2018 - 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0621-8028-01 | Power and Knowledge in the Historical Archive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Archives in their various forms are the core of the historian’s craft. This seminar will be devoted to bodies of historical knowledge, from the first national archives of the early modern period and up to the new repositories of the digital age. We will address both broad theoretical concepts and questions of professional practice. We will ask what is an archive, who controls it, and how does it generate narratives that shape an understanding of the past.