Syllabus
Materials we will engage with (subject to change):
A useful short video for the start, especially if you want to virtually meet Jan and Leo Lucassen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKJS4YiC5x8
Videolecture by William O´Reilly (University of Cambridge): Selling Souls – Early Modern Migration and Human Trafficking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvce_jl6pE
William O´Reilly, The Risky Business of Migration. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Decision Making and Risk in the Study of Migration, DTK 1, 2021 (in print).
Veronika Čapská, Words at Work. Words on the Move. Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practices, in: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (ed.), Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective. Institutions, Economic Resources nd Social Networks in the 16th to 20th Centuries, Palgrave Macmillan (in print).
Nicholas Terpstra, Purgation, in: Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World. An Alternative History of the Reformation, Cambridge 2015, pp. 105-132.
Johannes Müller, From Diaspora to “Imagined Minority”. Memories of Persecution and the Cross-Generational Transformation of Protestant Migrant Networks in Early Modern Europe https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/972
Veronika Čapská, Servants of Francophilia. French Migrant Women as Governesses in the Bohemian Lands: Between Cultural Transmission and Reproduction of Social Distinction (1750 – 1810), Austrian History Yearbook 2021.
Annotation
This course will be taught in person. For the case of stricter hygienic measures the course has a team in MS Teams which students can access via the URL: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aiZ_kUvQQaq3J1cS-poKOOVwJ-o3l1ubQHO2Cb1_LrVc1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=ca7d99bc-019b-4d39-b834-8a7ccbcc8161&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2
In this course we will explore migration from the joint perspectives of history and sociocultural anthropology. We will engage with key analytical concepts in migration history and ask what historical sources can be used to study mobility and what are the possibilities and limits in interpreting these historical records. The main focus will be on pre-modern history. We will read and discuss the assigned texts. Each student will prepare an in-class presentation. In the course the teacher will also make use of her participation in the European research network Women on the Move and will enable students to have „hands-on“ experience in this project (the research network webpage: https://www.womenonthemove.eu/).