In 2010-211, the Workshop will focus on the “Political Economy as Governance.” We will explore the way the modern political economy has taken shape by defining “public” and “private,” “state” and “market,” and other binaries in particular ways and at both domestic and global levels. In one reading session, we will discuss a selection of canonical and conflicting accounts of “state-building” and its political economic character. In another reading session, we will consider scholarship that maps the issue across national borders, considering capitalism as a phenomenon that...
The course consists of two parts. First, students will be expected to attend our bi-weekly meetings. A number of those meetings are reading sessions: we will discuss important contributions, both classic and contemporary, to the study of capitalism. The remaining sessions will be the meetings of the "Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Captialism," where scholars interested in themes of political economy will present their works-in-progress. Active participation in these discussions is required, as is reading the main paper to be...
Prof. Franz Josef Brueggemeier, Location: Robinson Hall 105, Meeting Time: Th., 4-6
The course will explore how different human societies have comprehended, used, adapted to and valued their natural environments and how these environments have shaped human behavior and the way their societies developed. The course will range from pre-historic times until the current debate about global warming. In doing so the course will also provide an introduction into the field of environmental history, its theories and methodologies and some of its most important works.
