The doctoral program „Asia and Europe“ of the University of Zurich will hold an interdisciplinary PhD workshop on historical research practices with Prof. Andrew Goble. He is a professor of Japanese history at the Univesity of Oregon (Eugene, Origon in the USA), and author of the book Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution (Harvard University Press Asia Center, 1996).

We kindly invite all interested PhD students to attend the workshop here in Zurich.

The workshop aims to establish a dialogue between diciplines by reflecting on the historical research practices across various fields. Many questions are of interest, such as, for example:

• what are dominant research paradigms? (eg. hagiography vs. systematic approach)
• what problems are being addressed? What is not being addressed?
• what sources are used? (eg. written documents vs. archaeological excavations)
• how does the selection of topics influence the selection of sources and vice-versa?

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss problems faced in their own research connected to these issues and exchange ideas with peers from other fields.

Date: Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Venue: University of Zurich, Room tba
Further information: Program (PDF, 72 KB)
Registration by August 20th, 2019: alexandra.ciorciaro@uzh.ch