33301
Tutorial
WiSe 14/15: Mapping a Global Empire: Knowledge and Governance in Colonial Latin America
Nino Vallen
Information for students
Diese Lehrveranstaltung wird für Studierende der Geschichtswissenschaft
nach dem Bachelorstudiengang Geschichte im Modul Historische Probleme in
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Comments
During the last three decades, scholarly interest in the role of empirical knowledge in the formation and administration of European empires has been increasing steadily. This seminar focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge in the context of Spain's global Empire. We will explore the significance of textual as well as visual descriptions of American as well as Pacific spaces through a cultural and socio-political perspective. Our main objective is to discover how actors belonging to distinct social groups contributed to the making of a culture of knowledge and how they themselves used the developing information infrastructure to articulate and negotiate their place or that of others within the local or imperial order. Topics that will be examined include the development of various types of maps, the relationship between the spatial and social order, and the use of mapping practices in the ongoing negotiations over human difference and inequality. close
Suggested reading
Bleichmar, Daniela, Paula De Vos, Kristin Huffine, and Kevin Sheehan, eds. (2009): Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500-1800. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. - Brendecke, Arndt (2009): Imperium und Empirie. Funktionen des Wissens in der Spanischen Kolonialherrschaft. Köln: Böhlau. - Dünne, Jörg (2011): Die kartografische Imagination: Erinnern, Erzählen und Fingieren in der Frühen Neuzeit. München, Wilhelm Fink Verlag. - Padrón, Ricardo (2004): The Spacious World: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. - Portuondo, María M. (2009): Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2014-10-20 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-10-27 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-11-03 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-11-10 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-11-17 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-11-24 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-12-01 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-12-08 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2014-12-15 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-01-05 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-01-12 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-01-19 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-01-26 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-02-02 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2015-02-09 10:00 - 12:00