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    HIST-LIT 90CF: The American Prison & the Literature of Punishment

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2019
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    Instructor: Thomas Dichter
    Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00

    The American Prison and the Literature of PunishmentThe United States currently keeps more people behind bars than any other country. While the US’s emergence as the leader in incarceration rates is relatively recent, the prison has loomed large in American public life for 200 years. In this class, we will approach the prison not as a marginal phenomenon, but as an institution central to American culture. Readings include ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90CF: The American Prison & the Literature of Punishment

    HIST 1520: Colonial Latin America

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2016
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    Professor Tamar Herzog. This course is an introductory survey of colonial Latin American history, spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it will examine developments in Spanish and Portuguese America by reading both secondary and primary sources (available in English translation).

    HIST 2485: European Legal History Workshop

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    Fall

    Offered: 

    2016
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    Professor Tamar Herzog. Offered jointly with the Harvard Law School, this workshop will examine some of the most innovative research in European Legal history, conducted by both historians and legal scholars. Classes will alternate between in-group discussions of certain fields, questions or methodologies, and presentations by leading scholars.

    This course is open to undergraduates with the instructors’ permission. Students will choose between writing several short response papers or a substantial final paper. Law students who will choose to...

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    HIST 2525A: Administrating Differences in Latin America: Historical Approaches

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    Fall

    Offered: 

    2016
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    Professors Tamar Herzog and Alejandro de la Fuente. The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop is a yearlong research seminar and workshop that meets every other week to study a central question in Latin American history (in the fall) and provide opportunities for scholars to share their own work and learn about the scholarship of others in a workshop form (in  the spring). In 2016-2017 we will discuss how differences were defined, negotiated, represented, and challenged in colonial Latin American, creating both inclusion and exclusion. Among...

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    AFRAMER 199X and HIST 1937: Social Revolutions in Latin America

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2019
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    Prof. Alejandro de la Fuente. Cross-listed with African & African American Studies. This course seeks to explain why social revolutions have taken place in Latin America and analyzes their impact on the region. The objective is for students to gain a critical understanding of the origins, development, and impact of revolutionary movements in Latin America during the twentieth century.  The course examines several case studies, which may include Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, and the so-called "Bolivarian...

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    HIST 1511: Latin America and the United States

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2016
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    Professor Kirsten Weld. Surveys the complex, mutually constitutive, and often thorny relationship - characterized by suspicion and antagonism, but also by fascination and desire - between the United States and the diverse republics south of the Rio Grande. Examines public policy, US expansionism and empire, popular culture and consumption, competing economic development models, migration, tourism, the Cold War, sovereignty, dissent, and contrasting visions of democratic citizenship.

    HIST 1913: Dirty Wars, Peace Processes, and the Politics of History in Latin America

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    Spring

    Offered: 

    2017
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    Professor Kirsten Weld. Latin America's "dirty wars" generated intense struggles over historical memory. Course focuses on Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and comparatively examines how societies reckon with bloody recent pasts that are anything but settled. Looks at both these countries' dictatorships and their fraught peace processes (including truth commissions, transitional justice, artistic representations, human rights activism, international law, foreign involvement, backlash) in order to probe the stakes and politics of historical interpretation...

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    HIST 1032: A History of Brazil, from Independence to the Present

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    Fall

    Offered: 

    2016
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    Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course will analyze major themes in the social and political history of Brazil from Independence (1822) to the present. Themes to be addressed are the following: Independence, colonial legacies and national identity; state formation and the question of citizenship rights; the African slave trade; land and labor policies in a slave society; slave emancipation and the crisis of the monarchy; the establishment of the republican regime; gender and the crisis of patriarchy; urban renewal and popular protest; social movements in rural areas;...

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    HIST 1932: Fictions of Adultery: from Flaubert to Machado de Assis

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2017
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    Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course seeks to analyze the ways in which Machado de Assis, the most important Brazilian novelist of all times, appropriated the European tradition of the novel of adultery. In doing so, he sought to discuss literary models (realism), scientific ideologies (social Darwinism), gender (he expected the misogyny of readers to fill the lacunae of the narration), and class conflict (characters in dependent relations, women in particular, deploy an array of strategies to deal with the potential violence of patriarchal figures). Readings...

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    Asteroids And Comets

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    N/A

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    2016
    Asteroids and Comets

    Comets have been seen regularly since before the beginning of recorded history. They have often been regarded as disturbing portents. Asteroids, on the other hand, were not discovered until the 19th century, with the advent of astronomy with telescopes. Today we know of many more asteroids than comets, but we believe that there are vastly more comets than asteroids in the solar system.

    This seminar will start with the history of the study of comets and asteroids, including the “Great March Comet of 1843”, observations of which led to the establishment of the Harvard College...

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    Econ 1776: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2015

    Examines the influence of religious thinking on the intellectual revolution, associated with Adam Smith and others, that created economics as we know it as an independent discipline; also examines how the lasting resonances from these early religious influences continue to shape discussion of economic issues and debates about economic policy down to our own day.

    Issues in the Study of Native American Religion

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2015

    Based around a series of guest speakers, this course interrogates the study of religion in general and of Native American traditions in particular in light of indigenous perspectives and histories. Questions of appropriation, repatriation and religious freedom will be approached through legal as well as cultural frameworks. Jointly offered as HDS 2345 and Religion 1590.

    Social Studies 98NB: Inequality and Social Mobility in the United States

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2015

    The United States is currently experiencing high levels of income and wealth inequality and stagnant social mobility. This course will ask why this is and what, if anything, should be done about it. We will consider both social and individual explanations for inequality and social mobility, and we will examine efforts to decrease inequality and increase social mobility through educational and legal means.

    Soc 139: Economic Sociology: Global Perspectives

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2015

    Sociology offers a unique perspective on economic behavior and institutions. Exploring the foundational concepts of economic sociology with examples from all over the world, this course treats the following questions, among others: How do sociological perspectives on organizations, networks, power and inequality challenge widely held assumptions about economic behavior? How can seemingly disparate cases from around the globe enrich our conceptual understanding of economy and society? Has the economy become more global over time and, if so, how? What role does finance capital play in the...

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