History of the Present

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01010716
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable

Teaching Methods

Classes will be historical in context through lectures on the class materials and will integrate documentary observation and encourage debate.  Discussions on the topics, assigned to students who will give their presentation in class, after oriented research. In each class a specific issue, supported by empirical evidence and theoretical reflection will be discussed.  Broad debate is always encouraged.

Learning Outcomes

This course has as its fundamental objective to prepare students for the comprehension of the great political, ideological and economic problems of the present times.

It is intended, therefore, that students

1. acquire knowledge to enable them to have a comprehensive understanding of world history after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the Cold War/beginning of the XXI century;

2. capable of viewing the present using the earlier ideological roots that led to the formation of current doctrinal assumptions.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1Epistemological dimension and methodological tools of the History of the Present Time: prospects and problems

2The historical foundations of our present
From the second postwar and the 'long decade ot the sixties' to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

3An international order in upheaval.  Post-Cold War, post-communism and reformulation of the concept of Empire.  The current major conflicts.

4Globalization as a project, as a process and as a destination. The dialectic universalism-particularism in the construction of contemporaneity.

5The achievements of science and the technological revolution during recent decades.  From post-industrial society to the digital society.

6Culture, communication and identity.  The market culture and mass communication. Postmodernism.  Cultural production, political thought and views of the world.

7For an archeology of the present: historical background of some current problems (nationalism, multiculturalism, religious fundamentalism, fighting for the memory).

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Cabral de Almeida Avelãs Nunes

Assessment Methods

Final assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Avaliação continua
Other - Regular and active participation in class: 20.0%
Research work: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

Aróstegui, J. e Saborido, J. (2005). El Tiempo Presente. Un mundo globalmente desordenado. Buenos Aires: Eudeba.

Bresciano, J.A. (2010). El Tiempo Presente como campo historiográfico. Ensaios teóricos y estúdios de casos. Montevideo: Cruz del Sur.

Fazio. (2010). La historia del tiempo presente: historiografia, problemas y métodos. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes.

Hobsbawm, E. (1996). A Era dos Extremos. História Breve do Século XX, 1914-1991. Lisboa: Presença.

Judt, T. (2006). Pós-Guerra. História da Europa desde 1945. Lisboa: Edições 70.

Marques, A., Berutti, F. e Faria, R. (2003). História do Tempo Presente. São Paulo: Contexto.

Mudrovcic, M.I. (2005). Historia, narración y memoria. Buenos Aires: Akal.

Shore, M. (2013). The Taste of Ashes. The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. London: William Heinemann.

Traverso, E. (2011). L’Histoire come champ de bataille. Paris: La Découverte.

Virno, P. (1999). Le Souvenir du Présent. Paris: L’Éclat.