Course Schedule:
* = Class meets at Brooklyn Historical Society (brooklynhistory.org)
# = Online class session
UNIT 1: APPROACHING THE ARCHIVE
8/30 Opening Ceremonies [Class Notes]
9/1 Jennifer Egan, “Reading Lucy” [Summary Assignment]
9/6 They Say/I Say pp. 1-30 [Class Notes]
9/8* BHS Visit 1: Introduction to the Brooklyn Historical Society
Elliott Shore, “Same Object, Different Audiences”
9/13 Essay 1 Due (Paper #1 Assignment)
Meg Norcia, “Cracking a Civil War Code” [Class Notes]
9/15# Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” and “Funes, The Memorius”
They Say/I Say pp. 30-67 [Assignments]
9/20 Gabrielle Dean, “The Archeology of Archival Practice: Disciplinarity and Disorder” [Class Notes]
9/22# Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, “Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age” [Assignments]
9/27 Beagrie, Neil. “Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections.” D-Lib Magazine 11:6 (June 2005).
9/29 No Class
UNIT 2: FIRE!!
10/4 No Class (Follow a Friday Schedule)
10/6* BHS Visit 2: Historical Overview of the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre Fire
They Say/I Say pp. 68-91 [Assignments]
10/11 Essay 1 Rewrite Due [Assignments]
Library Visit (Meet at the Linda Schwerin Library)
They Say/I Say pp. 92-120
10/13*
BHS Visit 3: Continued Examination of the 1876 Brooklyn Theatre Fire Records
They Say/I Say pp. 121-150
UNIT 3: DISEASE!!
10/18 Excerpts from Steven Johnson, Ghost Map
“The Ghost Map: An Animated Introduction”
10/20#
John Noble Wilford, “How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis”
10/25 Essay #2 Due [Assignment]
Richard Preston, “Crisis in the Hot Zone”
10/27* BHS Visit: Reading Historical Maps
11/1 Midterm Exam
11/3* BHS Visit 5: Reading Historical Maps 2
Geoff Manaugh, “This Diseased Utopia: 10 Thoughts on Swine Flu and the City”
11/8 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish
11/10# Mary Louise Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone”
They Say/I Say pp. 151-192
UNIT 4: CATASTROPHE!!
11/15 Readings from the George Mason Blackout History Project
11/17# Revision of Paper #2
11/22 Readings from the George Mason Blackout History Project
Essay 3 Due
11/24 No class
11/29 BHS Visit 6: Gabriel Furman Papers
Harry de Quetteville, “Wayward Alzheimer’s patients foiled by fake bus stop”
12/1# Geoff Manaugh, “The Island of Forgotten Diseases”
12/6 Final Project Presentations
12/8# Final Project Due
Final Project Presentations
12/13 Final Exam – Part 1
12/15 Final Exam – Part 2
12/20 Closing Ceremonies
