How do we teach our students the study of everyday life in the past? Which methods and approaches in historical analysis are important for a solid historical orientation, and how do we communicate them to students? The workshop “Teaching Historical-Ethnological Approaches” invites international researchers from a variety of disciplines – including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Folklore Studies, History, and Cultural Geography – to present their approaches toward teaching the study of everyday life in the past. We call for presentations that propose useful ways of teaching and solutions for methodological problems and/or raise theoretical and practical questions in generating curricula. The workshop will bring together different teaching cultures and traditions and discuss the application of teaching methods in a variety of fields like palaeography, heuristics, hermeneutics, so called “fieldwork in archives”, and oral history.

Paper proposals should include a working title and an abstract of not more than 150 words. They should reach me at [email protected] by Febr. 28, 2012 at the latest.