On Thursday, September 19th 2019, the doctoral program „Asia and Europe“ at Zurich University will hold an interdisciplinary PhD workshop on historical research practices with Prof. Andrew Goble.
Goble is professor for Japanese history at the Univesity of Oregon (Eugene, Origon in the USA), and the author of the book Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution (Harvard University Press Asia Center, 1996).
We kindly invite all interested PhD students to attend the workshop.
Workshop description and goal
The workshop aims to establish a dialogue between diciplines by reflecting on the historical research practices across various fields. Many questions are of interest, such as, for example:
- which are the dominant research paradigms? (eg. hagiography vs. systematic approach)
- what kind of problems are being addressed? What is not being addressed?
- which sources are used? (eg. written documents vs. archaeological excavations)
- how does the selection of topics influence the selection of sources and vice-versa?
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss problems faced in their own research connected to these issues and exchange ideas with peers from other fields.
Status reports
Participants will contribute a short status report on research practices in their field. They are relatively free in the form of that presentation as long as it addresses relevant issues as described in
the description above. Eg.. it could be a general overview over dominant tendencies of historical research in their field, a reflection on recent trends, it may address the work of a specific historian,
or possibly discuss one specific article or monograph. The status reports should be about 5-10 minutes each.