History of twentieth-century, Historiography.
Antonis Liakos
Aims of the conference
Although the character of nineteenth-century historiography was more or less defined along the lines of historicism, positivism and the rise of national histories, this was not the case in the twentieth century. In the first part of the century, historians (with a few distinct exceptions) followed the nineteenth-century paradigms. Yet, in the second half of the century, the disciplinary gates opened, boundaries and borders were reconsidered and certainties questioned. A flow of successive trends and turns in methods, theories and ways of approaching, researching, practicing, narrating, writing but also filming, staging and performing history emerged. A new landscape was formed. Ever since, we have changed, or at least we have reconsidered, our terminologies, concepts and perspectives. We have discussed memory, public history, history wars, historical cultures, and the traumas of the past. We have been exploring disciplinary transformations and changing questions and themes. The past seems to have escaped from the mausoleum where nineteenth-century historiography had mummified it, to acquire a new life, to become a ghost that disturbed, annoyed, troubled but also amused and entertained contemporary societies.
In this context, it is difficult to conceptualize twentieth-century historiography as a coherent subject of study. Even more so, if we take into account the spread of historiography, history and memory wars around the globe. Historiography has been transplanted everywhere through colonialism and/or anti-colonialism. There is an abundant literature on the various historical trends, on the passages of one turn to the next, on history wars, on memory and public history, on the forms that historical experience and historical consciousness have acquired in the course of the twentieth century. Historical theory has developed into a burgeoning field in recent decades. But little attempt has been made to produce a comprehensive study which would connect the rivers flowing within academia with those running outside it. Hardly any works exist that relate the various turns in historiography to living experiences. History is still treated as an abstract idea, another scholarly field or a literary genre. If we apply to history the distinction made by Ferdinand de Saussure between langue and parole,we could sayhistory is still studied as a langue and rarely as a parole.
What is missing most from studies on the twentieth-century’s preoccupations with history is an exploration of the inner and deeper connection and interrelation between the various experiences of the century and the various approaches to history. The twentieth century has been described as ‘the age of extremes’, as the century of catastrophic wars and genocides. It is also the age of feminism, decolonization and techno-scientific evolutions. But how are these experiences linked with historical schools, trends, methods and practices? How have they contributed to our understanding of the past? How can we relate history and historiography in the twentieth century?
In what ways has twentieth-century historical experience determined the study of the past? What do disciplinary transformations in the fields of feminist/women’s/gender history, written/oral/audiovisual history, public history, and comparative/transnational history, for example, owe to changing political, cultural and social perspectives and views? Are ‘disciplinary turns’ linked to ‘epochal turns’ and, if so, how are they linked in particular contexts? How have common turns and particular/national methodologies intermingled? How ‘French’ was the French histoire totale, how ‘Italian’ was micro history, and what does new historicism owe to the English intellectual tradition? What about forgotten or abandoned historical trends and traditions? The ways in which they are connected with historical experience and ways of remembrance is one of the key questions of this conference. And are key concepts like truth, impartiality and objectivity still valuable for historians, and how have these concepts changed from one era to the next and from one cultural milieu to the other?
Transforming subjectivities is another focus of the conference. How have historians conceptualized epochal turns or specific historical facts, how have they experienced them, how have they affected their changing perspectives and intellectual processes?
This conference will explore these connections between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ processes and realities, between ‘internal’ and ‘external’ influences and between ‘the academic’ and ‘the non-academic’ with regard to historical thinking and feeling, in an attempt to trace the links between the different forms of the historical, the multiplicity of historical subjectivities (including the subjectivities of historians themselves) and the various collective experiences of the twentieth century.
