Week 1
August 31-September 4
Monday, August 31 | Course introduction
What Have We Been Calling the West?
Interactive opening lecture on Western civilization, inheritance, and Latin America.
Course materials
Slides
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Week 2
September 7-11
Wednesday, September 9 | Who defines the West?
Who Is the “We”?
Friday, September 11 | Catholicism confronts modernity
Catholicism Confronts Modernity
Week 3
September 14-18
Monday, September 14 and Wednesday, September 16
The Great Divergence
Friday, September 18
Global Slavery
Week 4
September 21-25
Friday, September 25 | The Haitian Revolution
Freedom: Universal Ideal or Local Struggle?
The Haitian Revolution, with an opening photographic montage and Bois Caïman film.
Monday, September 21
The Rise of Chattel Slavery in the West
Week 5
September 28-October 2
Monday, September 28 | Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture and the Master–Slave Dialectic
Friday, October 2
Behind the Sheet
Week 6
October 5-9
Monday, October 5
Irish Immigrant Mothers of Gynecology
Wednesday, October 7
Behind the Sheet
Week 7
October 12-16
Tuesday, October 13 | 1898 and the banana republics
1898 and the Banana Republics
Freedom, independence, and the power to govern: an animated lecture on Martí, Cuba, Colombia, and political accountability.
Friday, October 16
St. Oscar Romero and Liberation Theology
Week 8
October 19-23
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Week 9
October 26-30
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Week 10
November 2-6
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Week 11
November 9-13
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Week 12
November 16-20
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Week 13
November 23-27
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Week 14
November 30-December 4
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Week 15
December 7-11
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