From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Friday, October 6, 2023

Round and Square Syllabus 2023b

Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Syllabic Cycles"

[a] Round RF
Round and Square Syllabus
All Classes
Autumn 2023

Robert André LaFleur                                                  Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206                                                      Tuesday: 11:45-13:15
363-2005                                                                        Thursday: 11:45-13:15
lafleur@beloit.edu                                                          ...or by appointment          

We will be reading short essays from my 
blog for Mondays. These range from necessary information 
 for class in the first half of the term (very important) to essays
that are meant to stimulate broad thinking about our  class materials. 
All items are required and will be on quizzes and tests.

Week One—August 29
Syllabic Cycles—Introduction, a-d (read all four posts, not just the first one—but go quickly). 
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there!


Week Two—September 5
Quotidian Quizzes—Introduction, a-h (skim the first four posts, but read the last four carefully (they get to the heart of our course).
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there!


Week Three—September 12
Read the post and think about the many dimensions of "history." It is never, ever, just a timeline. We'll discuss the implications in class


Week Four—September 19
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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All Classes
LaFleur, "Smoke Hole at the Center of the Universe" (.pdf file that I sent to you on September 13).


Week Five—September 26
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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Week Six—October 3
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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All Classes 


Week Seven—October 10
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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All Classes
The Thousand-Ask Question You need to read all three posts (important).
This is an important concept that will help you with a great deal of your work. Note that, even though the posts speak of ethnographic inquiry (in-person questioning), the skill can be turned toward historical study and, yes, translation. We'll discuss these matters in class.


Week Ten—October 31
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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Exilic Response. Read this post carefully, and think about examples.
Take a quick look at these two examples of what Rob calls "exilic response."
Burning Diploma


Week Eleven—November 7
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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All Classes (these ideas will make sense in terms of historical thinking as we head into the last month of the term).
Structure, History, and Culture (two posts; it's important to read both)



Week Twelve—November 14
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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All Classes (these posts should help you think more about how structures are at work at all levels in our lives, and in the lives of people we study historically)
Structure 3: Interstate Highways                  

Week Thirteen—November 21
No reading this week.

Week Fourteen—November 28
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). This link is to the RSQ home page. Just scroll down until you see the calendar if it is not right there! 
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Just a bit more about structure, history, and culture. Please not that these posts were written in 2012 (in a very different political world). The "structural" issues persist, though.
(there are seventeen posts in all...but you don't need to read those)

Week Fifteen—December 5
"Calendars and Almanacs" (.pdf file that I sent to you on September 13.


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