Spring 2025: Negotiating Justice

Jump to: Part 1: Alternative Models  | Part 2: Memorialization | Part 3: Bondage

Tue Jan 21 2025 AM (Week 1)

• WATCH: El secreto de sus ojos (Campanella, 2009)
• PLENARY/SECTION: Welcome back, if one can feel welcome in 2025

Thu Jan 23 2025 AM

• PLENARY: Violence and Justice

Thu Jan 23 2025 PM

• PLENARY: The Historian’s Craft

 

PART I: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF JUSTICE

Tue Jan 28 2025 AM (Week 2)

• READ: Robert Cover, “Violence and the WordViolence and the Word” [for Thursday discussion]
• MOODLE: Library and Gallery
• PLENARY: Archives and Art objects (Cara Evanson and Lia Newman)

Tue Jan 28 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Getting and Staying Organized: Google Drive Essentials

Thu Jan 30 2025 AM

• READ: Euripides, Medea (full play)
• MOODLE: The Wages of Justice
• SECTION: Justice and/or Revenge

Thurs Jan 30 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Getting and Staying Organized: Google Drive Essentials

Thu Jan 30 2025 PM

• WATCH: Euripides, Medea
• PLENARY: Revenge and Intersubjectivity

Mon Feb 3 by 5 PM

• Submit Writing Assignment 3

Tue Feb 04 2025 AM (Week 3)

• READ: Zora Neale Hurston,  Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo (Intro-42); Autumn Womack, “Contraband Flesh, On Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon”
• PLENARY: Maroonage

Tues Feb 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit Max the Midterm: Study Skills for Success

Thu Feb 06 2025 AM

• READ: Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo (pgs. 43-81)
• SECTION:

Thu Feb 06 2025 PM

• READ: Andreas Roberts, “Performance as Place Preservation: The Role of Storytelling in the Formation of Shankleville Community’s Black Counterpublics”
• PLENARY

Thu Feb 06 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit Max the Midterm: Study Skills for Success

Tue Feb 11 2025 AM (Week 4)

• WATCH: “Dancing to the Promised Land”
• MOODLE:Taking It All On, Taking it All In
• PLENARY: Reckoning with the Past/Imagining a Future: Bill T. Jones’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land

Tue Feb 11 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Zotero, Your Personal Research Assistant

Thu Feb 13 2025 AM

• READ: Jacqueline Shea Murphy, “Unrest and Uncle Tom: Political Movement in  Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land.”  In Bodies of the Text: 81-105.
• Plenary: Dance and the changing moment
• Thu Feb 13 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Zotero, Your Personal Research Assistant

Thu Feb 13 2025 PM

• READ: Ariel Nereson, “Counterfactual Moving in Bill T. Jones’s Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land”
• MOODLE: Articles in conversation
• SECTION: One Dance, Many Meanings

Tue Feb 18 2025 AM (Week 5)

• READ: Omer Bartov, Christopher R. Browning, Jane Caplan, Debórah Dwork, David Feldman, et al., “An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory” with reply and response; Masha Gessen, “In the Shadow of the Holocaust”
• MOODLE: Questions for Omer Bartov
• PLENARY: Class Visit

Tue Feb 18 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Zotero, Your Personal Research Assistant

Thu Feb 20 2025 AM

• READ: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and  Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (excerpts)
• MOODLE: Questions for Chris Hedges [Note: due Wednesday night at 8:00 p.m.]
• PLENARY: Chris Hedges in class

Thu Feb 20 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Zotero, Your Personal Research Assistant

Thu Feb 20 2025 PM

• READ: “Introduction” from War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and  “Introduction” from Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (excerpts)
• SECTION: War and the Quotidian

Tue Feb 25 2025 AM (Week 6)

• READ: Matt Johnson, Incognegro (also in pdf
• SECTION: Cruel Alternatives

Tue Feb 25 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Davidson Domains Sandbox

Thu Feb 27 2025 AM

• WATCH: Pearl Primus, “Strange Fruit”: Talley Beatty, “Mourner’s Bench” (only required to watch “Mourner’s Bench” at this link, access specific works under “tracks;” you can also watch a couple other Primus works)
• MOODLE: Reading Dancing, Making Meaning
• SECTION: The Body As Site of Cruelty and Resistance

Tue Feb 27 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Davidson Domains Sandbox

Thu Feb 27 2025 PM

• READ: Ken Gonzalez-Day, “Introduction: Searching for California’s Hang Trees” and “Chapter 1: Counting the Dead: Frontier Justice and the Antilynching Movement”
• PLENARY: The Long Shadow of Lynching

Mon Mar 3

• Submit Campus Commentary #3

Tue Mar 04 2025 AM (Week 7)

• WATCH: Mozart, Don Giovanni (1787) [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
• PLENARY: Social Justice and Opera

Tue Mar 04 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Using Scholarly Sources Ethically

Thu Mar 06 2025 AM

• WATCH: Mozart, Don Giovanni (1787) [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
• READ: David M. Powers, “Colonial Society at the Theatre,” in Plantation to Paradise?: Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764-1789 (Michigan State University Press, 2014), 65–84.
• PLENARY: Class Dynamics, Spectatorship, and Revolution

Tue Mar 06 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Using Scholarly Sources Ethically

Thu Mar 06 2025 PM

• READ: Pierpaolo Polzonetti, “Don Giovanni Goes to Prison” Musicology Now (16 February 2016). [Read all comments.]
• Bonnie Gordon, “The Perils of Public Musicology,” Musicology Now (22 February 2016).
• SECTION: Arts Education and Social Justice

 

PART 2: MEMORY AND MEMORIALIZATION 

SPRING BREAK

Fri Mar 07 2025

• TRAVEL: Leave for DC (approx. 11:00 a.m.)

