{"id":9606,"date":"2021-08-16T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/?page_id=9606"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T23:45:40","slug":"2020-2021-winter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/core.humanities.uci.edu\/index.php\/history-and-archives\/2020-2021-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"2020-2021 Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This quarter, we examine how the way we think affects the way we see. In the context of colonization and imperialism, this had major effects on the lives of non-human animals and people subjugated and deemed \u201cinhuman\u201d in public discourse. 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? Are practices like the confinement, exhibition, and consumption of animals related to the dehumanization and objectification of marginalized peoples?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Animals, People, and Power<\/h2>\n

What is an animal? How much of what we know about the natural world actually comes from reality, and how much is a projection of human concerns onto other living things? When we represent animals in art, literature, or scientific discourse, what kinds of boundaries between \u201chumanity\u201d and \u201canimality\u201d are drawn? Why are those boundaries so often transgressed or transformed? What kind of cultural or political work is performed when we compare animals to people, or people to animals?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Winter quarter’s lecturing faculty from History and Comparative Literature will teach us how to look closely and see differently by studying archival documents from the Andes, children\u2019s literature and comics, Surrealist art and animation, oral histories from Hawai\u2019i, Latinx performance art, and the history of freak shows and human zoos.<\/p>\n

In seminars, students will continue to develop their online presence and will learn how to write about visual primary sources and scholarly secondary sources drawn from the discipline of history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LECTURING FACULTY<\/h4>\n

Prof. Rachel O\u2019Toole<\/a> (Dept. of History)<\/p>\n

Prof. Eyal Amiran<\/a> (Dept. of Comparative Literature)<\/p>\n

Prof. Adria Imada<\/a> (Dept. of History)<\/p>\n

REQUIRED MATERIAL W2021<\/h4>\n

Beauchamp, Tamara, ed. Humanities Core Handbook 2020\u20132021<\/em>. XanEdu, 2020. ISBN: 9781711493381<\/p>\n

WINTER 2021 LECTURE CALENDAR<\/h4>\n
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Students in Humanities Core enroll in a lecture and in a corresponding writing seminar. The prerecorded lecture videos (two per week) will be accessible through the UCI Canvas<\/a> site for lectures, and each writing seminar will have a UCI Canvas<\/a> site with a seminar syllabus. All Canvas course spaces can also be accessed through EEE+ GrandCentral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The following calendar (subject to change<\/em>) provides information about the lecturing faculty, readings for lectures, and special events. The reading assignment for each lecture should be completed before<\/em> the lecture. Links for PDF readings are available on the seminar syllabus in Canvas.<\/p>\n

New to Humanities Core this quarter? We welcome you and have compiled helpful course information for you<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Date<\/b><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/td>\nReadings<\/strong><\/td>\nEvents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wk 1<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/4, 1\/5<\/td>\n\n

Prof. O’Toole:<\/p>\n

Animals of the Andes: A History<\/td>\n

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  • The Huarochir\u00ed Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion<\/i> [1608?] (pp. 54\u201363) [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Alternative Spanish\/Quechua version: Ritos y tradiciones de Huarochir\u00ed: manuscrito quechua de comienzos del siglo XVII <\/i>[1608?] (pp. 84\u2013137) [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • <\/b>Guide to reading The Huarochir\u00ed Manuscript <\/i>[PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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1\/6, 1\/7<\/td>\n\n

Prof. O’Toole:<\/p>\n

Inca: An Empire Made by Llamas<\/td>\n

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Wk 2<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/11, 1\/12<\/td>\n\n

Prof. O’Toole:<\/p>\n

Iegue<\/em>: Making Pets out of Livestock<\/td>\n

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1\/13, 1\/14<\/td>\n\n

Prof. O’Toole:<\/p>\n

A Myth of Horses<\/td>\n

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  • Restall, Selections from Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest<\/i> (pp. 100\u20137, 131\u201345) [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Connell, \u201cEngaging with Scholarly Sources and Creating Counter-arguments,\u201d Humanities Core Handbook<\/i> (pp. 188\u201397)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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Wk 3<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/18, 1\/19<\/td>\nMartin Luther King, Jr. Holiday on Monday, no lecture for Monday\/Tuesday. Tuesday seminars will meet.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/20, 1\/21<\/td>\n\n

