Engaging Modern Genetic Practices (Domestication Practices across History)

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• Monday 16 March 2020, 15:00-17:00
• CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

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The Domestication Practices across History reading group was set up in order to investigate the deep history and global spread of what might be termed ‘domestication practices’: the creation or breeding of new varieties of plants and animals. The goal of this group is to consider how different domestication practices have come about and spread – or failed to spread – across the globe. We will begin with the domestication of crop plants in the Neolithic, before moving chronologically all the way to twentieth-century histories of genetic modification. Throughout our long journey through history we will explore several different bio-techniques or technologies, from acclimatisation to hybridisation, Mendelian theory to mutation breeding.

What role have theories of heredity played in the development and uptake of these practices? How did advocates of these practices succeed or fail in convincing others to adopt them? By considering these and other questions, we shall engage with the use of domestication practices as objects of historical study, including their promise and limitations. Readings will consist of book chapters and articles on the history of plant and animal domestication, breeding, agriculture and biotechnology.

This reading group is convened by Matt Holmes. If you have any queries about the events or reading, please don’t hesitate to email. You can find details of this event here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28598

Lent Term – 16 March 2020:

Sheila Jasanoff, ‘Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science’, Osiris 21, 1 (2006): pp. 273-292.

Jane Maienschein, ‘On Cloning: Advocating History of Biology in the Public Interest’, Journal of the History of Biology 34, 3 (2001): pp. 423-432.

gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.

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