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Course Calendar
Please Note: the course calendar and syllabus are subject to change depending on the way in which the class unfolds. This class is not premised upon coverage, but rather deep, analytic interaction with a series of ideas from a wide-range of disciplines.
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Week 1: Discipline & Punish
- Monday, May 21st: Introduction, theoretical overview, categories?
- Tuesday, May22nd: Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member Sanyika Shakur, Chapter 10 -"Reconnected"
- Wednesday, May 23rd: Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Part 1 -"Torture"
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Week 2: Early American Crime Narratives as Public Spectacle & Spiritual Autobiography
- Tuesday, May 29th: Discipline & Punish, Discussion of methodological approach of Genealogy as well as Chapter 2: "The spectacle on the scaffold"
- Wednesday, May 30th: Introduction to Pillars of Salt by Daniel E. Williams;
- Thursday, May 31th: Cotton Mather's Pillars of Salt
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Week 3: From the Sacred to the Secular
- Monday, June 4th: The Declaration & Confession of Esther Rodgers; William Fly's The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea; The Faithful Narrative of the Wicked Life and Remarkable Conversion of Patience Boston; Owen Syllavan A Short Account of the Life of John ********* Alias Owen Syllavan
- Tuesday, June 5th: A Brief Account of the Life and Abominable Theft of the Notorious Isaac Frasier; The Life and Confession of Herman Rosencrantz; The Life, Last Words, and Dying Speech of Levi Ames; '
- Wednesday, June 6th: 'The American Bloody Register; The Dying Declaration of James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, and William Brooks
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Week 4: The Changing Faces of Crime
- Monday, June 11th: A Faithful Narrative of Elizabeth Wilson; Life, Last Words, and Dying Confession of Rachel Wall
- Tuesday, June 12th: Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, A Negro; The Narrative and Confessions of Thomas Powers, A Negro
- Wednesday, June 13th: ; The Confession &c. of Thomas Mount; The Confession and Dying Words of Samuel Frost
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Week 5: Crime Journal
- Monday, June 18th: Individual meetings about papers
- 5:30: Katie
- 6:00: Alicia
- 6:30: Quintalis
- 7:00 Brendan
- 7:30: Molly
- Tuesday, June 19th: By way of conclusions? A Visualization party
- Wednesday, June 20th: Reading Day
- Thursday, June 21st: Final papers due
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