PERSP ON INT'L & WORLD HISTORY
This course gives students the opportunity to design their own curriculum: To attend lectures, conferences and workshops on historical topics related to their individual interests throughout Columbia University. Students may attend events of their choice, and are especially encouraged to attend those sponsored by the History Department. The Center for International History and the Heyman Center for the Humanities have impressive calendars of events and often feature historians. The goal of this mini-course is to encourage students to take advantage of the many intellectual opportunities throughout the University, to gain exposure to a variety of approaches to history, and at the same time assist them in focusing on a particular area for their thesis topic.
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Instructor:
Line Lillevik
Info - 1-3 points
GRADUATE SEMINAR
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HIST 6999 GR is a twin listings of an undergraduate History seminar provided to graduate students for graduate credit. If a graduate student enrolls, she/he/they attends the same class as the undergraduate students (unless otherwise directed by the instructor). Each instructor determines additional work for graduate students to complete in order to receive graduate credit for the course. Please refer to the notes section in SSOL for the corresponding (twin) undergraduate 3000 level course and follow that course's meeting day & time and assigned classroom. Instructor permission is required to join.
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Instructor:
Lori Flores
Info - 4 points
EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIA
This graduate seminar focuses on the material and political orders from 1500-1800 in South Asia. We pair primary, historical texts (in translation) with recent monographs which demonstrate the intersections between narrative and polity within material and epistemic realms. Our guiding interests will be in understanding the intimate relationship between power, agency and materiality within specific political spaces. Eschewing the center/periphery models, we take globally connective approach incorporating Western Asian, North American and Northern European histories. Some key ideas for the seminar include, “oceanic” perspective of the Indian and Atlantic oceans, role of “agents” (travelers, merchants, bureaucrats etc.), theories of colonization and decolonization, gender and sexuality.
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Instructor:
Manan Ahmed
CULPA: 6
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THE JEWISH BOOK IN EARLY MOD WORLD
This course will situate the Jewish book within the context of the theoretical and historical literature on the history of the book: notions of orality and literacy, text and material platform, authors and readers, print and manuscript, language and gender, the book trade and its role in the circulation of people and ideas in the early age of print.
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Instructor:
Elisheva Carlebach
CULPA: 6
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Knowledge and Materiality in the Early M
Knowledge/Materiality Ear
Intended for advanced graduate students, this course considers classic and recent works in materiality and material culture in the early modern period (ca. 1400-1700), especially as they are fruitful for the history of science and knowledge. Class sessions will include discussion, museum visits, and hands-on work in the Making and Knowing Lab. Topics to be considered: embodied knowledge, material complexes, materialized concepts and identities, agentive matter, human-environment relations, and material imaginaries.
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Instructor:
Pamela Smith
CULPA: 4 Info - 4 points
Memory and History in Central Europe
Memory & History in C. Eu
The aim of the seminar is to introduce the images of the national past of the individual Central European nations (Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians, Serbs, and Croats). The course will deal with general theoretical questions of historical theory and historiography, and then examine how the identity-forming influence of national history manifested itself in each era from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Remembering the past took on different forms in the era of 19th-century nationalism (during the Habsburg Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy), between the two world wars, and during the communist dictatorships that emerged in the region. The manifestations of memory politics in Central Europe (monuments, school education) will also be presented and analyzed.
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Instructor:
Csaba Fazekas
Info - 4 points
New Directions in Eastern European, Russ
E. European Eurasian Hist
This is an intense reading seminar in new directions in East European, Russian and Eurasian history from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. The seminar explores the “Other Europe” as a constellation of specific regions as much as key localities from which to view the world. The course is based on the premise that global history should be narrated beyond center-periphery frameworks, and from any place where people have reimagined their relationship to a shared global modernity. We will investigate topics ranging from multi-confessional and multi-ethnic land empires (German, Russian, Habsburg, Ottoman, Soviet) and their post-imperial forms; globalization and isolation; nationalisms and internationalisms; modernization; communisms; borderlands; dictatorships; Orientalism outside of Western Europe; migration and expulsion across borders and the rise of so-called closed societies; interethnic and communal violence, genocide, and mass killing. Through the lens of cultural, intellectual, social, international, transnational, environmental, regional, urban, legal and gender history, and the history of science and technology, we will explore the region’s historic liminality (as a bridge between “East” and “West’) and its historic ties with Western Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the United States, and Southeast Asia.
