This quarter centers on diaspora and empire’s effect on individual experience, and you will have the opportunity to direct your own research. Drawing on the many writing and research skills you learned over the course of the year, you will produce an oral history project and a research paper that will center on your own interests in Empire and Its Ruins.
Essay Prompts
Research Help
Peer Tutoring
Writing Center
UCI Support
LECTURING FACULTY
Prof. Sharon Block (Dept. of History)
Prof. Linda Trinh Vo (Dept. of Asian American Studies)
Prof. Nasrin Rahimieh (Dept. of Comparative Literature)
SPRING 2018 LECTURE CALENDAR DRAFT
Lectures are held:
M/W (not on Fridays) 9:00-9:50am in BS3 1200
M/W (not on Fridays) 11:00-11:50am in BS3 1200
Tu/Th 9:30-10:20am (not till 10:50am) in HIB 100
Students in Humanities Core enroll in a lecture and in a corresponding writing seminar. This calendar (subject to change) provides information about the lecturing faculty, readings, writing assignments, study questions (SQ), and special events. The reading assignment for each lecture should be completed before the lecture. The password for downloadable pdfs will be provided to enrolled students. If and when lecture slides are available for a particular lecture, a link to download them will be provided.
For information about your writing seminar, please sign in to MyEEE.
All required reading materials will be available online this quarter.
| Date | Lecturer | Readings | Assignments/SQ | Events |
| Wk 1 | ||||
| 4/2, 4/3 |
Block: Introducing Colonialism, Race, and Sex |
Excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015) Download Excerpt from Fields and Fields, “How Race Is Conjured,” Jacobin, June 29, 2015. PDF |
Week 1 Study Questions | |
| 4/4, 4/5 |
Block: Trans-Atlantic Slavery |
Equiano, Narrative of the Life, excerpts. Download Vo, “Basic Guidelines for Conducting Oral Histories,” Writer’s Handbook |
Start Oral History Assignment | Humanities Core Arts Gala April 5, 4-6pm, in HG 1030 |
| Wk 2 | ||||
| 4/9, 4/10 |
Block: Gender Frontiers |
Excerpts from Hawkins, A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa and from Boscana’s Historical Account of the San Juan Capistrano Indians… Download “Jennifer Morgan. How Historians Research,” Ben Franklin’s World podcast, ep. 70. (Transcript available on request: email humcore@uci.edu) |
Week 2 SQ | |
| 4/11, 4/12 |
Block: Race-Based Labor |
Race-Based Labor: Three excerpts from historical documents. Download | ||
| Wk 3 | ||||
| 4/16, 4/17 |
Block: Inscribing Race: Marriage and Reproduction |
Inscribing Race: Marriage and Reproduction: Three excerpts from historical documents. Download | Week 3 SQ | |
| 4/18, 4/19 |
Block: Sexual Violence, Race, and Colonialism |
Sexual Violence, Race, Colonialism: Three documents. Download See sample transcribing instructions Castillo and Pierson, “Reconstructing Your Oral History Into Story,” Writer’s Handbook |
UROP Student Conference, Friday, April 20th, in HIB 135. Session 1: 11-11:50am, Session 2: 12-12:50pm. | |
| Wk 4 | ||||
| 4/23, 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 Castillo and Morse, “Developing Your Research Topic,” Writer’s Handbook |
Week 4 SQ | |
| 4/25, 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) |
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| Wk 5 | ||||
| 4/30, 5/1 |
Vo: Imperialism, Interventions & Vietnam |
Lieu, The American Dream in Vietnamese, pp. 1-26. Download | Week 5 SQ | |
| 5/2, 5/3 |
Vo: (De)Constructing Refugee Narratives |
Online interviews at Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project at UCI | Recommended: VIET STORIES: Recollections & Regenerations exhibition at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum | |
| Wk 6 | ||||
| 5/7, 5/8 |
Vo: Warfare, Memory & Cambodia |
Viewing: Pirozzi, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten (2014, online, @uci.edu login required) |
MIDTERM in seminar |
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| 5/9, 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) | ||
| Wk 7 | ||||
| 5/14, 5/15 |
Rahimieh: Iran’s Imperial Past |
Kinzer, “Inside Iran’s Fury,” Smithsonian Magazine Oct. 2008. | Week 7 SQ | |
| 5/16, 5/17 |
Rahimieh: Engendering a New National Imaginary |
Parsipur, Women without Men (ebook) | Recommended: How to Prepare and Deliver an Oral Presentation | |
| Wk 8 | ||||
| 5/21, 5/22 |
Rahimieh: National Turmoil and the Fate of Women |
Viewing: Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men (VPN via software client only/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 | |
| 5/23, 5/24 |
Rahimieh: Film Adaptation of Women without Men |
Viewing: Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men (VPN via software client/UCI-access only) | ||
| Wk 9 | ||||
| 5/28, 5/29 | Memorial Day: No lecture Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday seminars do meet. |
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| 5/30, 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 | |
| Wk 10 | ||||
| 6/4, 6/5 |
Rahimieh: How Can One Be Iranian at Home and in Exile? |
Viewing: Satrapi, Persepolis | ||
| 6/6, 6/7 | Lazo | Course Conclusion |
Final exams scheduled according to seminar time.
