March Paper in Modern History
Training Seminar
Admin. Assistant: Alba Parrini
Group A: Prof. Alexander Etkind and Dr Joy Neumeyer (Max Weber Fellow)
Registration code: HEC-TS-MPMHA-20
Starts on 12 January, on line
- Tuesdays (9:00‐10:50)
- Tuesday 2 March (09.00 - 12.50)
Group B: Prof. Nicolas Guilhot
Registration code: HEC-TS-MPMHB-20
Starts on 14 January, sala degli Stemmi
- Thursdays (9:00‐10:50)
- Thursday 28 January (15:10‐17:00)
- Thursday 4 March (09.00 - 10.50 and 15.10 - 17.00)
Seminar description
This Training Seminar offers first-year researchers the opportunity to introduce their work for group discussion and feedback in advance of the March Paper. The seminar covers several practicalities of historical research, such as defining a clear research agenda, formulating effective research questions and hypotheses based on the sources, how best to use archival and other primary sources, developing methods for using different types of source-material, evaluating existing historiography, and structuring analyses and larger narratives. Above all, the training seminar offers first-year researchers a forum in which to obtain critical feedback from the professors and their peers as they prepare their March Papers.
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