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Readings in Labor History
This seminar traces major historical trends, transformations, events, and eras that have shaped labor and the lives of workers, mostly in the United States but also around the world. With some prefatory readings about the 18th and 19th centuries, this seminar will concentrate on the 20th and 21st centuries and examine different sectors of work and the varied laboring lives of individuals and communities. Topics covered include labor during Reconstruction; the racialization and feminization of labor; industrial factory work; agribusiness’s power and the food industry; union formation and campaigns; workplace traumas and tragedies; citizen-migrant tensions and solidarities; globalization and outsourcing; sex, tech, and gig work; and how cultural changes and political schisms affect attitudes in the working and middle classes.
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Instructor:
Lori Flores
Info - 4 points
History, Politics, Theory: Keywords
HIST, POL, THEORY: Keywor
This graduate seminar (cross-listed in the departments of History and Anthropology) explores a series of contemporary keywords in history, politics, and theory. Through the close readings of primary sources as well as classic and more recent historical and theoretical texts, we will consider questions of war, violence, genocide, trauma, memory, liberalism and illiberalism, and fascism. The course is designed to introduce graduate students to concepts and debates in History, Anthropology, and critical theory with a view of thinking about the present political moment.
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RESISTANCE & THE BLK ATLANTIC
This course investigates in-depth the significance of resistance among African-descended communities in the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone and Lusophone Atlantic Worlds from approximately 1700-2000. We will examine the genesis, forms, and limits of resistance within the context of key historical transformations such as slavery and abolition, labor and migration, and transatlantic political organizing. The class will explore the racial epistemologies, racialized labor regimes, and gendered discourses that sparked a continuum of cultural and political opposition to oppression among Black Atlantic communities. The course will also reflect on how resistance plays a central role in the formation of individual and collective identities among black historical actors.Resistance will be explored as a critical category of historical analysis, and a central factor in the making of the “Black Atlantic.”
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Instructor:
Natasha J Lightfoot
CULPA: 5
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RESEARCH SEMINAR FOR PHD STUDENTS
This course will provide a structured environment in which graduate students will write a research paper. It will be offered in the spring and will not be field-specific. It will be recommended for first-year students in particular, who will be expected to enter from GR8910 (the required first-year course) and with a topic and/or prospectus for the paper they plan to complete in the course. The aim of the course is to ensure that all PhD students complete one of their two research papers within the first year. This seminar is recommended for, and restricted to, PhD students in the History Department. The aim of the seminar is to guide and assist students in the completion of a 10,000-12,000 word research paper appropriate for publication in a scholarly journal. The seminar is not field-specific, and students may work on any subject of their choosing. The paper must however be based on primary source research and represents a substantial departure from earlier work. The assignments for the course are designed to help students complete a polished piece of work by the end of term.
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Instructor:
Catherine Evtuhov
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Capitalism and Democracy
It is a common-place that the twentieth century ended with the establishment of capitalism and democracy as the “one best way”. In triumphalist accounts of the end of the Cold War the two are commonly presented as sharing a natural affinity. As never before the democratic formula was recommended for truly global application. To suggest the possibility of a contradiction between capitalism and democracy has come to seem like a gesture of outrageous conservative cynicism, or leftist subversion. And yet the convergence of capitalism and democracy is both recent and anything other than self-evident. It has been placed in question once again since 2008 in the epic crisis of Atlantic financial capitalism. This course examines the historical tensions between these two terms in the Atlantic world across the long 20th century from the 1890s to the present day.
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Instructor:
Adam Tooze
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
SEMINAR IN TEACHING
History Doctoral students who are for TAs for a course must enroll in this independent study seminar. The DGS is always listed as instructor.
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Instructor:
Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
Info - 4 points