Hi all, this is just a gentle reminder that we’ll be meeting this Friday, March 3rd, from 4-6 PM in the basement seminar room of Robinson to discuss the following readings, which can be found on Google Drive here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_drive…>.
1. Nancy Fraser (2016), ‘Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism’, Critical Historical Studies, 3,1, pp. 163-178.
2. Stuart Hall, ‘Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance’,
3. Gargi Bhattacharyya (2018), “Introduction: Ten Theses on Racial Capitalism”
4. Cedric J. Robinson (2000), ‘Introduction’, and ‘Chapter One: Racial Capitalism’, in Black Marxism
5. Stuart Hall et al. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, Chs. 3, 7, 8
6. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag, Introduction and pgs 52-86
7. Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack. The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987), chs.3-4.
My best,
Emma
From: Suarez, Andrew <asuarez(a)g.harvard.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 9:30 PM
To: amstudworkshop(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu <amstudworkshop(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu>
Cc: Stephens, Tamira Beth <tstephens(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: [Amstudworkshop] [AmStud Workshop] Co-Sponsoring Social & Cultural Theory Reading Group with HGSA
Hello everyone,
I'm excited to announce that the American Studies Workshop is co-sponsoring a Social & Cultural Theory Reading Group with the History Grad Student Association (HGSA), led by Emma Herman and myself. The reading group will hold two meetings per theme;the first theme will be Racial Formation, Capitalism, Power, & the State. The first meeting is on Friday, February 24th, and the second on Friday, March 3rd, from 4-6 pm in the Robinson basement seminar room.
Readings will be accessible via a shared Google Drive here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_drive…>. The readings + schedule for the first two meetings are as follows:
Week 1 (Feb. 24th)
1. Karl Marx, Grundrisse (Penguin), Introduction, p. 83-111
2. Ellen M Woods, ‘The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism”
3. Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
4. Jackson Lears, “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities”
5. Foucault, “Two Lectures” (in Power/Knowledge)
Week 2 (March 3rd):
1. Nancy Fraser (2016), ‘Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism’, Critical Historical Studies, 3,1, pp. 163-178.
2. Stuart Hall, ‘Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance’, 42p
3. Gargi Bhattacharyya (2018), “Introduction: Ten Theses on Racial Capitalism”
4. Cedric J. Robinson (2000), ‘Introduction’, and ‘Chapter One: Racial Capitalism’, in Black Marxism
5. Stuart Hall et al. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, Chs. 3, 7, 8
6. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag, Introduction
7. Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack. The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987), chs.3-4.
We hope to hold another paired set of meetings on a different theme in April/May, depending on interest. If you’d like to propose a theme, please feel free to reach out and let us know—we can be reached at eherman(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:eherman@fas.harvard.edu> and asuarez(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:asuarez@g.harvard.edu>.
Also, please feel free to attend the first meeting even if you don't have time to read all of the selections (as I know the first meeting is coming up soon)! We're as interested in creating a shared community at Harvard for reading critical theory as we are doing the actual reading. You can RSVP here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_hhhyXXmWzZ9o…>.
Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope to see many of you there!
All the best,
Andrew Suárez
Reminder that the first faculty coffee talk is happening TOMORROW in the
LOUNGE at 1 pm!!!!!
To inspire your attendance and imbue this event with the sense of
historical significance it deserves, I present:* Faculty Coffee Talks of
Yore* (ie. the 90s)
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--
Annie Boniface
PhD Candidate, History
Harvard University
Brave the snow and cold for some warm coffee and tea, tasty pastries, and
the great company of Dr. Aaron Bekemeyer!
Come to the Graduate Lounge at 1 PM!
SKP
Hello Everyone,
The History Department and HGSA are proud to announce a new event series called
Faculty Coffee Chats. Every month of the academic year, the Department and
HGSA will invite a different faculty member to come into the Graduate
Lounge to speak with Graduate Students for an hour and a half. There will
be coffee, tea, and pastries from Flour Bakery only for those who attend
the event.
Our first guest will be Dr. Aaron Bekemeyer on Tuesday, February 28 at 1 PM
in the Graduate Lounge. Dr. Bekemeyer is a historian of politics,
citizenship, labor, and the state in the 20th Century U.S. He recently
received his Ph.D. from Harvard and will have great advice about navigating
the program. He is currently a lecturer in our Department who teaches
classes such as "The Great Migration," "Capitalism, Crime, and Punishment
in American History," and "The History of American Conservatism."
We are looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sanjay K. Paul
Dear Colleagues,
We are very excited to invite you to the next Modern Sciences Working Group meeting of the Spring term, featuring Jaco de Swart, who is presenting his article with Annemarie Mol titled "Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments.”
We will be meeting on Wednesday, March 1, at 12pm ET in Science Center 252, as well as over Zoom. Please RSVP here <https://forms.gle/dkLLuxwygm4t3RyA7> to receive the paper, as well as to let us know if you're attending in person so that we have accurate numbers for our lunch order, or over Zoom to receive the link.
