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Course, academic year 2026/2027
   
Transcultural (Micro)history - YMHA54
Title: Transcultural (Micro)history
Form of teaching: seminar
Guaranteed by: Programme Anthropological studies (24-KOA)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2026
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
Maximum number of enrolled students: 20
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 1 (2) / 1 / 1 / 1
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. Veronika Čapská, Ph.D.
Class: Courses available to incoming students
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Annotation -
The course focuses on the dynamic and vital field of transcultural (micro)history. This new stream of historical study has responded to recent scepticism about national histories and predominantly national frames of interpretation. This course, which can be seen as anthropologically-inspired history, will explore various forms of border-crossing (and movement across geographical, socio-cultural and other borders), such as mobilities, translations, exchanges etc. It will look at interactions, entanglements and interdependencies in the past, how to study them and how to provide voices to individuals and their diverse life experiences. We will explore how to interconnect central European pre-modern history with global history. We will ask what spaces can be regarded as historically highly transcultural spaces (such as border zones, bazaars, spas, market and trade zones etc.). We will focus on historical individuals who can be characterised as transcultural actors or globetrotters and who were able to adapt in several (often profoundly different) cultures.
Last update: Čapská Veronika, doc., Ph.D. (17.09.2024)
 
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