Moving History: Critical thinking
Description
This free in-person workshop, led by Professor Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), will explore creative approaches to historical practice. Together, we will work with primary sources, secondary materials and your own research to help you develop your critical and creative thinking through a combination of focused textual analytical tasks alongside short, physical and innovative thought exercises – all designed to stimulate original and incisive analysis!
By the end of the course, we will have:
thought critically and creatively about historical arguments made by scholars
explored the differences and connections between evidence and argument
considered how we can write with clarity and precision
analysed the strengths and weaknesses of AI summaries of articles
used movement as a stimulus for creative and critical thinking
This is an experimental and innovative in-person workshop open to anyone with an interest in the relationship between exercise and creativity.
The course has been designed for HDR History students.
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Professor Lyndal Roper FAHA FBA
Lyndal Roper is Emeritus Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford. She was the first woman to hold the Regius Chair in History, and the first Australian. Roper’s most recent publication is Summer of Fire and Blood, a history of the German Peasants’ War (1524-6) the greatest uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution (Winner, Cundill Prize 2025). She has written a biography of the reformer Martin Luther and has published on witchcraft and on gender and the German Reformation. She has lived and worked in Germany (where she held a Humboldt Fellowship and was Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg). She was a graduate of the University of Melbourne and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Melbourne and the University of Basel. She is the Holberg Laureate 2026. Image: Historian Lyndal Roper FAHA, photographed by John Cairns via the Holberg Prize.
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