Seminars
Academic Year 2011-2012
Researchers must register with the Secretary in charge for each seminar.
They are expected to read the seminar materials prepared for each session prior to attending class and to participate actively during seminars. The Reading Material can be downloaded from the intranet from mid-September.
All seminar sessions must be attended. Researchers are responsible for ensuring that they register their presence on the lists circulated at each session.
The teaching program includes Departmental Seminars , Research Seminars , Training Seminars and Thesis Writing Seminars . It also includes Monitoring Sessions for each year and a final June Workshop on 11-12 June (entirely organized by researchers) as a culmination of the academic year where 1st Year Researchers will present the progress of their research.
The Training Seminars are designed to introduce researchers to the basic practicalities of historical research, by investigating the use of archival and other primary sources, the methods appropriate for the use of different types of source material, developing research questions and hypotheses in dialogue with the sources, defining one’s agenda of research questions, evaluating existing historiography, structuring analysis and narrative etc. The training seminar should be a forum in which 1st Year Researchers who are preparing their February papers can present their sources, hypotheses and ideas to their peers and to the professors leading the seminar in order to get critical feedback.
The Research seminars take place in the First and Second Term and are aimed at 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year Researchers. They are specialized seminars dealing with the research in progress of professors and researchers.
The Departmental Seminars take place in the First Term. They are mainly aimed at 1st Year Researchers and are taught by two professors on the basis of the following themes:
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Cultural History
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History and Social Sciences
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Global History
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Comparative and Trans-national History
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International History
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European Historiography
The Thesis Writing Seminars take place in the First and Second Term and are aimed to 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year Researchers.
In order to help researchers in the process of designing and writing their PhD thesis, the Department provides to each cohort a series of individual sessions. During these monitoring sessions specific guidance, advice and suggestions are offered by the supervisor and the 2nd reader and, for 3rd Year Researcher, a third member of the faculty (or a Fellow). Monitoring sessions are scheduled as follows: