, notions of identity (social, national, racial), taste, and aesthetics. A history of ideas, representations, and stereotypes, and their relation to historical experience, action, and mobilization. Europe is the focus; case studies also include the Middle East and elsewhere.
Last offered: Winter 2009
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