Global History Dialogues Project 2022 Syllabus

Week Topic Assignments

Week of Jan 24 Introduction/ ● Watch: “Introduction to History Dialogues”

Orientation: ● Share: 100-150 word post in the discussion
forum; 50-100 word response to at least 1
other post
● Submit: Consent and release forms
● Attend class discussion (introduction to
Canvas, syllabus, goals=conference +
research outputs)

Week of Jan 31 What is history? ● Watch: “What is History?” and “History

Dialogue with Prof. Adelman: Session 1.”
● Read: Evans, “Prologue: What Is History--
Now?,” and Fernández-Armesto, "Epilogue:
What is History Now?" in What Is History
Now?, ed. David Cannadine (Houndmills,
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002).
● Write: Reading response
● Attend class discussion (readings and key
questions)
Supplementary Readings:
● INTERMEDIATE: Michel-Ralph Trouillot,
“Chapter 1: The Power in the Story” from
Silencing the Past: Power and the
Production of History (Beacon Press, 2015).

● INTERMEDIATE: Howard Zinn, “What is

Radical History?” in The Politics of History
(1970).
https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/
zinnwhatisradicalhistory.html

● INTERMEDIATE: Richard Drayton, “Where

Does the World Historian Write From?
Objectivity, Moral Conscience, and the Past
and Present of Imperialism” (Journal of
Contemporary History, 2011).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117
7/0022009411403519

● ADVANCED: Daniel Little’s “Philosophy of

History” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy,
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017
/entries/history/

Week of Feb. 7 Global History & ● Watch: “Global History and Social History”
Social History and “History Dialogue with Prof. Adelman:
Session 2.”
● Read: Adelman, “What is Global History
 Now?” and Serge Gruzinski, “How to be a
Global Historian.”
● Write: Reading response
● Attend class discussion (readings and key
questions)
Supplementary Readings:
● BEGINNER: Anne McGrath and Lynette
Russell. “Why Do First Nations People
Continue to Be History’s Outsiders?” in The
Conversation (2021).
https://theconversation.com/why-do-first-
nations-people-continue-to-be-historys-
outsiders-162762

● BEGINNER: Frederick Cooper. “African

History/Global History” in Perspectives on
History (2012).
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-
directories/perspectives-on-history/
december-2012/african-history/global-
history

● INTERMEDIATE: Gabriela De Lima Grecco

and Sven Schuster, “Decolonizing Global
History? A Latin American Perspective.”
(Journal of World History, 2020).
https://repositorio.uam.es/bitstream/handle/
10486/693965/decolonizing_delima_JWH_2
020.pdf?sequence=1

● INTERMEDIATE: Tadashi Dozono, “The

Passive Voice of White Supremacy: Tracing
Epistemic and Discursive Violence in World
History Curriculum” (Review of Education,
Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2020).
https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2020.172
1261

● ADVANCED: Tilman Dedering,

“Globalization, Global History, and Africa.”
(Journal of Asian and African Studies,
2002).
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909602037003
02

Week of Feb 14 Workshop I: ● Read: Research a research theme that

Choosing a interests you using books, Wikipedia,
Research Theme exhibitions, movies, stories in your community
or whatever you have at hand
● Write: A 1-page introduction about your
research theme, including references
● Attend the class discussion/ workshop

Week of Feb 21 What is oral ● Watch: “Oral History” and “History Dialogue
 history? with Prof. Adelman: Session 3.”
● Read: Sacks, "Why Do Oral History?" and
Mould, "Interviewing” in Catching Stories: A
Practical Guide to Oral History, ed. Donna
DeBlasio et al. (Athens, OH: Swallow
Press/Ohio University Press, 2009).
● Write: Reading response
● Attend class discussion/ workshop: what
oral sources would be available/ interesting
to your research? What challenges would
oral sources raise for your research? +
Exkurs ethics
Supplementary Readings:
● BEGINNER: Linda Shopes and Amy
Starecheski, “Disrupting Authority: The
Radical Roots and Branches of Oral
History.” (NCPH.org Blog, 2017).
https://ncph.org/history-at-work/disrupting-
authority-the-radical-roots-and-branches-of-
oral-history/

● BEGINNER: Thayer Hastings, “Palestinian

Oral History as a Tool to Defend Against
Displacement.” (Al Shabaka, 2016).
https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/palesti
nian-oral-history-tool-defend-displacement/

● BEGINNER: Caroline Cunfer, “Talking

Knots: Decolonizing Oral History Through
Alternative Methods of Memory
Transmission.” (OHMA, 2018).
http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/blog-posts/T
alking%20Knots:%20Decolonizing%20Oral
%20History%20through%20Alternative
%20Methods%20of%20Memory
%20Transmission

