Universität Wien

070105 PS BA-Proseminar - a history of entanglements- from things to the environment (2025S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle
Di 29.04. 11:30-13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß

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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 04.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Dienstag 11.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Dienstag 18.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Dienstag 25.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Dienstag 01.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Dienstag 08.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Dienstag 06.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
  • Mittwoch 07.05. 13:15 - 20:00 Seminarraum 1 Porzellangasse 4, EG03
  • Donnerstag 08.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
  • Donnerstag 08.05. 13:15 - 20:00 Seminarraum 12, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

History has been mostly written with humans, their choices and their institutions at the center of its focus. This course asks the students to make things the protagonist of the historical narrative.
Based on the work of archeologists such Ian Hodder and complexity theorists, this course provides students with the tools to analyze relationships between human and things and also between things and other things. It also aims at making students familiar with things as a peculiar source next to traditional written sources.
It is divided into two parts: an introduction conducted by the course convener that will present the major concepts of the course with a few example, and a second part when the students themselves will select objects and present about their history. The presentations will be the starting point for the pro-seminar work that will be ended in at the end of the course.
The introduction will discuss:
1. The importance of a history of things;
2. The relationship between historians and objects and its development in historiography.
3. Different possibilities to define things: as prime objects, copies, diagrams, etc;
4. Relationships between humans and things and between things and things, with a particular attention dedicated to the concept of operational chain as a major model for conceptualizing the relationships of things with other things;
5. The notion of entanglement and the broad systematic networks formed by things and people.
6. The evolution of large technical systems.
7. The concept of operational chain.

The course will be taught in English.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Assessment will be based on the final PS-work. Feedback will be provided on the presentations

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

1. Attendance (max. 2 absences)
2. Class participation
3. Students will present a report in class (in English) and discuss it with the teacher and the other students.
4. The report will form the basis for the PS-work of approximately 20 pages (in English or German)
Grading scale:
1 (very good) 100-90%;
2 (good) 89-80%;
3 (satisfactory) 79-70%;
4 (sufficient) 69-60%;
5 (not sufficient) 59-0%.

Prüfungsstoff

Students will be asked to write an essay (in English or German) about an example of entanglement (the same as that they presented about). They will be asked to show that they are able to use the concept and methodologies introduced during the course.

Literatur

Ian Hodder, Entangled: an Archeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things, Oxford: Wiley –Blackwell, 2012.
Other readings will be recommended during the course.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA Geschichte (V2019): PM6 Historisches Arbeiten, PS Proseminar (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: UF GP 04 Aspekte und Räume 2, PS Proseminar - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (5 ECTS).

Letzte Änderung: Di 04.03.2025 15:46