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Lecture Schedule - HIS2170

Schedule HIS 2170 A - Colonial Latin America Done
Wed 05 - Sep Introduction to the course. Explanation of methodology, Revision and collective approval of Syllabus. Explanation of how to interact with the course, the blog and other media.
Fri 07 - Sep Historical context before 1492: Europe and Africa. The meaning of Contact.  Reading: Chapter 1, America, Iberia and Africa before the Conquest, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook .
Wed 12 - Sep Historical context before 1492: Turtle Island and the Abya-Yala (Indigenous America). Reading: Chapter 1, America, Iberia and Africa before the Conquest, op. cit. Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas. The mature toponymy of indigenous peoples. Available at:  http://wp.me/p1yp0w-D. Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight (20 min). 
Fri 14 - Sep The conquest of the Aztecs and the Inka Confederacy.  Reading: Chapter 2, The age of Conquest, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook .
Wed 19 - Sep Guest speaker: Guatemalan Maya Elder Tito Medina.
Fri 21 - Sep The slave trade from Africa and formation and consolidation of colonial administration schemes. Reading: Chapter 3, Ruling New World Empires  in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Wed 26 - Sep Viewing of "500 Nations" - episode ONE - Prologue, Wounded Knee Legacy & Mexico. (75 min)
Fri 28 - Sep The impact of the Encounter on indigenous populations. Reading: Chapter 4, Population and Labor,  in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Wed 03 - Oct Cristopher Columbus voyages, the Tordesillas Treaty and the formation of colonial society. Colonial economics and the extractive mind-frame as the guiding force in colonial affairs. Reading: Chapter 5, Production, Exchange, and Defense  in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Fri 05 - Oct Viewing of "The Conquest of the Incas" - BBC's Conquistadors series (50 min)
Wed 10 - Oct Guest speaker: Anishinaabe Elder and Medicine man Jacob (Mowegan) Wawatie
Fri 12 - Oct Viewing of "All World is Human" - BBC's Conquistadors series (50 min)
Wed 17 - Oct Societal stratification and the attempts at civilization building. Reading: Chapter 6: Family, Women and ethos in colonial Latin America, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook. The colonial situation of women and migration understtood from a gender perspective. Reading: Susan Migden Socolow. Women and Migration in Colonial Latin America. Available at www.his2170.blogspot.com.
Fri 19 - Oct The Family and Society. Reading: Chapter 7, Production, Exchange, and Defense, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook. Part of this class will be devoted to revising the mid-term exam.
Wed 24 - Oct Mid-session break
Fri 26 - Oct
Wed 31 - Oct Mid-term exam
Fri 02 - Nov The necessary portion of this class will be dedicated to revise the mid-term exam. Deadline for first Reaction Paper at midnight. The great historial omission about demographics and the shifting of geographies. Reading: Derek Rasmussen. The priced versus the priceless. The Lion's Roar, available at: http://www.lionsroar.ca/pdfs/price-vs-priceless.pdf.
Wed 07 - Nov The Great Indian Insurrections, the awakening of the Serpent: Tupac Amaru/Micaela Bastidas.
Fri 09 - Nov Carlos Saura "El Dorado" (80 min)
Wed 14 - Nov Carlos Saura "El Dorado" (60 min). Short discussion about the film. 
Fri 16 - Nov The Great Indian Insurrections, the awakening of the Serpent: Tupaj Katari/ Bartolina Sisa. The prphecy of the Pachakut'I and the Re-encounter of the Eagle and the Condord.
Wed 21 - Nov The all-pervading  power of Catholicism in colonial Latin America and Spain and Brazil, as main colonial forces. France, Great Britain and other minor attempts at establishing colonial outposts in Latin America.. Reading: Chapter 8, Living in an Empire and Chapter 9. Imperial Expansion, in in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Fri 23 - Nov Evaluation of HIS3195 by students. Spain and Brazil, as main colonial forces. France, Great Britain and other minor attempts at establishing colonial outposts in Latin America. Reading: Chapter 9. Imperial Expansion, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Wed 28 - Nov Presentation by students (15 to 30 minutes). Late colonial times and Independence. Reading: Chapter 10, Crisis and Political Revolutions, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Fri 30 - Nov Deadline for final essay and Reaction papers at midnight. Presentation by students (15 to 30 minutes). Late colonial times and Independence. Reading: Chapter 11. From Empire to Independence, in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
Wed 05 - Dec Presentation by students (15 to 30 minutes). Conclusion of HIS2170, The long process of colonial states formations, are we over colonial times? . Reading: Epilogue, in in Mark A. Burkholder & Lyman L. Johnson "COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA" course textbook.
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