{"id":3735,"date":"2017-07-02T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/?page_id=3735"},"modified":"2017-07-02T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T21:36:26","slug":"2016-2017-spring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/history-and-archives\/2016-2017-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-2017 Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This quarter centers on diaspora and empire\u2019s 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<\/em>.<\/div>\n

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LECTURING FACULTY<\/h4>\n

Prof. Sharon Block<\/a> (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<\/p>\n

Prof. Linda Trinh Vo<\/a> (Dept. of Asian American Studies)<\/p>\n

Prof. Nasrin Rahimieh<\/a> (Dept. of Comparative Literature)<\/p>\n

SPRING 2017 LECTURE CALENDAR<\/h4>\n

Lectures are held:
\nM\/W (not Friday) 9:00-9:50am in BS3 1200<\/a>
\nM\/W (not Friday) 11:00-11:50am in BS3 1200<\/a>
\nTu\/Th 9:30-10:20am in HIB 100<\/a><\/p>\n

This calendar (subject to change<\/strong>) 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.<\/p>\n

All required reading materials will be available online this quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Week<\/strong><\/td>\nLecturer<\/strong><\/td>\nReadings<\/strong><\/td>\nStudy aids<\/strong><\/td>\nEvents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1a: 4\/3<\/td>\n\n

Block:<\/p>\n

Introducing Colonialism, Race, and Sex<\/td>\n

Excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me<\/em> (2015)\u00a0[ddownload id=”3167″]<\/td>\n\n

Week 1 Study Questions<\/a><\/p>\n

Slides<\/a><\/td>\n

<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1b: 4\/5<\/td>\n\n

Block:<\/p>\n

Trans-Atlantic Slavery<\/td>\n

Equiano,\u00a0Narrative of the Life,
\n<\/em>excerpts. [ddownload id=”2526″]<\/td>\n		\n

Start research project<\/p>\n

Slides<\/a><\/td>\n

<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2a: 4\/10<\/td>\n\n

Block:<\/p>\n

Gender Frontiers<\/td>\n

Excerpts from Hawkins, A History of a Voyage to the Coast of Africa<\/em> and Harrington, Boscana’s Historical Account of the San Juan Capistrano Indians…<\/em> [ddownload id=”2532″]<\/td>\n\n

Week 2 Study Questions<\/a><\/p>\n

Slides<\/a><\/td>\n

<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2b: 4\/12<\/td>\n\n

Block:<\/p>\n

Race-Based Labor<\/td>\n

Race-Based Labor: Three excerpts from historical documents. [ddownload id=”2537″]<\/td>\nSlides<\/a><\/td>\nUROP symposium, April 14th, 11am-1pm, Student Services II<\/a>, Room 1010AB
\n(Video<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3a: 4\/17<\/td>\n\n

Block:<\/p>\n

Inscribing Race: Marriage and Reproduction<\/td>\n

Inscribing Race: Marriage and Reproduction: Three excerpts from historical documents. [ddownload id=”2543″]<\/td>\nWeek 3 SQ<\/a>
\nSlides<\/a><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3b: 4\/19<\/td>\n\n

Block:<\/p>\n

Sexual Violence, Race, and Colonialism<\/td>\n

\n

Sexual Violence, Race, Colonialism: Three documents. [ddownload id=”2549″]<\/p>\n

See sample transcribing instructions<\/a><\/td>\n

Slides<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4a: 4\/24<\/td>\n\n

Vo:<\/p>\n

Manifest Destiny in the Philippines<\/td>\n

Ignacio et al., “Manifest Destiny and the White Man’s Burden,” The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons<\/em>, pp. 23-34.\u00a0[ddownload id=”2553″]<\/td>\n\n

Week 4 SQ<\/a><\/p>\n

Start oral history project<\/td>\n

<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4b: 4\/26<\/td>\n\n

Vo:<\/p>\n

Capital, Labor & Empire<\/td>\n

\n

Ignacio et al., “Civilizing the Savages,”\u00a0Forbidden Book,\u00a0<\/em>pp. 65-79.\u00a0[ddownload id=”2556″];<\/p>\n

Blanco, “The Gothic Underside of U.S. Imperialism,”<\/a> Amerasia Journal<\/em> Vol. 31 No. 2, 2005, pp. 109-115. (VPN<\/a>\/UCI-access only)<\/td>\n

