Contributions to the History of Concepts

09/07/2024

📯 Don't miss Ewa Domańska's Koselleck-Lecture tomorrow at Universität Bielefeld! For everybody unable to attend in person, please contact [email protected] for the Zoom link.

💡"Anticipatory History: Contouring the Future through Historical Sources and Ethical Duties"
📆 10th July 2024
⏰ 6-8pm CEST
📌 Bielefeld/online via Zoom

In this lecture I will challenge the presentist bias of historical thinking captured in Benedetto Croce’s assertion that “all history is contemporary history.” I will propose treating historical knowledge as a form of anticipatory knowledge, capable of not only narrating our past but also illu...

05/07/2024

INSCRIPCIONES ABIERTAS

La historia conceptual en Iberoamérica: trayectorias, problemas y enfoques

A cargo de: Noemí Goldman (UBA-CONICET) y Fabio Wasserman (UBA-CONICET)

8 encuentros, jueves de 17 a 21hs, modalidad virtual
Inicia 1º de agosto
Abierto a estudiantes externxs

Consultas e inscripciones: [email protected].

10/06/2024

[From our family: ‘Analytical Concepts for Transcultural Settings’]

In global intellectual history, there exists a tension between analytical concepts often carrying a Western or colonial pedigree and their ability to capture the multifaceted reality of historical actors who cannot be placed in one language or culture alone.

The thematic section titled ‘Analytical Concepts for Transcultural Settings’ highlights the role of global intellectual historians as mediators who balance local realities with global narratives. It emphasizes how rethinking the crucial role of analytical concepts can help historical actors challenge and transcend conventional categories, urging historians to adapt their analytical frameworks for transcultural settings accordingly.

The editor Luc Wodzicki brings together former members of the Graduate School Global Intellectual History, who each focus on one concept and critically discuss it based on specific case studies: Paulina Dominik (Biography), Daniel Kolland (Modernity), Seb Boo (Q***r), Luc Wodzicki (Transculturality), and Leonie Wolters (Translation). Luc Wodzicki and Sebastian Conrad have written an introduction to the individual articles.

Have a look and share – the issue is in open access:

THE DESTRUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEBREW BOOKS Ed. by Miriam Benfatto and Elena LolliMiriam Benfatto and Elena Lolli, The Destruction and Preservation of Hebrew Books. New Sources and Methodologies for Studying Catholic Censorship and Other Forms of Dismemberment and Rescue of Hebrew Texts in Late...

10/05/2024

New Cambridge Element Conceptualizing the History of the Present Time by María Inés Mudrovcic out now! Read free for 2 weeks.
https://cup.org/3Qzl4xj

06/05/2024

[NEW ISSUE: 19/1, 2024]

In the opening article of the latest issue, titled “Travelling Concepts: On the Road with Margrit Pernau,” Jan Ifversen invites us on a journey through Margrit Pernau’s intellectual work. Through her exploration of postcolonial, global, and intercultural conceptual history, as well as the history of emotions and temporalities, Pernau's contributions to the discipline are extensive. Moreover, her invaluable role as the journal's longest-serving editor, a position she held until stepping down in 2023, cannot be overstated. Take part in this intellectual journey and explore the outstanding article, available for :

In 2023, Margrit Pernau stepped down as editor of Contributions to the History of Concepts. She first took up the position as editor in 2009, and, with her fifteen years on the editorial team, she has been by far our longest serving editor. Over the years, Margrit Pernau has played an invaluable rol...

03/05/2024

[CONCEPTA Summer School]

The for the annual Summer School "Introduction to Conceptual History" in Helsinki is out now – spread the word!
📍 University of Helsinki, Finland
📅 19–30 August 2024
📄 Application deadline: 31 May 2024

Please find all the information and the application form by following the link: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/centre-for-intellectual-history/news/cfp-introduction-to-conceptual-history

23/04/2024

[From our family]

We are happy to share the CfP for our colleagues' new conference series “Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe”!
💡Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800-1850
📅 23-24 January 2025
📍Warsaw, Poland
‼️Submission deadline: 31 August 2024

Organizers: Piotr Kuligowski, Wiktor Marzec, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk Academic Committee: Marnix Beyen, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Paulina Kewes, Judit Pál, Henk te Velde First Edition, 23-24 January 2025 Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continenta...

