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SUMMARY:Empires of Acclimatisation (Domestication Practices across History
 ) - Speaker to be confirmed
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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
 94\n\nLent Term - 20 January 2020:\n\nRebecca J H Woods\, ‘Chapter Two: 
 Much Ado About Mutton’ in The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds 
 and the British Empire\, 1800-1900\, (Chapel Hill\, NC: The University of 
 North Carolina Press\, 2017).\n\nHarriet Ritvo\, ‘Going Forth and Multip
 lying: Animal Acclimatization and Invasion’\, Environmental History 17\,
  2 (2012): pp. 404-414.\n\n\ngloknos is initially funded for 5 years by th
 e European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Ina
 nna 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 admi
 nistrator in the first instance.
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cam
 bridge\, CB3 9DT
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