Comparative and Conceptual History - JTM048

• Anglický název: Comparative and Conceptual History
• Zajišťuje: Katedra ruských a východoevropských studií (23-KRVS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2023
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 6
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:0/2, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (15)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D.
• Třída: Courses for incoming students
• Je prerekvizitou pro: JTM049

Anotace

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

Since their emergence, respectively, in 1960s and 1970s, comparative history and conceptual history have become important research perspectives in social sciences and historical studies scholarship. These perspectives are different in many ways, for instance conceptual history is more sensitive to concepts’ semantic context. They are similar in that while comparisons are largely informed by theoretical models, such models are nonetheless conceptual systems, but that have gone through a process of clarification, definition and detachment from their original context. This course provides a solid and contextualized overview of the nature, methodologies and usages of comparative (qualitative) and conceptual history in these two fields. It will do so by detailing and discussing their strengths and shortcomings and in the process help students design comparative and conceptual research projects.

Cíl předmětu

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

This course aims at providing students with a solid and contextualized overview of the nature, methodologies and usages of comparative (qualitative) and conceptual history in historical studies and social sciences. It will do so by detailing and discussing their strengths and shortcomings and in the process help students design comparative and conceptual research projects. 

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (05.10.2023)

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1) Attendance is mandatory as the course is designed as a seminar where substantial student participation is needed.

2) For every three weeks, a position paper of around 300 words should be prepared, to be submitted in Moodle. Position papers should address reading a for particular class. They should be done individually not as a group effort.

3) On week 12, using a ‘workshop’ format students present & get feedback from the lecturer and course mates on their first draft of their final paper.

4) A final paper of around 2500 words will be uploaded on Moodle with an indicated deadline.  

5) Active class participation –20%, position papers –30%, final paper draft (for the workshop) – 20%, final paper –30%.  

 

 COURSE EVALUATION

A - "výborně - A" - "excellent - A"
B - "výborně - B" - "excellent - B"
C - "velmi dobře - C" - "very good - C"
D - "velmi dobře - D" - "very good - D"
E - "dobře - E" - "good - E"
F - "neprospěl/a - F" - "fail - F"

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Literatura

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

A.   READING ASSIGNMENTS

1.     Introduction 

·       Syllabus.

 

2.     Comparison as Uncovering Universal Laws & Causality: The Annales School Input

·       Marc Bloch, ‘A Contribution towards a Comparative History of European Societies,’ in Balazs Trencsenyi et al (eds), The Rise of Comparative History, vol 1 (Budapest: CEU, 2021, ‘Introduction’, pp, 89-123.

·       William H. Sewell, “Marc Bloch and the Logic of Comparative History”, History and Theory, 1967, Vol 6, No. 2, pp. 208-218.

·       Balazs Trencsenyi et al (eds), The Rise of Comparative History, vol 1 (Budapest: CEU, 2021, ‘Introduction’, pp, 4-25.

 

3. Comparison as Change, Causality & Variation: The Modernisation Thesis & Social Sciences Input (Position Paper 1)

·       Charles C. Ragin, The Comparative Method, UCP, 1987, pp. 1-68.

·       Theda Skopcol and Margaret Somers, ‘The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1980, pp. 174-197.

 

4. Asymmetric Comparison: The Social History Input

·       Jürgen Kocka, “Asymmetric Historical Comparison: The Case of the German Sonderweg”, History and Theory, 1999, Vol 38, No. 1, pp. 40-50. 

·       Jürgen Kocka, “Comparative Historical Research: German Examples”, International Review of Social History 38 (1993), pp. 369–379.

 

5. Comparative Conceptual History: The Linguistic Turn Input 

·       Peter Wagner, “As Intellectual History Meets Historical Sociology…”, in Handbook of Historical Sociology, Sage, 2003, pp. 168-179.

·       Reinhart Koselleck, “Three Bürgerlische Worlds”, in Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, New York, 2004, pp. 209-17.

 

6. Comparative, Entangled & Transnational History: The Cultural History Input (Position Paper 2)

·       Jürgen Kocka, Heinz-Gerhart Haupt, “Comparison and Beyond: Traditions, Scope and Perspectives of Comparative History”, in Comparative and Transnational History, edited by Jurgen Kocka, Heinz-Gerhart Haupt, Berghahn Books, 2009, pp. 1-32. 

