Sumários
Making history, between the creation of a discipline in the nineteenth century and the postwar debates
11 Novembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
Aula lecionada pelo Prof. Doutor Jorge Flores
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
11 Novembro 2019, 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.
History of Science in Romanticism
4 Novembro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
The origins of the Philosophy of Nature and Naturforschung.
• The impact of Humboldt's travels on the history of European science. The organization of subjects at Humboldt Universitat.
• The role of genius in the Romanticism history of science and history of art.
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: CUNNINGHAM, Andrew e Nicholas Jardine, Romanticism and the Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
History of Science in Romanticism
4 Novembro 2019, 16:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
The origins of the Philosophy of Nature and Naturforschung.
• The impact of Humboldt's travels on the history of European science. The organization of subjects at Humboldt Universitat.
• The role of genius in the Romanticism history of science and history of art.
• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: CUNNINGHAM, Andrew e Nicholas Jardine, Romanticism and the Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
History of Science in the Eighteenth Century
28 Outubro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues
The role of history in contemporary sciences.
- The strong belief in progress and science and its repercussions on the history of science.
- Priestley and the texts on electricity.
- The works of Lavoisier.
- Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.
Mandatory reading: Jennings, Edward, “The ferment of Knowledge: The historiography of eighteenth century science”, The Eighteenth Century, 24 (3), 1983, pp. 244-256.