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Audio-visual Production and Public History
Production Audio-Visuelle et Histoire Publique | Audiovisuelle Produktion und Public History
Audio-visual Production and Public History
Very few historians actually produce (documentary) films. Producing documentary films provides students – all historians – with skills to engage and communicate with different publics.
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Presentism: New Historical Thinking in Russia
презентизм: Новый взгляд на прошлое в России | Präsentismus: Neues Geschichtsdenken in Russland
Presentism: New Historical Thinking in Russia
The present is increasing pressure and shrinks historical time. Presentism aims to comprehend the complexity, in which the past cannot be objectively...
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Normative Overload: What About Empirical Validity?
Normative Überfrachtung: Wo bleibt die empirische Triftigkeit?
Normative Overload: What About Empirical Validity?
Currently, German history didactics is focusing on narrative competence. The resultant normative overload, is not unproblematic – to say the least.
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National Socialism: What We Can Learn Today
Nationalsozialismus: Was wir heute lernen können
National Socialism: What We Can Learn Today
Some Germans, even in Academia, grow tired of the intense confrontation with the Nazi past. Many historians have stopped exploring it, attribu...
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“historgs” – History as Multiple Identification
“historgs“ – Geschichte als mehrfache Identifikation
“historgs” – History as Multiple Identification
Similar to “cyborgs,” “historgs”, as in “historical organisms”, exist and result from the fusion of the present and past. These synthetic forms appear in...
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Understanding Empire in the 21st Century
“Empire” verstehen im 21. Jahrhundert
Understanding Empire in the 21st Century
People should have some understanding of what empires are, and what effect they have. What questions are worth asking about the concept...
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Knowledge Structures and School History
Wissensstrukturen und Geschichtsunterricht
Knowledge Structures and School History
Basil Bernstein's two modalities of knowledge as “hierarchical” and “horizontal” are useful to help interpret the nature of historical knowledge...
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The 2018 VHD Resolution and the Pyrenees
La résolution 2018 de la VHD et les Pyrénées | Die VHD-Resolution 2018 und die Pyrenäen
The 2018 VHD Resolution and the Pyrenees
The VHD resolution of 2018 has created a stir. So far, however, the danger that such resolutions, which positively affect specific nationa...