LECTURING FACULTY
Prof. Sharon Block (Dept. of History) — Office hours through Week 3: M/W 10-10:40am, Tu/Th 10:30-11am, and by appointment, 320 Murray Krieger Hall
Prof. Linda Trinh Vo (Dept. of Asian American Studies)
Prof. Nasrin Rahimieh (Dept. of Comparative Literature)
SPRING 2017 LECTURE CALENDAR
Lectures are held:
M/W (not Friday) 9:00-9:50am in BS3 1200
M/W (not Friday) 11:00-11:50am in BS3 1200
Tu/Th 9:30-10:20am in HIB 100
This calendar (subject to change) provides information about the lecturing faculty member, readings, writing assignments, and HumCore events by date. The reading assignment for each lecture should be completed before the lecture. You should treat lecture like another text for this course: take careful notes and be prepared to discuss lecture materials in your seminar.
All required reading materials will be available online this quarter.
| Week | Lecturer | Readings | Study aids | Events |
| 1a: 4/3 |
Block: Introducing Colonialism, Race, and Sex |
Excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015) Download | ||
| 1b: 4/5 |
Block: Trans-Atlantic Slavery |
Equiano, Narrative of the Life, excerpts. Download |
Start research project |
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| 2a: 4/10 |
Block: Gender Frontiers |
Excerpts from Hawkins, A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa and Harrington, Boscana’s Historical Account of the San Juan Capistrano Indians… Download | ||
| 2b: 4/12 |
Block: Race-Based Labor |
Race-Based Labor: Three excerpts from historical documents. Download | Slides | UROP symposium, April 14th, 11am-1pm, Student Services II, Room 1010AB (Video) |
| 3a: 4/17 |
Block: Inscribing Race: Marriage and Reproduction |
Inscribing Race: Marriage and Reproduction: Three excerpts from historical documents. Download | Week 3 SQ Slides |
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| 3b: 4/19 |
Block: Sexual Violence, Race, and Colonialism |
Sexual Violence, Race, Colonialism: Three documents. Download |
Slides | |
| 4a: 4/24 |
Vo: Manifest Destiny in the Philippines |
Ignacio et al., “Manifest Destiny and the White Man’s Burden,” The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons, pp. 23-34. Download |
Start oral history project |
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| 4b: 4/26 |
Vo: Capital, Labor & Empire |
Ignacio et al., “Civilizing the Savages,” Forbidden Book, pp. 65-79. Download; Blanco, “The Gothic Underside of U.S. Imperialism,” Amerasia Journal Vol. 31 No. 2, 2005, pp. 109-115. (VPN/UCI-access only) |
Friday Forum April 28, 11am, BioSci3 1200: Ngugi wa Thiong’o on The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (Watch video) |
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| 5a: 5/1 |
Vo: Imperialism, Interventions & Vietnam |
Lieu, The American Dream in Vietnamese, pp. 1-26. Download | Week 5 SQ | |
| 5b: 5/3 |
Vo: (De)Constructing Refugee Narratives |
Viet Stories at UCI website | Midterm in seminar | |
| 6a: 5/8 |
Vo: Warfare, Memory & Cambodia |
Viewing: Pirozzi, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten (2014, online, @uci.edu login required) | Week 6 SQ | |
| 6b: 5/10 |
Vo: The AfterLives of Empire |
Um, “The ‘Vietnam War’: What’s in a Name?” Amerasia Journal Vol. 31 No. 2, 2005, pp. 134-139. (VPN/UCI-access only; article starts on page 28 of pdf) |
Recommended: Screening of Sleep Dealer on May 11th at 6pm, McCormick Screening Room 1070HG Friday Forum May 12th with director Alex Rivera, 11am, BS3 1200 Arts in the Humanities competition deadline: Noon, May 12 |
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| 7a: 5/15 |
Rahimieh: Excavating the Past |
Ali Mousavi, “Persepolis in Retrospect,” Ars Orientalis Vol. 32, 2003, pp. 209-51. (VPN/UCI-access only) Viewing: “After-Lives of War: The Southeast Asian Archive over 30 Years” (exhibition) |
Week 7 SQ | Recommended: Exhibit opening with talk by Prof. Cathy Schlund-Vials and performance by Khmer American rapper praCh, May 16th, 6:30-7:30pm in Crystal Cove Auditorium |
| 7b: 5/17 |
Rahimieh: Engendering a New National Imaginary |
Kinzer, “Inside Iran’s Fury,” Smithsonian Magazine Oct. 2008. | ||
| 8a: 5/22 |
Rahimieh: Women without Men: Gender, Nationalism, and Imperialism |
Viewing: Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men (VPN via software client/UCI-access only) Reading: Neshat, “Women Without Men, A Conversation with Shirin Neshat,” My Sister Guard Your Veil, pp. 44-54. Download |
Week 8 SQ | |
| 8b: 5/24 |
Rahimieh: The City and the Garden |
Viewing: Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men (VPN via software client/UCI-access only) | ||
| 9a: 5/29 | Memorial Day: No lecture Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday seminars do meet. |
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| 9b: 5/31 |
Rahimieh: How Can One Be Persian? |
Viewing: Satrapi, Persepolis (2007, online, @uci.edu login required) Reading: Satrapi, “How Can One Be Persian?” My Sister |
Week 9 SQ | |
| 10a: 6/5 |
Rahimieh: How Can One Be Iranian at Home and in Exile? |
Viewing: Satrapi, Persepolis | ||
| 10b: 6/7 | Lazo | Course Conclusion |
Final exams scheduled according to seminar time.
