Global Game of Thrones
	Course Number: SST 218			CRN Number: 92828	Class cap: 22	Credits: 4
	Professor:	Walter Russell Mead
	Schedule/Location:		Thurs     8:00 AM – 10:20 AM OSUN Online course
	Distributional Area:		None

Rising competition among great powers like Russia, China, the United States, India and Japan increasingly shapes the global political environment and the risk of major war has not been this high since the end of the Cold War. In this course, students will explore the historical roots of today’s great power competition while following key developments on the global scene as other powers large and small react to the intensifying contest between the United States and China. This is an online Open Society University Network course.

 

 

Workshop on Memory and Enslavement in The Hudson Valley

This workshop is in two, divisible parts. Students may take both consecutively for a total of 4 credits or just one for two credits. While it will begin with readings, these will be intensely digested and discussed during the first weeks of each workshop in order to focus on the production of a public-facing group report on research findings that will live in the Bard College archives and on a future, special College website.

 

Interpreting History Through the Enslaved and Descendant Communities
	Course Number: SST 277 I			CRN Number: 92587	Class cap: 16	Credits: 2
	Professor:	Myra Armstead
	Schedule/Location:		Mon  Tues     3:30 PM – 4:50 PM  (September 4 – October 24) Bard Chapel
	Distributional Area:		SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice
	Crosslists:	Africana Studies; American and Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies

 This first workshop will stretch conventional narratives of slaveholding properties in colonial and antebellum New York State by focusing on the experience of enslaved individuals and their progeny on these lands from Dutch settlement in the early seventeenth century through Reconstruction. As much as evidence allows, we will focus on the present perimeter of Bard College and its close environs. We will address labor routines; the social world of enslaved families, resistance and exit strategies, life after manumission, and the post-emancipation experience of early Black graduates at St. Stephen’s College. The guiding template for this work will be Memory and Enslavement: Saratoga House, Old Saratoga, and the Saratoga Patent in History, Historical Practice, and Historical Imagination (Organization of American Historians/National Park Service, 2023), a monograph by the instructor.

 

Making, Buying, Keeping, and Letting Go of Enslaved People
	Course Number: SST 277 II			CRN Number: 92588	Class cap: 16	Credits: 2
	Professor:	Myra Armstead
	Schedule/Location:		Mon  Tues     3:30 PM – 4:50 PM  (October 30 – December 19) Bard Chapel
	Distributional Area:		SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice
	Crosslists:	Africana Studies; American and Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies

This second workshop will stretch conventional narratives of property holders in colonial and antebellum New York State by examining their involvements in slaveholding. We will examine their participation in Atlantic World slave trading, domestic trade, and system maintenance through laws, surveillance, recapture of runaways, and their logic(s) regarding manumission. As much as evidence allows, we will focus on the present perimeter of Bard College and its close environs. The guiding template for this work will be Memory and Enslavement: Saratoga House, Old Saratoga, and the Saratoga Patent in History, Historical Practice, and Historical Imagination (Organization of American Historians/National Park Service, 2023), a monograph by the instructor.