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- The Athens International Conference of
Historiography is organizing an international conference on "History
between Reflexivity and Critique."
which is co-organized by the journal Historein: a
review of the past & other stories, the Historical Archive
of the University of Athens and the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. The conference will take place in Athens, Greece,
during 30 October – 1 November 2008. For more information and possible
participation, please contact Despoina Valatsou at historein@historein.gr.
Recent Publications
by ICHTH Members
- 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 Mirjam Springer, eds., Schiller und die
Geschichte
(München: 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);
- 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)
- 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 Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
in 2010, 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
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