Universität Wien

070298 UE Course on Methodology - Theories and Methods of Global History und Global Studies (2024S)

Microhistory and Global History

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

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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

  • Thursday 07.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 14.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 21.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 11.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 18.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 25.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 02.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 16.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 23.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 06.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 13.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 20.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Thursday 27.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 8 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

During the last decade, one of the most lively and original debates in historiography has emerged around the question of the possibility to combine microhistory and global history. On the one hand, the two approaches developed at different times (microhistory in the 1970s-1980s and global history starting from the late 1990s) and within distinct academic contexts, and each of them includes distinct and even contradictory theoretical and methodological perspectives. On the other hand, scholars are hoping that, by combining microhistory and global history, they can bring together detailed analysis and spatial sensitivity in the study on historical and social processes. Thus, the questions have emerged: What approaches within global history and microhistory can actually be combined? And what does one exactly gain (and lose) by bringing the two approaches together?

This UE Course on “Methodology in Global History and Global Studies” aims to take stock of the multiple ways to combine microhistory and global history that the scholars have proposed. Moreover, it investigates the potential that such combination bears for the renewal of both microhistory, global history, and the field of social history.

This UE Course on “Methodology in Global History and Global Studies” is centred around two activities:
1. Reading and discussing scholarly publications, with the view to analyzing how the scholars have addressed the issue of the combination between microhistory and global history.
2. Writing the script of the podcast “Microhistory and Global History”. The students will form the groups and decide how to structure the podcast. Possibly, each group will be responsible for the script of one episode of the podcast.
The participation of the E-Multiplikatorin of the historical departments, Katharina Kührner (E-Learning (univie.ac.at)), in two sessions will allow the students to get the necessary information about the making of a podcast and (eventually) transform (part of) their script into a podcast.

The sessions will include:
* Group discussions and collective discussions on the assigned readings.
* Group work around the script and the making of the podcast “Microhistory and global history”.

Assessment and permitted materials

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Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students will develop the following skills:
• Expanding their knowledge on the theories and methodologies of microhistory and
global history;
• Improving their skills in the reading and analysis of scholarly texts.
• Get acquainted to empirical research at the crossroads of microhistory and global
history.
• Operationalizing the methodological and theoretical inputs into an empirical
research.
• Through the development of the script of the podcast, the students will:
o Further elaborate the acquired knowledge
o Increase their self-reflexivity about the procedure of scholarly research
o Improve their skills in group work, including their ability to: present their ideas
and arguments in public; discussing the structure of a research project.
o Learn to communicate their new knowledge to a broader public.
o Acquire technical skill about the making of a podcast.

Examination topics

Minimum Requirements and Assessment Standards
• Read the assigned texts (mandatory) – 30%
• Participate actively in classroom discussions – 30%
• Group work on the script and making of the podcast – 40%

Reading list

The readings will be uploaded on the moodle platform of the course. They include theoretical texts on microhistory, global history and micro-global history; and they showcase some empirical studies shaped by the micro-global perspective.

Association in the course directory

MA Globalgeschichte & Global Studies (Vers 2019): PM2 Forschungsprozess und Methoden, Methodenkurs Theorien und Methoden der Globalgeschichte und Global Studies (5 ECTS).
MA Geschichte: PM 1 Methodenkurs (5 ECTS)

Last modified: Su 18.02.2024 17:05