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The Enlightenment legacy is under siege. Defend it.

Linker defines Enlightenment legacies as "individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity, the valorization of expertise" and defends them against…

Tags: economics, enlightenment, globalization, modernity, politics, upheavals

FRN 825:The Marquis de Sade: From materialist philosophy to popular culture and feminist theory

A graduate seminar that examines Sade's work (La Philosophie dans le boudoir) and his adaptation of 18th-century materialist philosophy, as well as Sade's impact on later feminist pro-sex authors like Virginie Despentes and Morgane Merteuil and…

Tags: gender and sexuality studies, graduate course, materialism, popular culture, syllabus, upheavals

FR331: Introduction to French Civilization I, Final Project description

(This document is in French.) Although many of the topics offered for this project are pre-Enlightenment era, this project could easily be adapted to current topics. For this final project, students work in groups to create a newspaper (in paper or…

Tags: creative project, final project, newspaper assignment, upheavals

Places and Spaces of the Francophone World: Disasters

Places_and_Spaces_of_the_Francophone_World.pdf

An advanced French course that explores representations of disasters in sculpture, painting, literature, and film.

Tags: graduate course, landscape, syllabus, undergraduate course, upheavals

Environmental Issues in French and Francophone Literature

Français 589 Syllabus Spring 19 (1).pdf

This advanced French literature course explores environmental issues in three units that each consist of readings from both contemporary and historical periods. The first unit considers how the impact of environmental disaster or decline varies…

Tags: graduate course, landscape, syllabus, undergraduate course, upheavals

England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and British Pun

The best overview of punk's emergence, with a focs on UK bit also taking in the US. Savage locates the impulses and aesthetics that informed punk in their historical context to explain why the culture(s) that developed still appear so resonant

Tags: 20th century, punk, United Kingdom, upheavals

Mapping the Republic of Letters

This website provides interactive, visual tools that depict the vast networks of people and information during the Enlightenment. Using archived letters, travel logs, and other resources, it depicts visually the routes traveled by letters, people,…

Tags: 18th century, citizenship, civilization, collective identities, colonialism, education, Europe, In-between, interdisciplinarity, philosophy, upheavals

Cris sur le Bayou: Naissance d'une Poésie Acadienne en Louisiane

A number of works in this anthology of Cajun French poetry treat the expulsion of Acadian French settlers from Novia Scotia beginning in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement. Many of the poems testify to the role this eighteenth-century displacement…

Tags: collective identity, migration, upheavals

Oral histories of North and South American survivors of the atomic bombs

Consisting of fifty-six oral histories of survivors collected by Mexico-based artist Shinpei Takeda from 2005 to 2010, as well as seventy-three oral histories of U.S. survivors and their supporters collected by US historian Naoko Wake from 2010 to…

Tags: catastrophe, citizenship, collective identity, colonialism, destruction, diaspora, gender, migration, race, upheavals

Hiroshima: Three Witnesses

Hiroshima: Three Witnesses is a translation of “atomic bomb literature,” created by three Japanese authors Ota Yōko, Hara Tamiki, and Toge Sankichi, all of whom survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. As both a witness and a writer,…

Tags: art, catastrophe, culture, destruction, landscape, science, social reorganization, upheavals

Hiroshima o mochikaetta hitobito: “Kankoku no Hiroshima ha naze umareta no ka (Bringing back Hiroshima: The birth of “Hiroshima in Korea”)

This book is about Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although little-known, approximately 1 in 10 people victimized by the bombs were Koreans who had come to Japan since the turn-of-the-century. Their history…

Tags: catastrophe, collective identity, colonialism, destruction, migration, social reorganization, upheavals

Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War

This anthology reveals the still-unfolding legacies of the nuclear age. Focusing on on a range of locations including Marshall Islands, Hanford, US Southwest, Alaska, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Hiroshima, fifteen contributing anthropologists shed light…

Tags: catastrophe, ethnicity, race, science, upheavals

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

Investigative journalism at its best, Full Body Burden tells a story of people and community in Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado, where a secret nuclear power plant was a major site of employment in the region throughout the 1960s and 1970s.…

Tags: catastrophe, citizenship, resilience, science, upheavals

The Culture of Disaster

Tags: 18th century, literature, upheavals

Mémorial Cap 110

Commemorates the victims of the 1830 shipwreck of a slave ship along the coast of Martinique, as well as other victims of the slave trade. Fifteen human figures stand in a triangular formation facing the sea, orientated at the exact latitude of the…

Tags: art, colonialism, race, upheavals

Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

Tags: 18th century, Atlantic, colonialism, disaster, earthquakes, tsunami, upheavals

“Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne.”

Tags: 18th century, disaster, enlightenment, Lisbon Earthquake, upheavals

Candide

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“De la percepción popular a la reflexión erudite: La transmisión de la ‘cultura de la catástrofe’ en la España del siglo XVIII”

In this article, Alberola argues that while the first formal reflections on the physical nature of disasters appeared in the philosophical and scientific works of the Classical era, it was in the eighteenth century that these environmental ideas took…

Tags: 18th century, catastrophe, disciplines, natural disasters, Spain, upheavals

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783

This text surveys the British Caribbean from 1624 through the calamitous hurricane season of 1780. Mulcahy examines the various natural hazards that the region was prone to, including food shortages and disease, but focuses his attention on…

Tags: 18th century, Atlantic, colonialism, hurricanes, natural disasters, upheavals

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