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Course: Current Research Trends

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Course title Current Research Trends
Course code UHV/MSTRB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 9
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Nekvapil Jirásková Šárka, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Kubeš Jiří, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hanulík Vladan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
History as a science; narrative history; the origin of edition sets and magazines in the 19th century. The crisis of historicism; the discovery of the relativity of values; Lamprecht. The beginnings of historical sociology; Durkheim, Weber, and the American school (Turner and others). The "Annales" school; its basic characteristics, founders, and further development. Historical social science; Germany, Fischer, Wehler, Kocka. Marxism, its main features, the specifics of Leninism, the development and the representatives from this group of historians. Formalism, its characteristics and main representatives. Post-modern period; Lawrence Stone; an outline against the doctrines known till that time; Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard; Fukuyama and his end of history. The way from macro-history to micro-history. Ginzburg, Braudel, the history of everydayness. The linguistic turn. Historical debates of the present. The return to the early tradition. History being literature.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities, Skills training
  • Preparation for a final test - 20 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 60 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 48 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 50 hours per semester
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 20 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 60 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce students to some of the current historical trends of the present, and to trace their roots in the 19 and 20 centuries. Attention will be drawn to the development of historiography and current discussions regarding its tendencies. An increased level of attention will be drawn to the important movements of the present or the recent past.
The student will learn about basic trends in research, which will be supported by reading the most interesting works.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
There will be an oral exam at the end of the course and students will submit a list of at least 10 titles (books or articles) of literature.
Recommended literature
  • BARTHES, Roland. Mytologie. Praha, 2004.
  • BARTHES, Roland. Smrt autora. Aluze, č. 3, 2006. s. 75-77.
  • BAUDRILLARD, Jean. Dokonalý zločin. Praha, 2001.
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Praha, 1998.
  • BURKE, Peter. Co je kulturní historie?. Praha, 2011.
  • BURKE, Peter. Francouzská revoluce v dějepisectví. Škola Annales (1929-1989). Praha, 2004.
  • DARNTON, Robert. Velký masakr koček a další epizody z francouzské kulturní historie. Praha, 2013.
  • de CERTEAU, Michel. Psaní dějin. Praha, 2011.
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Dějiny sexuality I. Vůle k vědění. Praha, 1999.
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Slova a věci. Brno, 2007.
  • GEERTZ, Clifford. Interpretace kultur. Vybrané eseje. Praha, 2000.
  • HALBWACHS, Maurice. Kolektivní paměť. Praha, 2009.
  • CHARTIER, Roger. Na okraji útesu. Červený Kostelec, 2010.
  • IGGERS, Georg G. Dějepisectví ve 20. století: od vědecké objektivity k postmoderní výzvě. Praha, 2002.
  • NEČASOVÁ, Denisa. Nový socialistický člověk. Československo 1948-1956. Praha, 2018.
  • PULLMANN, Michal. Konec experimentu: přestavba a pád komunismu v Československu. Praha, 2011.
  • RICOEUR, Paul. Čas a vyprávění, I-III, Praha 2000-2007.
  • SAID, Edward W. Orientalismus. Západní koncepce orientu. Praha, 2006.
  • STORCHOVÁ, Lucie a kol. Koncepty a dějiny. Proměny pojmů v současné historické vědě. Praha, 2014.
  • van DÜLMEN, Richard. Historická antropologie. Vývoj. Problémy. Úkoly. Praha, 2002.
  • VEYNE, Paul. Jak se píšou dějiny. Červený Kostelec, 2010.
  • WEBER, Max. Metodologie, sociologie a politika (ed. Miloš Havelka). Praha, 2009.
  • WELZER, Harald - MOLLEROVÁ, Sabine - TSCHUGGNALOVÁ, Karoline. "Můj děda nebyl nácek." Nacismus a holocaust v rodinné paměti. Praha, 2009.
  • WHITE, Hayden. Metahistorie. Historická imaginace v Evropě 19. století. Praha, 2011.


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