Time After Time: A Seminar on Temporality
HIST 339
Spring 2027
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How have people experienced, organized, and imagined time, and how can historians recover ways of inhabiting time different from our own? Over the past two decades, temporality has emerged as an important category of historical analysis, generating new approaches to questions of historical change, religion, politics, technology, empire, everyday life, and the natural world. This seminar explores recent scholarship on temporality across a wide range of periods and places. We will consider such questions as the coexistence of multiple temporalities; the relationship between time and power; experiences of anachronism, recurrence, contingency, and futurity; the creation of social and technological rhythms; and the relationship between human and planetary time. Reading approximately one book each week, students will examine not only what historians have argued about time in the past, but how attention to temporality can change the kinds of questions historians ask and the histories they write. |
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Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (History Minor)(History) |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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1. Barbara Adam, Time (Polity, 2004).
2. Zoltán Simon and Marek Tamm, The Fabric of Historical Time (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
3. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood, Anachronic Renaissance (Zone Books, 2010).
4. Sarit Gribetz, Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2020).
5. Paul Kosmin, Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018).
6. Nicholas Scott Baker, In Fortune¿s Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
7. Christina Lupton, Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).
8. Christopher Clark, Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years¿ War to the Third Reich (Princeton University Press, 2019).
9. On Barak, On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2013).
10. David Henkin, The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are (Yale University Press, 2021).
11. François Hartog, Chronos: The West Confronts Time (Columbia University Press, 2022).
12. Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
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| Instructor(s): Patton,Maryam Times: .M..... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 2 | | |
| | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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