Vorlesungs- und Lehrendenverzeichnis

SoSe 2021

The Global History Dialogues Project

Marcia Schenck

PULS

The History Dialogues Project is an applied history blended-learning course that employs online and offline teaching and learning environments to bring together Potsdam students with learners on different campuses around the world, including but not limited to Princeton University, Science Po, Kepler in Rwanda and the Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative in Kiryandongo, Uganda. Students are being trained in oral historical methods to conduct their own history research projects and discuss the results within the class and beyond. The topics that students choose to research are taken from their own surroundings, employing their local expertise in finding oral history interview partners to tell a global story. Designed to introduce students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to a toolbox of approaches to research, writing, and presenting that allows students to frame, conduct, and present their own oral history research projects under the guidance of the teaching staff, the online classroom brings together teams of refugee learners in camps and urban settings and host country students at several sites across four continents. The transnational, digital setup helps students not only access the class discussions and see topics from the perspectives of their diverse classmates, but also to problem solve together and gain confidence and facility interacting in a digital and international environment.

Students will gain:
• The opportunity to conduct their own research project from research idea to presentation
• Experience in project design and implementation
• Understanding of and skills in oral history research methods and research ethics
• Intercultural exchange of ideas and reflection about global history narratives

For more information, please watch the short explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slw7kTNUyTY&feature=youtu.be

NB: To take this class, please send an email as soon as possible to Johanna Wetzel wetzel@uni-potsdam.de who will then guide you through the process of signing onto the course platform Canvas.

Literatur

Abrams, L. (2010). Oral History Theory. London New York, Routledge.
De Blasio, D., Charles F. Ganzert, David H. Mould, Stephen H. Paschen, Howard L. Sacks, Ed. (2009). Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History. Athens, OH, Swallow Press / Ohio
Yow, V. (1995).
"Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History Research." The Oral History Review 22(1): 51-66.

Leistungspunkterwerb

Students are expected to write reading responses, design their own research project, undertake fieldwork and produce and present a final product at an international student conference and on the history dialogues project website. The details are set out in the syllabus.

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Kontakt

Universität Potsdam
Philosophische Fakultät
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam