Universität Wien

070055 UE Working Skills in Global History (2024S)

Asian Migration and Global Port Cities

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Please notice the class will take place on 20 March, Wednesday, rather than Monday as usual. There will be one to two guest talks during the course. In the last session, there will be a mock conference for group presentation.

  • Monday 11.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Wednesday 20.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Monday 29.04. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Monday 13.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Monday 27.05. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1
  • Monday 24.06. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course, students will be familiar with key themes in global history (e.g. migration, flows of capital and ideas, networks, and mobility) by exploring the history of ‘Asian port cities’ from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Through lectures, in-class discussions, group work, and reading assignments, this course will familiarise students with concrete working skills in historical research, including reviewing literature, defining a research question, developing an argument, analysing different sorts of primary sources, and presenting and writing short papers.

In addition to methodological approaches, students will be familiar with theoretical questions in the field of global history today. Cases studies including overseas Chinese connections, modern girls in Shanghai, and displacement in World War II Asia will offer students opportunities to acquire a comprehensive understanding of interconnectedness across Asia and engage in scholarly debates on conceptions of modernity, gender, cosmopolitanism, and internationalism in a non-European context. This course is not about Asian history itself but using Asian cases to approach history as a discipline and global history as an important research trend which looks beyond a single urban, national, or imperial sphere.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students are expected to attend class regularly in continuous work throughout the semester with bi-weekly reading assignments as well as in-class discussions. Aware of students’ different disciplinary backgrounds, the course instructor will make a special effort to set up a common level of reflection and debate for all the participants. Students will choose from one of the topics discussed in the course, and efforts will be made to help student develop term papers (10-12 pages). Students are encouraged to work in groups. In the last session, students will present their findings and give feedback to others. Term papers will be submitted at the end of the semester.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students are expected to attend class regularly in continuous work throughout the semester with bi-weekly reading assignments as well as in-class discussions (with reading materials available on the e-learning platform Moodle). The final grade will be based on in-class discussion (25%), presentation (25%) and final papers (50%).

Examination topics

Dies ist eine prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung.

Reading list

Amrith, Sunil S. Crossing the Bay of Bengal. Harvard University Press, 2013.
Bickers, Robert. ‘Infrastructural Globalization: Lighting the China Coast, 1860s-1930s’, Historical Journal 56: 2 (2013), 431-458.
Chang, Vincent KL, and Yong Zhou. "Redefining Wartime Chongqing: International capital of a global power in the making, 1938–46." Modern Asian Studies 51: 3 (2017): 577-621.
Eber, Irene. Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe: survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city. De Gruyter, 2012.
Fawaz, Leila, Christopher Alan Bayly, and Robert Ilbert, eds. Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890-1920. Columbia University Press, 2002.
Frost, Mark R. ‘Humanitarianism and the Overseas Aid Craze in Britain’s Colonial Straits Settlements, 1870-1920’. Past and Present 236: 1 (2017): 169-205.
Jackson, Isabella. Shaping modern Shanghai: colonialism in China's global city. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Lewis, Su Lin. Cities in motion: Urban life and cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Association in the course directory

MA Globalgeschichte und Global Studies (Version 2019): PM2 Forschungsprozess und Methoden, UE Globalgeschichtliche Arbeitstechniken (4 ECTS).

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