Date Meeting Module Title Readings Additional  Readings  for  Graduate  Students Undergraduate  Assignment

Graduate  Assignment

8/25/15 1 Big  Questions Introduction Christian,  David.  “The  Case  for  ‘Big  History.’”  Journal  of  World  History  2,  no.  2  (October  1,  1991):  223–38.

9/1/15 2 What  is  Consciousness? Dehaene,  Stanislas.  Consciousness  and  the  Brain:  Deciphering  How  the  Brain  Codes  Our  Thoughts.  New  York:  Viking,  2014.  1-­‐88

Stadler,  Max.  “Neurohistory  Is  Bunk?:  The  Not-­‐So-­‐Deep  History  of  the  Postclassical  Mind.”  Isis  105,  no.  1  (March  1,  2014):  133–44.  

Cooter,  Roger.  “Neural  Veils  and  the  Will  to  Historical  Critique:  Why  Historians  of  Science  Need  to  Take  the  Neuro-­‐Turn  Seriously.”  Isis  105,  no.  1  (March  1,  2014):  145–54.  

Quiz  1 Quiz  1

9/8/15 3 Environmental  Deep  Time David  Christian  and  William  McNeill,  Big  History,  1-­‐138 Casper,  Stephen  T.  “History  and  Neuroscience:  An  Integrative  Legacy.”  Isis  105,  no.  1  (March  1,  2014):  123–32.    

McNeill,  William  H.  “Passing  Strange:  The  Convergence  of  Evolutionary  Science  with  Scientific  History.”  History  and  Theory  40,  no.  1  (2001):  1–15.

Timeline  of  the  Universe  Assignment

Timeline  of  the  Universe  Assignment

9/15/15 4 Human  Deep  Time David  Christian  and  William  McNeill,  Big  History,  139-­‐206 Brooke,  John  L.,  and  Clark  Spencer  Larsen.  “The  Nurture  of  Nature:  Genetics,  Epigenetics,  and  Environment  in  Human  Biohistory.”  The  American  Historical  Review  119,  no.  5  (December  1,  2014):  1500–1513.  

Quiz  2 Quiz  2

9/22/15 5 Historical  Contexts Approaches  to  Human  Nature Stenmark,  Mikael.  “Theories  of  Human  Nature:  Key  Issues.”  Philosophy  Compass  7,  no.  8  (2012):  543–58.  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.ulib.uits.iu.edu/doi/10.

Selections:  Plato,  Mencius,  Augustine

Online  Comment/Analysis  of  Primary  Texts

Online  Comment/Analysis  of  Primary  Texts

9/29/15 6 Mind,  Body,  and  Knowledge Selections:  Descartes Selections:  Locke,  Hume,  Kant Online  Comment/Analysis  of  Primary  Texts

PowerPoint  Presentation  for  "Locke,  Hume,  and  Kant"

10/6/15 7 The  Geological  and  Darwinian  Revolutions Selections:  Lyell,  Cuvier,  Lamarcke,  Darwin Online  Comment/Analysis  of  Primary  Texts

Online  Comment/Analysis  of  Primary  Texts

10/13/15 8 Race  and  Racism "What  is  Race?"  Online  Module Fuentes,  Agustín,  Jonathan  Marks,  Tim  Ingold,  Robert  Sussman,  Patrick  V.  Kirch,  Elizabeth  M.  Brumfiel,  Rayna  Rapp,  Faye  Ginsburg,  Laura  Nader,  and  Conrad  P.  Kottak.  “On  Nature  and  the  Human.”  American  Anthropologist  112,  no.  4  (2010):  512–21.  

PowerPoint  Presentation  for  "On  Nature  and  the  Human"

10/27/15 9 Contemporary  Debates How  Does  a  Brain  Work? Stanislas  Dehaene,  Consciousness  and  the  Brain,  89-­‐160 Smail,  Daniel  Lord.  “Neurohistory  in  Action:  Hoarding  and  the  Human  Past.”  Isis  105,  no.  1  (2014):  110–22.  

