We examine the relationship of non-human animals and people deemed “inhuman” in the contexts of colonization and imperialism. What can the use of animals for companionship, entertainment, sport, transportation, medicine, food, and as a source of biomass energy teach us about the dynamics of empire?
Lectures will explore spaces that trouble the boundaries between humans and animals: the hunt, the confinement of the colonized peoples in “human zoos,” and the interspecies kinship of carceral spaces. Students will learn how historians engage with primary sources, including taxonomic paintings, the cabinet of curiosities, indigenous folklore, illuminated manuscripts, religious murals, fantasy films, and performance art. In seminars, students will continue to develop their online presence with increasing focus on specific humanistic topics and methodologies. They will learn how to work with visual primary sources and scholarly secondary sources through two expository essays: an analysis of an artwork and an analysis of a scholarly debate in Andean historiography.
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LECTURING FACULTY
James D. Herbert (Professor of Art History and Visual Studies)
Rachel O’Toole (Associate Professor of History) Office hours: Tues. 2-3pm, Thurs. 2-6pm, 230 Murray Krieger Hall
Adria Imada (Associate Professor of History) Office hours: Mon. and Wed. 10-10:45am at BioSci Starbucks and by appointment
REQUIRED MATERIAL
Beauchamp, Tamara, ed. Humanities Core Handbook: Animal/Culture 2019–2020. XanEdu, 2019. ISBN: 9781593999667
WINTER 2020 LECTURE CALENDAR
Lectures are held:
M/W 9:00-9:50am in BS3 1200
M/W 11:00-11:50am in BS3 1200
Tu/Th 9:30-10:20am in ALP 1300
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, and special events such as Friday Forums. The reading assignment for each lecture should be completed before the lecture. The password for downloadable pdfs will be provided to enrolled students. 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 EEE+ GrandCentral and follow the link to your seminar’s Canvas site.
Students may start the Humanities Core course in Winter quarter!
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| 1/6, 1/7 |
Prof. Herbert: Curiosity: The Specimen [ downloadable lecture notes] |
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| 1/8, 1/9 |
Prof. Herbert: Curiosity: Whence Wonder . |
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Winter Welcome & Website Help: for new and continuing students, 11-11:50am, BioSci3 1200, Friday, Jan. 10. New students should read Information for starting Winter quarter. Deadline for Arts Competition submissions: 3pm Friday, Jan. 10 |
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| 1/13, 1/14 |
Prof. Herbert: Curiosity: The Cabinet of Curiosities . |
Monday, Jan. 13, First meeting of HumCore Reading Group, 3-4pm, LARC room ALP 3700 | ||
| 1/15, 1/16 |
Prof. Herbert: The Hunt: Time and Space . |
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| Wk 3 | ||||
| 1/20, 1/21 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday on Monday, no lectures Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday seminars will meet. | |||
| 1/22, 1/23 |
Prof. Herbert: The Hunt: Stalker and Prey . |
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| Wk 4 | ||||
| 1/27, 1/28 |
Prof. Herbert: The Hunt: Seeing, Touching, Eating . |
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| 1/29, 1/30 |
Prof. O’Toole: The Fox of the Andes: Myth or History? . |
Recommended event: Carla Hernandez, “Constructing History: the Inka and Spanish Empires through the Archaeology of the Huarochirí Manuscript,” Thursday, Jan. 30, in HIB 135, 4-5:30 pm Spanish-language Reading Group discussion of Huarochirí Manuscript, Friday, Jan. 31, in HG 1010, 11-11:50 am Humanities Core Arts Gala, Friday, Jan. 31, in HG 1030, 4-6pm |
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| 2/3, 2/4 |
Prof. O’Toole: Inca: An Empire Made by Llamas . |
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| 2/5, 2/6 |
Prof. O’Toole: The Spanish Conquest and a Plague of Pigs . |
MIDTERM EXAMS in seminar at the end of this week |
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| Wk 6 | ||||
| 2/10, 2/11 |
Prof. O’Toole: The Devil and the Art of Colonialism . |
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| 2/12, 2/13 |
Prof. O’Toole: Andean Resistance and the Snake from Below . |
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Spanish-language Reading Group discussion of Flores Galindo, Wednesday, Feb. 12, in HH 226, 12-12:50 pm | |
| Wk 7 | ||||
| 2/17, 2/18 | Presidents’ Day on Monday, no lecture Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday seminars will meet. | |||
| 2/19, 2/20 |
Prof. O’Toole: Birds of Capitalism . |
Film Screening of Two Documentaries: Guañape Sur and Entretejido, Wednesday, Feb. 19, in McCormick Screening Room (HG 1070), 7:30-8:30 pm | ||
| Wk 8 | ||||
| 2/24, 2/25 |
Prof. Imada: Colonial Human-Animal Encounters . |
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| 2/26, 2/27 |
Prof. Imada: “Freaks” and Entertainment . |
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Film Screening of Twilight: New Moon, Wednesday, Feb. 26, in McCormick Screening Room (HG 1070), 7:00-9:00 pm Film Screening of The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey, Friday, Feb. 28, in BS3 1200, 9-9:50 & 11-11:50 am |
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| Wk 9 | ||||
| 3/2, 3/3 |
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NO LECTURES MONDAY OR TUESDAY | ||
| 3/4, 3/5 |
Prof. Imada: Wolves: Indigenous Kin or Commodities? . |
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| Wk 10 | ||||
| 3/9, 3/10 |
Prof. Imada: Interspecies Kinship & Incarceration . |
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| 3/11, 3/12 |
Prof. Imada: Sharing Carceral Space Online presentation (@uci.edu login required) |
LECTURES CANCELLED. Please review the linked presentation and look for email from your instructor regarding seminar.
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Your (one) final exam is scheduled according to your seminar time. Humanities Core final exams will be administered online; your seminar instructor will provide details.
Image: Northwest Coast Peoples (probably Nuu-chah-nulth), painted wooden wolf headdress. Acquisition 1939, British Museum, London. https://www.britishmuseum.org
