CORE078 Fifty Shades of Truth: between making an image and constructing modern propaganda

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Dr. phil. Klára Hübnerová (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. David Kalhous, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. David Kalhous, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 B2.13, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA(BM) && FORMA(P)
NOt aplicable
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 52/100, only registered: 1/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100
Course objectives
The seminar is designed for people who want to develop their competences in recognizing the strategies and means of image building and disinformation, especially in terms of its historical roots. The emphasis will be on the analysis of historical texts and images, their placement in a historical context and their second life in historiography and in contemporary perception. Methodologically, interdisciplinary approaches coming from historical source criticism, semantic analysis (U. Eco), place-making of memories (J. Assman, K. Chinátl), research on historical stereotypes (W. Lippmann) or cognitive linguistics and metaphor theory (G. Lakoff) will be used. The seminar is divided into four main modules: I. Introduction to methods of source criticism for non-historians; II. Comparison of social assumptions and media of information dissemination in the modern and pre-modern periods; III. Specific analysis and discussion of examples (e.g., the Chronicle of Kosmas, late medieval propaganda from the Hussite period, stereotyping of marginal social groups - Jews, Roma -, 19th century national historiographical constructions) and their transformations; IV. Comparison of the results with the above methodological approaches of source criticism, information and memory theory and linguistics.There will be alternating short inputs (D. Kalhous, K. Hübner) with individual and group work (participants). Participants will be assessed on the basis of active participation in class, short oral presentations and the writing of short texts ('medallions'). In addition, reading of the provided introductory texts is expected.
Learning outcomes
First, graduates of the course should be able to understand the principles of propaganda, its specifics in the pre-modern world and the difficulties associated with its analysis. Second, they should have a basic understanding of propaganda related to specific historical events. Third, through this, (s)he should also be able to approach information in the modern world with a critical distance.
Syllabus
  • 5.10. Methodology D/K 12.10. Augustus and Roman Propaganda D 19.10 Barbarian kingdoms and Roman heritage D 26.10 Carolingians D 2.11. Luitprand writes about Byzantium K 9.11. Crusades K 16.11 Investiture contest D 23.11. Friedrich II and Innocent IV K 30.11. Jews D/K 7.12. Wenceslas IV of Bohemia K
Teaching methods
Lecture and discussion
Assessment methods
Written test with 7 questions for 1.5 hours
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
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