Introduction to Cultural Encounters

Introduction to Cultural Encounters

 

The objective of this module is to provide an introductory overview of racial and ethnic tensions throughout European history. The focus will be on the tensions between Europeans, Africans and Muslims

 

Teaching Arrangements and Assessment Method

Teaching in this module is done through lectures and seminars. An outline of the lecture content, together with additional reading and some suggested questions for seminars is given on the following pages.

Assessment

                   1.                   One essay of up between 2000 (40%)

                   2.                   A written exam (25%)

                   3.                   Attendance (10%)

                   4.                   Participation in class (15%)

                   5.                   Homework (10%)

Module Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module students should have:

1.          a critical understanding of some key issues ethnic and racial conflict of Europe with others.

 

 

Lecture 1: Introduction

  

Reading list

No required reading.

 

Lecture 2: Defining terms: ‘Race’, ‘Racism’ and ‘Ethnicity’ (Part I)

 

Reading list

The History of an Idea in the West, by Ivan Hannaford, chapter 1

 

Lecture 3: Defining terms: ‘Race’, ‘Racism’ and ‘Ethnicity’ (Part II)

 Reading List

Mallon, Ron. 2004. “Passing, Traveling and Reality: Social Constructionism and the Metaphysics of Race.” Noûs 38 (4): 644–73. doi:10.1111/j.0029-4624.2004.00487.x.

———. 2006. “‘Race’: Normative, Not Metaphysical or Semantic.” Ethics 116 (3): 525–51. doi:10.1086/500495.

 

Lecture 4: Ethnic Conflict and Racism in Ancient Greece Part I

 

Reading List:

 Race: A History of an Idea (pp.49-55)

 

Lecture 5: Ethnic Conflict and Racism in Ancient Greece Part II

  

Reading List:

  Race: A History of an Idea (pp.49-55)

 

Lecture 6: Ethnic Conflict and Racism in Ancient Greece (Part III)

 

Reading List:

The Invention of Racism, by Benjamin Isaac (pp. 30-43)  

 

Lecture 7: Ethnic Conflict and Racism in Ancient Greece (Part IV)

 

Reading List:

 

 The Origins of Racism in the West (chapter 2)

 

Lecture 8: Ethnic Conflict and Racism in the Middle Ages

Reading list:

 The Origins of Racism in the West (chapter 9)

 

Lecture 9: Ethnic Conflict and Racism in the Middle Ages

 

Reading List:

 The Origins of Racism in the West (chapter 4)

Lecture 10: Exam

 

Two hours exam

 

Lecture 11:   Ethnic Conflict and Racism in the Middle Ages

 Race: A History of an Idea (chapter 4)

 

Lecture 12: Ethnic Conflict in South Africa I

Reading list:

Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Fraser, Nancy, Honneth, Axel Published by Verso. n.d.

(chapter 2 and 4)

 

Lecture 13: Ethnic Conflict in South Africa II

Reading list:

Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Fraser, Nancy, Honneth, Axel Published by Verso. n.d.

 

Lecture 14: Love and Recognition 

Reading list:

 

(Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Fraser, Nancy, Honneth, Axel Published by Verso, n.d.)

 

Lecture 15: Consent from a Laissez-faire Point of View

Reading List

 

Kukathas, C. (2007). The liberal archipelago: a theory of diversity and freedom, New Ed edition. ed. Oxford: OUP Oxford, chapters 2 and 4

 

Lecture 16: Nussbaum and O’Neill

Reading List:

TBA

 

Lecture 17

Students’ presentations

Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Fraser, Nancy, Honneth, Axel Published by Verso. n.d.