PD Dr. Claudia Brosseder
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Cultures in Dialogue in Peru (16th to 19th centuries)
My research explores transcultural processes between Europe and the wider Atlantic world. I am in particular interested in how people from the Andes, Afro-Americans and Europeans entered a dialogue in the Andes during colonial and modern times. So far, I have explored two distinct areas of scholarship: the history of astrology in early modern Germany and the history of the encounter between Jesuits and Andean religious specialists in colonial Peru. Due to my two footings—Latin American history as well as early modern European history—my Latin American research projects try to gain a nuanced, fine-grained understanding of cross-cultural interactions in the realm of Peru’s intellectual past.
My current research project explores the dialogue between various cultures in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Peru. I investigate Peru’s Creole scholars with regard to their interaction with indigenous and Afro-American people. The question arises: How did indigenous people and Afro-Americans influence scientific concepts and theories? Moreover, I am interested in the relationship between “religion” and “science” in Latin-America and in the transfer of knowledge between the Americas.
PD Dr. Claudia Brosseder
Heidelberg University
Transcultural Studies
Marstallstr. 6
69117 Heidelberg
Phone:. +49(0)6221 547851
Fax: +49(0)6221 54-7862
cbrossed@uni-heidelberg.de
Courses Taught
- History of Science in the Transatlantic World. (University of Heidelberg)
- Forging Identities in Latin American History. (University of Heidelberg).
- History of Modern Latin America (19th and 20th century) (Stetson University, Fl.)
- Modern World Civilizations (15th-20th century) (Stetson University, Fl.)
- History of the Colonial Andes (Stetson University, Fl.).
- Witchcraft, Magic and the Occult in Early Modern Europe and the Americas (Stanford University)
- The European Expansion. (University of Munich).
- The New in the Old World (15th–18th Centuries). (University of Munich).
- Late Humanism. Erudition in Crisis? (University of Munich).
- “Magic” and Related Erudite Interests in the Renaissance (1450-1600s). (University of Munich).
- Colonial Latin America (University of Munich)
- The Incas and their Histories (University of Heidelberg)
- Transcultural workshops: methods in the humanities (University of Heidelberg)
Selected Publications:
Books
- Clandestine Dialogues: Knowledge and Belief between the Colonial Andes and Early Modern Europe. (in preparation for publication in 2010).
- Im Bann der Sterne. Caspar Peucer, Philipp Melanchthon und andere Wittenberger Astrologen. (Under the Spell of the Stars: Caspar Peucer, Philipp Melanchthon and other Wittenberg Astrologers). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2004.
Selected Articles:
- „Die Entzauberung der Dämonen im Peru des 18. Jahrhunderts vor dem Hintergrund des ›Dialogs‹ zwischen andinen religiösen Spezialisten und Jesuiten im 17. Jahrhundert.” to be published in: Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts: Kulturelle Übersetzung: Das Beispiel Brasilien, ed. Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier and Ulrike Zeuch (im Druck).
- “Astrology in seventeenth-century Peru,” In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological & Biomededical Science, 41 (2010), 146-157.
- “Interactions between Amerindian, Afro-American and European Ritual Specialists in Colonial Peru.” (in preparation for Colonial Latin American Review).
- “La ciencia entre la herejía y la adaptación. Astrología natural y talismánica en el Perú colonial, siglos XVI-XVII.” In Catequesis y derecho en la América colonial. Fronteras borrosas, ed. Roland Schmidt-Riese. Madrid, Frankfurt, 2010, 19-41.
- “The Writing in the Wittenberg Sky. Astrology in 16th-Century Germany,” In: Journal of the History of Ideas, 66, 2005, 557-576.
- “Astrologie,“ In: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, ed. Friedrich Jaeger, Vol. 1: (Abendland-Beleuchtung), Stuttgart/Weimar, 2005, 724-729.
- “Secret dialogues with Andean and Mexican Natives. Bernabé Cobo revisited.” In: Cultural Dialogue in South Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Images and Community (16th-19th centuries), ed. Corinne Lefèvre and Ines G. Županov. Paris 2011 (in preparation).
Awards
2007-08
Kalkhof Rose-scholarship, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
2006-2007
Postdoctoral Feodor-Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (Stanford University).
2002-2005
Bayerischer Habilitationsförderpreis (which allowed research trips to Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the US, Spain and Italy).
2002
Scholarship by the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin under Lorraine Daston (due to the Bayerische Habilitationsförderpreis I was unable to pursue the scholarship).
2001
Study Grant, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel.
2000
Scholarship at the Warburg-Institute, London (I was unable to pursue the scholarship).
1998
Summer Institute, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel.
1997-1998
Ambassadorial Scholarship, Rotary Club so as to study at Princeton University
1997
Scholarship for Oxford University (due to my scholarship for Princeton I was unable to pursue this scholarship).
1992-1998
German National Scholarship-Foundation, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
1992
German Catholic Scholarship-Foundation, Cusanuswerk. .
Academic Services:
- Member of the University Council of the University of Heidelberg (Universitätsrat) (http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/universitaetsrat/cv_brosseder.html), 2009-
- Member of the supervisory board’s committee on teaching, Heidelberg University 2009-
- Research-Group Leader, Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, 2008-
- Member of the Latin American Studies Centre, Stetson University, DeLand, Fl. 2007-2008.
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute “SFB 573: Pluralisierung und Autorität in der Frühen Neuzeit” (Diversifications and Authority in the Early Modern Period), University of Munich, 2000-2002.
