History in the Media: contesting, commemorating, resignificating

8 ECTS

Instructor: Pedro Aires Oliveira

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
a) understand the reasons behind the “history boom” in the media in various parts of the world and the main interactions between media and history as interdisciplinary fields;
b) identify the main discourses and rhetorical strategies employed by the media to represent and perform the past; c) understand ideological uses of the past in the media and link them to particular political and social agendas;
d) establish the reliability of competing representations of the same event or historical process in the media;
e) undertake comparisons between historical controversies that took place in different national contexts.