Reading  Worksheet Reading  Worksheet

11/3/15 10 How  Did  the  Brain  Evolve? Stanislas  Dehaene,  Consciousness  and  the  Brain,  161-­‐199 Fuller,  Steve.  “Neuroscience,  Neurohistory,  and  the  History  of  Science:  A  Tale  of  Two  Brain  Images.”  Isis  105,  no.  1  (March  1,  2014):  100–109.  

Reading  Worksheet Reading  Worksheet

11/10/15 11 Cognition  and  Things L.  Malafouris  and  C.  Renfrew,  “The  Cognitive  Life  of  Things:  Archaeology,  Material  Engagement  and  the  Extended  Mind,”  The  Cognitive  Life  of  Things:  Recasting  the  Boundaries  of  the  Mind.  Cambridge:  McDonald  Institute  (2010):  1–12

Group  1:L.  Malafouris,  “Metaplasticity  and  the  human  becoming:  principles  of  neuroarchaeology,”  Journal  of  Anthropological  Sciences  88  (2010):  55-­‐56

Malafouris,  “The  brain–artefact  interface  (BAI)”;  L.  Malafouris,  “Beads  for  a  plastic  mind:  the  ‘Blind  Man’s  Stick’(BMS)  hypothesis  and  the  active  nature  of  material  culture,”  Cambridge  Archaeological  Journal  18,  no.  3  (2008):  401–414

Steven  Mithen  and  Lawrence  Parsons,  “The  Brain  as  a  Cultural  Artefact,”  Cambridge  Archaeological  Journal  18,  no.  3  (2008):  415-­‐422

Group  2:Nicole  Boivin,  Material  Cultures,  Material  Minds:  The  Impact  of  Things  on  Human  Thought,  Society,  and  Evolution  (Cambridge  University  Press,  2010),  181-­‐224

Edwin  Hutchins,  “The  role  of  cultural  practices  in  the  emergence  of  modern  human  intelligence,”  Philosophical  Transactions  of  the  Royal  Society  B:  Biological  Sciences  363,  

Scheidel,  Walter.  “Evolutionary  Psychology  and  the  Historian.”  The  American  Historical  Review  119,  no.  5  (December  1,  2014):  1563–75.  doi:10.1093/ahr/119.5.1563.

In  Class  Group  Presentations

In  Class  Group  Presentations

11/17/15 12 The  Meaning  of  Human  Existence E.O.  Wilson,  The  Meaning  of  Human  Existence Quiz  311/24/15 13 Gene-­‐Culture  Coevolution Russell,  Edmund.  “Coevolutionary  History.”  The  American  

Historical  Review  119,  no.  5  (December  1,  2014):  1514–28.Harper,  Kyle.  “The  Sentimental  Family:  A  Biohistorical  Perspective.”  The  American  Historical  Review  119,  no.  5  (December  1,  2014):  1547–62.

Roth,  Randolph.  “Emotions,  Facultative  Adaptation,  and  the  History  of  Homicide.”  The  American  Historical  Review  119,  no.  5  (December  1,  2014):  1529–46.  

Debates  over  Human  Nature  Visualization/Paper  Rough  Draft

Debates  over  Human  Nature  Visualization/Paper  Rough  Draft

12/1/15 14 The  Big  Picture What  Makes  Us  Human? Dunbar,  Gamble,  and  Gowlett,  Thinking  Big Reading  Worksheet Reading  Worksheet12/8/15 15 Conclusions Is  There  a  Posthuman?  (Online) Selections:  Haraway,  Hayles,  Kurzweil,  Latour

Video:  E.O.  Wilson  and  Katherine  Hayles  Discuss  Human  Nature

12/15/15 Final Final  Project Debates  over  Human  Nature  Visualization/Paper

Debates  over  Human  Nature  Visualization/Paper