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Instructors: Prof. Dr. phil. Mikael Hard; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Monstadt
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of History
Displayed in timetable as:
VL TG 1
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Official Course Description:
The lecture series highlights the experiences and controversies that accompanied the domestication of new technologies over the last 150 years. It investigates how European citizens integrated material artifacts into their lives, and discusses the use and appropriation of innovations (such as the bicycle), the daily application of products (like the sewing machine), and the emergence of user communities (such as computer hackers). It does so from a deliberately international and diachronic framework. In line with the program of transnational history, the lecture series presents a number of case studies that illustrate the emergence of a European consumer society in a cross-border perspective (e.g. railroad traveling and the circulation of foodstuffs). Acknowledging the potentially socially and globally leveling power of mass-produced goods, the lectures discuss how individual and collective actors have adopted machines to create a sense of distinction or belonging
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