Programme
14 October - Long Traditions? History and Social Sciences
- M. Weber, ‘Science as a vocation’ (Daedalus, 87/1, 1958, 111-134)
- W. J. Sewell, ‘The political unconsciousness of social and cultural history, or confessions of a former quantitative historian, Logics of History. Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago, 2005)
- J. Revel, ‘History and the Social Sciences’, in The Cambridge History of Science, vol 7 (Cambridge, 2003)
21 October - The End of the Annales Paradigm
- ‘History and Social Science: A Critical Turning Point’ and ‘Let's Try the Experiment’ (1988-89), in Histories. French Constructions of the Past, eds. Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt, New York 1995, pp. 480-491
- Roger Chartier, ‘The World as Representation’ (1989), in Histories. French Constructions of the Past, eds. Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt, New York 1995
- Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Editorial, 2012
- David Armitage and Jo Guldi, ‘The Return of the Longue Durée: An Anglo-American Perspective’, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 69 (2014) (forthcoming)
28 October - Marxist Social History and History from Below
- E.P. Thomson, The Making of the English Working Class, London 1966 (ed. 1980), pp. 8-16, 297-346
- Selina Todd, ‘People Matter’, History Workshop Journal, 76 (2013), pp. 259-265
- Sumit Sarkar, ‘Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writings of Modern Indian History’, Oxford Literary Review, 16 (1994), pp. 205-224
- Ranajit Guha, ‘On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India’ in Subaltern Studies I. Writing on South Asian History and Society, ed. Ranajit Guha, Oxford 1982, pp. 1-8
4 November - Microhistory and Alltagsgeschichte
- Giovanni Levi, ‘On Microhistory’, in New Perspectives on Historical Writing, ed. Peter Burke, Cambridge 1991, pp. 93-113
- Francesca Trivellato, ‘Is There a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History?’, California Italian Studies, 2 (2011), available at http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0z94n9hq#page-1
- Alf Ludtke, ‘People Working. Everyday Life and German Fascism’, History Workshop Journal, 50 (2000), pp. 74-92
- Geoff Eley, ‘Labor History, Social History, Alltagsgeschichte: Experience, Culture and the Politics of the Everyday – A New Direction for German Social History?’, Journal of Modern History, 61 (1989), pp. 297-343
11 November - Beyond capitalism : History and Economics
- Jan De Vries,’The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution’, The Journal of Economic History, 54 (1994), pp. 249-270
- Timothy Mitchell, ‘The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes its World’, European Journal of Sociology, 46 (2005), pp. 297-320
- Douglass C. North, ‘Institutions’, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (1991), pp. 97-112
- C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite, Oxford 2000, pp. 269-298
18 November - What about the others ? History and Anthropology
- Roger Chartier, ‘Texts, Symbols, and Frenchness’, Journal of Modern History, 57 (1985), pp. 682-695
- William M. Reddy, ‘Against Constructionism: The Historical Ethnography of Emotions’, Current Anthropology, 38 (1997), pp. 327-351
- George Marcus, ‘Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography’, in Ethnography through Thick an Thin, Annual Review of Anthropology, 24 (1995), pp. 95-117
25 November - Networks
- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford 2007, pp. 1-17
- John Law, ‘Notes on the Theory of the Actor-Network: Ordering, Strategy and Heterogeneity’, Systems Practice, 5 (1992), pp. 379-393
- Simon Schaffer, ‘Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Principia Mathematica’, History of Science, 47 (2009), pp. 243-276
- Patrick Joyce, The Rules of Freedom. Liberalism and the Modern City, London 2003, pp. 1-19
2 December - Geohistory
- David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, London 1999, pp. 3-28
- Faruk Tabak, The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870. A Geohistorical Approach, Baltimore 2008, pp. 1-29
9 December - Are They Joking? Counterfactual, Big and Deep History
- Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou, “Explorer le champ des possibles. Approches contrefactuelles et futurs non advenus en histoire”, Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 59 (2012), pp. 70-95
- David Christian, Maps of Time. An Introduction to Big History, Berkeley-Los Angeles 2004, pp. 1-14
- Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail, Deep History. The Architecture of Past and Present, Berkeley-Los Angeles 2011, pp. 3-51