Announcement
5th
International Conference
History between
Reflexivity and Critique
Organized
by
the journal Historein: a review of the past & other
stories
the International Commission of Historiography and Theory
of History,
and the Historical Archive of the University of Athens.
Athens,
October 30th - November 1st, 2008
Concept
of the Conference
Historical
theory developed, in the last decades, into numerous interrogations,
enforcing processes of reflexivity within history. By bringing
history itself at the center of attention, important
aspects of contemporary historical theory not only established
reflexivity as a critical part of historical theorizing.
They also developed the features of critique. Similarly
to critique, these forms of theorizing, thinking, writing
and doing history arose as object-depended, contributed
to processes of self-transformation and re-formed the kind
of questions asked by historians. This intersection between
history, reflexivity and critique or rather, the
possibility of history as critique through reflexivity
is of particular interest and complexity. It poses its own
epistemological, disciplinary, theoretical but also political
questions. In the conference, we will explore and examine
the broad range of possibilities that the intersection of
history with critique opens up. Particular emphasis will
be given to Historical reflexivity and varieties of critical
history:
- history writing as cultural and political critique
- contemporary theoretical investigations linked to the
concept of reflexivity and critique in
history (i.e. post-structuralism, post-colonial theory,
gender theory, psychoanalysis etc.)
- reflections on the potentials and limitations of history,
including enquiries into the nature, the uses and the politics
of history
- relations of critique to knowledge, desire, change and
its implications for history operations and formulations
of the concept of critique in an interdisciplinary perspective.
Final
Program
Paper
Abstracts
Poster
Participants'
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