HIST4310/HIST7710HistoryandCulturalStudies2013‐14(6credithours)
TinaChen DavidChurchill346UniversityCollege 350UniversityCollegephone:474‐9149 phone:474‐6828email:[email protected] email:[email protected](orbyappointment) OfficeHours(orbyappointment)Monday1:00‐2:15pm(400F.A.) Thursday10:00am‐12:00pm350U.C.Tuesday10:00‐11:30am(346U.C.)CourseDescriptionThisseminarisahistoriographicinquiryintothefieldsofculturalhistoryandhistoricalculturalstudies.Assuchitwillexamineanumberoftheoreticalapproachesanddebatesthathaveinformedtheso‐calledculturalturnamongsthistorians.Ofparticularimportancewillbesocialandcriticaltheory;therelationshipbetweencultureandhistoricalmaterialism;raceandracialization;sexualityandgender;conceptionsofmodernity;colonialismandimperialism,amongothers.Studentswillbeexpectedtoworkthroughparticulartheoristsandschoolsofthought,aswellasrelatethesetohistoricalscholarshipinformedbydiverseapproaches.EvaluationandCourseAssignmentsSeminarparticipation:35%
Allstudentsareexpectedtobeactiveparticipantsintheseminar.Thisrequires:attendingclass;completingthereadingsforeachclass;andbeingpreparedtodiscussthereadingswithclassmatesduringseminar.Studentswillalsoberequiredtoleadseminaratleastonceperterm.Thismayinclude:(a)providingthebiographicalbackgroundandhistoricalcontextualizationofthewritingsofthetheorist(s)wearediscussing;(b)introductorycommentsonthereadings.Detailswillbeprovidedinclass.
WrittenAssignments(2perterm)FallTerm:
Assignment1:15%offinalgradeSelectamonographbyahistorianwhoseworkisinformedbyaparticulartheorist.Inapaperofapproximately6‐8pages,criticallydiscusshowthehistorianusestheparticulartheoreticalconcepts,whataspectsofthetheorist’sworkthehistorianemphasizes,towhatextentthetheoreticalframeworkfurtheredthehistoricalanalysispresentedinthemonograph.Themonographmustbeapprovedbytheinstructors.
StudentsenrolledinHIST7710willexpandtheparametersoftheaboveassignmentbyselectingatleastoneadditionalarticlebyanotherhistorianusingthesametheorist.StudentsenrolledinHIST7710areexpectedtoaddacriticalcomparativeassessmentofhowthetheoristisusedbydifferenthistorians.Thesepapersshouldbe8‐10pages.DueDate:October30,2013Assignment2:15%offinalgradeHIST4310:Mini‐reviewofaparticularculturaltheoristorculturalhistorian.Thereviewwillexplainthemainideasofthetheorist,historicizetheideas,anddiscusstheimpactofthetheoristinthefieldsofculturalstudiesandhistory.Ifstudentschoose,thesereviewswillbecompiledtoproduceaCulturalTheorymagazine.HIST7710:Inconsultationwiththeinstructors,graduatestudentswillpreparethetheoreticaloranalyticsegmentofaproposalinwhichthehistoricalproblem,theoreticalframework,andpotentialimpactoftheresearchisclearlyoutlined.DueDate:December4,2013
WinterTerm
Assignment3:15%offinalgradeCulturalanalysisofaspecificeventoraspectofvisualpopularculture.Thepaperwillbeapproximately6‐8pagesforstudentsenrolledinHIST4310and8‐10pagesforstudentsenrolledinHIST7710.Studentsareexpectedtoapplyrelevanttheoreticalconceptstospecifichistoricalcasesandsources.Topicandsourcesmustbeapprovedbytheinstructors.DueDate:February5,2014Assignment4:20%offinalgradeFinaltermpaper(12‐15pagesforstudentsenrolledinHIST4310;14‐18pagesforstudentsenrolledinHIST7710).StudentswillexaminetherelationshipbetweenaparticulartheoristandhowithasbeentakenupinHistoryandCulturalStudies.Forinstance,studentsmightexaminethewritingsofAdornoonmusicanddiscusshowtheseideasarecurrentlyused/debatedinthefield;orstudentsmightfocusonFoucaultandhowhehasshapedhistoriographyonincarcerationandprisonlife.Topicstobeapprovedbythecourseinstructors.DueDate:April2,2014
PolicyonLateAssignmentsLateassignmentswillnotbeacceptedwithoutpriorapprovalofDrs.ChenorChurchill.Forassignmentsthataremorethan1weeklate,studentswillnotreceivewrittenfeedbackontheassignments,andtheyalsoarenoteligibletosubmitpapersreworkedonthebasisofcomments.
