When History meets Theory…

Summer Academy: When History Meets Theory...

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Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht, Chair of Early Modern History, Universität Bayreuth
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25.06.2023 - 28.06.2023
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Susanne Lachenicht

1st Lake Starnberg Summer Academy 25–28 June 2023.

Summer Academy: When History Meets Theory...

Much has been said about the cultural turns and how they have changed how we think and write about the past. Yet, empirical historical monographs all too often lack a concise theoretical framework that organizes an analytical perspective on our research topics and themes, that guides our work with sources, that structures historical reflexions, and informs writing processes. Thus, there frequently is a disconnect between the theoretical claims of a historical monograph and how we actually pursue our research.

The 1st Lake Starnberg Summer Academy takes this discrepancy as analytical point of departure to discuss how historians make use of theory in their emerging work. We will discuss research from PhD students and Postdocs whose writing is informed and guided by (e.g.) Stephen Greenblatt’s New Historicism, Mary Louise Pratt’s Contact Zone, Homi Bhabha’s Third Space, Hayden White’s critique of historical master narratives, Michel Foucault’s Discourse Analysis, or the pictorial, spatial, reflexive, postcolonial or performative turns. Which theories are being used, how can they be translated into a methodology guiding research and writing? How are research topics framed against the background of critical theory, cultural and social studies concepts, theories and methods, how do they inform the choice of sources, source criticism, empirical analysis, narratives and research results – and may be also new concepts and theories coming out of historical research?

Programm

25 June 2023

14:30 Welcome

15:00 Max-Quentin Bischoff (Antwerp): (Pluri-)Temporality, Future Orientation and Historical Life-Worlds. Moving from Abstract Concepts to Concrete Experiences of Time

16.30 Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock): Gaps in the Colonial Record: On Reading Ornamental Absences

18:00 Dinner

26 June 2023

09:00 Anne Diekjobst (Kiel): The practice of communication. Medieval nuns are persons, too.

10:30 Arnab Dutta (Groningen): In Search of an Alternative Europe: Germanism in the Bengali Imagination, 1919–1945

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Frederike Philippe (FU Berlin): Perceptions of Self and Other in Motion. Japanese-European Ethnographic Knowledge Discourse between Denomination and Conflict (1549–1647)

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Franca Reif (Bayreuth): Book Market in Negotiation. Processes of Communication and Interests in the Leipzig Book Trade 1550–1650

18:00 Dinner

19:00 Keynote: Achim Landwehr (Konstanz/Düsseldorf): Living with these times. Prospects for a historiography after the collective singular

27 June 2023

09:00 Felicitas Weiß (Bayreuth): Mining and the Construction of Space. The Extension of Rule in Early Modern Mining Regions of Europe

10:30 Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth): Reconstructing a Third Space of Knowledge Construction? Indigenous Knowledge and Colonial Discourse

12:00 Excursion

28 June 2023

09:00 Tim Weitzel (Regensburg): How to learn from Weber? The Crusades as a Charismatic Movement

10:30 Prof. Dr. Volker Depkat (Regensburg): Silhouette Biography: The Challenges of Writing about Harriet Tubman's Life

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Departure

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Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Universität Bayreuth

https://www.fruehe-neuzeit.uni-bayreuth.de/de/tagungen-workshops/index.html
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