● INTERMEDIATE: Gaana Jayagopalan,

“Orality and the Archive: Teaching the
Partition of India Through Oral Histories.”
(Radical Teacher, 2016).
https://doi.org/10.5195/rt.2016.274

Week of Feb. 28 What is an archive? ● Watch: “Archival History” and “History

What is “archival Dialogue with Prof. Adelman: Session 4.”
thinking,”? ● Read: “Using Archives: A Guide to Effective
Research” and “Q&A with Kirsten Weld”
● Assignment: Explore the HD Coronavirus
Archive. Select 4 categories, and upload a
source to each one. Label and annotate
your uploads following the Archive Guide. –
in class?
● Attend class discussion/ workshop: what
archival sources would be available/
 interesting to your research? What
challenges would archival sources raise for
your research?
Supplementary Readings:
● INTERMEDIATE: Alex Hanson, Stephanie
Jones, Thomas Passwater, and Noah
Wilson, “Seeking Glimpses: Reflections on
Doing Archival Work.” (disClosure: A
Journal of Social Theory, 2018).
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol27
/iss1/15/

● BEGINNER: Samuel Fury Childs Daly,

“Archival Research in Africa.” (African
Affairs, 2017).
https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adw082

● INTERMEDIATE: Tamar W. Carroll,

“Rochester’s Rainbow Dialogues: Activating
Archives.” (Radical History Review, 2021).
https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8841790

● INTERMEDIATE: Achille Mbembe, “The

Power of the Archive and its Limits” in Re-
figuring the Archive (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2002).
https://sites.duke.edu/vms565s_01_f2014/fil
es/2014/08/mbembe2002.pdf
● ADVANCED: Ann Laura Stoler, “Colonial
Archives and the Arts of Governance.”
(Archival Science, 2002).
https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~sj6/stollerarchivego
vernence.pdf

● ADVANCED: Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in

Two Acts.” (Small Axe, 2008).
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/241115

● WEEK OF MARCH 7 – BREAK

Week of Mar. 14 Guest lecture ●Prepare: Before the guest lecture, do the
(archivist) readings the guest lecturer will send out
before. Brainstorm at least 3 questions or
ideas you’d like to discuss with the
lecturer.
Attend discussion session on Zoom at 9.00am
EST

Week of Mar. 21 Primary and ● Watch: “Getting Started: Where and How to
Secondary Sources Look for Sources” and “History Dialogue
with Prof.
● Adelman: Session 8”
● Read: “Primary Sources” and “Secondary
Sources”
 ● Write: a short annotated bibliography
including 5-15 secondary references and
why they chose them.
● Attend class discussion/workshop: Draw up
a list of secondary sources
Supplementary Readings:
● BEGINNER: Katrin Weller, “Preserving
Social Media for Future Historians.” (Library
of Congress Blog, 2015).
https://blogs.loc.gov/kluge/2015/07/preservi
ng-social-media-for-future-historians/

● INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED: Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes:
Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses.” (Feminist Review, 1988)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.105
7/fr.1988.42?
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● INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED: Ranajit
Guha, “On Some Aspects of the
Historiography of Colonial India” in
Subaltern Studies I (Oxford University
Press, 1982).
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~rfrank/class_web/E
S-200C/Articles/Guha.pdf

Week of Mar 28 Workshop II: ● Read: 2-5 secondary sources on your

Developing a research topic posing the question: what
Research Question have other researchers written about your
topic so far? NB: For students without
access to library resources, they can either
use open-source materials found through
Google Scholar or similar; or TFs can
circulate a their selection of articles; please
do not circulate outside of the GHD.
● Write: A 1-page literature review that
synthesises the secondary sources you
read, and argues for why your chosen
research question is relevant
● Attend class discussion/workshop: how to
develop a research question?

Week of Apr 4 Planning: ● Watch: “How to Structure the Research

Process” and “History Dialogue with Prof.
Adelman: Session 5.”
● Read: Paschen, “Planning an Oral History
Project” in Catching Stories: A Practical
Guide to Oral History, ed. Donna DeBlasio
et al. (Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio
 University Press, 2009).
● Write: Reading response
● Attend class discussion/ Workshop: Draw
up a research plan for your project, (who
will you interview, when and how? Contact
them!! Have a preliminary conversation)

Supplementary Readings:
BEGINNER: Sady Sullivan and Maggie Schriener.
“If You’re Thinking about Starting an Oral History
Project.” (CUNY Digital Humanities)
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-
1102e586-8f09-4b60-835f-78634ad473dd/section/
83e46635-d139-42f9-a16f-253401e9baab

