The seminar will meet formally four times per week, Monday through Thursday. Readings will be provided to the participants the first day of the seminar, either in the form of books or articles converted to PDFs that will be posted on a password-protected website created for the seminar’s participants. Participants will also receive memory sticks preloaded with the reading materials, to which they will be able to add content as the seminar progresses. Participants who wish to print out articles will be able to do so at the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, the administrative home of the UCSC Center for World History.

In addition to formal meetings, the director will meet with individual participants at least twice, and will hold office hours by appointment.