Lehrende/r: Dr. Jean-Michel Turcotte
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Our objective in this seminar is to examine modern Canadian international history in a perspective that challenges nationalist and orthodox interpretations and mythologies. It proposes to explore Canada’s journeys on the international stage through the notions of “race” and “empire”. More specifically, our task is to retrace how imperial dynamics and the racial power structure shaped Canada’s global development and presence around the world from the 19th century to the current crisis in Ukraine. During this period, the peak of the colonial empires, the rise of the United States as a global (and imperial) power, the emergence of nationalism, the development of anti-imperialism, the movements of decolonization and the acceleration of globalization are occurring in parallel with the construction of Canadian identity. We will use the intellectual potential of social, political, diplomatic and cultural approaches, as well as ideas stemming from postmodernism and postcolonialism in order to develop new and more complex visions of Canada. These interpretations aim to take into account neglected, marginalized or even ignored themes, and to understand the active role they played in the historiography. In line with current historiographical trends of “new diplomatic history”, we will discuss how Canada, and their populations, have both participated, contributed and resisted to imperial and racial dynamics. This course has a relatively heavy reading load and expectations are high. Students should expect to do weekly reading, discuss relevant work and archival material, writing a short paper and providing an oral presentation. This seminar is useful for students who are interested in Canadian studies. By the end of the course, participants should have a better sense of the current debates about race and empire in Canada and their legacy, which are complex and controversial.
Zusätzliche Informationen: Jean-Michel Turcotte, Ph.D. is SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History.
