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SUMMARY:Classical Heredity in the Roman and Medieval Worlds (Domestication
  Practices across History) - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20191118T150000Z
DTEND:20191118T170000Z
UID:TALK126751@talks.cam.ac.uk
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
 92\n\nMichaelmas Term - 18 November 2019:\n\nJared Secord\, ‘Overcoming 
 Environmental Determinism: Introduced Species\, Hybrid Plants and Animals\
 , and Transformed Lands in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds’\, in The Ro
 utledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medi
 eval Worlds\, ed. Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Molly Jones-Lewis (Abingdon: Ro
 utledge\, 2016): pp. 210-229.\n\nSteven A Epstein\, ‘Chapter Two: The In
 vention of Mules’ in The Medieval Discovery of Nature (Cambridge: Cambri
 dge University Press\, 2012): pp. 40-77.\n\n\ngloknos 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). AR
 TEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union
 ’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC gra
 nt 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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