Historiography of Gender Study as a Field

Speaker: Haiyi Li

Date: July 3, 2024

Reading List:

Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Scott, Joan W. “The Evidence of Experience.” Critical Inquiry 17, no. 4 (Summer 1991): 773-797  

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: 1. Translated by Robert Hurley. Reissue edition. Vintage, 2012.

Foucault and Postcolonialism

Speaker: Luming Xu

Date: July 17, 2024

Reading List:

Go, Julian. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Mignolo, Walter. Local Histories/Global Designs : Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Paperback reissue. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by Alan Sheridan. 1st American ed. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1972.

Foucault and Governmentality

Speaker: Shuo Zhang

Date: July 31, 2024

Reading List:

Foucault, Michel, Michel Senellart, François Ewald, and Alessandro Fontana. Security, Territory, Population : Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78. Basingstoke ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

What is Information History?

Speaker: Xiaoyan Ren

Date: August 14, 2024

Reading List:

Bonnie Mak and Allen H. RenearIsis, “What is Information History?” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, vol 114, no. 4 (December 2023): 747-768.

Burke, Peter. A Social History of Knowledge : From Gutenberg to Diderot, Based on the First Series of Vonhoff Lectures given at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2000.

Burke, Peter. A Social History of Knowledge, II. From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia. Cambridge, UK ; Polity, 2012.

Blair, Ann, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton, eds. Information : A Historical Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.