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CATEGORIES:CRASSH
SUMMARY:Politics of Hybridisation (Domestication Practices
  across History) - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200217T150000
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UID:TALK126763AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/126763
DESCRIPTION:The Domestication Practices across History reading
  group was set up in order to investigate the deep
  history and global spread of what might be termed
  ‘domestication practices’: the creation or breedi
 ng of new varieties of plants and animals. The goa
 l of this group is to consider how different domes
 tication practices have come about and spread – or
  failed to spread – across the globe. We will begi
 n with the domestication of crop plants in the Neo
 lithic\, before moving chronologically all the way
  to twentieth-century histories of genetic modific
 ation. Throughout our long journey through history
  we will explore several different bio-techniques 
 or technologies\, from acclimatisation to hybridis
 ation\, Mendelian theory to mutation breeding.\n\n
 What role have theories of heredity played in the 
 development and uptake of these practices? How did
  advocates of these practices succeed or fail in c
 onvincing others to adopt them? By considering the
 se and other questions\, we shall engage with the 
 use of domestication practices as objects of histo
 rical study\, including their promise and limitati
 ons. Readings will consist of book chapters and ar
 ticles on the history of plant and animal domestic
 ation\, breeding\, agriculture and biotechnology.\
 n\nThis reading group is convened by Matt Holmes. 
 If you have any queries about the events or readin
 g\, please don’t hesitate to email. You can find d
 etails of this event here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ev
 ents/28596\n\nLent Term -17 February 2020:\n\nNoel
  Kingsbury\, ‘Chapter Ten: Hybrid! Corn and the Br
 ave New World of f1 Hybridization’\, in Hybrid: Th
 e History & Science of Plant Breeding (Chicago: Un
 iversity of Chicago Press\, 2005).\n\nDeborah Fitz
 gerald\, ‘Farmers Deskilled: Hybrid Corn and Farme
 rs’ Work’\, Technology and Culture 34\, 2 (1993): 
 pp. 324-343.\n\ngloknos is initially funded for 5 
 years by the European Research Council through a C
 onsolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Atay
 a for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT i
 s funded by the European Research Council under th
 e European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programm
 e for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement
  no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ART
 EFACT please contact the administrator in the firs
 t instance.
LOCATION:CRASSH Meeting Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 
 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
CONTACT:Samantha Peel
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