09.00-09.45
Breakfast and registration
09.45
Welcome
1. Microhistory: Introduction and practical presentation
This session will start with a short introduction to microhistory, followed by a practical example of microhistory in order to demonstrate its consequenses in practical analysis.
Lecturer: Dr.phil. Hans Henrik Appel, Tjhusmuseet, Copenhagen
Hans Henrik Appel won his doctorate in the beginning of this year with the thesis Tinget, magte og ren (Ting, Power and Honour)
10.00 - 10.20
Liv Egholm: Short introduction to "the microhistorical landscape"
10.20-10.50
Dr.phil. Hans Henrik Appel: A microhistorical perspective
10.50 - 11.05
Intermission
11.05 - 11.20
Lene Wul: Rejoinder to Appel
11.20 - 12.15
Debate
12.15 - 13.15
Lunch
2. The microhistorical method: possibilities and problems
Based on a micro hitorical "case", this session will deal with methodological possibilities and problems associated with the use of microhistorical mehodology.
Lecturer: Dr.phil. Gianna Pomata, Università degli studi Bologna and University of Minnesota
Gianna Pomata has written, among other things: Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna from 1998 (original Italian version from 1994). Her article Unwed Mothers was translated to English in Muir and Ruggero's microhistorical anthology Microhistory and the Forgotten People. She is co-editor of the Italian microhistorical periodical Quaderni Storici.
13.15 - 14.00
Gianna Pomata
14.00 - 14.30
Coffee
14.30 - 15.30
Debate
15.30 - 15.45
Intermission
3. The status of sources and the microhistorical concept of scholarship
The session will deal with the concept of scholarship employed by microhistory (or which microhistory is a consequence of)
Lecturer: Dr. phil Carlo Ginzburg, Università degli studi Bologna and University of California
Carlo Ginzburg has written, among other things: The Cheese and the Worms, which gave him international popularity. Since then he has regularly published monographs and a wide range of theoretical articles. A collection of his articles will be published in Danish around November1st in the anthology Carlo Ginzburg: Spor. Om historie og historisk metode, Morten Thing and Gert Soerensen, editors.
15.45 - 16.30
Carlo Ginzburg
16.30 - 16.45
Intermission
16.45 - 18.15
Debate
18.15 - 18.30
Conclusion 09.00-09.45
Breakfast and registration
09.45
Welcome
1. Microhistory: Introduction and practical presentation
This session will start with a short introduction to microhistory, followed by a practical example of microhistory in order to demonstrate its consequenses in practical analysis.
Lecturer: Dr.phil. Hans Henrik Appel, Tjhusmuseet, Copenhagen
Hans Henrik Appel won his doctorate in the beginning of this year with the thesis Tinget, magte og ren (Ting, Power and Honour)
10.00 - 10.20
Liv Egholm: Short introduction to "the microhistorical landscape"
10.20-10.50
Dr.phil. Hans Henrik Appel: A microhistorical perspective
10.50 - 11.05
Intermission
11.05 - 11.20
Lene Wul: Rejoinder to Appel
11.20 - 12.15
Debate
12.15 - 13.15
Lunch
2. The microhistorical method: possibilities and problems
Based on a micro hitorical "case", this session will deal with methodological possibilities and problems associated with the use of microhistorical mehodology.
Lecturer: Dr.phil. Gianna Pomata, Università degli studi Bologna and University of Minnesota
Gianna Pomata has written, among other things: Contracting a Cure: Patients, Healers, and the Law in Early Modern Bologna from 1998 (original Italian version from 1994). Her article Unwed Mothers was translated to English in Muir and Ruggero's microhistorical anthology Microhistory and the Forgotten People. She is co-editor of the Italian microhistorical periodical Quaderni Storici.
13.15 - 14.00
Gianna Pomata
14.00 - 14.30
Coffee
14.30 - 15.30
Debate
15.30 - 15.45
Intermission
3. The status of sources and the microhistorical concept of scholarship
The session will deal with the concept of scholarship employed by microhistory (or which microhistory is a consequence of)
Lecturer: Dr. phil Carlo Ginzburg, Università degli studi Bologna and University of California
Carlo Ginzburg has written, among other things: The Cheese and the Worms, which gave him international popularity. Since then he has regularly published monographs and a wide range of theoretical articles. A collection of his articles will be published in Danish around November1st in the anthology Carlo Ginzburg: Spor. Om historie og historisk metode, Morten Thing and Gert Soerensen, editors.
15.45 - 16.30
Carlo Ginzburg
16.30 - 16.45
Intermission
16.45 - 18.15
Debate
18.15 - 18.30
Conclusion
In the evening there will be a trip to a restaurant in town payed for by the participants themselves. If you wish to participate, please mention it when registrating.