02-04-0430-ue Traces of Technology and Nature: New sources for historians

Lehrende: Dr. phil. Martin Schmitt

Veranstaltungsart: Übung

Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Geschichte (Institut)

Anzeige im Stundenplan: 02-04-0430-ue

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Anrechenbar für:

Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30

Digitale Lehre:
The understanding of environmental and technological change will be supported by the use of digital tools.

Lehrinhalte:

• Archives of nature
  
• 19th and 20th Century history
  
• Environmental history
  
• History of technology
  
• Digital / data source criticism ("digital hermeneutics")
  
• Web history
  

Literatur:

• Pfister, Christian/Wanner, Heinz: Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years, Bern 2021.
  
• Brundage, Anthony: Going to the sources: a guide to historical research and writing, Hoboken, NJ 6ed 2017, pp. 1-26.
  
• White, Sam/Pfister, Christian/Mauelshagen, Franz: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History, London 2018.
  
• Vertesi, Janet/Ribes, David (Hrsg.): DigitalSTS, Princeton, NJ 2019.
  

Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl:
20

Offizielle Kursbeschreibung:
The double transformation of climate and technological change tremendously influenced the course of the history in the 19th and 20th Century. This also changed the way historians could write history. How do you analyze the changing sea levels or the growth of forest? How to interpret natural science data about climate change historically? Could photography tell us about changing nature? What are the possible narratives that a historian could write with this material? What implications does this have for the epistemology of history? Through analyzing different source types, this class digs deep into the changes of the way the history of an environ-technical landscape is written. 

Nachhaltigkeitsbezug der Veranstaltungsinhalte:
Understanding climate change is only possible through an understanding of its history. Therefore, we need source to do that. These sources and ways to analyze them are discussed in this reading course.

Online-Angebote:
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