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Cultural History (HEC-AS-CULHIS-25)

HEC-AS-CULHIS-25

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The entire field of the humanities hasundergone a cultural turn since the 1970s. What has it meant specifically for historical research? What contribution has it made to the renewal of historical writing? And what legacies can be found today, when the debates and controversies that marked the so-called linguistic turn can be said to be over? To answer these questions, the seminar will combine theoretical perspectives with case studies, both classic and more recent, with the aim to show how this process has reconfigured and revitalized the notions of “the social” and “the cultural” and their reciprocal interactions in historiography. In the two first sessions, we will discuss some of the elements that marked the cultural turn. In the following sessions, guest speakers will address crucial fields in cultural history, ranging from the body and the use of visual sources, to politics, subjectivity and solitude, the boundaries between humans and animals and the managing of heritage. A block seminar will address the theoretical and methodological challenges of working with letters as historical sources.


 

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