22/04/2024

🎉As part of our 30th anniversary celebrations, we are celebrating by offering 30% off all environmental studies titles with code EARTHDAY24 until April 30th 2024.

See the full list of titles here: https://bit.ly/3Ucpw6t

22/04/2024

[Conference ]

📯Reminder: the submission deadline for our conference is May 19th! More information and the are down below or on our homepage http://bit.ly/HCG2024
🎊After 20 years, the International Conference on the History of Concepts returns to Rio de Janeiro – please share widely and apply!

03/04/2024

The 8th Summer School in Mexico at El Colegio de México - Colmex! Find all the information below and don't miss🙌

✨CONVOCATORIA 2024✨

VII Escuela de Verano CONCEPTA Iberoamérica en Historia Conceptual:

"Utopía y (des)encanto en tiempos inciertos"

📌 Más información: https://ceh.colmex.mx/actividad/concepta
📆 29 de julio - 9 de agosto de 2024 - El Colegio de México - Colmex

🤓✍️¡Envíanos tu candidatura!

23/02/2024

[Conference ]

We are very happy to announce the 25th International Conference on the History of Concepts with the title “Political Ideologies: Tracing the History of Concepts and Languages in a Global Context” which will take place on December 5–7th 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! It will be hosted by the Rui Barbosa Foundation and the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ) Iesp-Uerj.

Proposals should be sent to the conference’s e-mail address: [email protected]. All proposals should be in word files (.doc or .docx) that include names, institutional affiliations, and professional status (e.g. instructor/researcher or student), along with abstracts of the papers or panels. Abstracts for individual papers should not exceed 250 words. Proposals for panel sessions should not exceed 1000 words. Panel proposals must include details for all participants. Panels with 3 speakers and 1 commentator are preferred; with 4 speakers and no commentator in exceptional cases.

Submission deadline: May 19th 2024. Accepted participants will be notified by the end of May. Panels and Papers must be presented in English.

https://hcg2024rio.wixsite.com/25th-international-c

12/02/2024

[From our friends] Tuesday, March 5, 2024 — 3:00pm-c5:15pm EST / 8:00pm-c10:15pm GMT. Includes a concluding paper by (and a Q&A session with) Quentin Skinner. Hybrid event, accessible via Zoom. https://www.facebook.com/ISIHONLINE/posts/pfbid0ccaT1Ac2RQqPUSm3uAGeuV93RWbtRbbKi2PmF9E4JRta19oJQdAsLkt3geWHNzDcl

Johns Hopkins University History Seminar Room (Gilman Hall, Room 308), in-person and via Zoom Tuesday, March 5, 2024 — 3:00pm-c5:15pm EST / 8:00pm-c10:15pm GMT Pocock-Schedule_1Download

22/01/2024

[From our friends | CfP]

The "Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies" NottsPolitics announced the interdisciplinary conference on "Anthropocene (A)synchronicities" taking place on the 10th and 11th April at the University of Nottingham with the aim of bringing together scholars interested in the Anthropocene and its varied temporal dimensions, especially the (dis)entanglement of different time scales and flows. The conference will be complemented by the development of an ongoing network and a series of funded public engagement events, for which proposals are also invited at this stage.

The Call for Papers will close on 31 January 2024.