StatementonAcademicDishonestyStudentsshouldacquaintthemselveswiththeUniversity’spolicyonplagiarism,cheating,andotherformsofacademicdishonestyintheGeneralAcademicRegulationsintheonlineAcademicCalendarandCatalogandtheFacultyofArtsregulation(http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/student/student_responsibilities.html)whichreads:ThecommonpenaltyinArtsforplagiarismonawrittenassignmentisagradeofFonthepaperandafinalgradeofF(DISC)(forDisciplinaryAction)forthecourse.Forthemostseriousactsofplagiarism,suchaspurchaseofanessayandrepeatviolations,thispenaltycanalsoincludesuspensionforaperiodofuptofive(5)yearsfromregistrationincoursestaughtinaparticulardepartment/programinArtsorfromallcoursestaughtinthisFaculty.
TheFacultyalsoreservestherighttosubmitstudentworkthatissuspectedofbeingplagiarizedtoInternetsitesdesignedtodetectplagiarismortootherexpertsforauthentication.
ThecommonpenaltyinArtsforacademicdishonestyonatestorexaminationisFforthepaper,F(DISC)forthecourse,andaone‐yearsuspensionfromcoursesacceptableforcredittheFaculty.Formoreseriousactsofacademicdishonestyonatestorexamination,suchasrepeatviolations,thispenaltycanalsoincludesuspensionforaperiodofuptofiveyearsfromregistrationincoursestaughtinaparticulardepartmentorprograminArtsorfromallcoursestaughtinoracceptedforcreditbythisFaculty.
Computers,CellularPhones,Tabletsetc.Studentswillonlybeallowedtousecomputersorotherelectronicdevicesfortakingnotes.Allphonesmustbeturnedofforplacedonvibrate.Texting,instantmessaging,surfingtheweb,arenotappropriateinclass.Studentsengaginginanyoftheseactivitieswillbeaskedtoleave.CitationsandFormatAllassignmentsshouldbeprinteddouble‐spacedandin12pointfontsize.Studentsshouldusehumanitiescitationstylewithfootnotes.ForaguidetopropercitationconsultKateTurabian,AManualforWritersofTermPapers,ThesesandDissertations.AcopyofthismanualcanbefoundinthereferenceroomattheElizabethDafoeLibrary(LB2369T81987);orconsulttheChicagoManualofStyleOnline.http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.htmlEvaluativefeedbackwillbeprovidedbythewithdrawaldeadlinedateofMarch19,2014.
GradeScaleA+85‐100% A80‐85% B+75‐79% B70‐74%
C+65‐69% C60‐64% D50‐59% Fbelow50%
Studentswhowishtoappealagradegivenfortermworkmustdosowithin10workingdaysafterthegradeforthetermworkhasbeenmadeavailabletothem.UncollectedtermworkwillbecomethepropertyoftheFacultyofArtsandwillbesubjecttoconfidentialdestruction.
