History of Time, Time of History

Catalog description

Graduate seminar on the literature of the temporal turn. Topics may include periodization, modernity and modernism, time and technology, rhythmanalysis, acceleration, boredom, eschatology, time in war and revolution, etc. Readings will include classic texts as well as recent scholarship and will cover the period from the ancient to the late/post-modern. The seminar will concentrate on Europe (including Russia), but may include segments on transnational and/or non-Western areas.