HIST 502

Fall 2024 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11

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 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	41021	Discussion/ Recitation	A	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	English Building	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Info: Topic: Memories of Disaster Description: In this interdisciplinary course, we will explore “catastrophe and the modern imagination,” pairing fiction with non-fiction and analyses of catastrophe with the politics of its representation. Topics will include the encounter with geological time and extinction, global warming, millennialism, war and revolution, colonialism and famine, the financial crises, and the unraveling of narrative as such. Readings are still to be determined (in part by the seminar itself) but have ranged from Maurice Blanchot, J. M. Coetzee, Mike Davis, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, Amitav Ghosh, Tom LaHaye, and Lawrence Langer to Mary Shelley. For the first day of class, students are expected to have read selections from Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (more on Defoe will be emailed). Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.