Description
The aim of this masterclass is to introduce ph.d.‐students to key aspects of Sm Moyns contributions to the field of intellectual history, and to reflect upon how Moyns work relates to their own research.This ph.d.‐masterclass with Samuel Moyn (Yale) will offer participants a chance of discussing texts by Samuel Moyn, reflecting on how his work relates to their own research. Samuel Moyn is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a Professor of History at Yale University. He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), and edited or coedited a number of others. His most recent books are Christian Human Rights (2015), based on Mellon Distinguished Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2014, and Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018). Currently he is
working on a new book on the origins of humane war. The texts (total of about 50‐70 pages) for the masterclass are, broadly, chosen from within Sam Moyns contributions to the field of intellectual history, with a key attention towards questions concerning methodology and global intellectual history. In the 3 hour seminar students will engage with and discuss Moyns work, after which they will present their own research project and reflect upon how their own research relates to the texts discussed. Three weeks prior to his class, ph.d.‐students will send a 2‐3 page project description (or a description of a project within the frame of the overall ph.d.‐project).
Session I: Samuel Moyn’s approaches and contributions to intellectual history
On the basis of the three assigned readings, participants will be introduced to and then discuss Sam Moyn’s approaches and contributions to intellectual history.
Sessions II-III: Participants take turn to briefly present their Ph.D.‐projects, then reflect upon their projects as seen in the perspective of Moyn’s approaches and contributions to intellectual history (new insights, similarities, differences, etc.), followed by brief comments by Samuel Moyn and Christian Olaf Christiansen
| Period | 27 May 2021 |
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| Event type | Course |
| Location | Aarhus, DenmarkShow on map |
Keywords
- Intellectual History
- Global Intellectual History