070105 PS BA-Proseminar - a history of entanglements - from things to the environment (2025S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 10.02.2025 09:00 to Fr 21.02.2025 14:00
- Registration is open from Mo 24.02.2025 09:00 to We 26.02.2025 14:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 31.03.2025 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 04.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Tuesday 11.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Tuesday 18.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Tuesday 25.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Tuesday 01.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Tuesday 08.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- N Tuesday 29.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Tuesday 06.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
- Wednesday 07.05. 13:15 - 20:00 Seminarraum 1 Porzellangasse 4, EG03
- Thursday 08.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
- Thursday 08.05. 13:15 - 20:00 Seminarraum 12, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Assessment will be based on the final PS-work. Feedback will be provided on the presentations
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
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%.
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%.
Examination topics
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.
Reading list
Ian Hodder, Entangled: an Archeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things, Oxford: Wiley –Blackwell, 2012.
Other readings will be recommended during the course.
Other readings will be recommended during the course.
Association in the course directory
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).
BEd UF Geschichte: UF GP 04 Aspekte und Räume 2, PS Proseminar - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (5 ECTS).
Last modified: Tu 04.03.2025 15:46
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.