B readings

Optional for the first eight sessions. But I recommended that you try to work through at least one of these per session, during the first eight sessions, chosen according to your taste, interests, and needs. Some directly illuminate, others obliquely supplement our A-level readings, suggesting missing spatial and/or temporal perspectives (e.g.: race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; geographic and geopolitical space).

1. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. “Restructuring The Thirteenth-Century World System.” Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 352–373. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
2. ---. “Emergence from Old Empires.” Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 43–50. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
3. ---. “Preface.” Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. vii–xiii. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
4. Anderson, Benedict. “The Origins of National Consciousness.” Imagined Communities: Reflections on The Origin And Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 37–46. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
5. ---. “Old Languages, New Models.” Imagined Communities: Reflections on The Origin And Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 67–82. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
6. ---. “Introduction.” Imagined Communities: Reflections on The Origin And Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 1–7. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
7. ---. “Cultural Roots.” Imagined Communities: Reflections on The Origin And Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London and New York: Verso, 2006. 9–36. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
8. Apter, Emily. “‘Women’s Time’ in Theory.” differences 21.1 (2010): 1–18. Web. Link (remote) →
9. Guillory, John. “Genesis of The Media Concept.” Critical Inquiry 36.2 (2010): 321–362. Web. Link (remote) →
10. Kristeva, Julia. “Women’s Time.” Trans. by Alice Jardine and Harry Blake. Signs 7.1 (1981): 13–35. Web. Link (remote) →
11. Lennon, Brian. “Machine Translation: A Tale of Two Cultures.” A Companion to Translation Studies. Ed. by Sandra Bermann and Catherine Porter. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. 133–146. Web. Link (remote) →
12. ---. “The Digital Humanities And National Security.” differences 25.1 (2014): 132–155. Web. Link (remote) →
13. ---. “New Stationary States: Real Time And History’s Disquiet.” symplokē 21.1–2 (2013): 179–193. Web. Link (remote) →
14. Mitchell, Timothy. “The Machinery of Truth.” Colonising Egypt. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 128–160. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
15. Pocock, J. G. A. “Some Europes in Their History.” The Idea of Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 55–71. Web. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Link (remote) →
16. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “French Feminism in An International Frame.” Yale French Studies 62 (1981): 154–184. Web. Link (remote) →
17. Williams, Raymond. “Mediation.” Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture And Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 204–206. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬
18. ---. “Media.” Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture And Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 203–204. Print. Link (local PDF) ↬