2008 Humanities & RS Senior Research Seminar

Reading Schedule

Jan. 7: Introduction to course, to Globalization.

• Steger, Manfred. Globalization: A Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2005.
  

Jan. 14: History of the Global I: Renaissance, Enlightenment, Early 19th Century

• Kant, “Ideas for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View” http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/kant/universal-history.htm
• Hegel, "IV. The Course of World History", from the Introduction to Philosophy of History http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/introduction.htm

Jan. 28: History of the Global II: Liberalism, Capitalism, Marxism

• Appandurai, “Grassroots Globalization” (AA, Globalization)
• Marx, “Communist Manifesto”, part 1 & 2

Feb. 4: Tradition & Modernism

• Mbembe, “At the Edge of the World” (AA, Globalization)
• Anthony Giddens, "Tradition", Reith Lecture, Delhi, 1999 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/week3/week3.htm

Feb. 11: The End of History

• Fukuyama, Francis. “The End of History & the Last Man” The National Interest, 1989
• Fukuyama, Francis. “Reflections on The End of History – Five Years Later” History and Theory 34:2: 27-43. May, 1995.
• Fukuyama, Francis. “Has History Started Again?” Policy 18:2 (Winter 2002)

Feb. 18:  Clash of Civilizations

• Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs Summer 1993, 22-49.
• Jack Matlock, “Can Civilizations Clash?” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 143, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 428-439.

Feb. 25: The Global and Place

• Sassen, Saskia, “Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization” (AA, Globalization)
• Jerome Binde, “Toward an Ethics of the Future” (AA, Globalization)

March 3: The Global, Ethics, and the Environment

• Andrew Brennan, “Globalization, Environmental Policy and the Ethics of Place” Ethics, Place & Environment 9:2 (June 2006) 133-148.
• Alison Jagger, "Is Globalization Good for Women?" Comparative Literature 53:4 (2001): 298-314.

March 17: The Global and Religion I

• Marrs, Cliff, “Globalization: A Short Introduction to a New World Religion” Political Theology 4.1 (2002): 91-116.
• Martin Geoffroy, “Theorizing Religion in the Global Age: A Typological Analysis” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 18:1 (Fall 2004): 33-46.

March 24: The Global and Religion II

• Robertson, Roland & JoAnn Chirico, “Humanity, Globalization, and Worldwide Religious Resurgence: A Theoretical Exploration.” Sociological Analysis 46:3 (Autumn, 1985): 219-242.
• Strenski, Ivan, “The Religion in Globalization” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72:3 (2004): 631-652.

March 31: Music, Religion, History

• Reingard Nethersole “Models of Globalization.” Proceedings of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), Vol. 116, No. 3. (May, 2001), pp. 638-649.