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070249 SE Research Seminar - Doing Debt. Public Debt as social practice during the 'long' 18th century (2023W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 11.09.2023 09:00 to Mo 25.09.2023 14:00
- Registration is open from We 27.09.2023 09:00 to Fr 29.09.2023 14:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2023 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 03.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 10.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 17.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 24.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 31.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 07.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 14.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 21.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 28.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 05.12. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 12.12. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 09.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 16.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 23.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
- Tuesday 30.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Public credit, i.e. the ability to obtain substantial sums of money quickly by issuing bonds, is one of the most powerful instruments of states and communities of states in the present day. Without recourse to public credit, for example, both the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic would have caused considerably more damage. Historically, this "public debt regime," now widespread around the world, can be traced back to the 'long' 18th century, when new forms of public debt were experimented with across Europe to meet the financial challenges of imperial expansion. While research on this topic has so far focused on quantitative and structural historical methods, this course takes a praxeological approach to focus on early modern public debt - especially in England and the Habsburg Monarchy - as a concrete process."Public Debt as Social Practice" is deliberately set as a broad framework, as you are expected to develop your topic individually. We will work together on the content-related basics of the framework topic. You will present your work in the last third of the semester.The course primarily aims at the ability to write formally correct, clearly structured, scientifically argued as well as substantively and methodologically defensible papers (including English abstracts). Students are able to independently read into specific subject areas and are proficient in various analog and digital research, writing and presentation techniques. They are able to identify and process appropriate source material and consult relevant research literature in order to present their own theses and questions in coherent exposés, from which the theses will emerge.
Assessment and permitted materials
Performance assessment will be based on the following sub-performance:- Participation in discussions, including various forms of feedback for other seminar participants.
- presentation
- Thesis of approx. 65,000 characters, (± 5%), including spaces, footnotes, title page, table of contents, bibliography, without graphics (= approx. 25 manuscript pages, 1½ lines, 12pkt.); English abstract of approx. 1,000 characters.
- presentation
- Thesis of approx. 65,000 characters, (± 5%), including spaces, footnotes, title page, table of contents, bibliography, without graphics (= approx. 25 manuscript pages, 1½ lines, 12pkt.); English abstract of approx. 1,000 characters.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Compulsory Attendance. Two absences will result in a written compensation assignment; three absences will result in a failing grade for the course. Attendance at the first session is mandatory. All partial performances must be completed on time and in full.Assessment standard: participation in discussion: 20%, presentation: 20%, thesis: 60%.
Examination topics
This is an exam-immanent course. Therefore, all performances refer to the contents of the course provided in Moodle.
Reading list
Barreyre, Nicolas, and Nicolas Delalande. ‘Introduction’. In A World of Public Debts. A Political History, edited by Nicolas Barreyre and Nicolas Delalande, V–XXVII. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.Füssel, Marian. ‘Praxeologie als Methode’. In Handbuch Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft, edited by Stefan Haas, 1–19. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27798-7_18-1.Neu, Tim. ‘Geld gebrauchen. Frühneuzeitliche Finanz-, Kredit- und Geldgeschichte in praxeologischer Perspektive’. Historische Anthropologie 27, no. 1 (2019): 75–103.
Association in the course directory
Schwerpunkte: Neuzeit, Globalgeschichte, Österreichische Geschichte, Hist.-Kult. Europaforschung, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte.MA Geschichte (Version 2019): PM 2 und PM 3: Forschungsseminar (10 ECTS)
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