13324
Seminar
Silencing and Disconnections in Global History
Sarah Katherine Bellows-Blakely
Comments
Too often, global history is exclusively treated as the study of connections. Robust histories exist of ideas that have universalized, people who have traveled, and goods that have crossed borders. Less commonly discussed are the people, ideas, and goods that have NOT traveled. Despite this relative paucity of scholarly attention, robust methodologies exist to help us trace non-transfer, non-connection, the deliberate silencing of certain kinds of information, and the conditions and contexts out of which they have arisen. Rather than treating disconnection and silencing as “natural” and needing no explanation, this class draws attention to the ways in which globalization and the transgression of certain boundaries have gone hand-in-hand with disintegration, misinformation, and the hardening of other boundaries. Drawing from a mix of methodologies and case studies, the class will train students to analyze mutual processes of circulation and non-circulation, and of silencing and amplification, that have underpinned globalization. In addition to offering a richer understanding of the past, these methods help to keep global history as a discipline relevant and ethically engaged in an age of rampant misinformation, resurgent nationalism, and the cementing of boundaries of various kinds. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2024-04-18 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-04-25 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-05-02 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-05-16 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-05-23 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-05-30 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-06-06 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-06-13 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-06-20 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-06-27 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-07-04 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-07-11 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2024-07-18 14:00 - 16:00