070143 SE Research Seminar Applied Global History and Global Studies (2023S)
Mapping the World. Knowledge about the Other in Pre-Modernity
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 06.02.2023 09:00 bis Mi 22.02.2023 14:00
- Anmeldung von Fr 24.02.2023 09:00 bis Di 28.02.2023 14:00
- Abmeldung bis Fr 31.03.2023 23:59
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine
The Research Seminar is entitled "Mapping the World. Knowledge about the Other in Pre-Modernity". The seminar will be part of an Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme (BIP: https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation-and-networks/blended-intensive-programmes/). That means that the same topic is addressed and discussed in parallel by three academic teachers with three different groups of history students at three European universities: by Paola Molino (Università di Padova, lead and host for the BIP), by Kim Siebenhüner (Universität Jena), and Juliane Schiel (Universität Wien). Some sessions will take place separately on-site in Padova, Jena and Vienna, others will be organized in a hybrid mode with all three classes at the same time. Mandatory for all participants is the participation in a joint seminar week for all three student groups, taking place from 19-23 June in Padova.
The on-site dates for the Viennese master students are:* 6 March, 9:45am to 1:00pm
* 20 March, 9:45am to 1:00pm
* 27 March, 9:45am to 1:00pm
* 8 Mai, 9:45am to 1:00pm
* 15 May, 9:45am to 1:00pm
* 22 May, 9:45am to 1:00pm
* 12 June, 9:45am to 1:00pmIf you would like to participate in this seminar, please get in contact with the teacher (juliane.schiel@univie.ac.at) as soon as you can in order to check your eligibility for travel and accommodation reimbursements for the study week in Padova.
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
• prepare the readings (historical source documents and research literature) thoroughly and participate active in classroom discussions (25%)
• present a historical source document (presentation of the historical context of the document, suggestions for historical analysis and interpretation, presentation of a research question embedded in the broader framework of cultural and social history) (15%)
• present the main arguments of a scientific book on the seminar’s additional reading list and share your thoughts on the potential benefits and constraints of this work (10%)
• write a scientific history thesis (70’000 characters, with critical footnotes and abstract), including a written proposal and oral presentation of the project in class (40%)
• participate actively in the study week (18–24 June) in Padova (10%)
• present a historical source document (presentation of the historical context of the document, suggestions for historical analysis and interpretation, presentation of a research question embedded in the broader framework of cultural and social history) (15%)
• present the main arguments of a scientific book on the seminar’s additional reading list and share your thoughts on the potential benefits and constraints of this work (10%)
• write a scientific history thesis (70’000 characters, with critical footnotes and abstract), including a written proposal and oral presentation of the project in class (40%)
• participate actively in the study week (18–24 June) in Padova (10%)
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
• prepare the readings (historical source documents and research literature) thoroughly and participate active in classroom discussions (25%)
• present a historical source document (presentation of the historical context of the document, suggestions for historical analysis and interpretation, presentation of a research question embedded in the broader framework of cultural and social history) (15%)
• present the main arguments of a scientific book on the seminar’s additional reading list and share your thoughts on the potential benefits and constraints of this work (10%)
• write a scientific history thesis (70’000 characters, with critical footnotes and abstract), including a written proposal and oral presentation of the project in class (40%)
• participate actively in the study week (18–24 June) in Padova (10%)
• present a historical source document (presentation of the historical context of the document, suggestions for historical analysis and interpretation, presentation of a research question embedded in the broader framework of cultural and social history) (15%)
• present the main arguments of a scientific book on the seminar’s additional reading list and share your thoughts on the potential benefits and constraints of this work (10%)
• write a scientific history thesis (70’000 characters, with critical footnotes and abstract), including a written proposal and oral presentation of the project in class (40%)
• participate actively in the study week (18–24 June) in Padova (10%)
Prüfungsstoff
• prepare the readings (historical source documents and research literature) thoroughly and participate active in classroom discussions (25%)
• present a historical source document (presentation of the historical context of the document, suggestions for historical analysis and interpretation, presentation of a research question embedded in the broader framework of cultural and social history) (15%)
• present the main arguments of a scientific book on the seminar’s additional reading list and share your thoughts on the potential benefits and constraints of this work (10%)
• write a scientific history thesis (70’000 characters, with critical footnotes and abstract), including a written proposal and oral presentation of the project in class (40%)
• participate actively in the study week (18–24 June) in Padova (10%)
• present a historical source document (presentation of the historical context of the document, suggestions for historical analysis and interpretation, presentation of a research question embedded in the broader framework of cultural and social history) (15%)
• present the main arguments of a scientific book on the seminar’s additional reading list and share your thoughts on the potential benefits and constraints of this work (10%)
• write a scientific history thesis (70’000 characters, with critical footnotes and abstract), including a written proposal and oral presentation of the project in class (40%)
• participate actively in the study week (18–24 June) in Padova (10%)
Literatur
• Mandeville’s Travels. Texts and Translations, London 2016.
• Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Cambridge 2019.
• Giuseppe Marcocci, The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas, Oxford 2020 (ital. 2016).
• Paola Molino, The Library, the City, the Empire. De-Provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century, in: Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano (eds.), Knowledge and the Early Modern City, London 2019, 223–249.
• Juliane Schiel, Mongolensturm und Fall Konstantinopels. Dominikanische Erzählungen im diachronen Vergleich, Berlin/Boston 2011.
• Kim Siebenhüner, Approaching diplomatic and courtly gift-giving in Europe and Mughal India. Shared practices and cultural diversity, in: Thomas Ertl (ed.), Handling Diversity. Comparative Perspectives on Medieval and Early Modern India and Europe (The Medieval History Journal 16,2, 2014), 525–546.
• Thomas Wallnig, Critical Monks. The German Benedictines, 1680–1740, Leiden 2019.
• Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Cambridge 2019.
• Giuseppe Marcocci, The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas, Oxford 2020 (ital. 2016).
• Paola Molino, The Library, the City, the Empire. De-Provincialising Vienna in the Early Seventeenth Century, in: Bert De Munck, Antonella Romano (eds.), Knowledge and the Early Modern City, London 2019, 223–249.
• Juliane Schiel, Mongolensturm und Fall Konstantinopels. Dominikanische Erzählungen im diachronen Vergleich, Berlin/Boston 2011.
• Kim Siebenhüner, Approaching diplomatic and courtly gift-giving in Europe and Mughal India. Shared practices and cultural diversity, in: Thomas Ertl (ed.), Handling Diversity. Comparative Perspectives on Medieval and Early Modern India and Europe (The Medieval History Journal 16,2, 2014), 525–546.
• Thomas Wallnig, Critical Monks. The German Benedictines, 1680–1740, Leiden 2019.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
SP: Mittelalter, Neuzeit, GlobalgeschichteMA Globalgeschichte und Global Studies: PM4 - Forschungsseminar Angewandte GGGS (10 ECTS)
MA Geschichte: PM2 / PM3 - Forschungsseminar (10 ECTS)
MA Geschichte: PM2 / PM3 - Forschungsseminar (10 ECTS)
Letzte Änderung: Mi 22.02.2023 09:28
Each session will
(a) address a specific type of historical source,
(b) explore methods and approaches for historical analysis and interpretation, and
(c) discuss its value for current debates in cultural and social history.
Key questions of the master seminar are:
* What patterns of mapping the world can be detected from the different types of sources we study?
* What were major shifts in mapping the world from the medieval to the early modern period?
* How did Europe as “theoretical subject of all histories” (D. Chakrabarty) come into being?
Participants of this seminar shall know/learn how to deal with a great variety of past representations of the other (both visual and written) as a historian. They shall be able to historicize descriptions, depictions and expressions of the other by putting them in their specific historical context and relating them to historical change. They shall manage to design their own research project from the seminar’s discussion and write a history thesis.
The seminar is part of an Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme (BIP). That means that the same topic is addressed and discussed in parallel by three academic teachers with three different groups of history students at three European universities: by Paola Molino (Università di Padova), by Kim Siebenhüner (Universität Jena), and by Juliane Schiel (Universität Wien). Some sessions will take place separately in Padova, Jena and Vienna, others will be organized in a hybrid mode with all three classes at the same time. At the end of the term, all three student groups will meet for a joint seminar week, taking place from 18–24 June, in Padova. The participation in this study week is mandatory.
If you would like to participate in this seminar, please get in contact with the teacher (juliane.schiel@univie.ac.at) as soon as you can in order to check your eligibility for travel and accommodation reimbursements for the study week in Padova. Places will be given on a first come first serve basis. As train tickets as well as administrative paper work need to be done in advance, a binding commitment from the participant students is needed by Monday, 13 March 2023, at the very latest.