Archive for May, 2007
May 25, 2007 at 10:39 am · Filed under Uncategorized
HIST 105: The Making of the Modern World I, Fall 2008
Coordinator: Ahmet Ersoy
e-mail: ersoya@boun.edu.tr
Office hours: Tuesdays 13:30-15:00, TB 512
Teaching Assistants: Melek Cevahiroğlu (Head T.A.), Ceren Abi, Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz, Seren Akyoldaş, Ayşe Tek Başaran, Banu Kaygusuz
Lectures: MWF 4, GKM
Discussion sessions: Fridays, Kuzey Park, hours TBA
Blog: hist105-2008.blogspot.com
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Course Description:
The Making of the Modern World (Hist 105; Hist 106) is a two-semester elective course providing a thematic history of the world from ancient to modern times. The course surveys the major patterns and events of human activity from a global perspective within a broad chronological framework, while familiarizing students with interactions, parallellisms, and incongruities in the historical and cultural patterns of diverse societies and civilizations. The course aims to develop an understanding of modes and patterns of historical change, and provides a perspective on the complex ways in which the legacy of the past shapes our present.
The first part of the course (Hist 105) focuses on the ancient and the medieval world, and approaches the formation and transformations of specific social, political, cultural, and economic patterns through a global perspective. Beginning with the first steps of humanity and the first permanent settlements and urban centers of the ancient Near East, the course turns to the Ancient Greek, Roman, and East Asian civilizations. Broad historical transformations of the medieval era in the eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Middle East and Asia constitute the last main focus. For each of these three major periods, the course examines aspects of political, cultural, ideological and institutional structures and transformations, as well as aspects of daily life and material culture. Connections and interactions across spatial and cultural divides remain a focus throughout the survey.
Format:
The course is team-taught by members of the History Department. Each week’s lectures will be followed by one-hour discussion sessions on Fridays led by the teaching assistants.
There are two types of reading for the course. The textbook [P.N. Stearns, M. Adas, S.B. Schwartz, M.H. Gilbert, World Civilizations: The Global Experience (New York, 2007)], provides an introduction and background to the topics to be covered in the lectures. The primary source readings for each week introduce a set of particular issues and themes directly related to the lecture topics. The Friday sections with the teaching assistants will be devoted in part to the in-depth discussion and interpretation of the primary sources, and in part to the discussion of the main themes and issues of the week. Four historical movies or documentaries related to course themes will be screened through the semester.
It is highly important that you participate fully in the course by attending the lectures, doing the readings (preferably before lectures, certainly before the Friday discussion hours), and partaking in the discussions led by the teaching assistants.
All readings will be available as electronic documents on the Boğaziçi Library web site (go to Catalogue Search; Search Course Reserves). Stearns, et al, World Civilizations: The Global Experience is also available in the Boğaziçi University Bookstore. Lecture outlines and course announcements will be posted on the course website.
Requirements:Mid-term exam: 40%
Final exam: 50%
Attendance and participation in discussion sessions: 10%
Course Syllabus:
HIST 105 THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, I
24 September W Introduction (Ersoy)
PART 1: FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY
26 September F Agricultural Transformation and
the First Permanent Settlements (Özyar)
Reading, week 1 (26 Sept.): P.N. Stearns, M. Adas, S.B. Schwartz, M.H. Gilbert, World Civilizations: The Global Experience (New York, 2007), pp. 2-25.
