MoHu Seminar- Theories and Methods Group | Stuck in Time: Materials in the Histories of Mobility and Science

Sala Bortolami, Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli. Via del Vescovado, 30 - Padova

28.10.2019

Lunedì 28 ottobre alle ore 15.00  presso la Sala Bortolami, Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli. Via del Vescovado, 30 nell'ambito del ciclo di incontri "Mobility and the Humanities: Seminar Series", per il nodo "Teorie e Metodi", Dagmar Schäfer (Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept. III) terrà un seminario dal titolo "Stuck in Time: Materials in the Histories of Mobility and Science".

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Material culture in the recent years has received much attention but has been problematized mainly with regard to its movement in time. This contribution/seminar suggests ways in which we could rethink material pasts also with regard to to their mobility through space and time. I will  introduce and juxtapose how approaches in the history of science and mobility studies have dealt with such issues and how they attempt to rethink which materials are affixed to a place or were mobilized. My focus will be on fixations of materials as local and spatially determined (rather than mobile things such as animals).