ΛιγότεραAims of the conference
Although the character of nineteenth-century historiography was more or less defined along the lines of historicism, positivism and the rise of national histories, this was not the case in the twentieth century. In the first part of the century, historians (with a few distinct exceptions) followed the nineteenth-century paradigms. Yet, in the second half of the century, the disciplinary gates opened, boundaries and borders were reconsidered and certainties questioned. A flow of successive trends and turns in methods, theories and ways of approaching, researching, practicing, narrating, writing but also filming, staging and performing history emerged. A new landscape was formed. Ever since, we have changed, or at least we have reconsidered, our terminologies, concepts and perspectives. We have discussed memory, public history, history wars, historical cultures, and the traumas of the past. We have been exploring disciplinary transformations and changing questions
Aims of the conference
Although the character of nineteenth-century historiography was more or less defined along the lines of historicism, positivism and the rise of national histories, this was not the case in the twentieth century. In the first part of the century, historians (with a few distinct exceptions) followed the nineteenth-century paradigms. Yet, in the second half of the century, the disciplinary gates opened, boundaries and borders were reconsidered and certainties questioned. A flow of successive trends and turns in methods, theories and ways of approaching, researching, practicing, narrating, writing but also filming, staging and performing history emerged. A new landscape was formed. Ever since, we have changed, or at least we have reconsidered, our terminologies, concepts and perspectives. We have discussed memory, public history, history wars, historical cultures, and the traumas of the past. We have been exploring disciplinary transformations and changing questions
ANTONIS LIAKOS
- Historising 20th-century historiography: Introduction to the conference
GEORG IGGERS
- Reflections on the historiography of the 20th century from the perspective of the 21st century
Chair: Christina Koulouri
JULIO BENTIVOGLIO
- Historical reviews and historiography in the 20th century
EMMA KEARNEY
- Defining historical praxis: Intersections between academic history and the broader historical community
MARTIN WIKLUND
- Experience lost and regained: Experiences of modernity and attempts to regain historical experience
Chair: Mitsos Bilalis
STEFAN TANAKA
- Reconceiving pasts in a digital age
DESPOINA VALATSOU
- History and the digital humanities
VASO SEIRINIDOU
- Bringing nature into history: A plea for environmental history
LUCIA ANTONELLICARTER
- Why Johnny does not understand the French Revolution? A reflection on historical content and cognitive skills
Chair: Timothy G. Ashplant
VRASIDAS KARALIS
- The history of cinema and cinema as history: Historiographical questions about changing regimes of visuality
MAREN LYTJE
- The historian, the psychoanalyst and cinema: Writing history in the age of film making
ANDREJ SLÁVIK
- Microhistory and cinematic experience: Two or three things I know about Carlo Ginzburg
NATALIA TACCETTA
- Image and movement in the construction of history: An approach to cinema from Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg
Chair: Socratis Petmezas
DIMITRIS STAMATOPOULOS
- Byzantium in the age of empire: Byzantine history in 20th-century Balkan historiographies
GEORGIA KOUTA
- Redeem, complete and create: The historical consciousness of the Greek diaspora in London in the early 20th century
DESPINA LALAKI
- Digging for democracy in Greece: Civilising and decivilising processes during the ‘American century’
GIORGOS AGELOPOULOS
- Unfulfilled modernities: Jewish history in interwar Greek academia
JOANNA DE GROOT
- Gender, imperialism and history writing since 1960
Discussant: Emilia Salvanou
Chair: Veronica Tozzi
DANIEL BRAUER
- The past as a territory
ALEXANDRA LIANERI
- Historia Magistra Vitae and future time: Complicating the temporalities of Greek historiography
RODRIGO TURIN
- The (de)classifying of time: Theory, empiria and normativity
FRANCISCO AZEVEDO MENDES
- Displaced crisis and historical theory: The critical ‘intervals’ of historiography in the 1990s
MARCELO ABREU, MARCELO RANGEL
- The challenge of multiple temporalities: History teaching, simultaneous forms of historical consciousness, and the defiance to national identity
Chair: Efi Avdela
MARIA HADJIPOLYCARPOU
- History and life: Postcolonial history and autobiography
TIMOTHY G. ASHPLANT
- The personal is historical: The changing role of the biographical in historiography and society
CHIEL VAN DEN AKKER
- Pierre Nora and the historian’s task
ROLF PETRI
- Vita magistra historiae? Biographical experience and meanings of the past
CHRISTOS MAIS
- (Auto)biographing revolution: History, memory and the Long Sixties
Chair: Dimitra Lambropoulou
MARIA CHRISTINA CHATZIIOANNOU
- The biography of the entrepreneur and other life histories
CHRISTOS EFSTATHIOU
- Labour history between crisis and renewal
STEFANOS IOANNIDIS
- ‘Class’ in social history journals: From prominence to marginalisation
GEORGE ZEIDAN ARAÚJO
- From social history towards a ‘post-social’ history?
