HIST 502

Spring 2019 All Classes

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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 spring 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32431	Discussion/ Recitation	A	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	137C Davenport Hall	Ali, T Jefferson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Title: Geographies of Capital Section Info: Topic: Histories of Geographies of Capital Description: The course meets jointly with a graduate course in the geography department. Co-taught by a historian (Tariq Ali) and geographer (Brian Jefferson), the course examines the temporal and spatial dimensions of capital. Readings will consist of excerpts from Marx's Capital and other texts, classical works of Marxist theory and more recent scholarship on histories of global capitalism. The course thus places the recent scholarship on histories of capitalism within deeper traditions of Marxist theory. The course's fundamental goal is to search for theoretically and analytically rigorous understanding of how historians and geographers can examine capital and capitalism both temporally and spatially. We will examine how capital delineates space? How it shapes our experience of time? How capital and capitalism itself changes as we move between spaces and across time? Debating these and related questions are, we believe, essential for historians and geographers of capital. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	32433	Discussion/ Recitation	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	M	318 Gregory Hall	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Title: The Theory & Pract of History Section Info: Topic: The Theory and Practice of History Description: This course will examine the conditions which enable the production of various kinds of history from autobiography to national narratives to alternative subversions. We will consider the distinction between history and memory, and go on to explore how history gets conceived and written. Is history the production of exiles, strangers, and outsiders? How does it create and destroy subjects? What sort of tropes, figures, and circumstances produce historical knowledge? We will look at literature, rumors, ghosts, collections, textiles, autobiographies as well as classical historical narratives. What are the conditions of historical experience in a globalized world? Can the end of history be imagined? Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.