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SUMMARY:Alternate Twentieth-Century Biotechnologies (Domestication Practic
 es 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
 96\n\nLent Term - 2 March 2020:\n\nHelen Anne Curry\, ‘Chapter Fifteen: 
 The Peaceful Atom in Global Agriculture’ in Evolution Made to Order: Pla
 nt Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth Century America (Chi
 cago and London: University of Chicago Press\, 2016).\n\nMatthew Holmes\, 
 ‘Somatic Hybridization: The Rise and fall of a Mid-Twentieth Century Bio
 technology’\, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 48\, 1 (2018): 
 pp. 1-23.\n\ngloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Resea
 rch 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 Progr
 amme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For inf
 ormation 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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