Interdisciplinary Summer School
In the age of the „ancientDNA-revolution“, archaeogenetic research institutes are nowadays routinely analysing samples from all periods of the human past, not the least from medieval times. Sometimes the scientific objective of the analysis resides primarily in the realm of History/Archaeology; sometimes the questions asked are of a biological nature; in other instances there is a mix of both. A rapidly growing and highly promising field of more or less intertwined genetic, historical, and archaeological knowledge production is developing, and the Middle Ages have become relevant to Genetics, as well as vice versa. Yet, true interdisciplinary cooperation remains rare, and there is much mutual distrust, misunderstanding and lack of knowledge. The Interdisciplinary Summer School „Bridging Archaeogenetics and Medieval Studies“ will bring together students from History, Biology, Archaeology and other relevant disciplines in order to familiarize them with the use of a(ncient)DNA as a source for migration, demographics, kinship and pathology in the Middle Ages. The Summer School will provide a general introduction to the scientific methods, both in theory and practice. In addition, participants will be given the opportunity to learn about a particular ongoing research project, „Migration and Urban Demographics in the Berlin-Brandenburg Area during the High Middle Ages“, in which many among the teaching staff are involved. Participants will be able to learn how the methods are applied to a concrete case study, to discuss with scientists cooperating in an ongoing research project, and to participate in interdisciplinary exchanges around specific problems. This interaction will help to develop critical engagement with the sometimes fundamentally different general approaches of scientists and scholars in the humanities.
23.–27.9.2024 • Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Organisiert von Dr. Jörg Feuchter (BBAW) and Dr. Stephan Schiffels (MPI EVA)
mit Abendvortrag:
24. September 2024 • 18 Uhr • Einstein-Saal
Kolloquium
und
Erfurt und Naumburg • 15.-19. Juli 2024
Vortrag
01. Juli 2024 • 18 Uhr • Einstein-Saal
Eine Veranstaltung des Mittelalterzentrums in Kooperation mit der Professur für Europäische Geschichte des Mittelalters an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Dorothea Weltecke).
Experti:innendiskussion
12. Februar 2024 • 18 Uhr • Einsteinsaal
Jahresvortrag
13. Februar 2024 • 18 Uhr • Leibnizsaal
Ab dem 12. Jahrhundert erfuhren Schema-Bilder, d. h. Abbildungen in abstrakter und schematischer Form, nach der Tradition antiken Schulgebrauchs in Wissenschaft, Recht und Kartographie weite Verbreitung. Ihre Verwendung wirkte nicht nur strukturierend und wissensorganisierend, sondern bewahrte kreatives, hermeneutisches Potenzial auf – so wie etwa die Visualisierungen von SARS-CoV-2 oder des Schwarzen Lochs in unseren Tagen. Der Vortrag wird sie als 'tools for thinking' anhand von norditalienischen Beispielen wie der Domschule Vercelli (12.–13. Jh.) und dem einzigartigen Werk Opicinos de Canistris aus Pavia (1296–ca.1353) aufzeigen.
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