printer friendly pageHISTORY 207S: Digital Humanities: Concepts, Tools, Problems (HISTORY 407K)
How can digital tools benefit research in history and neighboring disciplines? The aim of this seminar is to equip students with basic skills in some of the most important digital tools currently used by scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Individual classes will focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), web mapping, digital network analysis, data visualization, and digital publishing formats. As part of the exercise to use digital methods, students will develop collaborative digital projects. No prior technical skills are needed for this course.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Scholz, L. (PI)
HISTORY 208A: Science and Law in History (HISTORY 308A)
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: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Riskin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 208B: Women Activists' Response to War (FEMGEN 208B, HISTORY 308B)
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.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
HISTORY 208K: Global Capitalism and the Global South
Is modern capitalism a European innovation or a global phenomenon? Can there be different manifestations of capitalism in different local, regional, national, and imperial contexts? What role has the Global South played in the history of capitalism? This course examines the ways that capitalism has innovated, destroyed, and matured from the 17th to 20th centuries. It explores the themes of business, trade, labor, agriculture, gender, and race with a focus on the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Alff, K. (PI)
HISTORY 209C: Liberalism and Violence (HISTORY 309C)
Does LIberalism have a theory of violence? What does modern political thought, in privileging humanity and rights, share with "terrorists" and "rogue states?" How is liberalism transformed by the use of religion and death for political ends? We read key thinkers of modern life- Adorno, Arendt, Agamben, Benjamin, Derrida, Fanon, Foucault, Gandhi, Heidegger, and Schmitt- to interrogate the relationship between religion, sacrifice, and democracy. At the center are connections between war and modern life, and between violence and non-violence.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kumar, A. (PI)
HISTORY 209F: Maps in the Early Modern World (HISTORY 309F)
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 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 gender, race, sexuality and History of Science; Winter quarter on early modern travel and Europe before 1500; Spring quarter on American political history and open topic.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Burns, J. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Griffiths, F. (PI)
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Instructors:
Burns, J. (PI)
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Freedman, E. (PI)
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Griffiths, F. (PI)
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Kollmann, N. (PI)
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Riskin, J. (PI)
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Zipperstein, S. (PI)
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Meyers, J. (TA)
HISTORY 216: Women and the Book: Scribes, Artists, and Readers from Late Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century (ARTHIST 206H, FEMGEN 216, HISTORY 316)
This course examines the cultural worlds of medieval women through particular attention to the books that they owned, commissioned, and created. Beginning with the earliest Christian centuries, the course proceeds chronologically, charting women¿s book ownership, scribal and artistic activity, and patronage from Late Antiquity through the fourteenth century. In addition to examining specific manuscripts (in facsimile, or digitally), we will consider ancillary questions to do with women¿s authorship, education and literacy, reading patterns, devotional practices, and visual traditions and representation.
Last offered: Winter 2015
HISTORY 218: The Holy Dead: Saints and Spiritual Power in Medieval Europe (HISTORY 318, RELIGST 218X, RELIGST 318X)
Examines the cult of saints in medieval religious thought and life. Topics include martyrs, shrines, pilgrimage, healing, relics, and saints' legends.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Griffiths, F. (PI)
HISTORY 221B: The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia (FEMGEN 221B)
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.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
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