ANTONIS HADJIKYRIACOU, DAPHNE LAPPA
- Early modernity as the reflection of the neoliberal subject
Chair: Haris Exertzoglou
KATE PAPARI
- Historicism’s crisis and nationalism in the interwar period
TYSON ASHLEY RETZ
- The logic of question and answer: The 20th-century’s answer to historicist naïveté
GEORGIOS GIANNAKOPOULOS
- Britain, Zionism and the roads taken: AJ Toynbee and Lewis Namier on nationality and the Jewish question (1914–1945)
Chair: Berber Bevernage
ALEXANDRE AVELAR
- Historical time and the haunting past: For a critique of recent Brazilian historiography about military dictatorship
RIKA BENVENISTE
- Shoah survivors as Holocaust historians
EUGENIA GAY
- Time and experience in the 20th century: Historians and/as witnesses
DINA GUSEJNOVA
- Civilisation in the camp: Rethinking the cultural history of internment in the two World Wars
Chair: Kostas Raptis
ELLI LEMONIDOU
- Revisiting the historiography on the First World War
CHRISTINA THEODOSIOU
- Writing the memory of the Great War in France and Britain
ANGELIKI SPIROPOULOU
- Virginia Woolf and the call for women’s history
GABRIELLA VALERA
- Cultural history and cultural art: History in the first half of the 20th century
EDUARDO WEISZ
- Max Weber and postmodern historiography
Chair: Kostas Gaganakis
YARA HAWARI
- Oral history and the Palestinian citizens of Israel
KOSTIS KORNETIS
- Public history and the experience of torture under the Colonels
CECILIA MACON
- On not to talk: Hope and joy as resilience. The case of female victims of sexual violence in the Argentinian crimes against humanity trials
GISELE LECKER DE ALMEIDA
- Transitional justice and historiography: Similarities and differences in dealing with the past
EGON BAUWELINCK
- Charles Péguy (1873–1914) on making history after progress
Chair: Maria Repousi
MANOS AVGERIDIS
- History, politics and experience after the Second World War: The historicisation of the European resistance movements
JOHN M. REGAN
- The exodus myth and ethnic cleansing in 20th-century Ireland
POLYMERIS VOGLIS
- Rethinking violence in 20th-century history: From victims to agents of violence
EMILIA SALVANOU
- Historiographical approaches to refugees
EFFIE VOUTIRA
- From the unwanted to the undesirables: Can there ever be a refugee historiography? Some preliminary remarks on the question of ‘who speaks on behalf of refugees’
Chair: Georges Gianakopoulos
VILLE ERKKILÄ
- From seers of history to deceived witnesses: Three historians and their stories in the kaleidoscope of the Second World War
REAL FILLION
- Freedom in the archive: Foucault between La nouvelle histoire and French theory
MIGUEL PALMEIRA
- Moses I. Finley and the ancient economy: logic and social logic of an ‘academic battleground’
JAKUB MUCHOWSKI
- Politics, realism, and historical writing in the late 20th century
Chair: Pothiti Hantzaroula
PANEL Beyond ‘women were there’: New perspectives on black women’s history
Participants:
TANISHA FORD
BRITTNEY COOPER
TREVA LINDSEY
ANTHONY MOLHO
- Historians in exile
Discussant: Vangelis Kechriotis
Chair: Kalle Pihlainen
JOUNI-MATTI KUUKKANEN
- From truth-functionality to performativity in historiography: Great theory disputes of the postwar period seen through a debate on the Great War
MARÍA INÉS LA GRECA
- What can performativity theory do for our comprehension of 20th century history and historiography?
MARÍA INÉS MUDROVCIC
- The pathways between history and historiography
VERONICA TOZZI
- Two approaches to the relationship between historiography and historical experience: Hayden White and David Carr 30 years later
ANGELIKI KOUFOU
- The ‘sublime’ and utopian thinking: Considering the ethics of modern historiography
Chair: Rolf Petri
DIMITRIS PLANTZOS, ANTONIS KOTSONAS
- Artifacts to things: The anthropological shift in archaeological discourse and its repercussions for the study of material culture
TIMO PANKAKOSKI
- Hans Freyer and the political heritage of history
ZOLTÁN BOLDIZSÁR SIMON
- The impossible possibility of experience: On history’s ambivalent attitude
ATHENA SYRIATOU
- The rise, decline and constant resilience of the historiography of the ‘British decline’
THOMAS WOLFE
- The legacy of flourishing: Division and the problem of purpose in the postwar American historical profession
Chair: Nikos Karapidakis
MOHAMMADREZA SHAHIDIPAK
- A historiography of revaluations in the 20th century
VLADIMIR ALCANIZ LOPEZ
- History after the sense of an ending: Georges Didi-Huberman and the survivals of time
LYDIA PAPADAKI
- Inside-Outside the borders of Western modernity: History, culture and pedagogy in Latin America and the
United States
ANNA MAHAIRA
- The return of the narrative and the return of historicism: The unfolding of modern historiography in two distinct phases of the long 19th century
- 'Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe (NHIST)' series of books.
