Elena Valdameri: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2022

Name	Frau Dr. Elena Valdameri
Adresse	Geschichte der modernen Welt ETH Zürich, RZ G 25 Clausiusstrasse 59 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND
Telefon	+41 44 632 74 31
E-Mail	elena.valdameri@gess.ethz.ch
Departement	Geistes-, Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften
Beziehung	Dozentin

Nummer	Titel	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
851-0014-00L	Interdisciplinary Seminar on Migration and Mobility The course addresses primarily Master's students of the D-GESS.	3 KP	2S	E. Valdameri, L. Schurrer
Kurzbeschreibung	This course aims to approach the phenomenon of migration from different scientific disciplines, namely history, political science, philosophy and policy analysis. While the different disciplines are introduced in the first part of the seminar, the students will apply and deepen their newly acquired skills in interdisciplinary groups.The course addresses primarily Master's students of the D-GESS.
Lernziel	Students shall gain insights into research methods beyond their own disciplinary background and acquire the ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary settings. Engaging with different approaches to migration and mobility and adopting an interdisciplinary lens to the topic will enable students to recognize that the integration of other perspectives can be helpful to enhance their knowledge.
Inhalt	On a curricular level, students at the D-GESS are usually not in touch with each other, despite the interesting common threads existing between the BA Staatswissenschaften, MA CIS, MA GPW and MSc STP programmes. Considering the increasing call for interdisciplinarity exchange in university teaching, a course on migration and mobility seems promising in connecting the different disciplines and in providing a fruitful experience for everybody involved, offering the opportunity to create a collaborative learning environment. As a matter of fact, being core topics of our global and interconnected world and having shaped human societies historically, migration and mobility are phenomena that can be analyzed from very different perspectives and can include issues as diverse as migrating people, the circulation of ideas and goods, knowledge transfers, transportation and pollution, religious peregrination, etc. The seminar has a twofold structure: during the first part, researchers provide a short introduction into migration and mobility from their respective disciplines, present related themes and explain the different methodologies in order to offer an insight into their approach on the topic. The second part consists of interdisciplinary group activities by the students based on the previous sessions and on the assigned reading material, where they will apply and deepen their newly acquired skills. Together, the focus of the seminar is to enhance students’ ability to critically engage with research methods beyond their fields. A further goal of the seminar is to make the results of the group work visible to a broader public through channels that will be discussed with the students during the course.
851-0015-00L	The Good Citizen: Global Historical Perspectives on Citizenship (1800 - 2000)	3 KP	1S	E. Valdameri
Kurzbeschreibung	Examining citizenship as a contested category, the course focuses on the technoscientific discourses and practices that have historically been adopted to define citizens. Students are introduced to critical literature in this area and explore in particular the relationship existing between citizenship, biopolitics and technology.
Lernziel	Students learn the history of citizenship from ca 1800 onwards through readings taken from the multidisciplinary scholarship on the topic with a focus on different cultural and political settings. Providing insights into the ever-shifting meaning of citizenship, the course explains this category in relation to scientific and technological changes.
Inhalt	This seminar aims to explore the complex and often ambivalent effects that technoscientific discourses and practices and technologies of biopower have had on norms, practices and institutions of citizenship. It does so by considering, in particular, the impact that technoscientific developments have had in terms of inclusion/exclusion and emancipation/control of citizens. In particular, the role of biology, (colonial) biomedicine, data science, surveillance technologies and biometric identification techniques are objects of substantial reflection that promise to provide students from natural and technical sciences with new perspectives on their core subjects by raising ethical questions about the role and responsibility of these in relation to citizenship issues. The seminar is thematically structured, adopts a multidisciplinary perspective, and uses scholarly texts and concrete examples from different world-regions and periods to familiarise participants with the different dimensions of, and historical variations in, citizenship as well as with the major shifts in understanding this category. It considers topical issues like the implication of digital technologies on political participation, social inclusion, and state borders; the effects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and genetic advancements on formal membership and immigration policy; the forms of resistance that such practices have spurred locally and globally. Critically engaging with these topics, students a) examine and reflect on the complex, problematic, and often contradictory relationship existing between citizenship, biopolitics and technology; b) relate what they have learnt to their core scientific subject or to contemporary debates while considering historical continuities and discontinuities; c) revisit and broaden their understanding of citizenship while learning to use it as an analytical lens to make sense of the globalised world.