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WiSe 23/24: Knowledge and Its Resources: Concepts, Methods, Historiographies

Cale Johnson, Dagmar Schäfer, Christine von Oertzen

Hinweise für Studierende

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. Please submit this document to the Studienbüro within the same time frame you would have to enrol in your courses in Campus Management, namely within the first two or three weeks of the course. This Seminar will be taught together with J. Cale Johnson (FU), Dagmar Schäfer (MPIWG/ TU) and Christine von Oertzen (HU) within the program of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and its Resources”. The workload of the course equals 270 hours: attendance 30 hours, preparation and wrap-up 180 hours, Hausarbeit 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 Schließen

Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

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. Deadline for the application: October 10, 2023. Write to: wissensgeschichte@geschkult.fu-berlin.de Schließen

Kommentar

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. At the intersection of media studies, STS, history of science and technology, regional studies and art history, and history of the humanities, this course addresses the core concepts, methodologies, and historiographies necessary to disentangling the complex relationships between knowledge and its resources in a long-term and global perspective. Key to the agenda 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. Schließen