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SUMMARY:Commanding Nature in Early Modern Europe (Domestication Practices 
 across History) - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20191216T150000Z
DTEND:20191216T170000Z
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:The Domestication Practices across History reading group was s
 et up in order to investigate the deep history and global spread of what m
 ight 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 f
 ailed to spread – across the globe. We will begin with the domestication
  of crop plants in the Neolithic\, before moving chronologically all the w
 ay to twentieth-century histories of genetic modification. Throughout our 
 long journey through history we will explore several different bio-techniq
 ues or technologies\, from acclimatisation to hybridisation\, Mendelian th
 eory to mutation breeding.\n\nWhat role have theories of heredity played i
 n the development and uptake of these practices? How did advocates of thes
 e practices succeed or fail in convincing others to adopt them? By conside
 ring these and other questions\, we shall engage with the use of domestica
 tion practices as objects of historical study\, including their promise an
 d limitations. Readings will consist of book chapters and articles on the 
 history of plant and animal domestication\, breeding\, agriculture and bio
 technology.\n\nThis 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/285
 93\n\nMichaelmas Term - 2 December 2019:\n\nPaolo Savoia\, ‘Nature of Ar
 tifice? Grafting in Early Modern Surgery and Agronomy’\, Journal of the 
 History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 72\, 1 (2016): pp. 67-86.\n\nMarga
 ret E Derry\, ‘Chapter One: Artificial Selection Theory and Livestock Br
 eeding\, 1750-1900’\, in Masterminding Nature: The Breeding of Animals\,
  1750-2010 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press\, 2015): pp. 13-39.\n\ngl
 oknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council thr
 ough a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her projec
 t ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Counci
 l under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Resear
 ch and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about 
 gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance
 .
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cam
 bridge\, CB3 9DT
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