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IAFS 1000 Memory and Forgetting

IAFS 1000 Memory and Forgetting. Announcement. Paper draft now due Nov 26 Guidelines on course website: 3-5 pages long (?) One-para progress statement re how draft answers proposal questions Graded pass/fail. Tips for Writing Drafts. Refine your ideas Include a working thesis if you want

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IAFS 1000 Memory and Forgetting

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  1. IAFS 1000Memory and Forgetting

  2. Announcement • Paper draft now due Nov 26 • Guidelines on course website: • 3-5 pages long (?) • One-para progress statement re how draft answers proposal questions • Graded pass/fail

  3. Tips for Writing Drafts • Refine your ideas • Include a working thesis if you want • Think about possible arguments • Be “confused on a higher level”

  4. Today’s Outline • Nationalism • Ernest Renan • Case-Study in Nationalism • Writing Discussion

  5. Ernest Renan,“What is a Nation?” (1882) • Possible factors: • history • race • language

  6. Ernest Renan,“What is a Nation?” (1882) • Possible factors: • religion • mutual interests • geography

  7. Ernest Renan,“What is a Nation?” (1882) “Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”

  8. Benedict Anderson,Imagined Communities (1983) • Nation is an “imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” • Role of “print capitalism” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ world/war/images/kurdistan1.gif Kurdistan

  9. What is Nationalism? • Collective state of mind • Loyalty to nation • Basis in commonalities or differences?

  10. What is Nationalism? • Nation-state: the nationalist goal • Colonial roots • language • education • categorization

  11. How is Nationalism Defined? • Territory? • Common values—or in opposition to other values? • Common history? • Allegiance to one institution or group?

  12. [images: New England map, Fenway park, Carl Yastremski, Schilling’s bloody sock, Clemens testifying] http://boston.redsox.mlb.com;http://gonewengland.about.com; http://eastcoastwestcoast.typepad.com/eastcoastwestcoast/images/red_sox_win_globe.jpg; http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/city_desk_wired/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sock1.jpg http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2008/02/clemensbigbig.jpg

  13. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com;http://gonewengland.about.com; http://eastcoastwestcoast.typepad.com/eastcoastwestcoast/images/red_sox_win_globe.jpg

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