070238 UE Guided Reading Economic and Social History - Trading in Biomaterials (2023W)
Material, Socio-Political, and Economic Engagements in the Circulation of Science, 1800 to Today
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
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 11.09.2023 09:00 to Mo 25.09.2023 14:00
- Registration is open from We 27.09.2023 09:00 to Fr 29.09.2023 14:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2023 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
*PLEASE NOTE: This course does not meet on 30.10.2023*
Monday
02.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
09.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
16.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
23.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
30.10.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
06.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
13.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
20.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
27.11.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
04.12.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
11.12.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
08.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
15.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
22.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
Monday
29.01.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum WISO 1 (ZG1O2.28) Hauptgebäude, Stiege 6 Zwischengeschoß
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Biomaterial [bʌɪə(ʊ)məˈtɪərɪəl/] noun1. A material derived from, or produced by, living or once living organisms.2. A material employed for work with living or once living organisms.Investors and researchers at Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, in Dallas, Texas are working to de-extinct the Wooly Mammoth by 2027. They plan to reintroduce their mammoth clones to the Arctic, and claim that their over $75 million initiative will help fight climate change. There is, of course, a lot more to it than that. In this course we will merge themes and considerations from economic and social history and the history of science to explore the history of the collection and circulation of biomaterials—multivalent resources in highly inequal global economies. Recurring subjects of interest throughout the semester will be embryology, hierarchies of human difference, and race-making. The class is comprised of short weekly lectures, weekly readings, group discussions, and a museum fieldtrip into collections storage. Participants will be required to submit 250- word opinion pieces on the reading of their choice each week, and present and lead one class discussion (requests for an equivalent assignments may also be accommodated).
Assessment and permitted materials
Ongoing attendance, reading, short weekly written opinion pieces based on a class reading, presentation of one text (or tbd equivalent).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Ongoing attendance, reading, short weekly written opinion pieces based on a class reading, presentation of one text (or tbd equivalent).
Examination topics
There are no examinations for this course.
Reading list
Texts we will be reading include the following (see syllabus for complete list):James A. Secord, “Knowledge in Transit,” Isis 95(4)(2004): 654–72.Bruce Buchan, Linda Andersson Burnett, and Ingeborg Høvik, “Humanity on the move in the era of Enlightenment and colonisation,” Global Intellectual History 8 (4) (2023): 380-386.Sadiah Qureshi, “Peopling of Natural History,” in Helen Anne Curry, Nicholas Jardine, James A. Secord and Emma C. Sparry (eds.) Worlds of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 363-378.Ricardo Roque, “Enslaved Remains, Scientific Racism, and the Work of Counter-History (Part One),” History of Anthropology Review, Special Focus: The Morton Cranial Collection and Legacies of Scientific Racism in Museums, April 2021Linda Andersson Burnett, “Collecting Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment: The Hudson’s Bay Company and Edinburgh University’s Natural History Museum,“ Global Intellectual History 8 (4)(2023): 387-408. DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2022.2074502Juliane Braun, “Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation,” Early American Literature 54 (3)(2019): 643–672.Fiona Gill, “Human Remains, Materiality and Memorialisation: Cambodia’s Bones,” Human Remains and Violence, 6(2) (2020): 61-80. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.6.2.5Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear, “Your DNA Is Our History. Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property,” Current Anthropology 53 (5)2012: S233-S245.
Association in the course directory
Vertiefung zu: VO Wirtschafts- und SozialgeschichteBA Geschichte (2019): PM5 Vertiefung, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte / ZWM Fremdsprachen in der Geschichtswissenschaft (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (4 ECTS)
EC Geschichte (2021): Guided Reading Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (4 ECTS)
EC Geschichte (2021): Guided Reading Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (5 ECTS)
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