Getting on top of things again, slowly. Trying to send in documents to confirm my place in this MA program and struggling, trying to sell stuff and save money, and trying to read for fun.
My overarching project for the past month has been cataloging and organizing all resources from my undergraduate classes into accessible databases so I can come back to primary and secondary sources in the future. (I’m building really basic pages in Notion with embedded PDFs, links, and such for each class that I think I may want to refer to during the rest of my studies, essentially).
Human Geography, which was a class on human population politics, historic patterns of human/environmental relations, and projections of future relationships across Asia
History of the Middle East and Europe to 1500, which was a class about the creation of the “western” world from prehistory through the Middle Ages, focusing on primary documents and non-elite dialogues
Intro to Sub-Saharan African History, which examined the diversity of African nations & empires pre-colonial contact, the ethnogenesis caused by colonial encounters, and the extermination of many indigenous cultures
History of Modern France, which looked at France from 1778 — now through the lens of public and private media, particularly newspapers, pamphlets, and street art
Histoire de la france: protohistoire—moyen âge, which was a French language class about France’s prehistory, development, foundation, and cultural accumulation leading up to the first Revolution
Ancient Magic, Witchcraft, and Sorcery, the favorite class I’ve ever taken, which used primary documents and artifacts to examine the stories of magic, dissenting religions, and alternative ritual beliefs across the ancient world, from Mesopotamia to Rome. The volume of primary source documents I have because of this class was crazy and took a week to organize
