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Undergraduate Course
SoSe 19: Thinking Globally in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Nino Vallen
Information for students
Prüfungsleistung M.A. Interdisziplinäre Lateinamerikastudien A3: Hausarbeit (ca. 15 Seiten).
Prüfungsleistung B.A./ M.A. Geschichte/ FMI: nach StO/PO
Prüfungsleistung M.A. Global History: Hausarbeit (ca. 25 Seiten). close
Comments
Between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries, Iberian globalization or mondialisation led to new engagements with the world. Exploration, conquest, and the establishment of missionary and trading networks connected peoples and places around the globe. At the same time, these processes raised questions and concerns about the category “world” itself. In this seminar we will explore how subjects of the Spanish Crown understood and gave shape to various imaginations of the global. Using a corpus of varying sources, we will study the practices by means of which mapmakers, philosophers, and artists, as well as officials, clergymen, Indios and mestizos produced their own visions of the world as a whole. We will discuss on the one hand how these actors grappled with the intellectual challenge of capturing totalities. On the other hand, we will consider the interests that shaped their visions, as well as the significance of this comprehensive category and system of order in specific sociopolitical struggles. Through these explorations of the cognitive and practical engagements with the “world” the seminar will enrich students’ knowledge about early modern global thinking and its uses for action on both the micro and the macro scale. close
Suggested reading
Cosgrove, D. E. (2003). Apollos eye: A cartographic genealogy of the earth in the western imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; Gruzinski, S. (2010). Las cuatro partes del mundo: Historia de una mundializacio´n. Me´xico: Fondo de Cultura Econo´mica. Ramachandran, A. (2015); The worldmakers: Global imagining in early modern Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2019-04-11 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-04-18 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-04-25 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-05-02 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-05-09 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-05-16 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-05-23 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-06-06 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-06-13 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-06-20 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-06-27 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-07-04 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2019-07-11 10:00 - 12:00