Anne Por

Geburtsjahr: 1994 

Studium: 
PhD. "Hodegetics: Language of Vice in Student Advice Literature (1700-1900), part of the NWO-Vici 'Scholary Vices: A Longue Durée History', University Leiden (In Progress)
MSc History and Philosophy of Science, Utrecht University (2017-2019)
B.A. Art History and Humanities Honours Programme: Individual track (2014-2017)

Wissenschaftliche Anstellungen bzw. Tätigkeiten:
General Contemporary History, Seminar for bachelor students, Institute for History, Leiden University (2021-present)
 

The cameral sciences from the perspective of students in Halle: On knowledge structures, representation and discipline formation

The advisory literature aimed at students that my PhD-research centers on encompasses various (both moral and practical) recurring themes: 'studying with purpose' being one of these. The necessity of choosing the right courses and following them in the right order was stressed time and again. In order to get insight into how students from the 18th- and early 19th-centuries planned their studies, the cameral sciences – an inherently interdisciplinary and emerging field that resists easy definition – are a particularly useful case. Emphatically taking the perspective of students (in this case students at the university in Halle) and using published study plans and archival materials from the university archive, I ask questions of representation, curriculum and planning, as well as question how disciplines could and should be defined: Did and could a student see themselves as a cameralism student and/or future cameralist? What would they have understood this to mean? How did they know which courses to choose? Were recommended courses actually available, and were they chosen? Which courses were associated with the cameral sciences, and which ones were followed by aspiring cameralists?