Call for Papers Now Open

19/01/2024

[Koselleck Lecture Series]

The Lecture series »Mit Koselleck über Koselleck hinaus. Aktualität seines Werks in globaler Perspektive« organized by Bénédicte Vauthier und Christian Büschges at the Universität Bern starts next month!
Universität Jena
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
TU Darmstadt
Freie Universität Berlin

18/01/2024

[Article Spotlight | Issue: 17/2 December 2022]

Does (and if how) the understanding of the ‘climate’ shape our experience of ? The authors Michael Boyden, Ali Basirat, and Karl Berglund in their article “Digital Conceptual History and the Emergence of a Globalized Climate Imaginary” show how ‘climate’ has gradually (not linear!) developed into a collective singular since the . Find the text in the Contributions to the History of Concepts

"Volume 17 (2022): Issue 2 (Dec 2022)" published on 01 Dec 2022 by Berghahn Journals.

15/01/2024

[Article Spotlight | Issue: 17/2 December 2022]

In his article “Vienna Contextualism” Luke O'Sullivan explores Heinrich Gomperz's question of how to include historicity into the theoretical framework of empiricism. The author argues that Gomperz achieved his reconciliation via a theory of language and action. Read online:

"Volume 17 (2022): Issue 2 (Dec 2022)" published on 01 Dec 2022 by Berghahn Journals.

11/01/2024

[Article Spotlight | Issue: 17/2 December 2022]

Exploring the roots of populism, Claudio Sergio Nun Ingerflom delves into the 19th-century Russian 'narodnichestvo' discourse and its influence on Latin America's 'nac-pop' slogan. Follow the Zeitschichten of populism from Russia to China and Peru in Ingerflom's insightful article “Genesis of Populism – Its Russian Sediments and Its Updating in Latin America in Historical-Conceptual Key”!

"Volume 17 (2022): Issue 2 (Dec 2022)" published on 01 Dec 2022 by Berghahn Journals.

08/01/2024

[From our friends]

In the last issue of Redescriptions (26/2) (open access!) the review of S.-L. Hoffmann's "Der Riss in der Zeit. Reinhart Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik" by Kari Palonen has been published.
Read online: https://journal-redescriptions.org/articles/10.33134/rds.416

06/01/2024

https://www.intellectualhistory.net/news/john-pocock-1924-2023?fbclid=IwAR3bvSIB4Ie1hTdFVCQY-NHrgr2EK81F622z3vfbuNI86x-hucgIB-pm-a4

John Pocock, who has died at the age of ninety-nine only a little short of his hundredth birthday, was a giant of the historical profession. Obituary by Colin Kidd

28/11/2023

[REMINDER: CfP Concepta Online Seminar]

The International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought "CONCEPTA" organizes an online seminar on the various linkages imaginable between conceptual history and political thought. It will delve around conditions, means, and ends of the joint practice of conceptual history focused on political thought, and the study of political thought informed by conceptual history.
The seminar will take place 8–9 January 2024 (deadline for proposals is 30 November 2023). For more information:

20/11/2023

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For everybody who could not make it to Bielefeld for the celebrations, the Kompisita blog de.hypotheses.org now provides a party review (in German only) with lovely photos by Tobias Weidner. Have a look:

KOMPOSITA Editors - Am 23. April 2023 wäre der Bielefelder Historiker Reinhart Koselleck einhundert Jahre alt geworden. Begriffsgeschichte, Historik, politischer Totenkult, politische Ikonologie – hinter diesen bekannten Themen seines Werkes fächert sich Kosellecks Denken vielfach und eigenwilli...

17/11/2023

[Open Access]

The publication "Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff" by Kari Palonen is now available in OA. Get your copy now:

Der Autor: Kari Palonen. UT: Perspektiven aus den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestags. ISBN: 978-3-8474-2545-8. Verlag Barbara Budrich.

15/11/2023

[NEW ISSUE: 18/3, 2023]

The brand new issue of Contributions to the History of Concepts is out! It features articles by Wiktor Marzec, David Beorlegui Zarranz, and Christian Olaf Christiansen Furthermore, a review of Christina Morina's book "The Invention of Marxism" by Anson Rabinbach. Check it out: https://bit.ly/choc_18_3

To renew your subscription, follow: https://bit.ly/choc_sub

"Volume 18 (2023): Issue 3 (Dec 2023)" published on 01 Dec 2023 by Berghahn Journals.

07/11/2023