·       Thomas Welskopp, “Crossing the Boundaries? Dynamics of Contention Viewed from the Angle of a Comparative Historian,” International Review of Social History 49 (2004), pp. 122–131.

 

7. World-System Analysis: The Political Economy Input

·       Immanuel Wallerstein, World System Analysis: An Introduction, Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 1-90

  

8. Comparing (within) Regions of Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

·       Marceli Handlesman, ‘The Development of Nationalities in Central-Eastern Europe,’ in Balazs Trencsenyi et al (eds), The Rise of Comparative History, vol 1 (Budapest: CEU, 2021), pp. 281-98

·       Fritz Valjavec, ‘Southeast Europe and the Balkans’ in Balazs Trencsenyi et al (eds), The Rise of Comparative History, vol 1 (Budapest: CEU, 2021), 393-402

 

9. Comparing Post-Soviet Societies (Third Position Paper)

·       Kuzio, T., "History, Memory and the Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Colonial Space," Nationalities Papers, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2002, p. 241-264.

·       Erica Marat, “State-Propagated Narratives about a National Defender in Central Asian States", The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 6/7, 2007 [Online]. 

 

10. Comparative Conceptual History: Europe, Reform

·       Adrian Brisku, Political Reform in the Ottoman and the Russian Empires: A Comparative Approach, 2017, ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-14

·       Adrian Brisku, Bittersweet Europe, 2013, pp. 1-27.

 

11. Comparative Conceptual History of Small Nations

·       M. Hroch, Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. Colombia University Press; part 1, ‘Introduction’, 2000, pp, 1-30

·       Brisku, A. 2022. ‘Dealing with Smallness in Habsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania, Tsarist Georgia in the late 19^thto the early 20^th Centuries’, in Politics of Smallness, S. Kruizinga (ed), London, Bloomsbury Academic, pp, 35-54.

 

12.  Workshop 

Updated 4.09.2023

Metody výuky

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (04.09.2023)

The course is seminar-based and takes place in person, which means that the lecturer will open up the discussion on the reading material of the week by laying out the main concepts and questions which will be followed by students' interventions and analytical discussions. 

 

 

 

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D. (22.09.2023)

 

 Comparative & Conceptual History

Associate Professor Adrian Brisku, PhD.

Doctoral Student José Jiménez

Department of Russian & East European Studies, Charles University 

https://cuni.academia.edu/adrianBrisku

[e-mail]

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COURSE DESCRIPTION 

Since their emergence, respectively, in 1960s and 1970s, comparative history and conceptual history have become important research perspectives in social sciences and historical studies scholarship. These perspectives are different in many ways, for instance conceptual history is more sensitive to concepts’ semantic context. They are similar in that while comparisons are largely informed by theoretical models, such models are nonetheless conceptual systems, but that have gone through a process of clarification, definition and detachment from their original context. This course provides a solid and contextualized overview of the nature, methodologies and usages of comparative (qualitative) and conceptual history in these two fields. It will do so by detailing and discussing their strengths and shortcomings and in the process help students design comparative and conceptual research projects. 

 

COURSE DESIGN

1.     Introduction (Brisku) 

2.     Comparison as Uncovering Universal Laws, Historical Information & as Explanation: The Annales School Input (Brisku)

3.     Comparison as Causality, Change & Variation: The Modernisation Thesis & Social Sciences Input (Brisku)

4.     Asymmetric Comparison: The Social History Input (Brisku)

5.     Comparative Conceptual History: The Linguistic Turn Input (Brisku)

6.     Comparative, Entangled & Transnational History: The Cultural History Input Jimenez)

7.     World System Analysis: The Political Economy Input (Brisku)

8.     Comparing (within) Regions: Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (Jimenez)

9.     Comparing Post-Soviet Societies (Jimenez)

10.  Comparative Conceptual History: Europe, Reform ((Jimenez)

11.  Comparative Conceptual History of Small Nations (Jimenez)

12.  Workshop (Brisku/Jimenez)