Syllabus
| Week | Lecture (for lecture recordings see Moodle) | Seminar Topics/Links to weekly readings | 
|---|---|---|
| Part I: History Writing in Modernity: Grand Narratives of Human Reason and the Progress of Civilisation (for lecture recordings see Moodle) All lectures will take place on Tuesdays, 09.00 - 10.00 am, in MS0.1 (Zeeman Building) | ||
| 1 | Introduction Christoph Mick | There are no texts for the week 1 seminar: this will be an introductory session | 
| 2 | History Writing in the Enlightenment: Purpose and Practice Charles Walton | History Writing in the Enlightenment: Purpose and Practices | 
| 3 | History Writing as an Art or a Science? Or Both? 19-Century Views in Germany and Britain Christoph Mick | History Writing as an Art or a Science? Or Both? 19-Century Views in Germany and Britain | 
| 4 | History as Class Struggle Christoph Mick | History as Class Struggle | 
| 5 | Total History? The Annales School and the Rise of Social History Charles Walton | Total History? The Annales School and the Rise of Social History | 
| 6 | READING WEEK | |
| 7 | The Rise of the New Social History: Socialist-Humanist and Socialist-Feminist History in the 1960s and 1970 Stuart Middleton | The Rise of the New Social History: Socialist Humanism and Feminist History of the 1960s and 1970 | 
| Part II: History Writing in Post-Modernity: Challenging History's ‘Grand Narratives’ | ||
| 8 | Microhistory and the ‘Ethnographic Turn’ Beat Kümin | |
| 9 | Literary Criticism and the ‘Linguistic turn’ Claudia Stein | Literary Criticism and the 'Linguistic Turn' | 
| 10 | Power/Knowledge and the Human Subject in History: Michel Foucault Claudia Stein | Power/Knowledge and the Human Subject in History: Michel Foucault |