Hungarian historians from ELTE at Volda University College (2009) As a part of the ‘Developing an English-language MA-course on »Microhistory«’ Project financed by the Tempus Foundation (Budapest) a series of lectures on the topic of microhistory are to be given by Hungarian Read more…
Theory and Practice of Microhistory A Workshop at Collegium Budapest on 19 June 2009 supported by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Andrew W. Mellon Program (Paris), the Tempus Foundation (Budapest) and Collegium Budapest 10.20 Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Read more…
Suggested reading for an English-language MA-course ‘Microhistory’ (by Arnfinn Kjelland, Volda University College, June 2009) Suggested curriculum for an English-language MA-course ‘Microhistory’ (by István Szijártó, Eötvös University, Budapest, June 2009) An actual course held in English at Eötvös University, Budapest Read more…
‘Microhistory – Parish History – Local History’: Seventh Warwick Symposium on Parish Research Arden and Millburn House, University of Warwick, 8–9 May 2009 Report by Graham Chernoff, University of Edinburgh E-mail: graham.chernoff@ed.ac.uk This two-day event, consisting of an Read more…
Call for Papers and Sessions Cultural Histories: Close Readings, Critical Syntheses ISCH Annual Conference 2010 University of Turku, Finland, 26–30 May 2010 Keynotes Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (pending) Sir Christopher Frayling, Read more…
FINANCED by the Tempus Public Foundation (07/002/NA/N-124 ) Suggested curricula for an English-language MA-course ‘Microhistory’ *** Theory and Practice of Microhistory. A Workshop in Budapest, 19 June 2009 *** Hungarian historians from ELTE at Volda University College *** Roundtable Discussion on Read more…
The roundtable discussion “The possibilities of microhistory in university education” will take place in Paris (Maison Suger, 16–18, rue Suger, Paris, 75006) on 3 June 2011, from 9 to 11.30 a.m., organized by the Institute of Advanced Study – Paris. Read more…
I remarked, via email, to István Szijártó that we microhistorians had a good deal to teach the whole discipline of history. He asked me to write out my reasons. I do so here not to lay down dogma but to Read more…
Dear all, I am happy to throw my own experience right here, in the email. Twice, recently, I gave my Canadian students (third-year course) a sprawling criminal trial from Rome. It was a wonderfully complex affair involving a disgraced official Read more…
ARTICLES Sigrun Alba Sigurðardóttir: Apertures of another understanding. Photographs of children at work. Monument and Memory. Edited by Jonna Bornemark, Mattias Martinson og Jayne Svenungsson. Zürich og Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015, p. 127-143. Szijártó, István: Puzzle, fractale, mosaïque. Pensées sur Read more…