HIA283 Interpretation of Sources and Contemporary history

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 14:00–15:40 B1.41
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Specializace magisterského studia: Dějiny 19. a 20. století
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/22, only registered: 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course presents different types of historical sources, archive evidence, press articles, as well as oral witnesses by the way of example of the chosen particular historical issues.
Learning outcomes
The graduate will be able in contact with source materiál to expand the field of questioning and select methodologically relevant questions and corresponding instruments of interpretation. The graduate will be able to identify in specialized literature the fundamental means of the methodological concepts and orient himself/herself in the current debate over the essential questions of Czech contemporary history. He/she will also acquire a detailed knowledge of the structure and placement of the archival sources.
Syllabus
  • 1) Classification of historical sources in contemporary history. Emerging and vanishing kinds of sources.
  • 2) Principles of the selection of sources and their critique. The advantages and limitations in contemporary history.
  • 3) Archival sources. Classification. Archives and other institutions. Accessibility of archival sources.
  • 4) Editions of sources on contemporary history.
  • 5) Archival sources and totalitarian regimes. “Newspeak”– understanding the language of the sources. The question of importance and credibility of archival sources under totalitarian conditions.
  • 6)Censorship, propaganda and ideology.
  • 7) The press and other media.
  • 8) Egodocuments. Diaries and memoirs. Witness and so-called oral history.
  • 9) Collective Memory. Places of memory. Commemorative culture.
  • 10) Language, discouse, analysis of discourse.
  • 11) Methods and concepts and discussion in terms of source studies: Totalitarianism versus revision Disursiveness and the anaylsis of discourse, the history of everydayness, the social history of policy, anayslsis of political practice.
Literature
    required literature
  • • Monotematické číslo časopisu Soudobé dějiny Socialismus jako myšlenkový svět. Soudobé dějiny 19, 2012/2.
  • ČECHUROVÁ, Jana and Jan RANDÁK. Základní problémy studia moderních a soudobých dějin. Vyd. 1. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2014, 756 s. ISBN 9788073085568. info
    recommended literature
  • BARŠA, Pavel: Normalizace mimo dobro a zlo, in: Lidové noviny. 21. 5. 2011.
  • PLACÁK, Petr: Pullmannův Pán much aneb Historie a svět dětí. Paměť a dějiny. Revue pro studium totalitních režimů Roč. 7, č. 1 (2013), s. 123-128.
  • SEDLÁK, Petr: Každodennost jako předmět a koncept dějepisného poznání. Soudobé dějiny 20, 2013, s. 120-157.
  • Zavacká, Marína: K problematike výskumu totalitnej komunistickej propagandy: vybrané pojmy, mechanizmy. Historický časopis 2002/3, s. 439–456.
  • VANĚK, Miroslav, Pavel MÜCKE and Hana PELIKÁNOVÁ. Naslouchat hlasům paměti : teoretické a praktické aspekty orální historie. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 2007, 224 stran. ISBN 9788072850891. info
  • APPLEBY, Joyce Oldham, Lynn HUNT and Margaret C. JACOB. Jak říkat pravdu o dějinách : historie, věda, historie jako věda a Spojené státy americké. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2002, 273 s. ISBN 8073250039. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, homeworks, class discussion, group projects.
Assessment methods
The final assessment takes the form of a seminar paper and an credit focus ed on the basic notions of the discipline.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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