JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Between History and Memory - Witness Testimony and its Limits in the Knowledge of Historical Events

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Course title Between History and Memory - Witness Testimony and its Limits in the Knowledge of Historical Events
Course code KHI/PV326
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hes Milan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The past in history, the past in memory 2. Memory and historiography 3. Oral history 4. Interest in memory 5. Individual and collective memory 6. Loss of collective memory 7. Places of memory 8. The personality of the witness 9. Eyewitness testimony - historical context 10. Remembrance, memory and story 11. Psyche and remembering 12. Language and remembering 13. Audiovisual recording 14. Didactic aspects of oral history

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The aim of the compulsory optional subject is to introduce students to the issue of witness statements. Attention will be paid to the characteristic features of human memory. Students will learn to approach eyewitness testimony through oral history best practices. A possible outcome of the course is the expansion of the participants? pedagogical competences for working with witnesses as a school historical source.
Students compare information from eyewitness accounts with common historical sources. Students apply the principles of oral history in history learning. Students place the testimonies of witnesses in the historical context of historical phenomena, events and processes. Students actively work with the interview (recording, transcription, analysis). Selected students use didactically and methodically processed eyewtiness accounts as a school historical source.
Prerequisites
Interest in oral history

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active participation Analysis of yewitness testimony - oral history skills in practice Essay Creation of a teacher figure based on the testimony of an eyewitness (for the study plan "History for Education") Final exam
Recommended literature
  • ASSMANN, Aleida. Prostory vzpomínání: podoby a proměny kulturní paměti.. Praha, 2018. ISBN 978-80-246-3433-3.
  • ASSMANN, Jan. Kultura a paměť: písmo, vzpomínka a politická identita v rozvinutých kulturách starověku.. Praha, 2001. ISBN 80-7260-051-6.
  • BADDELEY, Alan D. Vaše paměť. Brno, 1999. ISBN 80-7242-046-1.
  • DRAAISMA, Douwe. Metafory paměti. Praha, 2003. ISBN 80-204-0919-X.
  • HALBWACHS, Maurice. Kolektivní paměť.. Praha, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7419-016-2.
  • HES, Milan. Promluvili o zlu: holocaust mezi dějinami a pamětí. Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7425-191-7.
  • KVALE, Steinar. InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. London - New Dehli - Thousand Oaks, 1996. ISBN 978-0803958203.
  • NORRA, Pierre. Les Lieux De Mémoire. Paříž, 1986. ISBN 9782070723034.
  • PORTELLI, Alessandro. Smrt Luigiho Trastulliho a jiné příběhy. Forma a význam v orální historii. Praha, 2020. ISBN 978-80-246-4550-6.
  • VANĚK, Miroslav a Pavel MÜCKE. Třetí strana trojúhelníku - Teorie a praxe orální historie. Praha, 2022. ISBN 978-80-246-5335-8.
  • VANĚK, Miroslav. O orální historii s jejími zakladateli a protagonisty. Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7285-107-2.
  • VAŠÍČEK, Zdeněk a Françoise MAYER. Minulost a současnost, paměť a dějiny.. Brno, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7325-162-8.


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JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.12.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026