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Review of Achim Landwehr’s “Diesseits der Geschichte”

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , on September 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »

The new issue of Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung contains a book review I wrote on “Diesseits der Geschichte: Für eine andere Historiographie” (Beyond History: For a Different Historiography), written by Achim Landwehr, the most important and prolific current German theorist of history. In my review, I consider the strenghts and challenges of some of the concepts Landwehr has introduced during the last decade-or-so, like “pluritemporality”, “temporal whirl” (Zeitwirbel), and especially “chronoference”. The book comes highly recommended to all interested in the history of temporality or in the temporal dimension of historiography in a general sense.

The review can be found here.

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Review of Lucian Hölscher’s “Zeitgärten”

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft includes a review I wrote about Lucian Hölscher’s book

Zeitgärten. Zeitfiguren in der Geschichte der Neuzeit (Göttingen 2020)

Zeitgärten - Lucian Hölscher | Wallstein Verlag

Its broad ranging insights into the theory of history builds on a close re-reading of 25 classics of historical writing from the 18th to the 21st century, from Ranke and Droysen up to Eric Hobsbawm, Mark Mazower, Ulrich Herbert and even my own PhD supervisor, Willibald Steinmetz. The book comes highly recommended to all interested in the theory of historiographical writing and its conteptualizations of historical temporality.

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Workshop: Times of the Event

Posted in Conference, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2018| 1 Comment »

Under the title

Times of the Event: A New Survey of a Historical Category

(Die Zeiten des Ereignisses: Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie)

the organizers (Anna Karla (Köln), Jörn Eiben (Hamburg) and myself) are proud to announce the 40th workshop by the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie, this time in cooperation with the Centre for Contemporary History, to be held in Potsdam on November 9 – 10.

Focusing on its specific temporality, the workshop aims to develop a new theoretical understanding of the event as a fundamental historical category.

Participants include: Frank Bösch (Potsdam), Albert Schirrmeister (Paris), Tobias Hasenberg (Cologne), Thomas Mergel (Berlin), Britta Hochkirchen (Bielefeld), Ramon Voges (Leipzig), Caroline Rothauge (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), Silvan Niedermeier (Erfurt), Achim Landwehr (Düsseldorf), Uwe Lübken (Munich), Christian Holtorf (Coburg), Alexander Gall (Munich), Iris Schröder (Erfurt), Tobias Becker (London) (more on his contribution here), Fernando Esposito (Tübingen), Ulrike Jureit (Hamburg) and Aleida Assmann (Constance).

The workshop program, including details on the venue, may be found here and here. The working language is German. All are welcome, but registration by email is appreciated.

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Call for Papers: Times of the Event

Posted in Conference, tagged , , , , , , , on September 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Within the framework of a series of workshops on different aspects of historical temporalities planned by the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie, Anna Karla, Jörn Eiben and I are organizing a workshop in November 2018 on the event in history.

Focusing on its specific temporality, we seek to develop a new theoretical understanding of this central historical category.

Title:

Times of the Event: A New Survey of a Historical Category

(Die Zeiten des Ereignisses: Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie)

A call for papers has jus been published on H-Soz-Kult. Abstracts from scholars working on related subjects are very welcome.

To learn more, click here.

Die Zeiten des Ereignisses. Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie, 09.11.2018 – 10.11.2018 Köln, in: H-Soz-Kult, 20.09.2017, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-35036>.

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Review of Herman Paul’s ‘Als het verleden trekt’

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , , , on September 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A short review I wrote about Herman Paul’s new introduction to the philosophy of history has been published on the website of the International Network for Theory of History.  The book, which offers an overview over the theoretical foundations of the historical discipline to Dutch students, comes highly recommended. The review (in English)  can be found here.

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