29 September M No class
1 October W No class
3 October F No class
6 October M The Rise of Civilization: Early Urban Centers of the Ancient Near East (Özyar)
8 October W Egypt: The Pharaonic Kingdom and the Nile (Özyar)
10 October F From Accounting to Writing: Early Scripts and Ancient Languages (Özyar)
Readings and sources, week 2 (6-10 Oct.): Stearns et al., pp. 25-35
from The Epic of Gilgamesh
from The Edict of Telipinus
13 October M Social Stratification and Historical Records: Anatolia in the Bronze Age (Özyar )
PART 2: THE ANCIENT WORLD
15 October W Cultural Continuity and Political Fragmentation: Anatolia in the Iron Age (Özyar)
17 October F Greeks and Barbarians: Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World (Vasilakeris)
Readings and sources, week 3 (13-17 Oct.): Stearns et al, pp. 35-45
from Heredotos, Histories, “The Greeks in Egypt, Nubia and Scythia.â€
20 October M The Greek City and Democracy (Durak)
22 October W Economy and Material Culture in the Greek City (Durak)
24 October F The Hellenic World: From City State to Empire (Durak)
Readings and sources, week 4 (20-24 Oct.): Stearns et al., chapter 5, pp. 94-115
from Homer, The Odyssey, “King Nestor Remembersâ€
from Aristotle, “Virtues and vicesâ€
from Thucidydes, The Peloponnesian War, Book II, Chapter VI, Funeral oration of Pericles
27 October M Rice Agriculture, Communal Life,and the Confucian State in China (Togan)
29 October W No class
31 October F The Persian Empire and the Alexandrian Legacy in Asia (Togan)
Readings and sources, week 5 (27, 31 Oct.): Stearns et al., pp. 55-93
from Lao Tzu, The Classic of the Way and of Virtue
from Confucius, K’ung fu-tzu, (469-399 B. C. ) Analects
3 November M Rome: the Republic (Durak)
5 November W Rome: the Empire (Durak)
7 November F The Fall of Rome and the Roman Legacy (Durak)
Readings and sources, week 6 (3-7 Nov.): Stearns et al., pp. 140-157, pp. 218-222.
from Polybius, History, Book 6, “Rome at the End of the Punic Warsâ€
from the correspondance of Pliny and Trajan
10 November M Religion in the Mediterranean World and the Rise of Christianity (Vasilakeris)
PART 3: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
12 November W The Byzantine Empire: from Constantine the Great to the Age of Justinian (NecipoÄŸlu)
14 November F Byzantine Society from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (NecipoÄŸlu)
Readings and sources, week 7 (10-14 Nov.): Stearns et al., pp. 222-227.
from Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History
from Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine
Constantine’s Coins, Statues and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
17 November M From the Iconoclastic Controversy to the Great Schism:
Christianity Divides (NecipoÄŸlu)
19 November W Midterm
21 November W Byzantium from the age of the Crusades to the Ottoman Conquest (NecipoÄŸlu)
Readings and sources, week 8 (17, 21 Nov.): Stearns et al., pp. 304-319 (chapter 14)
from Anna Comnena, Alexiad
from Manuel Palaiologos, Letters
24 November M Medieval Europe: Rural Society and Feudalism (Eldem)
26 November W Medieval European Politics: Kings and Vassals (Eldem)
28 November F Medieval European Politics:Popes and Bishops (Eldem)
Reading, week 9 (24-28 Nov): Stearns et al., pp. 320-343 (chapter 15)
The Constitution of Emperor Conrad II Concerning the Fiefs of Italy
The Dictatus Papae, [On Papal Power]
Letter of Fulbert of Chartres on the Obligation of Vassals
1 December M Medieval Europe: Towns and
Urban Institutions (Eldem)
3 December W Feudalism in Japan: the Samurai and the Peasant (Aoki Girardelli)
5 December F Religion in the Irano-Mediterranean World and the Rise of Islam (PancaroÄŸlu)
Readings and sources, week 10 (1-5 Dec.): Stearns et al. pp. 388-403
8 December M No class
10 December W No class
12 December F No class
15 December M The Caliphate: From Medina to Damascus and Baghdad (PancaroÄŸlu)
17 December W Religious and Political Fragmentation in the Islamic World (PancaroÄŸlu)
19 December F Medieval Near Eastern Societies (PancaroÄŸlu)
Readings and sources, week 11 (15-19 Dec): Stearns et al., pp. 236-270.
from Mawardi, The Ordinances of Government (a Juridical Theory on the Caliphate)
from Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddima: An Introduction to History
examples of Umayyad and Abbasid Coinage
22 December M Medieval Encounters:Conflict and Coexistence (Ersoy)
24 December W The Greco-Roman Legacy in the Medieval World (Ersoy)
26 December F Medieval Chinese Society and Culture (Togan)
Readings and sources, week 12 (22-26 Dec): Stearns et al., pp. 230-235.
Stearns et al., pp. 366-387; pp. 450-451.
from Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
Letters from the documents of the Cairo Geniza
29 December M Medieval Central Asia: Sufis, Saints and Nomads (PancaroÄŸlu)
31 December W The Genghisid World-Empire (KafescioÄŸlu)
Readings, week 13 (29, 31 Dec.): Stearns et. al., pp. 412-433 (chapter 19).
