HIST.SP23

This course explores history as both a disciplinary and a social practice, examining some of the cultural and intellectual meanings assigned to `history’ by an array of practitioners across time and space. The course aims to help students further develop their skills as readers, critics, researchers and writers, and assignments are designed accordingly (as well as described further below).

This semester, we will use an array of materials (including eye-witness accounts and chronicles, novels, films, historical monographs and ethnographies) and tactics (including writing assignments and class discussions) to explore different experiences, understandings and representations of some of the institutions (home, family, State, nation), phenomena (migration, trade, travel), and analytical categories (gender, race, class, religion, sexuality) that animate not only contemporary historical practice but also our apprehensions and performances of our selves.