Please let us know if you have any questions, and we look forward to Wednesday!
Sal and Oliver
MSWG Co-Cordinators
Dear all,
We’re excited to reconvene* this Thursday, Feb. 23 at 4:30 pm* in the
Basement Seminar Room of Robinson Hall (with a hybrid option, Zoom link
copied below).
Please find attached the paper we will be discussing: a chapter from Eve
O’Connor’s dissertation on the cooperative movement in the first half of
the 20th century.
Warmly,
Ken and Victoria
*Location*: Basement Seminar Room (B21), Robinson Hall
*Zoom link*:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93265790454?pwd=ZDFFeTZWWUhwMlNpLzBUWjRNeXUwUT09(…:
USHistory)
Bagel:
"ring-shaped hard bread roll," 1912 (beigel), from Yiddish beygl, from
Middle High German boug- "ring, bracelet," from Old High German boug "a
ring," related to Old English beag "ring" (in poetry, an Anglo-Saxon lord
was beaggifa"ring-giver"), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, from PIE root
*bheug-
<https://www.etymonline.com/word/*bheug-?ref=etymonline_crossreference> "to
bend," with derivatives referring to curved objects.
Cream:
early 14c., creyme, "the rich and buttery part of milk," from Old
French cresme,
craime, creme"chrism, holy oil" (13c., Modern French crème). This word is a
blend of Late Latin chrisma"ointment" (from Greek khrisma "unguent;" from
PIE root *ghrei-
<https://www.etymonline.com/word/*ghrei-?ref=etymonline_crossreference> "to
rub") and Late Latin cramum "cream," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps
from Gaulish. The French word replaced Old English ream; it was re-borrowed
19c. as creme
<https://www.etymonline.com/word/creme?ref=etymonline_crossreference>.
From early 15c. as "dish or confection made from or resembling cream." The
figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" is from 1580s. It is
attested from 1660s as "any part that separates from the rest and rises to
the surface" and also in its application to substances resembling cream.
Cream-cheese is from 1580s. Cream-soda is attested by from 1854.
Cream-colored (also cream-coloured) "having the pale, yellowish-white color
of cream," is from 1707.
Cheese:
"curd of milk coagulated, separated from the whey, pressed, and used as
food," Old English cyse (West Saxon), cese (Anglian) "cheese," from West
Germanic *kasjus (source also of Old Saxon kasi, Old High German chasi,
German Käse, Middle Dutch case, Dutch kaas), from Latin caseus "cheese"
(source of Italian cacio, Spanish queso, Irish caise, Welsh caws).
This is of unknown origin; perhaps (Watkins) from a PIE root *kwat- "to
ferment, become sour" (source also of Prakrit chasi "buttermilk;" Old
Church Slavonic kvasu "leaven; fermented drink," kyselu "sour," -kyseti "to
turn sour;" Czech kysati "to turn sour, rot;" Sanskrit kvathati"boils,
seethes;" Gothic hwaþjan "foam").
But de Vaan writes, "no etymology can be found which does not require some
poorly-founded assumptions," and suggests a loan-word. Also compare fromage
<https://www.etymonline.com/word/fromage?ref=etymonline_crossreference>.
Old Norse ostr, Danish ost, Swedish ost are related to Latin ius"broth,
sauce, juice."
The earliest references would be to compressed curds of milk used as food;
pressed or molded cheeses with rinds are from 14c. Transferred to other
cheese-like substances by 1530s. As a photographer's word to make subjects
hold a smile, it is attested from 1930, but in a reminiscence of schoolboy
days, which suggests an earlier use. Probably for the forced smile involved
in making the -ee- sound.
Green cheese is that newly made; the notion that the moon is made of green
cheese as a type of a ridiculous assertion is from 1520s. To make
cheeses (1835)
was a schoolgirls' amusement of wheeling rapidly so one's petticoats blew
out in a circle then dropping down so they came to rest inflated and
resembling a wheel of cheese; hence, used figuratively for "a deep curtsy."
Bartlett ("Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848) defines head cheese as "The
ears and feet of swine cut up fine, and, after being boiled, pressed into
the form of a cheese."
SKP
Hello hello!
I write with the *very exciting *news that we have accepted a new cohort of
history students !!!!! I'm sure some of you have already been in touch with
your field's admitted student / relevant faculty, but if not, we have a
list of students and their contact information.
If you want to reach out to an admitted student (please do!), get in touch
with Kabl Wilkerson or me to receive the list of names.
Here are the fields with admitted students:
United States (4)
International (1)
Modern Europe (1)
Medieval (1)
Russian and Eastern Europe (1)
Early Modern (1)
Latin America (1)
Environmental (1)
Inter Caucus (1)
East Asia (1)
--
Annie Boniface
PhD Candidate, History
Harvard University
