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January 16, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Introduction
January 23, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Encountering the East

Reading

McAlister, Epic Encounters, Introduction - Chapter II

Writing

Blog postings
January 30, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Theories of Nationalism and Hegemony

Reading

Anderson, Imagined Communities

http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/sharon/as207/readings/anderson.pdf
Lears, Cultural Hegemony

http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/sharon/as207/readings/Lears_hegemony.pdf

Writing

Blog postings
February 06, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Cold War I

Reading

Borstelmann, Cold War and the Color Line, Preface - Chapter III

Writing

Nationalism and Hegemony, Problem Assessment
Length: 3-4 pages Find and critical gap in the logic of either Anderson or Gramsci and try to bridge that gap with your own formulation.
February 13, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Cold War II

Reading

Borstelmann, Cold War and the Color Line, Chapter 4 - End

Writing

Blog postings
February 20, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Ghosts

Reading

Hong Kingston

Writing

Project Proposal
One paragraph on a possible project proposal topic.
Blog postings
February 27, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
New Left

Reading

Gosse, Movements of the New Left

Writing

Nationalism and the New Left
March 06, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Spring Break
March 13, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Transnationalism and Postnationalism in American Studies

Reading

Appadurai

http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/sharon/as207/readings/appadurai.pdf
Buell, Nationalist Postnationalism

http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/sharon/as207/readings/50.3buell.html
Curiel, et. al. and edited by John Carlos Rowe, Post-Nationalist American Studies

http://chnm.gmu.edu/staff/sharon/as207/readings/post.pdf

Writing

Blog postings
March 20, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Commodities and the Good Fight

Reading

McAlister, Epic Encounters, Chapters III and IV

Writing

Preliminary Annotated Bibliography
Select 6-8 of the most relevant sources for your Project Proposal. Provide 150 word annotations for each.
Blog postings
March 27, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Richardson Lecture

Discussion

Richardson Lecture
We shall attend together and listen hard.
April 03, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Migrations I

Reading

Levitt, Parts I & II

Writing

Post/Trans/Nationalism

Length: 3-4 Pages

In this critical essay, you will evaluate the theories of nationalism, post-nationalism, and trans-national that we've been discussing for the last few weeks. You may draw upon and comment on any of the reading thus far. What is useful about these theories? What is problematic? For which issues do they account well? For which issues do they account poorly? Is one theory more convincing than another? If so why? How might you revise any or all of these theories so that they would be more useful for your work?

April 10, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Migrations II

Reading

Levitt, Part III

Writing

Methodology Statement
First draft of the Design and Methodology section of your Project Proposal
Blog postings
April 17, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
The New Right

Reading

McGirr

Writing

Blog postings
April 24, 2007 4:15 pm - 6:35 pm
Militarism and the Middle East

Reading

McAlister, Epic Encounters, Chapter V - Conclusion

Writing

Blog postings