Predictions of ?post-globalization? notwithstanding, the world today is economically, technologically, and culturally intertwined. This interdisciplinary course in global thought will consider the ways we think about, experience, and give meaning to the interconnected world in which we live. We will ground our interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary conditions in the historical precedents and contexts that have generated them, and consider how the long history of global interconnectivity can help us understand current challenges. This year, in the midst of multiple global crises, we will focus particularly on ?pandemic, protest, and political polarization,? with a goal of thinking about how global interconnectivity has contributed to our current realities, for better and for worse. In the first unit, we will examine the long history of ?globalization? and the ways pandemic diseases have reshaped societies throughout history, with an eye to considering the social transformations that may emerge from the COVID-19