RequiredBooksPeterBurke,WhatisCulturalHistory?(PolityPress,2008)EdwardSaid,Orientalism(VintageBooks,1979)RaymondWilliams,MarxismandLiterature(BasicConcepts)MichelFoucault,DisciplineandPunish:TheBirthofthePrison(VintageBooks,Secondedition,1995)BenedictAnderson,ImaginedCommunities:ReflectionsontheOriginsandSpreadofNationalism(Verso,2006)SusanBuck‐Morss,DreamworldsandCatastrophe:ThePassingofMassUtopiainEastandWest(MITPress,2002)DickHebdidge,Subculture:TheMeaningofStyle(Routlede,newedition2008)LeelaGandhi,AffectiveCommunities:AnticolonialThought,Fin‐de‐SiècleRadicalism,andthePoliticsofFriendship(DukeUniversityPress,2006)JasbirPuar,TerroristAssemblages:HomonationaisminQueerTimes(DukeUniversityPress,2007).CourseReadingsNote:Readingssubjecttochange.Anychangestothereadingswillbeannouncedinclass.Week1:September11 IntroductionandOverviewofCourseWeek2:September18
PeterBurke,WhatisCulturalHistory?(PolityPress,2008)WilliamSewell,"TheConcept(s)ofCulture,"inBeyondtheCulturalTurn:NewDirectionsintheStudyofSocietyandCulture,eds.VictoriaE.BonnellandLynnHunt(Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,1999):35‐61;alsoinGabrielleSpiegel(ed),PracticingHistory:NewDirectionsinHistoricalWritingaftertheLinguisticTurn(Routledge,2013)
Week3:September25RaymondWilliams,MarxismandLiterature,SectionI(BasicConcepts),pp.11‐74RaymondWilliams,TheCountryandTheCity,selectedchaptersE.P.Thompson,“MoralEconomyoftheEnglishCrowd,”Past&Present50(1971):76‐136
Week4:October2 EdwardSaid,Orientalism(VintageBooks,1979)
Week5:October9
MichelFoucault,DisciplineandPunish:TheBirthofthePrison(VintageBooks,Secondedition,1995)
Week6:October16
RuthWilsonGilmor,GoldenGulag:Prisons,Surplus,Crisis,andOppositioninGlobalizationCalifornia(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2007),PrologueandIntroductionCarlosAguirre,TheCriminalsofLimaandtheirWorlds:ThePrisonExperience(DukeUniversityPress,2005),IntroductionandPartI(pp.1‐84)StevenPierceandAnupamaRao,eds.,DisciplineandtheOtherBody:Correction,Corporeality,Colonialism(DukeUP,2006),selectedchapters
*StudentsalsoneedtofindatleastoneotherarticlebyahistorianthatisinformedbyFoucault.Theyshouldbringthistoclassandbepreparedtopresentittotheclass.Moredetailstobeprovidedinclass.
Week7:October23
TheodorAdorno,“OntheFetish‐characterinmusicandtheRegressionofListening”(1938)MaxHorkheimer“TheEndofReason”(1941)HerbertMarcuse,“SomeSocialImplicationsofModernTechnology”(1941)*ImreSzeman,“TheLimitsofCulture:TheFrankfurtSchooland/forCulturalStudies”Availableonlineat:http://www.academia.edu/2094944/The_Limits_of_Culture_The_Frankfurt_School_and_for_Cultural_Studies
Week8:October30
AntonioGramsci,PrisonNotebook“Hegemony,Intellectuals,andtheState”RaymondWilliams,MarxismandLiterature,SectionII(pp.75‐144)*HenriLefebvre,“Introduction,”Critiqueofeverydaylife:Introductiontrans.JohnMoore(Versospecialedition,2008)
Week9:November6T.J.JacksonLears,“TheConceptofCulturalHegemony:ProblemsandPossibilities”,TheAmericanHistoricalReviewVol90,No.3(June1985)JamesC.Scott,DominationandtheArtsofResistance:HiddenTranscripts(YaleUniversityPress,1990),selectedchaptersFlorenciaMallon,“TimeontheWheel:CyclesofRevisionismandthe“NewCulturalHistory”,TheHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview79.2(May1999):331‐353.