May 17, 2007 at 1:42 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Museum Lecture Series
Department of History, East Asian Studies
cordially invites you to a talk by
Professor Rebecca E. Karl
New York University
Department of History and East Asian Studies
on
Revolution, Politics, and the State:
Republican China, Mohammed Ali, and the Young Turks
Museum Building
May 23, Wednesday
16:30
May 17, 2007 at 1:22 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Department of History, East Asian Studies
cordially invites you to a talk by
Professor Harry Harootunian
New York University
Department of History and East Asian Studies
on
Overcoming Japan: Reflections on Producing America’s Japan
Rectorate Conference Hall
May 24, Thursday
15:00
May 16, 2007 at 10:14 am · Filed under Uncategorized
JAPANESE STUDIES ASSOCIATION
IN COLLABORATION WITH
BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY,
EAST ASIAN STUDIES & SASAKAWA PEACE FOUNDATION
Invites you to a workshop on “Japan and Pan-Asianism: Past, Present,
Future”
Participants:
Prof. Matsumoto Kenichi, Reitaku University
Prof. Takafumi Matsui, University of Tokyo
Dr. Akira Matsunaga, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Prof. Brij Tankha, University of Delhi
Prof. Selcuk Esenbel, Bogazici University
Assoc. Prof. Ibrahim Ozturk, Marmara University
Assist. Prof. Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Erdal Kucukyalcin, Secretary General, Japanese Studies Association
Dr. Merthan Dundar, Ankara University
Date: May 17, 2007; 10:00-17:00
Place: Cultural Heritage Museum (Müze Binası), Bogazici University
* Talks will be in English and Japanese
May 10, 2007 at 12:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The Department of History
cordially invites you to a talk by
Alan Wood
on
Plots, Politics and Politkovskaya: The History and Tradition of
Political Assassination in Russia
Museum Building
May 11, 2007 Friday
11:00
May 9, 2007 at 1:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
cordially invites you to a lecture by
Amy Singer
entitled
What is the Price of a Free Lunch? Another Perspective on Ottoman Imarets
Thursday May 10,
15:00
Cultural Heritage Museum
May 8, 2007 at 2:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The Interdisciplinary Research Project at Tarsus-Gözlükule
Project website: www.tarsus.boun.edu.tr
Boğaziçi University initiated a project at Tarsus-Gözlükule, an habitational mound in the western part of the Cilician plains. The earliest stratified settlement in Gözlükule dates back to the Neolithic Period. The site continued to be inhabited without a hiatus until the Islamic Period.
Tarsus-Gözlükule had been excavated in the 1930’s and 40’s under the direction of Hetty Goldman sponsered by Bryn Mawr College and the results were published in 3 Volumes by Princeton Press: H. Goldman, Excavations in Tarsus-Gözlükule I-III.
With this current project B.U is aiming to reopen excavations at this major site in Cilicia in corporation with Bryn Mawr College. Field work began in 2001 and comprises the preperation of a new topographical map, archaelogical surveys, reassesing and digital recording of the material unearthed by the former excavation, geomorphological sondages in the plain and geophysical investigatons of selected areas on and around the mound. A summary of the first season’s activities will appear in the Proceedings of the Annual Excavation and Search Results sponsored by the Turkish Cultural Ministry 2003. The first volume of preliminary reports is in preperation to be published as a monograph by Ege Yayınları.
For Bryn Mawr College links, click here
The Traugott Fuchs Archive Project
Traugott Fuchs, philologist, painter, poet, teacher, musician, well known in Istanbul as a remarkable member of the group of German scholars who fled from Germany after the Nazis came to power, arrived in Turkey in1934 at the age of 28, as Leo Spitzer’s promising young eassistant in Romanistic studies and remained here until his death in 1997. Apart from being the first person to initiate Germanistic studies at Istanbul University —an appointment proposed and arranged by Erich Auerbach—he also taught for many years at Robert College and Boğaziçi University ( the former being an American institution of higher learning which later changed into a Turkish university known as Boğaziçi University), until his voluntary retirement at the age of 76, but kept in touch with his students and colleagues who continued to benefit from his learning and intellectual brilliance till the end.
