The general aim of the seminar is to stimulate reflection on the state of the historical discipline, its changing boundaries and expressive devices. In recent decades the territory of the historian has been expanded by new questions and approaches. Seminar topics will illustrate the importance for historical analysis of Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. The seminar will expose students to theoretical approaches that may be applied to research and analysis of their individual thesis questions. We will consider ways in which the boundaries of the historical discipline have been moved and subject the new approaches to critical scrutiny. We will also review disciplinary assumptions that have hitherto defined History. The seminar thus supports the thesis project by examining how historians in various sub-specialisms "do" History.