Learning outcomes: Students are expected to:
• Acquire a widen knowledge of recent historical thinking
• Engage with interdisciplinary approaches
• Deepen their knowledge on historiographical methodologies and practices
• Use analytical concepts and approaches in their essays and dissertation and apply them in the study of past.
The seminar deals with historiographical questions that occupy a central place in a variety of disciplines (in particular history and social anthropology) and fields, analyzing them through an interdisciplinary perspective. The introduction of concepts such as memory, temporality, testimony, culture, experience, gender, subjectivity and identity and the focus on issues such as representativity, interpretation, sources, archive and narrative in historical research marked transformations in the epistemology or poetics of historical knowledge. According to Jacques Rancière, the poetics of historical knowledge is the study of norms according to which historical knowledge is written, read and formed as a special type of discourse. At the center of the transformations of historical knowledge is social anthropology in the sense that it informed historiography with new analytical tools, but also problematized the very boundaries of scientific fields.
The seminar examines historiographical practices that were distinguished for crossing the boundaries of the discipline and for providing historical method and study with new analytical tools and approaches. Oral history, history of mentalities, microhistory, gender history, history of the body and sexuality, and history of emotions challenged historiographical thought and writing through their innovative methodological, theoretical and hermeneutic perspectives. We are going to study historiographical texts that were distinguished for their contribution to the renewal of historical method and writing.
General Competences:
Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information.
Working independently.
Respect for difference and multiculturalism.
Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues, ethnicity and religious beliefs.
Criticism and self-criticism.
Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.
1 Introduction: Conceptualization of the field of historical anthropology
2 Space, time, mentalities: The Annales School
3 The introduction of the concept of culture in history: The New Cultural History
4. Microhistory as practice and its features: Religion, heterodoxies, identity
5 The concept of discourse and power in the works of Michel Foucault
6 The New Social History: The concept of culture and experience in the formation of the working class
7 The concept of memory
8 Testimony and the oral history methodology
9 Subjectivity, autobiography, biography
10 The cultural history of fascism
11 History of emotion
12 History of the body
13 The concept of experience
- Brian Keith Axel, 2002. “Introduction: Historical Anthropology and its Vicissitudes” στο Brian Keith Axel (επιμ.), From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and its Futures. Duke University Press, Λονδίνο.
- Clifford Geertz, “History and Anthropology”. New Literary History, Vol. 21, No. 2, (1990), pp. 321-335.
- Natalie Zemon Davis, “The Possibilities of the Past”. Journal of Interdisciplinary History: 267-275.
- Carlo Ginzburg, “The Possibilities of the Past [A Comment]”. Journal of Interdisciplinary History: 277-278.
- Peter Burke, 1987. The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication. Κέιμπριτζ: Cambride University Press.
- A. Burguière, “L’anthropologie historique et l’école des Annales”. Réflections Historiographiques 22 (1999): 39-60.
- Penelope Papailias, 2005. Genres of recollection: archival poetics and modern Greece. Palgrave.
- Carolyn Steedman, 2001. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History, Manchester: Manchester UP.
- Ρίκα Μπενβενίστε, «Ιστορία και Ανθρωπολογία». Σύγχρονα Θέματα 56 (1995): 44-49.
- Ευθύμιος Παπαταξιάρχης, 1993. «Το παρελθόν στο παρόν. Ανθρωπολογία, ιστορία και μελέτη της νεοελληνικής κοινωνίας». Στο Ε. Παπαταξιάρχης και Θ. Παραδέλλης (επιμ.), Ανθρωπολογία και παρελθόν. Συμβολές στην Κοινωνική Ιστορία της Νεότερης Ελλάδας. Αθήνα: Αλεξάνδρεια: 13-74.
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2000. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton UP.
- Έφη Αβδελά, 2002. «Διά λόγους τιμής»: βία, συναισθήματα και αξίες στη μετεμφυλιακή Ελλάδα, Αθήνα, Νεφέλη.
- Thomas Gallant, Η εμπειρία της αποικιακής κυριαρχίας: Πολιτισμός, ταυτότητα και εξουσία στα Επτάνησα, 1817-1864 (μτφ. Π. Μαρκέτου), Αλεξάνδρεια 2014.
- J. Olick, V. Vinitzky-Seroussi, D. Levy (επιμ.) 2011. The Collective Memory Reader, Oxford University Press.
- Ρίκα Μπενβενίστε, Από τους βαρβάρους στους μοντέρνους, Πόλις 2007. Κεφάλαιο 5, «Θρησκεία και κοινωνία».
- -Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate: Four Theses”, Critical Inquiry 35 (Winter 2009), 197-222.
- Gil Anidjar, «On the Christian Question», διάλεξη στο Βελιγράδι, Ιανουάριος 2013,
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiEHP06kSBk
- Γιώργος Πλακωτός, «Η Ιερή Εξέταση στη Βενετία: απόκλιση, συμμόρφωση και φύλο (16ος-17ος αιώνας)». Τα Ιστορικά, 24, 46, 2007: 89-127.
- Carolyn Steedman, An Everyday Life of the English Working-Class: Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 2013. Κεφ. 9 Knitting and frames, 201-224. Κεφ. 10 The knocking at the gate: General Ludd, 225-260.
- Annette Wieviorka, “On Testimony,” in Geoffrey H. Hartman ed., Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994).
- Luisa Passerini, Italy 1968: History, Memory, Autobiography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jse1b1ZiA
- Pothiti Hantzaroula, ‘The Tempest Society: Towards a Politics and Poetics of Emancipation’ from The Tempest Society by Bouchra Khalili, published by Book Works, 2019, σελ. 96–105.
- Grace M. Cho, “Voices from the Teum: Synesthetic Trauma and the Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora. In Patricia Ticineto Clough (ed.), The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (Durham, Duke University Press, 2007), 151-169.
Related academic journals:
- Representations
- History and Theory
- Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories
- Radical History Review
- Journal of Interdisciplinary history
- Journal of Modern History
- Gender and History
- Past and Present
- Σύγχρονα Θέματα
- Τα Ιστορικά
- Μνήμων
