History in the Headlines
The key events you read about in your morning twitter feed or on your favorite news sites are usually not unique in world affairs. They have a background, a context, that makes them more understandable and often more interesting. History is about everything that happened before you started reading this course description. And thinking historically means trying to make sense of the new in the context of what human beings have done before.
In this lecture series, historians and scholars employing a historical perspective in their work will take you on a behind the scenes tour of current events you thought you knew, with the goal of making you a better observer and analyst of the world around you.
This is a two-credit course designed to show students how thinking historically can help them understand better the key issues in the world around them. The weekly 75-minute meeting begins with a lecture by a specialist with the remaining portion of the session devoted to Q&A and discussion.
For additional information or to RSVP for/watch individual talks, please contact Nisha Julie Zacharia, at njz228@nyu.edu.
History in the Headlines (HIST-UH 2117)
Martin Klimke Spring 2022 / Tuesday, 4:05-5:20pm
January 24, 2022 | Introduction / Theoretical Approaches |
January 31, 2022 | Who Are the People? Democracy and the Rights of Outsiders |
February 7, 2022 | The Arabian Peninsula’s “Forgotten War” (Yemen) |
February 14, 2022 | Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Russia |
February 21, 2022 | China's Early Modern Rise |
February 28, 2022 | Back to the geopolitics of the Steppe empires: Central Asia between Turkey, China, and Russia |
March 7, 2022 | Our Pandemic Age |
March 29, 2022 | ‘Normal People’ remembering an authoritarian regime: Histories and Memories of East Germany |
April 5, 2022 | Fascism back in Fashion? The Contemporary Radical Right in Historical Perspective |
April 11, 2022 | Plagues and Paranoia: Rumors and Misinformation in Early Modern Times |
April 19, 2022 | Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora |
April 26, 2022 | Living Images: Repatriation and afterlife of Museum Objects |
May 3, 2022 | Conflict and Intervention in the Sahel |
May 10, 2022 | Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth: Evidence from China |