Stefan Berger, Effi Gazi, Vangelis Karamanolakis, Athena Syriatou
Chair: Ada Dialla
KRZYSZTOF BRZECHCZYN
- Class analysis of real socialism: Old approaches and new perspectives
IURII GERASKIN
- Рaradoxes оf modern Russian history
KOSTIS KARPOZILOS
- History does nothing: Ex-radicals and the disillusionment with history
GERALD MAKO
- A tale of two wars: Lev Gumilev, the Eurasianist school and the turning points of the 20th century
Chair: Neni Panourgia
SRIA CHATTERJEE
- Writing fields: Stella Kramrisch and historiography in 20th century India
DAVID CORRALES
- The Americanisation of Spain: A new historiographical contribution to the international debate
FIQIH RISALLAH
- Al-Attas’ decolonisation in Malay historical studies: A refutation of colonial historical theory
WILLIAM GALLOIS
- The triumph of the Western historical imagination
Chair: Masayuki Sato
VISARUT PHUNGSOONDARA
- Gossip, misinformation, disinformation and the rise of modern Thai historiography
JUN TANAKA
- The personality of historical essays: The historiography of Yoshie Hotta’s Hōjōki Shiki (A Personal Note on Hōjōki)
JO-LAN YI
- A new history of women in 20th-century China
Chair: Marius Turda
CRISTIAN ROIBAN
- (Re-) thinking history: Historiography as an ideology-diffusion channel in communist Romania (1964–1989). A begriffsgeschichtliche approach
SORIN ANTOHI
- Pasts continuous: Distancing the short 20th century in East Central Europe
AURIMAS SVEDAS
- The age of extremes and the Lithuanian historianploughmen, historianfighters and historianfiremen
IGOR VRANIC
- Historiographical decline and the collapse of transnational connections among Croatian historians after 1945
ADA DIALLA
- The great divide of 1991: Writing histories in Russia in times of crisis
Chair: Anna Karakatsouli
SAKIS GEKAS
- The absence/presence of anticolonial and postcolonial discourses in Greek historiography
ANDRÉ LUIZ JOANILHO, MARIÂNGELA PECCIOLLI GALLI JOANILHO
- Diagnoses on the nation: Brazilian cultural history in the 1930s
CÉSAR AUGUSTO DUQUE SÁNCHEZ
- Colombian historiography in comparative and connected perspectives
NILS RIECKEN
- Modernity as rupture: Analysing Abdallah Laroui’s epistemology of history as a postcolonial intellectual practice
Chair: Stefan Tanaka
MICHAEL FACIUS
- Japanese historians and the ‘early modern’, ca. 1900– 1955
EIJI TAKEMURA
- Confucian origins of modern Japanese evidential scholarship
MASAYUKI SATO
- The role and purpose of historiography in East Asia
Chair: Lina Ventura
MARIA KOUNDOURA
- The form of the present: Transnational contemporaneity and the narration of history
LUIS TRINDADE
- Cultural history and the 20th century
IOANNA LALIOTOU
- From cosmopolitanism to cosmopolitics: Historical past and futurity in contemporary cultural theory and critique
NICHOLAS DOUMANIS
- World History in world history: The return of largescale historical analysis
PEDRO CALDAS
- Uncanny past: On a chapter of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
Chair: Chris Lorenz
LUIGI CAJANI
- The historian and the law
DIMITRIS KOUSOURIS
- Justice, historiography and the quest for historical truth: The case of Raul Hilberg
STEPHAN SCHEUZGER
- Writing history in the age of human rights: Truth commissions and the representation of historical injustices
Chair: Dimitris Kyrtatas
THEODORE ARABATZIS
- The turn to practice and the rapprochement between history and history of science
COSTAS GAVROGLU
- Social constructivism and history of science
VASIA LEKKA
- The relations between history and history of science: The case of the history of psychiatry
MANOLIS PATINIOTIS
- Moving localities and creative circulation: New approaches to 20th-century historiography of science
ARISTOTLE TYMPAS
- The historiographical challenge of 20th-century technological enthusiasm
Chair: Vangelis Kechriotis
ANTONIS LIAKOS, EFFI GAZI, VANGELIS KARAMANOLAKIS
- Identity and modernisation: The two concerns of Greek historiography
THOMAS GALLANT
- Greek historiography as a sample of contemporary trends in historiography
STEFAN BERGER, BERBER BEVERNAGE, CHRIS LORENZ
Closing of the conference: Effi Gazi
Chair: Vangelis Karamanolakis
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