Comments on: Captivity, Rape, and Concubinage, 1492-1800: sensationalizing your curriculum!

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:23:10 +0000

Anyone like to pitch in with course suggestions for: Critical Thinking course on the Enlightenment
(I thought of “I’ll Think About It And You’ll Listen”)

Isaiah Berlin and Liberty

Women of the 18th Century Salon (I thought Wonder Women)

Are There Limits to the Other? The Ethics of Cultural Relativism (I know Ican’t use Clifford Geertz’ “The Drunken Indian” but how inappropriately catchy)

Had lots of fun reading your comments, everyone, though I can imagine it would be better in the evening after wine.

Many thanks,
EB

By: Is this going to be a discussion? : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:21:06 +0000

[...] that utterly resists my efforts to draw them into conversations. (And as I have noted before, because my classes are usually all about sex and violence, students usually have a lot of opinions!) I chalk it up to some mistakes on my part, but in my [...]

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:22:11 +0000

david — I love it!

By: david foster

david foster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:38:42 +0000

Erica..differential equations…”The Only Constant is Change”

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:30:18 +0000

“Sex and State Power in South African History.” We’ll see how many people show up when the quarter starts.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:12:32 +0000

Physiology -> Eating, Sleeping, Breathing, Pulsing, Shitting, Pissing, and Fucking

By: Katherine French

Katherine French — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:16:05 +0000

My social history of medieval England is: Knights, Peasants, and Bandits (oh my). My course on the Black Death is: The Black Death

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:43:56 +0000

Well, my paw always said you canna decline a TRIPLE dog-dare, so I’ll have to see if and how this thing can be sort of feathered in with some of my other local outrages. I should say, though, the actual course title I had in mind for our weary workhorse was “Western Civ Cliche Enemas for Political Prisoners.” Might as well leave the Enlightenment alone.

On economy in course nomenclature: when I was a senior, way back wev, I eased back on the history major stuff with a last semester of all art classes, including a popular combo with my art major friends of Beginning Ceramics and also Photography. This parlay was popularly known among the freaks as “Pots and Shots.” All nouns, no adjectives, change from a dollar bill.

Contract THAT, somebody…

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:18:16 +0000

Z–great point. The “This, that, and the other thing” kind of course description is lazy. Noun and adjective (or, I presume en Anglais, adjective and noun) is much more difficult.

I can’t even think how to describe my courses with ONE noun and ONE adjective. “Sexual servitude?”

By: Z

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:29:59 +0000

P.S. One of my students wrote a dissertation on miscegenation in slave societies and called it “Who’s My Daddy?”