Die Termine am 23. April, 14. Mai und 4. Juni finden in der Georgenstraße 23, Etage 6 in den Räumen von "HU Berlin: Center on Applied Humanities" statt. Informationen zu der Blockveranstaltung am 13. und 14. Juni erhalten Sie im Seminar.
“Data” and large datasets have become one of the most crucial resources for knowledge production over the past two hundred years. Data-driven approaches have changed dramatically the ways in which we have come to understand our lives and bodies, the fortune of our societies, and the objects of scientific research: as bits stored electronically on digital computers and in cloud infrastructures. This seminar combines expertise from media studies, history of science, and history of medicine to discuss the material practices, epistemologies, and politics as they become manifest in data collection, data mining, and data visualization. We will focus on the emergence of the concepts, media, and practices that have informed data-driven methods as a means to understand and manage the world around us; the impact of these developments in big data approaches and evidence-based medicine; and the politics of data and the environment. A one-day excursion to the Museum of Natural History will complement our readings and introduce us to the intricacies of manual and digital data management of the museum’s large collections.
This course will be taught in English, together with Dr Etienne Benson (MPIWG) and Dr Alfred Freeborn (MPIWG), and in cooperation with the Museum for Natural History Berlin. It is open to Master students of all three Berlin universities. The seminar is part of the curriculum of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and its Resources.”
Students who wish to participate please apply with a short motivation email to Christine von Oertzen (oertzenc@hu-berlin.de).
MAP: mündliche Prüfung: Mitwoch 23.7. und Donnerstag, 24.7.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2025 gefunden:
