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SUMMARY:Prehistory: Agriculture and the Societal Imaginary (Global Imagina
 ries through the Ages) - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20191028T150000Z
DTEND:20191028T170000Z
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CONTACT:Samantha Peel
DESCRIPTION:The Global Imaginaries through the Ages reading group is a col
 lective endeavour to investigate\, interpret\, and discuss imaginaries of 
 the global in different sites and especially in different times. We will c
 hronologically go through eight periods of human history\, from the 'first
  societies' of the 'Neolithic agricultural revolution' to the 'Classics'\,
  'Middle Ages\,' and 'Modernity'.\n\nThe question in focus will be how col
 lectives and individuals in these respective periods of history have conce
 ived themselves in\, and in relation to\, the world. What was their imagin
 ary of the global? When – if ever – have subjects started to conceive 
 of themselves as global\, or part of a global? We will discuss how useful 
 it is to speak of a global imaginary and the extent to which this concept 
 must be tied to a specific temporality. Furthermore\, we will reflect on o
 ur own outlooks to the world and try to historicise our respective underst
 anding(s) of globality\, both as a mode of subjectification and as a histo
 rical tool: how can we study historical subjects in their relation to and 
 understanding of 'the global' without projecting our geographical and temp
 oral understandings of globality onto the material? In order to stimulate 
 these discussions\, the reading group will draw on a range of texts that n
 ot only span millennia but also focus on different aspects of 'globality'\
 , both material and ideational: agricultural labour\, knowledge production
 \, migration\, empire\, trade\, and the diffusion of ideologies and worldv
 iews.\n\nThis reading group is convened by Felix Anderl. If you have any q
 ueries about the events or reading\, please don't hesitate to email. Find 
 contact details via: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28583\n \n\nMichaelmas Te
 rm - 28 October 2019:\n\nJames Scott\, Against the Grain (Connecticut: Yal
 e University Press\, 2017).\n \n\ngloknos is initially funded for 5 years 
 by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to D
 r Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is fu
 nded 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.
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cam
 bridge\, CB3 9DT
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