070292 UE Reading Course Global History - Commodities and Global History in the Modern Era (2023S)
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 (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Mittwoch
01.03.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
08.03.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
15.03.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
22.03.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
29.03.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
19.04.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
26.04.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
03.05.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
10.05.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
17.05.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
31.05.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
07.06.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
14.06.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
21.06.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
Mittwoch
28.06.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
What role did weapons, oil, medicines, and tobacco play in shaping the post-WW2 global order? And what can material objects reveal about historical transformations? This course explores how the history of the Cold War and its aftermath can be told through the goods that were traded at the time. Through commodities, it explores the changing legal regimes, competing development models, and shifting transnational alliances that characterized the global history of the Cold War.Participants will furthermore reflect upon the people involved in the production and trade of these items--their biographies and everyday lives. Throughout, we will interrogate how the relationship between human and non-human actors can be theorized and employed as a tool for historical research. Moreover, we will examine how such exchanges live on in the technologies and ideas that circulate today. While drawing on the lecturers’ expertise in the field of Eastern Europe and the socialist world, this course incorporates contributions addressing other geographical and disciplinary areas.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
The course grade will be based on: class participation (20%), weekly assignments and reflection papers (30%), and the final essay (50%).The course will be in English. Lecturers will guide discussions to which students are expected to contribute. Students will be assigned weekly readings, and are expected to prepare three questions based upon the texts for collective discussion each week. Additionally, each student will briefly introduce one text to the class once in the semester.On a date of their choosing (the first by the end of week seven, the second by the end of week fourteen), students will submit two short reflection papers (of around 500 words each). In addition, students will complete a term paper addressing a debate, approach or perspective on the history of commodities (of around 10 pages—5,000 words). A first draft of an abstract and a bibliography should be sent to the lecturers by April 30. Topics for the term paper can be discussed with the lecturers throughout the semester and the last class in semester will be reserved for a public discussion of paper topics. Final papers are due by July 15.Attendance in this course is obligatory and students can miss no more than two classes in the semester. Late submissions of written coursework will be penalized with a half-grade reduction per day overdue.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Prüfungsstoff
Literatur
Selected Course Readings:Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Dejung, Christoph. Commodity Trading, Globalization and the Colonial World. Spinning the Web of the Global Market. New York 2018: Routledge.Fleischman, Thomas. Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020Frank, Alison Fleig. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.Gilroy, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993Golubev, Alexey: The Things of Life. Materiality in Late Soviet Russia. Ithaca: Cornell, 2020Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005Mark, James; Betts, Paul et al. Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022Mark, J.; Kalinovsky, A.; Marung, S. (eds.) Alternative Globalizations: Encounters between the Eastern Bloc and the Postcolonial World. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press. 2020Mëhilli. Elidor. From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017Mezzadra, Sandro; Neilson, Brett. The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019Neuburger, Mary C. Balkan Smoke. Tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001.Satia, Priya. Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.Topik, Steven; Marichal, Carlos and Zephyr L Frank, (eds.), From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006Tworek, Heidi J.S. News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2019.Vargha D (2021). Technical assistance and socialist international health: Hungary, the WHO and the Korean War. History and Technology, 36(3-4), 400-417Wallerstein, Immanuel M. World-systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
SP GlobalgeschichteMA Geschichte: PM1 - Lektürekurs (5 ECTS)
MA Globalgeschichte & Global Studies: PM1 - Lektürekurs Globalgeschichte / Global Studies (5 ECTS)
MA Globalgeschichte & Global Studies: PM1 - Lektürekurs Globalgeschichte / Global Studies (5 ECTS)
Letzte Änderung: Di 28.02.2023 19:48