Sat Mar 08 2025

• VISIT: National Museum of African American History and Culture
• VISIT: National Museum of the American Indian
• TOPIC: Curation and Memory

Sun Mar 09 2025

• VISIT: Memorials and the National Mall
• TOPIC: Nationhood and the Work of Memory

Mon Mar 10 2025

• TRAVEL: Return from DC (approx 4:30 p.m.)

Tue Mar 11 2025 (Week 8)

SPRING BREAK

Thu Mar 13 2025

SPRING BREAK

Tue Mar 18 2025 AM (Week 9) 

• READ:Edwin Battistella, “When nations apologise” (Aeon Magazine, 2017) 
• MOODLE:
• PLENARY: National Responsibility and a Just Future

Tue Mar 18 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Source-Based Writing

Thu Mar 20 2025 AM

• READ: Clint Smith [Davidson ‘10], “Monuments to the Unthinkable”
• MOODLE:
• PLENARY/SECTION: Monuments and Memory

Thu Mar 20 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Source-Based Writing

Thu Mar 20 2025 PM

• READ: Amy Lonetree, “‘Acknowledging the Truth of History’: Missed Opportunities at the National Museum of the American Indian” 
• MOODLE:
• PLENARY/SECTION: Museums and Memorialization

 

INTERLUDE I: THE BODY AND THE LEGAL SUBJECT

Tue Mar 25 2025 AM (Week 10)

• READ: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
• PLENARY: Privacy and the Body as Legal Categories

Tue Mar 25 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Citation 101: The Basics

Thu Mar 27 2025 AM

• READ: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
• SECTION: Privacy and the Legal Subject

Thu Mar 27 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Citation 101: The Basics

Thu Mar 27 2025 PM

• READ: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022)
• SECTION: The End(s) of History

 

PART 3: BONDAGE, INCARCERATION, OBLITERATION

Tue Apr 01 2025 AM (Week 11)

• READ: Dill, LeConté (2022).”Maroons: Blackgirlhood in Plain Sight”
• MOODLE:
• PLENARY/SECTION: Refusal as Agency

Tue Mar 25 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit: Citation 101: The Basics

Thu Apr 03 2025 AM

• READ: Shange, Savannah (2019) Black Girl Ordinary; Flesh,Carcerality and the Refusal of Ethnography
• MOODLE:
• PLENARY/SECTION: Refusal as Agency

Thu Mar 27 11:05 AM: Scholars Toolkit: Citation 101: The Basics

Thu Apr 03 2025 PM

• READ: Shange, Savannah, “Play Aunties and Dyke Bitches: Gender, Generation and the Ethics of Black Queer Kinship”
• MOODLE:
• PLENARY/SECTION: Refusal as Agency

Tue Apr 08 2025 AM (Week 12)

• WATCH: Garage Olimpo (Bechis, 1999) 
• MOODLE: What constitutes torture?
• PLENARY/SECTION: Torture and the Law

 

Tue Apr 01 4:30 PM: Scholars Toolkit:The Podcast Lab: Experimenting with Audio Creation

Thu Apr 10 2025 AM

• READ: Death and the Maiden (Dorfman, 1990)
• PLENARY: Revenge Redux

Thu Apr 10 2025 PM

• WATCH: Death and the Maiden (Polanski, 1994)
• SECTION: What’s up with gender?

Tue Apr 15 2025 AM (Week 13)

• READ: Michelle Alexander, “The New Jim Crow,” in The New Jim Crow (The New Press, 2020 [2010]) 221–273.
• PLENARY: Unjust Incarceration

Thu Apr 17 2025 AM

• WATCH: 13th (Duvernay, 2016)
• SECTION: Unjust Incarceration

Thu Apr 17 2025 PM

• • READ: Ruha Benjamin, “Coded Exposure: Is Visibility a Trap,” in Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity Press, 2019).
  • SECTION: Coding Racism

Tue Apr 22 2025 AM (Week 14)

• NO CLASS (MONDAY SCHEDULE)

Thu Apr 24 2025 AM

• READ: David Gere, “How to Make Dances in an Epidemic” 
• PLENARY: HIV/AIDs and…

Thu Apr 24 2025 PM

• READ: Susan Foster, “Choreographies of Protest”
• MOODLE: Choreographing Actions
• SECTION: The Power of Protest?

MON Apr 28 2025 by 5:00PM

• WRITE: Campus Commentary 4

Tue Apr 29 2025 AM (Week 15)

• Tue Apr 29 2025 AM (Week 15)
  READ: Martha Minow, When Should Law Forgive? (Norton, 2019), “Introduction” and “Reflections”
  PLENARY: Forgiveness and Restorative Justice

Thu May 01 2025 AM

• READ: Martha Minow, When Should Law Forgive? (Norton, 2019), “Introduction” and “Reflections”
• SECTION: Forgiveness and Restorative Justice

Thu May 01 2025 PM

• MOODLE: What is solidarity? What is its relationship to justice?
• SECTION: Forgiveness and Redemption

Tue May 06 2025 AM (Week 16)

• READ: Nothing. You’ve Read Enough.
• MOODLE: It would be classic Boyer to assign a Moodle post for the last day of classes.
• PLENARY: Final Lecture, Uplifting, As Always