Universität Wien

070068 UE Workshop on Methodology - Geographies of Power. Studying and Comparing Court Records from Eurasia (2024W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Please note that this class is part of an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme. This programme promotes short-term mobility among students and teachers and funds the organisation of seminars jointly taught by scholars of several universities. This BIP seminar is co-organised by Juliane Schiel (Premodern Social and Economic History, University of Vienna), Claude Chevaleyre (Sinology, ENS Lyon), Müge Özbek (Turkology, Kadir Has University) and Silke Schwandt (Digital Humanities, University of Bielefeld). The seminar is hosted by the University of Vienna and takes place during five full days from 4–8 November 2024, preceded by an introductory meeting and a final session before and after the study week. It consists of lectures by the four teachers, plenary discussions, hands-on sessions and group work.

The class is offered as a workshop in methodology for master students of history. However, master students from related fields, especially from the faculties of philological and cultural sciences and of social sciences, are also warmly invited to participate.

  • Wednesday 09.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 30 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Monday 04.11. 09:45 - 13:15 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Tuesday 05.11. 09:45 - 16:30 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 06.11. 09:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 07.11. 09:45 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Friday 08.11. 13:15 - 18:15 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Friday 13.12. 13:15 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Court records are “ideal observation posts” for social historians, as the French historian Jean Delumeau has once put it. Court records are “where political power meets social structure”. Historical court records not only tell us about the crimes of the past allowing for statistical and quantitative evaluation. They are also expressions and results of political and institutional decisions and social and cultural taxonomies.

This class deals with the making of criminal justice, the negotiating and justifying strategies of the conflicting parties involved and the geographies of power in premodern Eurasian societies. It will provide the students with a digital training in computational text analysis and graph modeling.

The class is part of an Erasmus+ “Blended Intensive Program” (BIP) and is organized in cooperation with Claude Chevaleyre (ENS Lyon, Institut d'Asie Orientale, Sinology), Silke Schwandt (Universität Bielefeld, Digital Humanities and Medieval History), Hanne Oesthus (Oslo University, Early Modern European History) and Müge Telci Özbek (Kadir Has University Istanbul, early modern Ottoman history). Students of history, area studies, linguistics, computational and social sciences from Vienna, Lyon, Bielefeld and Istanbul will meet for one week in Vienna for an intense study week of joint teaching and learning.

During the joint study week, the students will:
(1) receive an introduction into the field of the history of crime and criminal justice,
(2) learn how to use digital tools and methods to analyze court records, and
(3) discuss samples of court records from different societies and language communities of premodern Eurasia

By the end of this class, the students will present and publish their own sample of court records on a collaborative database.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

There are no exams.

Reading list

- Anja Johansen/Paul Knepper (eds.), The Oxford History of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press 2016).
- Claude Chevaleyre/Juliane Schiel (eds.), Work Semantics / Semantiken der Arbeit. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften / Austrian Journal of Historical Studies 34,2 (2023).
- Jonathan Blaney/Sarah Milligan/Marty Steer/Jane Winters (eds.), Doing Digital History. A Beginner's Guide to Working With Text as Data (Manchester 2021).
- Claire Lemercier and Claire Zalc, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities. An Introduction (Charlottesville 2019).
- Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism (MIT Press 2020).

Association in the course directory

MA Geschichte: Schwerpunkt Neuzeit, Globalgeschichte, Österreichische Geschichte, Europaforschung, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgesch., Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

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