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Lecturer(s)
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Pažout Jaroslav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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I. Limits of political science concepts: authoritarian regimes, dictatorship and totalitarianism in the current field discussion (Pažout, Vilímek) II. Ours or foreign? Community boundaries and images of otherness in the era of colonialism, decolonization and the postcolonial era. Identity/alterity, nation and community, race and postcolonial studies (Fárek) III. "Images of the past": narrativism and its critics, figurative imagery and memory (Ducháček)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the seminar is to acquaint doctoral students with the current trends of domestic and world historiography, with its most significant currents, with current historiographic discussions, controversies and transdisciplinary overlaps of the field in the sense of "historical social science" (Historische Sozialwissenschaft). Doctoral students will analyze methodological, or programmatic and also polemical texts that will be available to them in advance. As part of the seminar, they will then prepare a seminar paper/essay on a given topic. External experts, including foreign guests, will also be invited to the seminars.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Completing assigned tasks, active participation in class discussions. Block of Milan Ducháček - submission of the essay by 31 December 2024.
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Recommended literature
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