Teaching Workshop: Archival Skills and Philosophical Historiography

The workshop will provide students with the methodological skills required to carry out archival research concerning the historical and philosophical analysis of given authors and of their cultural environments. Following a general introduction concerning the basic principles of archival science, students will be proposed a 'case studies' that they will use in order to familiarise themselves with archival research.

The workshop aims to develop the following skills:

Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate

Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.

Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.