Week10:November13BenedictAnderson,ImaginedCommunities:ReflectionsontheOriginsandSpreadofNationalism(Verso,2006)
Week11:November20ClaudioLomnitz,DeepMexico,SilentMexico:AnAnthropologyofNationalism(Minneapolis:UniversityofMinnesotaPress,2001),chapters1‐3(pp.3‐80)RebeccaKarl,StagingtheWorld:ChineseNationalismattheTurnoftheTwentiethCentury(DukeUniversityPress,2002),Part1(pp.3‐52)
Week12:November27
WalterBenjamin,“ArtintheAgeofMechanicalReproduction”(1936);“Paris:CapitaloftheNineteenthCentury”SusanBuck‐Morss,DreamworldsandCatastrophe:ThePassingofMassUtopiainEastandWest(MITPress,2002),PartII(DreamworldsofHistory,pp.42‐96)andPartIII(DreamworldsofMassCulture,pp.98‐213)XiaobingTang,“EchoesofRoar,China!OnVisionandVoiceinModernChineseArt,”positions:asiacritique14.2(2006)
Week13:December4
DickHebdidge,Subculture:TheMeaningofStyle(Routlede,newedition2008)*Michel deCerteau, “General Introduction,” inThePracticeofEverydayLife.Steven F. Rendall (Trans.) (University of California Press, reprint edition,2011)
WinterTermWeek1:January8
StuartHall,CriticalDialoguesinCulturalStudies,editedbyKuan‐hsingChenandDavidMorley(Routledge,1996),selectedchapters.
Week2:January15
RobinKelley,RaceRebels:Culture,Politics,andtheBlackWorkingClass(FreePress,1996),Introduction(pp.1‐16)andchapter7(pp.161‐182)AndrewJones,YellowMusic:MediaCultureandColonialModernityintheChineseJazzAge(DukeUniversityPress,2001),Introandchapter1(pp.1‐52)UtaPoiger,Jazz,Rock,andRebels:ColdWarPoliticsandAmericanCultureinaDividedGermany(UniversityofCaliforniaPress,2000),chapter2andchapter5
Week3:January22
JudithButler,GenderTrouble:FeminismandtheSubversionofIdentity(Routledge,1edition,2006)
Week4:January29LeelaGandhi,AffectiveCommunities:AnticolonialThought,Fin‐de‐SiècleRadicalism,andthePoliticsofFriendship(DukeUniversityPress,2006)
Week5:February5
NanEnstad,LadiesofLabor,GirlsofAdventure:WorkingWomen,PopularCulture,andLaborPoliticsattheTurnoftheTwentiethCentury(ColumbiaUniversityPress,1999),selectedchapters
Week6:February12
ModernGirlAroundtheWorldResearchGroup,ModernGirlAroundtheWorld(DukeUniversityPress,2009),selectedchapters
READINGWEEKBREAKWeek7:February26
JasbirPuar,TerroristAssemblages:HomonationaisminQueerTimes(DukeUniversityPress,2007)
Week8:March5IndividualmeetingstodiscussfinaltermpapertopicsWeek9:March12
JudithWalkowitz,CityofDreadfulDelight:NarrativesofSexualDangerinLateVictorianLondon(UniversityofChicagoPress,1992),chapter1GeorgeChauncey,GayNewYork:Gender,UrbanCulture,andtheMakingoftheGayMaleWorld,1890‐1940(BasicBooks,1994),selectedchaptersGailHershatter,“CourtesansandStreetwalkers:TheChangingDiscoursesonShanghaiProstitution,1890‐1949,”JournaloftheHistoryofSexualityVol3,No.2(Oct.1992)
Week10:March19
*SheilaFitzpatrick,“SpyintheArchives”http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n23/sheila‐fitzpatrick/a‐spy‐in‐the‐archives*PeterBailey,“JazzattheSpirella:ComingofageinCoventryinthe1950s”MomentsofModernity(London;NewYork:RiversOramPress,1999)
Week11:March26
*PennyEdwards,Cambodge:TheCultivationofaNation,1860‐1945(UniversityofHawaiiPress,2008)
Week12:April2*KarenStrassler,RefractedVisions:PopularPhotographyandNationalModernityinJava(DukeUniversityPress,2010),introduction,chapters1,3,4.*RosalindMorris,PhotographiesEast:TheCameraandItsHistoriesinEastandSoutheastAsia(DukeUniversityPress,2009),selectedchapters
Week13:April9
GeoffEley,ACrookedLine:FromCulturalHistorytotheHistoryofSociety(UniversityofMichigan,2006)
