EMS 8250 is also offered in Spring 2024
EMS 8250 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | EMS 8250 Section 001: Seminar in Early Modern Studies -- The Early Modern Archive (68362)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Walter W Heller Hall 445
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Current research and debates in early modern studies. Theoretical approaches to major questions shaping seminar's subject matter.
- Class Notes:
- **GRADING BASIS A-F ONLY** This course meets with ARTH 8320. Description: This course examines how early modern archives were created - and how modern historians are using those archives today in new and innovative ways. From mapping to material culture, we examine the exciting ways that scholars have re-imagined and re-narrated the early modern past. Each week focuses on a different methodological approach and/or archival genre. We will be especially attuned to archival "silences" and the question of "agnotology": the study of that which has been forgotten. So we not only examine how collections have been, and continue to be, created and curated by individuals and institutions, but we also ask what stories have been left out, ignored, or suppressed - and why. During the course of the semester, we will take field trips to local archives in the Twin Cities, such as the Wangensteen, to learn how their collections were developed. We will also host several scholars who will introduce us to their methodological strategies. Specific topics of inquiry include material culture, sex and archives, the development of cartography and mapping, and the codification of race.
- Class Description:
- The Early Modern Archive: This course examines the construction of the early modern archive, asking how collections were created and curated by individuals and institutions. It pays particular attention to the role of the emerging professional disciplines, such as medicine, botany, and natural history, as well as missionary/religious networks, in shaping our understanding of the early modern world. We will explore the connections between empire and scientific collecting, religion and ethnography, and gender and medicine. During the course of the semester, we will also take field trips to local archives, such as the Bell Library and the Wangensteen, to learn how their collections were developed. Specific topics of inquiry will include "cabinets of curiosities," the impact of global missionary networks, the development of cartography and mapping, and the codification of race.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68362/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 June 2018
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2022 Early Modern Studies Classes