Week of April Keeping Organized: ● Watch: “Keeping Organized”

11/ ● Read: Paschen, “Archiving Oral History,” in
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral
History, ed. Donna DeBlasio et al. (Athens,
OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
2009) and Pat Thomson, “What did I do?”
● Write: Reading response
● Attend class discussion

Week of April 18 Ethics/Transcribing: ● Watch: “Oral History, Research Consent,

Do No Harm, Plagiarism, and Copyright”
and “History Dialogue with Prof. Adelman:
Session 6”
● Read: Sacks, “Ethics and Politics in Oral
History Research,” Mould, “Legal Issues,”
and DeBlasio, “Transcribing Oral History” in
Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral
History, ed. Donna DeBlasio et al. (Athens,
OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
2009).
● Assignment: Conduct a short (10-15
minute) oral history interview about the
pandemic with someone in your community.
This could be a family member, friend,
colleague, or stranger. You can find some
sample questions here. Record the
interview, transcribe it, and archive it in the
HD Coronavirus Archive, following the
Archive Guide.
● Write: Information sheets and consent
sheets for your interviewee
● Attend class discussion/ Attend class
discussion/ workshop: ethics in your
regional context + mock interview in class

Supplementary Readings:
● BEGINNER: AJ Gold, “Changing the
Citation Conversation.” (Inside Higher Ed,
2018).
 https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/grad
hacker/changing-citation-conversation

● BEGINNER: Penny Richards and Susan

Burch, “Dreamscapes for Public Disability
History: How (and Why, and Where, and
with Whom) we Collaborate.” (Public
Disability History.org, 2016).
https://www.public-disabilityhistory.org/2016
/12/dreamscapes-for-public-disability.html

● INTERMEDIATE: Annabel Kim, “The

Politics of Citation.” (Diacritics, 2020).
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/818132

● INTERMEDIATE: Jill Lepore, “When Black

History is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak
for the Dead?” (New Yorker, 2021).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021
/10/04/when-black-history-is-unearthed-
who-gets-to-speak-for-the-dead

● INTERMEDIATE: Valerie Yow, “Ethics and

Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History
Research.” (The Oral History Review,
1995). https://www.jstor.org/stable/4495356

Week of April 28 Prospectus Week ● Write: 5-10 page long prospectus including
a) your research theme, b) a literature
review, c) your research question, d) your
methodology (detailed methods + why are
your chosen methods to answer your
research question), e) your research plan, f)
your information and consent sheets, g)
your interview questions
● Attend class discussion/workshop: present
your prospectus in 10-15 minutes

Week of May 2 Interviews ● Assignment: conduct interviews

● Attend class discussion/ workshop: how did it
go?

Week of May 9 Fieldwork I ● Attend class discussion/ workshop: writing a

research report + check-in

Week of May 16 Fieldwork II ● Attend class discussion/ workshop: writing a

research report + check-in

Week of May 23 Guest lecture ● Prepare: Before the guest lecture, do the
(photography) readings the guest lecturer will send out
before. Brainstorm at least 3 questions or
ideas you’d like to discuss with the lecturer.
● Attend guest lecture on Zoom at 9.00am
 EST

Week of May 30 Guest lecture (film) ● Prepare: Before the guest lecture, do the
readings the guest lecturer will send out
before. Brainstorm at least 3 questions or
ideas you’d like to discuss with the lecturer.
● Attend guest lecture on Zoom at 9.00am
EST

Week of June 6 Storytelling: ● Watch: “The Politics of Storytelling,”

“History Dialogue with Prof. Adelman: AP 1,
Session 10.1,” and “History Dialogue with
Prof. Adelman, Session 10.2”
● Read: “Hannah Arendt: Section 4.3 Action,
Narrative, and Remembrance,” in Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, DeBlasio,
“Sharing Oral History,” in Catching Stories:
A Practical Guide to Oral History, ed. Donna
DeBlasio et al. (Athens, OH: Swallow
Press/Ohio University Press, 2009), and
Saponara, “Scaling the Empathy Wall”
● Write: Reading response
● Attend class discussion/ workshop:
Planning your final research output

Week of June Writing Workshop ● Assignment: Submit a 10-page draft to your

13 Teaching Fellow
● Attend class discussion/ writing workshop

Week of June Draft Submission + ● Attend class discussion/ writing workshop

20 Writing Workshop

Week of June Writing Workshop ● Attend class discussion/ writing workshop

27

Week of July 4 Final Paper ● Submit Final Paper

Deadline

Week of July 11 Conference ● Assignment: Present at Final Conference

Week of July 18 (Editing) + Website ● Write: Edit your papers

Upload ● Attend a one-on-one meeting with Teaching
Fellow