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Are you convinced that national history and its approaches are limited? Do you want to look beyond the nation you are living in? In this case, you might be interested in HEC 2008 Summer School which will take place in Florence.
The Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute is a major centre of comparative and transnational European history. The courses will allow participants to continue and to broaden their research interests in this field. Well known specialists from the European University Institute and from other outstanding European Institutions will present interesting ways of writing the history of Europe as well as raising important questions on its development.
Main topics:
- Possibility of writing a new European History
- Comparative history and Trans-national History of Europe, state of the art, main problematics, perspectives of research
- Varieties of historical comparison: transfer history and "histoire croisée"
- Trans-national history
- Comparative approaches to the history of Early Modern Europe: views from the North, the South and the East of Europe
- Approaches to a comparative and cultural history of Europe
- Approaches to a comparative cultural history of Europe in a World Perspective
Invited Speakers:
Prof. António Manuel Hespanha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Prof. Bénédicte Zimmermann (EHESS, Paris)
Prof. Alberto Mario Banti (Università di Pisa)
Prof. Jean Boutier (EHESS, Paris)
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