Although he chose to stay in Turkey even after most of his colleagues returned home or left for America, he corresponded with them and their families throughout his life. Indeed, his collection of letters (now in the custody of Boğaziçi University), testify to his unwavering attachment to the group of émigrés with whom he had shared the same fate .He was, as it were, a pivotal figure around which a network became established, through correspondence and exchange of ideas—a network that streches from Spitzer, Ritter and Auerbach to Adorno, Hesse, and Panofsky, persons who did not necessarily share the same convictions, but who were all involved in trying to find answers to the perplexing questions of a world torn apart and threatened by strife, whilst adapting to alien cultural and religious environments.
In 2006 under the guidance of Prof. Selçuk Esenbel as project director, the History Department has undertaken the project of archiving Fuchs’ collection of documents and making it accessible to the general public. Now called “Traugott Fuchs Cultural and Historical Heritage Archive,†the collection comprises not only Traugott Fuchs’ correspondence from 1934 until his death (more than 5000 letters), but also his translations , unpublished manuscripts, lecture notes , poems, musical compositions, and an impressive corpus of drawings, sketches, and paintings of artistic as well as sociological significance.
The significant collaborators of the project are Professor Suheyla Artemel of Yeditepe and Bogazici University, and the Fuchs family heirs whose great efforts as preserving the Fuchs material, conduct academic research, organize exhibitions and workshops, over the years have made it possible to make the material available for researchers in Turkey and abroad in an archive center in Bogazici University where Fuchs spent most of his life in Turkey. The project members hope that the material will contribute to the field of the history of German émigré, “Haimatlos†diaspora intellectuals who have played a remarkable role in transnational intellectual history during and after World War II.
For further information, please contact the Traugott Fuchs Cultural and Historical Archive:
Address:
Traugott Fuchs Cultural and Historical Archive,
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Fenerli Türbe Sokak 4
Rumeli Hisarı 34342 İstanbul, Türkiye
Phone/ Fax:
(0090) – 212 359 6638
Email:
traugottfuchsarchive@gmail.com
lale.babaoglu@boun.edu.tr (Dr. Lale Babaoğlu-Balkış)
Web Address: www.fuchs.boun.edu.tr
May 8, 2007 at 2:16 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
East Asian Studies Program at the Department of History
cordially invites to a talk by
Professor Brij Tankha
University of Delhi
Institute of Chinese Studies
on
The Predicament of Japanese Pan Asianism in a Globalised World
in TB 490
May 9, 2007 Wednesday
15:00-17:00
Faculty and students are welcome.
May 7, 2007 at 9:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
BOĞAZİÇİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
TARİH BÖLÜMÜ
DUYURULAR
İngilizce siteye giriş için buraya tıklayınız
Tarih lisans programı, bölüm öğrencilerini tarihçilik kavramları ve araştırma yöntemleri ile tanıştırırken, onlara çağdaş dünyayı tarihsel bir bakış açısı ile değerlendirebilecekleri bir donanım kazandırmayı amaçlar. Lisans programının coğrafi odağını Doğu Akdeniz tarihinin sosyal, ekonomik, politik, kültürel boyutları oluşturur. Başka konuların yanısıra, Osmanlı ve Türk Tarihi programın ana eksenidir. Gerek bu bölgenin tarihine, gerekse Asya ve Avrupa tarihine karşılaştırmalı ve disiplinler arası yaklaşımlar tarih lisans programını zenginleştirmektedir.
Bölüm lisans öğrencilerine esnek ve liberal bir program sunmaktadır. Öğrenciler bölümün çekirdek programını oluşturan bir dizi ders, ve bunları kendi ilgi alanları çerçeevesinde tamamlayan çok sayıda seçmeli ders alırlar. Tarih ve sosyal bilimlere giriş, tarihsel çalışmanın yöntem ve kuramları, dünya tarihi, Anadolu ve Balkanların ortaçağdan modern döneme kadar sosyal, ekonomik, politik, ve kültürel tarihi konularında dersler çekirdek programı oluşturur. Bu programa niceliksel araştırma yöntemleri konusunda açılımlar sağlayacak matematik ve istatistik dersleri de dahildir. Tarih Bölümü öğrencileri birincil kaynaklar da kullanarak hazırlsdıklsrı bir tez çalışması ile mezun olurlar.
