An archival VOC mindset? Archival dilemmas within an early-modern Dutch-Asian context
- Posted on Sep 23, 2019
Admission demands
This program is component associated with (Res)MA History Programme. It’s not available for BA pupils.
Description
This Research Seminar is targeted on the archives associated with the VOC or Dutch East Asia business. It partly serves as a practical, more particular counterpart for the Literature Seminar. It relates to a number of the general archival problems talked about here, but addresses them in the context of the seventeenth- and 18th-century Dutch-Asian enterprise that is commercial. Whilst the VOC records formally comprised company management, in training they even functioned as a huge repository of valuable and information that is secret a variety of occasions in early-modern Asia.
The many staying VOC archives are comprised of numerous differing kinds if not “genres” of papers, including maps. Further, they partly overlap with materials that fall beyond your confines of the collections, but they are closely pertaining to them, such as for instance personal documents, missionary records, travel records, as well as artwork. These diverse materials were produced with various purposes, are comprised and organised in numerous means, and information that is present various perspecitives.
This seminar considers and compares all these sources from both an archival and a historiographical viewpoint. It actively seeks similarities and differences when considering, regarding the one hand, the VOC archives and, having said that, archives of contemporaneous Dutch organizations as well as other European trading that is overseas. Pupils who cannot browse (old) Dutch may use such other European documents, for instance those associated with English East Asia business.
The pupil has obtained:
- 1 The capacity to individually determine and choose literary works, making use of old-fashioned and techniques that are modern
- 2 The capacity to independently determine and choose sources, making use of old-fashioned and techniques that are modern
- 3 The capability to analyse and assess a corpus of sources with a view to handling a specific problem that is historical
- 4 the capacity to analyse and assess literary works by having a view to handling a certain historic problem;
- 5 the capacity to separately formulate an obvious and well-argued research concern, considering the concept and way of the industry also to reduce this concern to available and workable sub-questions;
- 6 the capability to separately arranged and execute a original scientific study that could make a share to existing scholarly debates;
- 7 the capability to provide a definite and well-founded dental and written report on research outcomes in proper English, whenever needed, or Dutch, fulfilling the requirements associated with the control;
- 8 the capability to be involved in present debates when you look at the specialisation;
- 9 the capacity to provide feedback that is constructive and formulate criticism of this work of other people additionally the capability to assess the value of such critique and feedback on one’s very own work and feature it;
- 10 (ResMA just): The capability to take part in a conversation associated with the theoretical fundamentals associated with the discipline.
Learning goals, regarding the specialisation
- 11 Thorough knowledge and comprehension of just one associated with specialisations or subspecialisations in addition to associated with the historiography for the specialisation, concentrating especially regarding the after; when you look at the specialisation Archival Studies: archiving in a context that is colonial understanding of the importance of archiving procedures when it comes to method by which a culture relates to its paperwork heritage generally speaking as well as its historic practice in specific; disclosure, including digital disclosure, of archives within the wider history sector.
- 12 Thorough knowledge and comprehension associated with the theoretical, conceptual and methodological components of the specialisation or subspecialisation at issue, by having a specific concentrate on the annotated following: in the specialisation Archival Studies: theoretical fundamentals of archivistics; evaluation and collection of archives.
Learning goals, with respect to this extensive Research Seminar
- 13 Thorough knowledge of the organization regarding the VOC archives and just how it even compares to the organization of closely associated materials (personal documents, missionary records, etc.), to archives of contemporaneous Dutch organizations and also to documents of other European international trading organizations.
- 14 Thorough comprehension of exactly exactly how these different organisational axioms are linked to the goals and audiences of the materials while the kind and tone of data they have.
- 15 the capacity to analyse and compare archives developed within an early-modern context that is dutch-non-Western.
- 16 (ResMA only): the capability to set up and execute research that is original raises brand new concerns, pioneers brand brand new apporaches and/or points to brand brand brand new guidelines for future research.