Lecture Programme
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TERM 1 PRACTISING HISTORY: INTERPRETING AND EXPLAINING HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND HISTORICAL CHANGE |
| Week | Monday Weekly Lecture (OCO.03, 5-6pm) | Lecture Powerpoint and Recording |
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What is Historical Practice? Sophie Mann |
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Agency and Historical Change in History Writing: The Contrasting Approaches of Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) Claudia Stein |
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History from Below: Historians as Political Activists and the Concept of Agency Lydia Plath |
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The Annales School Aditya Sarkar |
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The Historian as Anthropologist: Microhistory, the Anthropological Turn and the Rise of Cultural History Aditya Sarkar |
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| 6 |
Reading Week - No Lectures or Seminars |
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| 7 |
The Linguistic Turn (1970/80): Language, Truth and Human Experience in History Writing Claudia Stein |
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Gender, Sexuality and Categories of Analysis Lydia Plath |
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Postcolonial History and Subaltern Studies Aditya Sarkar |
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| 10 |
Black Studies: Critical Race Theory and Decolonising History Lydia Plath |
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TERM 2 MAKING HISTORY: METHODS, SOURCES AND CURRENT TRENDS IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH |
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Monday Weekly Lectures | Lecture Powerpoint and Recording |
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History and the Rise of 'Lived Experience': History Writing in Neoliberal Times, 1990 to the Present Claudia Stein |
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Global History and Network Theory David Lambert |
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Feeling and Sensing the Past Claudia Stein |
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What is a Primary Source? Historical Evidence and How to Interpret it Sophie Mann |
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How to Use and Interpret Textual Sources Sophie Mann and Lydia Plath |
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| 6 | Reading Week - No Lectures or Seminars | |
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How to Use and Interpret Visual and Material Sources David Lambert |
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Historical Argument Michael Bycroft |
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| 9 |
AI and the Values of History Lydia Plath |
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| 10 |
Question and Answer Session HI2K9 Teaching Team |
TERM 3
NO LECTURES. SEMINARS WILL RUN IN WEEKS 1-3 . YOU CAN USE THESE SESSIONS TO WORK ON YOUR PROJECT, ASK QUESTIONS AND GET FEEDBACK FROM TUTORS