Prof. O’Toole:<\/p>\n

Dogs of Conquest<\/td>\n

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  • Johnson, \u201c\u2018You Should Give them Blacks to Eat\u2019: Waging Inter-American Wars of Torture and Terror\u201d [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Pascoe, \u201cApproaching Historiography\u201d Humanities Core Handbook<\/i> (pp. 85\u201396)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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Wk 4<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/25, 1\/26<\/td>\n\n

Prof. O’Toole:<\/p>\n

Andean Resistance and the Snake from Below<\/td>\n

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1\/27, 1\/28<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Amiran:<\/p>\n

Wild Things<\/td>\n

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  • Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are<\/i> [online video]<\/li>\n
  • Winnicott, \u201cTransitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena\u201d [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes<\/i> (selections) [PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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Wk 5<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMidterm exams administered in seminars this week<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/1, 2\/2<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Amiran:<\/p>\n

Child Animals: Gender in Winnie the Pooh<\/td>\n

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  • Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i>, Introduction and Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Yaniga, \u201cCultural Studies and Ethnography,\u201d Humanities Core Handbook<\/i> (pp. 107\u201317)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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2\/3, 2\/4<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Amiran:<\/p>\n

Nonsense Animals: Food and Language<\/td>\n

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Wk 6<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/8, 2\/9<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Amiran:<\/p>\n

Surrealist Animals 1<\/td>\n

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  • Dal\u00ed and Disney,\u00a0Destino <\/i>[online video]<\/li>\n
  • Dal\u00ed and Bu\u00f1uel, Un Chien Andalou<\/i> [online video]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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2\/10, 2\/11<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Amiran:<\/p>\n

Surrealist Animals 2<\/td>\n

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Wk 7<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/15, 2\/16<\/td>\nPresidents’ Day on Monday, no lecture Monday\/ Tuesday. Tuesday seminars will meet.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/17, 2\/18<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Amiran:<\/p>\n

Krazy Kat: Blackness and the Law<\/td>\n

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  • Herriman, Selections from Krazy Kat<\/i>\u00a0[PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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Wk 8<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/22, 2\/23<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Imada:<\/p>\n

Human Zoos<\/td>\n

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  • Fusco, \u201cThe Other History of Intercultural Performance\u201d in English is Broken Here<\/i> (pp. 21-63) \u00a0[PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Clips from The Couple in the Cage<\/i> (1993) [online video]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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2\/24, 2\/25<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Imada:<\/p>\n

\u201cFreaks\u201d and Entertainment<\/td>\n

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  • Garland Thomson, \u201cThe Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835\u20131940\u201d [PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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Wk 9<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/1, 3\/2<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Imada:<\/p>\n

Twilight<\/em>: Wolves as Indigenous Kin or Commodities?<\/td>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/3, 3\/4<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Imada:<\/p>\n

Wolf Kills<\/td>\n

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    \n
  • Nadasdy, \u201cTranscending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism\u201d [PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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Wk 10<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/8, 3\/9<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Imada:<\/p>\n

Interspecies Kinship during Incarceration<\/td>\n

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  • Gugelyk and Bloombaum, Ma\u2018i Ho\u2018oka\u2018awale, The Separating Sickness: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii <\/i>(pp. 6\u201313, 29\u201330, 34\u201337, 45\u201346) [PDF]<\/li>\n
  • Clips from The Soul of Kalaupapa: Voices of Exile<\/i> (2012) [online video]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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3\/10, 3\/11<\/td>\n\n

Prof. Imada:<\/p>\n

Sharing Carceral Space<\/td>\n

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Final exams will be administered by seminar instructors during a 48-hour period of Finals Week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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