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WiSe 22/23: Knowledge and Its Resources: Concepts, Methods, Historiographies

Cale Johnson, Anke Te Heesen, Christina von Oertzen

Information for students

For this course it is not possible to enrol via Campus Management. Please enrol via the form "Modul-, Lehrveranstaltungs- und Prüfungsanmeldung" when you decided to take the course. You can find the form on the website of the Studienbüro Geschkult. Please submit this document to the Studienbüro within the same time frame you would have to enrol in your courses via Campus Management. This Seminar will be taught together with J. Cale Johnson (FU), Christina von Oertzen (HU) and Anke Te Heesen (HU) within the program of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and its Resources”. Please note that the reading load will be very high; we expect MA-students to apply with a short description of their motivation for this Seminar; there will be a strict maximum number of students. Potential students need instructor permission. The workload of the course equals 150 hours: attendance 30 hours, preparation and wrap-up 60 hours, Hausarbeit (3500 words) 60 hours. For questions regarding credits you will have to approach your BA- or MA advisor of your study program." Please register also via email: wissensgeschichte@geschkult.fu-berlin.de close

Additional information / Pre-requisites

Potential MA-students need instructor permission. Write to: wissensgeschichte@geschkult.fu-berlin.de

Comments

The thriving field of history of knowledge has developed multiple strands across many historical disciplines in recent decades, but has yet to be underpinned by a rigorous methodological training. The Seminar’s program addresses this critical gap. Through the notion of “resources,” it offers a framework to bring the divergent historiographies of knowledge into structured dialogue, thus opening up new avenues of understanding and research. Key to the Seminar is a “historical-political epistemology,” an approach highlighting the ways in which knowledge is shaped historically and in which political systems, technological infrastructures, and social interaction shape the resource economics of knowledge cultures. close