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On November 1 and 2, 2019, a conference will be held at UC Santa Cruz to honor the late Hayden White. The event is conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s thinking in new directions. Inspired by his rigorous, daring, iconoclastic spirit ...

Working language: Dutch Geschiedbeoefening heeft vanouds twee gezichten. Geschiedenis verbindt door een gemeenschappelijk verleden te creëren. Vaak wordt deze historische identiteit gegoten in de vorm van een tale of origin voor een specifieke groep ...

The Usefulness of History. VIIIth International Conference of Theory and Philosophy of History Keynotes : Christophe Bouton (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, France) ; Jaume Aurell (Universidad de Navarra, Spain) The aim of the VIIIth International ...

Keynote speakers : Frank Ankersmit (Groningen), Giuseppina D'Oro (Keele), Jonathan Gorman (Belfast), Allan Megill (Virginia), Marek Tamm (Tallinn), Aviezer Tucker (Harvard). What is the role of the philosophy of history in current academia and more ...

This conference follows up on the workshop “Playing with History” that has been held in November 2015 in Huddersfield. Gaming and History is gaining more and more traction, either as means to “gamify” history education or museum experiences, or as ...

Keynote speakers: Frederic C. Schaffer , professor of political science at University of Massachusetts, who studies the meaning of democracy, voting and elections with a focus on language, including on Senegal and the bilingual relationship between ...

Concepts in the World: Politics, Knowledge, and Time As the annual International Conference on Conceptual History celebrates its twentieth anniversary, conceptual history is gaining ground in an ever-increasing number of fields, disciplines and parts ...