History of twentieth-century, 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