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News
- ICHTH is going to organize
an open conference on “Historians
as Engaged Intellectuals: Historical Writing and Social Criticism”
at Ruhr University-Bochum, Sept. 19-21, 2013. Any ICHTH members
interested in presenting their papers at the conference could submit a
150 words abstract to Professor Stefan Berger [stefan.berger@rub.de] by Dec. 30,
2012.
- It is now time for ICHTH
members to develop and submit panel proposals for the 22nd CISH congress in Ji’nan,
China in August 2015. The proposal needs to have a 200 word introduction
and possible participants (specific names are not needed at this time).
The panels can be in three types (major theme, specialized theme, and
roundtable discussion) and the deadline for submitting the proposals is
Jan. 31, 2012. Please contact Ewa Domanska, ICHTH’s Program Director, for further
information at [ewa@amu.edu.pl];
Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz
University, ul.
Sw. Marcin 78, 61-809 Poznan, Poland.
- Cosponsored by the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia
Bulgaria, some members of the Commission recently participated in a
meeting on “The
Role and Responsibility of History Today” in Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct.
27-28, 2011.
- The Commission played an
active role at the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences in
Amsterdam, the Netherland, in August 2010. It sponsored and cosponsored
several sessions, including "Who Owns History?" "The
Rights of the Dead," "Humanism in History," The Ebb and
Flow of Marxist Historiography: A Global Perspective," and "Significance
of History for Politics and Culture."
Recent
Publications by ICHTH Members (2005- )
- Frank Ankersmit,
Sublime Historical Experience (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2005);
- Giusi Baldissone
and Edoardo Tortarolo, eds.,
Corpi
letterari: l’esperienza sportiva
nella
cultura
contemporanea:
atti
del
convegno
Sport
e letteratura,
Vercelli,
1-2
ottobre
2004 (Novara: Interlinea,
2005);
- Michael
Bentley, Modernizing
England’s Past
: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2005);
- Antoon De Baets, Gebruik
en Misbruik van de Geschiedenis
(Amsterdam: Boom Publishers, 2008);
- Antoon De Baets, Responsible History
(New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008);
- Ewa Domanska, Historie
niekonwencjonalne: refleksje
o przeszłości w nowej
humanistyce (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2006);
- Jonathan
Gorman, Historical
Judgement: The Limits of Historiographic
Choice (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007);
- Michael
Hofmann, Jörn Rüsen and Mirigam
Springer, eds. Schiller und die Geschichte (Mnchen:
Wilhelm Fink, 2006);
- Chun-chieh Huang and John B. Henderson,
eds., Notions of Time in Chinese Historical Thinking (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006);
- Georg G. Iggers,
Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity
to the Postmodern Challenge (Middletown CT: Wesleyan University
Press, 2005, 2nd ed.);
- Georg G. Iggers
& Q. Edward Wang, with
contributions from Supriya Mukherjee,
A Global History of Modern Historiography (London:
Pearson/Longman, 2008);
- Wilma and Georg Iggers, Two
Lives in Uncertain Times: Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as
Scholars and Citizens (New York/Oxford: Berghahn
Books, 2006);
- Maria Grever
and Siep Stuurman,
eds., Beyond the Canon: History for the Twenty-First Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007);
- Marnie Hughes-Warrington,
ed. Fifty Thinkers on History (London: Routledge,
2008, 2nd ed.);
- Marnie Hughes-Warrington,
History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film (London: Routledge, 2007);
- Antonis Liakos, Pos Ginetai to Parelthon Istoria (Athēna: Polis, 2007);
- Allan Megill,
Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to
Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2007);
- Herman Paul, Hayden White (London: PolityBooks,
2011);
- Ilaria Porciani and Lutz Raphael, eds., Atlas of European Historiography. The
Making of a Profession 1800 – 2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2010);
- On-cho
Ng and Q. Edward Wang, Mirroring
the Past: the Writing and Use of History in Imperial China (Honolulu:
University
of Hawaii Press, 2005);
- Jörn Rüsen, ed., Meaning and
Representation in History (New York/Oxford: Berghahn
Books, 2006);
- Jörn Rüsen, Kultur
macht Sinn. Orientierung
zwischen Gestern und
Morgen (Köln: Böhlau, 2006);
- Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Achim Mittag and Jörn Rüsen, eds., Historical Truth, Historical
Knowledge and Ideology: Chinese Historiography and Historical Culture
from a New Comparative Perspective (Leiden: Brill, 2005);
- Q. Edward
Wang and Franz
Fillafer, eds., The Many Faces of Clio:
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Historiography--Essays in Honor of Georg G.
Iggers (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007)
- The recent Historein,
vol. 10 (2010), has a special issue on “History between Reflexivity and
Critique: Challenging Concepts and Themes,” which is edited by ICHTH
member Effi Gazi
and featured contributions by ICHTH members Hayden White, Sanjay Seth, Q.
Edward Wang, Diana Mishkova, Ewa Domanska, and Antonis
Liakos.
- In the History and Theory,
46:2 (May 2007), Jörn Rüsen edited a
forum on "Chinese and Western Historical Thinking," which
features essays by such ICHTH members as Chun-chieh Huang, Q.
Edward Wang, Masayuki Sato as
well as Jörn Rüsen. Hayden White also has a review article in
the same issue.
- The Historein,
vol. 7 (2007), has a special issue on “History and Utopia,” which
features contributions by ICHTH members Jörn Rüsen, Hayden
White, Antoon De Baets and Antonis Liakos.
Other
Activities
- The Commission sponsors two
or three sessions at the quinquennial International Congress of Historical
Sciences (CISH). The next congress will be held in Ji'nan, China, in 2015, for which the Commission is preparing
for its sessions at present. For updates and details, please contact the
Program Director of the Commission, Ewa Domanska [ewa@amu.edu.pl];
Department of History, Adam
Mickiewicz University,
ul. Sw. Marcin 78,
61-809 Poznan,
Poland.
- The Commission cosponsors
or encourages frequent conferences and workshops aimed at promoting
scholarly discussions on the history of historiography and the theory of
history.
- The Commission provides
assistance in setting up programs and designing courses in
historiography as well as offers consultant services when requested for
sample syllabi and annotated bibliographies.
- The Commission hopes to
serve as a meeting place for historians and philosophers to exchange new
ideas and explores new approaches to the study of the past.
- Through its international
outreach, the Commission aims to expand the studies of historiography
and historical theory beyond Euro-America so that all historical
cultures are adequately represented.
Sites of
Interest
Columbia Journal of
Historiography
Cromohs: An Electronic Journal of the
History of Historiography
History and Memory
History and Theory
International Society for Intellectual History
Journal of the History of Ideas
Network of Concerned Historians
Oxford History of Historiography
Philosophy
of History Archive
Rethnking History
Historein
Historia da Historiografia
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