 Space and Place History 310 Spring 2023 Monday-Wednesday 7:15-10:00 p.m. Robert André LaFleur Office Hours: Morse Ingersoll 206 Monday 11:45-12:30 363-2005 Wednesday 11:45-13:00 lafleur@beloit.edu ...or by appointment (just send me an email message) Required Books Augé, Marc. Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space Casey, John. Getting Back into Place Casey, John. The Fate of Place Casey, John. Representing Place Collingwood, R.G. The Idea of Nature Eliot, T.S. The Wasteland Entrikin, J.N. The Betweenness of Place Helms, Mary. Ulysses' Sail Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space More, Thomas. Utopia Spain, Daphne. Gendered Spaces Shakespeare. The Tempest Tuan Yifu. Space and Place *** *** Research notebook Chicago Manual of Style Guidelines Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com) The New York Review of Books (NYRB) Readings Available in .pdf Format New York Review of Books essays Reserve Books All books are on library reserve. Course Description In this advanced seminar, we will carefully investigate a number of major issues in the philosophy, anthropology, and historiography of space and place. In particular, we will explore what historians and anthropologists can gain from a deeper understanding of them. Each week, students will discuss a set of theoretical readings about space and the way that our disciplines represent that concept through their research and writing. This will be followed by discussions of students' original research projects. Students taking the seminar under the listings of anthropology, comparative literature, or history will be expected to research and write in the disciplines in which they are enrolled. Our discussions will focus on questions that practicing historians and anthropologists too rarely ask (or answer thoroughly). What is space (or place), after all? Why are ethnographic and historical works organized in the ways that they are? How do these works "travel" from ethnographic fieldnotes or fragments of the past found in the archives to finished texts How do anthropologists and historians treat "travel" and "movement" within spaces at all? The weekly readings have a distinctly philosophical focus, and some will be immensely challenging. Both the fields of anthropology and history have strong connections to philosophy, and this course is meant to tease out these relations further. All students will be expected to develop a strong sense of the core issues at the heart of spatial study through our specific readings, and then move outward toward specific individual research projects that will ultimately give deeper context to our analytical readings. The readings will form a common foundation, which we will use to begin discussion of of both theoretical and research issues in our work. Our goal in this seminar is to take a wide variety of area interests and to form a common theoretical and research language with which to discuss our projects. Students will be reporting on research every week, so it is necessary to choose a project and begin doing research quickly. I expect students to take these brief, weekly reports seriously. Good work on these assignments (from quizzes to research proposals, and all of the way to writing the "lead" for papers) will pay off enormously in the end, and make the writing process a good deal smoother than might be imagined. Together with the short writing assignments, they will hold together the challenging philosophical themes of reading and research as we work together through some of the more difficult concepts in contemporary ethnography, historiography, and philosophy. Evaluation Quizzes 10% Every Session Space and Place Letter 15% Week Five Exam I 10% Week Seven Midterm Research Prospectus 15% Week Ten Presentation 10% Week Fifteen Final Essay 40% Finals Week Class attendance and participation is expected. See my class attendance and participation policy. HIST 310 Space and Place Spring 2023 Week I (January 23-27) See my class attendance and participation policy Monday, January 23 Collingwood, The Idea of Nature Introduction Greek Cosmology The Renaissance View of Nature The Modern View of Nature Wednesday, January 25 Round and Square Round and Square Syllabic Cycles: Introduction (a-d) Read all four posts, not just “a.” Casey, Getting Back into Place, ix-xxxvi, 3-39 Preface Introduction to the Second Edition Implacement Displacement Eliot, The Wasteland Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon Death by Water What the Thunder Said Week II (January 30-February 3) See my class attendance and participation policy Monday, Janaury 30 Round and Square Quotidian Quizzes:Introduction (a-h) Read all eight posts, not just “a.” (You may skim a-d, but begin reading carefully with post "e," or "5", depending on the link (some are listed a-h and others 1-8; they are the same). The last four are crucial; your grade depends on it). Bachelard, The Poetics of Space The House, From Cellar to Garret... House and Universe Drawers, Chests, and Wardrobes Nests Shells Corners Miniature Intimate Immensity The Dialectics of Inside and Outside The Phenomenology of Roundness Wednesday, February 1 Casey, Getting Back, 43-105 Directions Dimension This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. Week III (February 6-10) See my class attendance and participation policy Monday, February 6 Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus Tuan, Space and Place Introduction Experiential Perspective Space, Place, and the Child Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values Spaciousness and Crowding Spatial Ability, Knowledge, and Place Mythical Space and Place Architectural Space and Place Time in Experiential Space Intimate Experience of Place Attachment to Homeland Visibility: The Creation of Place Time and Place Epilogue Wednesday, February 8 Casey, Getting Back into Place, 107-181 Two Ways to Dwell Building Sites and Cultivating Places This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. (February 13-17 ) See my class attendance and participation policy Monday, February 13 Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus Casey, The Fate of Place Avoiding the Void: Primeval Patterns Mastering the Matrix... Place as Container: Aristotle's Physics Interlude The Emergence of Space in Hellenistic... The Ascent of Infinite Space: Medieval... Interim Modern Space as Absolute: Gassendi and Newton Modern Space as Extensive: Descartes Modern Space as Relative: Locke and Leibniz Transition By Way of Body: Kant, Whitehead, Husserl... Proceeding to Place by Indirection: Heidegger Giving a Fact to Place in the Present: Bachelard Postface: Places Rediscovered Wednesday, February 15 Casey, Getting Back into Place, 185-226 The Arc of Desolation and the Array of Description This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. Week V (February 20-24) See my class attendance and participation policy Monday, February 20 Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus Casey, Representing Place Part I: Painting the Land Interlude: Material Conditions of Representing Place in Landscape Painting Part II: Mapping the Land Part III: Re-Implacement in Mapping and Painting Epilogue: Landscape Experienced and Re-Presented Casey, Getting Back into Place, 227-270 Going Wild in the Land This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. Week VI (February 27-March 3) See my class attendance and participation policy Monday, February 27 Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture Part One: Writing and Time Part Two: The Writing Process Part Three: Navigating Grammatical Forests Part Four: Chicago Cites, Chicago Writes Further Reading: TBA Wednesday, March 1 Casey, Getting Back into Place, 273-314 Homeward Bound This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. *** *** (March 6-10) Monday, March 6Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus Entrikin, The Betweenness of Place Introduction The Betweenness of Place Place, Region. and Modernity The Empirical-Theoretical Significance of Place... Normative Significances Epistemological Significances Causal Understanding, Narratives, and... Conclusion: Ending (in) the Journey Wednesday, March 8 Casey, Getting Back into Place, 317-366 How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of TIme Smooth Places and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of Places This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. This is a "humanities 'lab' seminar; we do not meet on Wednesdays, but you should do the reading and then send a brief email message to me about the reading and your work on your final project to me by the end of our scheduled class time (10:00) each Wednesday. Week VIII—Spring Break More, Utopia (recommended) Book One Book Two
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