Arunima Datta

Dr. Arunima Datta

Food in World History

This lecture focuses on food as an essential political commodity in World History. In particular, it shows how food was politicized as a weapon across the world during wars - particularly during World War I, World War II and the Cold War.

Women in World History

This lecture focuses primarily on the role and position of women in Asian nationalist (anti-colonial) movements. It looks at how some women participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The lecture will focus on how Asian women negotiated their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions and ideals of national and personal emancipation.

History in Film

This lecture will examine the representation and construction of race, ethnicity and gender in American film. The lecture will encourage students to think historically about films and help them critically analyze films and their role in engineering social cultures in American society of the past and present alike.

State Standards

These presentations meet the following state education standards for high school students:

Social Studies

U.S. History II

9-12.USH2.1.1.1 Analyze ways in which language, literature, the arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behavior patterns of diverse cultures have enriched American society.

9-12.USH2.1.1.2 Analyze significant movements for social change.

9-12.USH2.1.2.2 Identify the political and social resistance to immigration.

9-12.USH2.1.2.3 Analyze the changes in the political, social, and economic conditions of immigrant groups.

9-12.USH2.4.4.1 Trace the development and expansion of political, civil, and economic rights.

World History and Civilization

6-9.WHC.2.3.1 Identify main reasons for major migrations of people.

6-9.WHC.2.3.4 Explain how transportation routes stimulate growth of cities and the exchange of goods, knowledge, and technology.

World Languages

Cultures

Relating cultural practices to perspective

Standard CLTR 1: Investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied in the target language.

Objective: CLTR 1.1 Analyze the cultural practices/patterns of behavior accepted as the societal norm in the target culture.

Objective: CLTR 1.2 Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the target culture’s view of the world.