Admission demands
This program is component regarding the (Res)MA History Programme. It’s not available for BA pupils.
Description
This Research Seminar is targeted on the archives associated with VOC or Dutch East Asia business. It partly functions as a practical, more particular counterpart for the Literature Seminar. It addresses a number of the basic archival problems talked about there, but addresses them when you look at the context of the seventeenth- and 18th-century Dutch-Asian commercial enterprise. Whilst the VOC records formally comprised business management, in training additionally they functioned as a giant repository of valuable and secret information about all types of activities in early-modern Asia.
The many staying VOC archives are comprised of several various types or even “genres” of papers, including maps. Further, they partly overlap with materials that fall beyond your confines among these collections, but they are closely associated with them, such as for instance personal documents, missionary records, travel reports, as well as pieces of art. These diverse materials had been produced with various purposes, are comprised and organised in numerous methods, and information that is present various perspecitives.
This seminar considers and compares all of these sources from both an archival and a historiographical standpoint. It searches for similarities and differences when considering, regarding the one hand, the VOC archives and, having said that, archives of contemporaneous Dutch institutions as well as other European trading that is overseas. Students who cannot browse (old) Dutch may use such other European documents, for instance those associated with English East Asia business.
The student has obtained:
- 1 The capability to individually recognize and select literature, utilizing conventional and contemporary practices;
- 2 The capacity to separately determine and choose sources, utilizing conventional and contemporary methods;
- 3 The capability to analyse and assess a corpus of sources having a view to handling a certain problem that is historical
- 4 the capacity to analyse and assess literary works having a view to handling a certain problem that is historical
- 5 the capability to separately formulate a definite and well-argued research concern, taking into consideration the concept and way of the industry and also to reduce this concern to available and workable sub-questions;
- 6 the capacity to individually arranged and carry out a initial scientific study that will make a share to existing scholarly debates;
- 7 the capability to offer a clear and well-founded dental and written report on research outcomes in proper English, whenever needed, or Dutch, fulfilling the requirements associated with control;
- 8 the capability to participate in current debates within the specialisation;
- 9 the capability to offer constructive feedback to and formulate criticism of this work of other people as well as the capacity to assess the worth of these critique and feedback on one’s own work and mix it;
- 10 (ResMA just): The capability to take part in a discussion associated with the theoretical foundations of this control.
Learning goals, with respect to the specialisation
- 11 Thorough knowledge and comprehension of just one for the specialisations or subspecialisations along with associated with the historiography for the specialisation, concentrating specially regarding the after; into the specialisation Archival Studies: archiving in a colonial context; insight into the importance of archiving procedures for the manner in which a society relates to its documents heritage as a whole as well as its historic practice in specific; disclosure, including electronic disclosure, of archives included in the wider history sector.
- 12 Thorough knowledge and comprehension regarding the theoretical, conceptual and methodological areas of the specialisation or subspecialisation at issue, having a specific give attention to the immediate following: when you look at the specialisation Archival Studies: theoretical fundamentals of archivistics; assessment and collection of archives.
Learning objectives, regarding this Research Seminar
- 13 Thorough knowledge of the organization regarding the VOC archives and how it comes even close to the organization of closely relevant materials (private documents, missionary records, etc.), to archives of contemporaneous Dutch organizations and also to documents of other European international trading businesses.
- 14 Thorough knowledge of just exactly just how these different organisational maxims are pertaining to the goals and audiences of these materials while the kind and tone of data they have.
- 15 the capacity to analyse and compare archives developed within an early-modern Dutch-non-Western context.
- 16 (ResMA only): the capability to put up and execute initial research that raises brand new concerns, pioneers brand new apporaches and/or points to brand new guidelines for future research.