FRIAS Colloquium - Jürgen Osterhammel
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Dec 02, 2024
from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM |
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| Where | FRIAS Seminar Room |
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Comparison in (Global) History and Beyond
An awareness and knowledge of methodology is essential for any practising historian. Yet questions of method are rarely discussed. They are usually left to a small number of specialised historical theorists, whose writings tend to be ignored by the rest of the profession. Thus, opportunities are missed to increase the sophistication of historical research and writing.
The presentation will take the method of comparison as an example of historical methodology (and epistemology) and discuss it in the light of recent theoretical contributions and practical applications, mainly from the field of global history.
There has been a recent revival of interest in comparison in several humanities and social sciences, ranging from sociology, anthropology and law to literature and linguistics. The presentation aims to make a case for comparison and to outline a wider discursive space for comparative thinking, inviting contributions to the discussion from as many disciplines as possible, hopefully including the natural sciences.
