I am so excited to welcome you to the Global History Dialogues Project (GHDP), a history research course that brings together learners from around the world to develop the skills needed to carry out independent research projects and share new historical narratives with peers and the wider public.
The Global History Dialogues Project invites you to cross borders, both within your communities and between your communities and those around the world. You will speak to strangers and people you never would have conversed with otherwise. You will learn new things about the past, its relationship to the present, and your relationship to both. The course proceeds from the idea that meaningful, engaged citizenship requires us to inquire: to ask questions of the world around us and to pursue answers to those questions. It will equip you with the tools needed to do so, and it will work to bring a range of voices to the table to broaden and diversify both the subjects of historical inquiry and the authors of historical narratives.
Our course this year includes students based Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. All share an interest in history and an excitement to get involved in their own research projects. The teaching staff for the course is led by Marcia Schenck, Professor of Global History at Potsdam University in Germany.
After completing the course component of this program, now called Qualitative Research Methods (QRM), you will be able to:
· explain what the academic discipline of history is and what approached to global and social history are;
· know how to undertake oral and archival history research;
· how to gather, organize, and safely store information;
· recognize the ethical challenges of history research, understand basic research etiquette, and identify possible pitfalls in your position as a student-researcher in your local context.
- Kursleiter*in: Alejandro Pascual Iranzo
- Kursleiter*in: Babak Sadaghian
- Kursleiter*in: Prof. Dr. Marcia Schenck
- Kursleiter*in: Dr. phil. Zeynep Turkyilmaz