HIST 502

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Prob in Comparative History

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Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive comparative examinations of particular issues in the histories of multiple countries, cultures or periods; emphasizes methodology, the discipline of comparative history, and the nature of historiography in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary context.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.uiuc.edu.

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HIST 502 class schedule data for fall 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
41021	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	318 Gregory Hall	Cuno, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Title: Prob in Comparative Hist Section Info: Topic: Women and the Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Description: The history of “the family” is an important topic in colonial and post-colonial South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa (SAMENA). Contemporary debates on human rights, family law, gender, and sexuality are better understood in light of the re-imagining of “family” in modern times and efforts, through legislation, to promote a modern family ideal. A comparative approach will enable us to identify transnational patterns of change in SAMENA. Modern social constructions of the family have been entangled with constructions (or reconstructions) of the nation and gender. Legal systems were reformed in conformity with European norms, resulting in the creation of “family law,” which has become an arena in which conflicts over the roles of women and the family are fought. We will range from the pre-modern era to recent developments in selected SAMENA countries. Area content will be at least 25% African, 25% Middle Eastern, and 25% South Asian. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32515	Discussion/ Recitation	B	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	318 Gregory Hall	Chaplin, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Title: Comp Queer Sexualities Section Info: Topic: Queer Sexualities Description: This graduate course is an exploration of the themes, debates, and methods shaping queer history. It incorporates theory and is focused on the production of historical work in the field, ranging geographically and chronologically in order to examine the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer past. We will give special attention to persecution, pathologization, and modalities of resistance and desire while also investigating the forms of power that have influenced the historical gendering and racialization of sexual identity categories. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
40169	Discussion/ Recitation	C	2:00PM -3:50PM	R	1046 Foreign Languages Building	Reagan, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Section Info: Topic: Disability History Description: This course focuses on the theories, methods, and historiography of disability history, a method of analysis and field that developed with the disability rights movement of the 1960s-70s. Disability history, many argue, is equally fundamental to understanding history and society as class, gender, race, sexuality, and religion. This course aims to gain deeper understanding of disability history and to improve our collective skills to think about and achieve complex, intersectional historical analyses. Topics include, for example: people with disabilities and daily life; ableism; work; representations; material culture and technology; space; ethics and the disability historian; “madness;” eugenics; medicine; sexuality; whiteness and disability studies; intersectionality of disability/race/gender; “freaks,” and more. The course focuses on the U.S., but will necessarily include readings and discussion beyond U.S. borders. Introduction to potential sources and a research component included. Authors include Susan Burch, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Katherine Kudlick, Regina Kunzel, Paul Longmore, Kim Nielsen, Mike Rembis. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.