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S/Ü/HS (Seminar / Practice Seminar / Graduate Course)
SoSe 15: Empire and the Self: Classification and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Nino Vallen
Information for students
Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird für Studierende der Geschichtswissenschaft
im Masterstudiengang Geschichte im Modul 3, Teil 2, Räume und Regionen der
Geschichte als Methodenübung angeboten.
Comments
The last two decades have seen an avalanche of studies dealing with the impact of Empire on the making of national and ethnical identities both in the metropolis and the periphery. As more recent scholarship has noted, however, the focus on collective identities and identity politics at times tends to obscure the fluid, contiguous, and instable nature of images that people produced of themselves and of others. Dealing with such critiques, this seminar focuses on the tactical process of inventing the Self within the context of the Spanish Empire. We will explore distinct practices of description, identification, and classification, as well as the theories and ideologies underpinning them. Our main objective is to arrive at a better understanding of the different functions of descriptions of the Self in the politics of everyday life. Topics that will be discussed include early-modern notions of selfhood, body, and race; the influence of legal, administrative, and cultural norms on self-descriptions; and the relationship between the individual and collective Self. close
Suggested reading
Brubaker, Rogers, and Frederick Cooper, Beyond ‘Identity,’ Theory and Society 29: 1-47, 2000.
Folger, Robert, Writing as Poaching: Interpellation and Self-Fashioning in colonial relaciones de méritos y servicios (Brill: Leiden, 2011).
Siegert, Bernhard, “Ficticious Identities. On the interrogatorios and registros de pasajeros a Indias in the Archivo General de Indias (Seville) (16th century).” In: Ficciones de los medios en la periferia. Técnicas de comunicación en la ficción hispanoamericana moderna. Actas del Coloquio Internacional de Colonia 18-21 de Septiembre de 2007, hg. v. Wolfram Nitsch, Matei Chihaia, Alejandra Torres.
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13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2015-04-13 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-04-20 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-04-27 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-05-04 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-05-11 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-05-18 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-06-01 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-06-08 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-06-15 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-06-22 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-06-29 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-07-06 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2015-07-13 14:00 - 16:00