Sumários
Making history, from postcolonial studies to the “big history”
4 Outubro 2021, 16:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
Postcolonial Studies, Subaltern Studies, and Eurocentrism
• History and cultural studies
• Myriad “turns”, from cultural to animal
• Microstoria (Italian but not only)
• Histoire croisée and connected story
• World history and global history
• The present tense: the history manifesto and big history
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: Sarah Maza, “How is History Produced”, in id., Thinking about History (Chicago & Londres, 2017), cap. 4, pp. 118-156.
Making history, between the creation of a discipline in the nineteenth century and the postwar debates
27 Setembro 2021, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
Leopold von Ranke (m. 1886), and history as a discipline (scientific?)
- Max Weber (d. 1920) and the roots of the intersection of history with the social sciences
• The Annales School and its central figures: Febvre, Bloch, Braudel
• Social history vs. (bad) political history; comparative history vs. national history; historical demography, quantitative history and serial history
• Marxism, structuralism and history
• The “new history” and the main paths of the discipline in the 1980s
• The Portuguese landscape, from Alexandre Herculano (d. 1877) to Magalhães Godinho (d. 2011)
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: Dale Tomich, “The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History,” Almanack, 2 (2011), pp. 52-65.
Making history, between the creation of a discipline in the nineteenth century and the postwar debates
27 Setembro 2021, 16:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
Leopold von Ranke (m. 1886), and history as a discipline (scientific?)
- Max Weber (d. 1920) and the roots of the intersection of history with the social sciences
• The Annales School and its central figures: Febvre, Bloch, Braudel
• Social history vs. (bad) political history; comparative history vs. national history; historical demography, quantitative history and serial history
• Marxism, structuralism and history
• The “new history” and the main paths of the discipline in the 1980s
• The Portuguese landscape, from Alexandre Herculano (d. 1877) to Magalhães Godinho (d. 2011)
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: Dale Tomich, “The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History,” Almanack, 2 (2011), pp. 52-65.
Making History between the Ancient World and the Early Modern Age
20 Setembro 2021, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
The historian's craft: purposes, objects, sources, methods, challenges
• From Herodotus to Amianus Marcelinus: a brief overview
• The medieval period
• What was history in 15th- and 16th-century Europe?
• Geographic exploration of the world and the birth of global history
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “The Origins of Global History,” Inaugural lecture, Collège de France, 2013. https://books.openedition.org/cdf/4200
Making History between the Ancient World and the Early Modern Age
20 Setembro 2021, 16:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
The historian's craft: purposes, objects, sources, methods, challenges
• From Herodotus to Amianus Marcelinus: a brief overview
• The medieval period
• What was history in 15th- and 16th-century Europe?
• Geographic exploration of the world and the birth of global history
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “The Origins of Global History,” Inaugural lecture, Collège de France, 2013. https://books.openedition.org/cdf/4200