<\/td>\nFriday Forum April 28, 11am, BioSci3 1200: Ngugi wa Thiong’o<\/a> on The Trial of Dedan Kimathi<\/em><\/a>
\n(Watch video<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5a: 5\/1<\/td>\n\n

Vo:<\/p>\n

Imperialism, Interventions & Vietnam<\/td>\n

Lieu, The American Dream in Vietnamese,<\/em>\u00a0pp. 1-26. [ddownload id=”2563″]<\/td>\nWeek 5 SQ<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5b: 5\/3<\/td>\n\n

Vo:<\/p>\n

(De)Constructing Refugee Narratives<\/td>\n

Viet Stories at UCI website<\/a><\/p>\nMidterm in seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6a: 5\/8<\/td>\n\n

Vo:<\/p>\n

Warfare, Memory & Cambodia<\/td>\n

Viewing: Pirozzi, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten\u00a0<\/em>(2014, online<\/a>, @uci.edu login required)<\/td>\nWeek 6 SQ<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6b: 5\/10<\/td>\n\n

Vo:<\/p>\n

The AfterLives of Empire<\/td>\n

Um, “The ‘Vietnam War’: What’s in a Name?”<\/a> Amerasia Journal<\/em> Vol. 31 No. 2, 2005, pp. 134-139. (VPN\/UCI-access only; article starts on page 28 of pdf)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n

Recommended: Screening of Sleep Dealer<\/em><\/a> on May 11th at 6pm, McCormick Screening Room 1070HG<\/p>\n

Friday Forum May 12th with director Alex Rivera, 11am, BS3 1200
\n(Watch video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Arts in the Humanities competition deadline: Noon, May 12
\nDigital submissions form<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

7a: 5\/15<\/td>\n\n

Rahimieh:<\/p>\n

Excavating the Past<\/td>\n

Ali Mousavi, “Persepolis in Retrospect,”<\/a> Ars Orientalis<\/em> Vol. 32, 2003, pp. 209-51. (VPN\/UCI-access only)
\nViewing: “After-Lives of War: The Southeast Asian Archive over 30 Years”<\/span><\/a> (exhibition)<\/td>\n		Week 7 SQ<\/a><\/td>\nRecommended: Exhibit opening<\/a> with talk by Prof. Cathy Schlund-Vials and performance by Khmer American rapper praCh, May 16th, 6:30-7:30pm in Crystal Cove Auditorium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7b: 5\/17<\/td>\n\n

Rahimieh:<\/p>\n

Engendering a New National Imaginary<\/td>\n

Kinzer,\u00a0 \u201cInside Iran\u2019s Fury,\u201d Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> Oct. 2008.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8a: 5\/22<\/td>\n\n

Rahimieh:<\/p>\n

Women without Men: Gender, Nationalism, and Imperialism<\/td>\n

\n

Viewing: Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men<\/a><\/em> (VPN via software client<\/a>\/UCI-access only)<\/p>\n

Reading: Neshat, “Women Without Men, A Conversation with Shirin Neshat,” My Sister Guard Your Veil,\u00a0<\/em>pp. 44-54. [ddownload id=”2594″]<\/td>\n

Week 8 SQ<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8b: 5\/24<\/td>\n\n

Rahimieh:<\/p>\n

The City and the Garden<\/td>\n

Viewing: Shirin Neshat, Women Without Men<\/a><\/em> (VPN via software client<\/a>\/UCI-access only)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9a: 5\/29<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0Memorial Day: No lecture Monday or Tuesday. Tuesday seminars do meet.
\n<\/em><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9b: 5\/31<\/td>\n\n

Rahimieh:<\/p>\n

How Can One Be Persian?<\/td>\n

\n

Viewing: Satrapi, Persepolis<\/em> (2007, online<\/a>, @uci.edu login required)<\/p>\n

Reading: Satrapi, “How Can One Be Persian?”\u00a0My Sister
\nGuard Your Veil,\u00a0<\/em>pp. 20-23.\u00a0[ddownload id=”2596″]<\/td>\n

Week 9 SQ<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10a: 6\/5<\/td>\n\n

Rahimieh:<\/p>\n

How Can One Be Iranian at Home and in Exile?<\/td>\n

Viewing: Satrapi, Persepolis<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10b: 6\/7<\/td>\nLazo<\/td>\nCourse Conclusion<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Final exams scheduled according to seminar time.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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