Term or Semester:
Day and Time:
Tuesdays, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Quarter Dates:
September 24 - December 3, 2024
Semester Dates:
August 27 - December 6, 2024
Campus:
UCDC
Category:
Core Seminar
Description:
In this course, we will discuss the notion of political uses of the past developed by historical literature. Rather than discussing history as the past itself ( ""how things actually were""), the objective of the course is to discuss how political actors appropriate themselves to the past shaping it into their daily practices. In Chilean protests in 2019, the roots of colonial and dictatorship past transformed into a political issue, while protesters painted walls, changed the name of the streets, and tore down colonial statues. After Chile, we could see major debates over the meaning of sites of history in public spaces in different countries.
We will use DC's historical (and political) landscape as a practical laboratory to critically address those questions. The course will be divided into three broader parts. First, we will address some conceptual issues on notions such as memory, archive, and past representation. In the second part, we will discuss some concrete case studies on commemorations, and how the past is perceived into its public dimension. Finally, we addressed we will discuss the ""places of memory"" in the DC area and how we could (re) write those different histories. All student's essays will use DC sites as references for their papers.
About the instructor:
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui holds a PhD in History from São Paulo University and is an Assistant Professor of History (on leave) at Federal Institute of Brasilia and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Georgetown University. His Dissertation on the Political History of FIFA has been published in Portuguese (A danca das cadeiras: a eleicao de Joao Havelange a presidencia da FIFA, 2020) and English (The making of a global FIFA, 2023). The Dissertation was honored with the Social History Prize (São Paulo University). I was also honored with international grants such as FIFA Scholarship (2015) and a Fulbright Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2024, declined). Additionally, as a Teacher, he won the Dea Fenelon Award (2020-2023) granted by the Brazilian Association of Historians (ANPUH) for most innovative projects in teaching History.
Requirement for ALL semester students:
The four weeks from August 28 to September 18 will be spent in a special topics module taught by Dr. Jimmy Ellis on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 9:30p.m. This module will account for 15% of the core seminar final course grade.
Your selected seminar will begin the week of September 23 and your seminar instructor will officially be your instructor of record for the term, responsible for computing and submitting final course grades at the end of the term.
**NO additional registration required.
Course ID:
UCDC191G02F24