Çekirdek programa ek olarak öğrenciler zengin bir seçmeli ders havuzundan yararlanırlar. Bölüm üyeleri Asya, İslam, Akdeniz, Bizans, Osmanlı, Modern Türkiye, Avrupa, ve Amerika tarihinin farklı yönlerini kapsayan çok sayıda ders sunmaktadır. Arkeoloji, sanat ve mimarlık tarihi, sözlü tarih konularında dersler, öğrencileri bu tarihi ve coğrafi alanların görsel, maddi, ve sözel kültürü ile tanıştırmayı amaçlar. Öğrenciler bölüm seçmeli derslerini, veya üniversitenin sosyal bilimler, beşeri bilimler, siyaset bilimi, güzel sanatlar, yabancı diller bölümlerinin sunduğu seçmeli dersleri alabilirler.
Araştırma dilleri çekirdek programın diğer bir parçasını oluşturur. Osmanlı tarihi konusunda çalışmak isteyen öğrenciler Osmanlıca ve Osmanlı paleografyası dersleri alırken, Avrupa veya Bizans tarihi ile ilgilenen öğrenciler Osmanlıca’ya giriş derslerine ek olarak Eski Yunanca ve Latince derslerini takip ederler. Bu ikinci seçeneği takip edecek öğrenciler, ikinci yılları içinde Yunanca veya Latince dersleri almaya başlamalıdır. Araştırma alanlarını zenginleştirip karşılaştırmalı bakış açıları geliştirebilmeleri için, öğrencilerin İngilizce dışında bir modern dil öğrenmeleri gerekir.
Tarih Bölümü’nün Felsefe, Psikoloji, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler, Sosyoloji, ve Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümleri ile çift anadal programları vardır. ÇAP yönetmeliği için:
http://www.boun.edu.tr/government/rules/cap_index.htmTarih Bölümü öğretim üyeleri,
yüksek lisans programı, lisans ve yüksek lisans dersleri ile ilgili bilgiler için Boğaziçi Üniversitesi web sitesinin İngilizce sayfalarına bakınız.
Yüksek Lisans ve Doktora programlarına başvurular 31 Mart - 11 Nisan 2008 tarihleri arasında yapılacaktır. Programa giriş sınav ve mülakatları şu tarihlerde yapılacaktır:
Başvurularla ilgili detaylı bilgiler için:
www.boun.edu.tr/admissions/index_tur.html
Başvuru için gerekli belgeler:
- BaÅŸvuru Formu (Kayıt Ä°ÅŸleri Müdürlüğü’nden alınabilir. Web’ten indirmek için Forms)
- Transkript
- Not ortalaması Master için en az 2.5, Doktora için en az 3
- 2 tavsiye mektubu
- LES veya GRE
- BU İngilizce Yeterlik Sınavı veya TOEFL
- Başvuru amacı ve muhtemel çalışma konularını açıklayan en fazla 4 sayfalık metin
Bilgi için: Oya Arıkan (Bölüm Sekreteri)
Tel: (212) 359-6611
eposta: arikano@boun.edu.tr
May 7, 2007 at 4:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
COURSES OFFERED
SUMMER 2008
HIST 313: HISTORY OF ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS I
Instructor: ELİF AKÇETİN
HIST 322: HISTORY OF MODERN TURKEY
Instructor: MELTEM TOKSÖZ
HIST 432: CHINESE HISTORY
Instructor: ELİF AKÇETİN
HIST 433: JAPANESE HISTORY
Instructor: SELÇUK ESENBEL
HIST 451: OTTOMAN ART & ARCHITECTURE
Instructor: GÃœNHAN DANIÅžMAN
HIST 452: ARCHITECTURE IN REPUBLICAN TURKEY
Instructor: GÃœNHAN DANIÅžMAN
HIST 456: HISTORY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN TURKEY
STAFF
HIST 482: SP.TOP. HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Instructor: GÃœNHAN DANIÅžMAN
HIST 497: SP.TOP. THE NON-MUSLIM POPULATIONS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Instructor: EVANGELOS KECHRIOTIS
HIST 48J: THE ROLE OF SEA POWER IN OTTOMAN HISTORY
Instructor: SVAT SOUCEK
HIST 49K: THE RUSSIAN EMPÄ°RE, 1700-1917: REFORM, REACTION AND REVOLUTION
Instructor: ALAN WOOD
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