Making history, from postcolonial studies to the “big history”

4 Outubro 2021, 18:00 • 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.