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Reform and Responsibility — the Climate of History in Times of Transformation Aalborg Nordic History Congress, Keynote 17 August 2017
HISTORISKarticle TIDSSKRIFT 10.18261/issn.1504-2944-2018-01-02Bind 97, nr. 1-2018, s. 7–23 artikkel ISSN online: 1504-2944 ARTIKKEL 10.18261/issn.1504-2944-2018-01-02 Reform and responsibility — the climate of history in times of transformation Aalborg Nordic History Congress, Keynote 17 August 2017 Sverker Sörlin Fil.dr. 1988. Professor ved Avdelningen för historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm. [email protected] Dear colleagues, students, friends! It is a great pleasure to see you all here, a distinguished audience of Nordic historians, hono- ring this hour with your presence. For me it is a privilege. This is a congress I hold dear. In times when international conferences have grown in size and numbers I have always thought it is immensely valuable to keep the Nordic community of historians alive and well, not for nostalgic reasons but because “Nordic” is an appropriate level of focus and analysis. Shortly before traveling here I finished the concluding chapter for a book with a Nor- wegian publisher on the tradition of Folkeopplysning in the Nordic countries since the 17th century.1 One of my ongoing papers right now is an analysis of the influence in our region of the famous Berkeley historian of science, environment and feminism, Carolyn Merchant.2 Other contributors to that book write of other themes, I write of the Nordic countries. I can swear she had some influence since I took a PhD course for her at Umeå University in 1984, but I am confident there is more…! Nordic is real. -
History 2016 Contents
History 2016 CONTENTS Historiography ..................................................................................1 Skills/Sources ...................................................................................3 Heritage ..............................................................................................5 Medieval History .............................................................................7 Early Modern History.................................................................. 13 Irish History ..................................................................................... 19 French History .............................................................................. 22 Social History ................................................................................ 24 Science, Technology & Medicine ......................................... 25 History of War ............................................................................... 29 Political History ............................................................................. 31 Gender ..............................................................................................36 Imperialism .....................................................................................39 Cultural History ............................................................................45 Journals ............................................................................................. 51 Agents, representatives and distributors ........................ 52 Index -
Historians' Orientations and Historical Production
Kasvatus & Aika 5 (1) 2011, 7–18 Mapping historians: historians' orientations and historical production Lisa Muszynski and Jyrki Reunamo Narrative historians have long exhibited greater or lesser awareness of their own agency as authors, where absolute objectivity is precluded. Indeed, historians' reports of the past include their own orientations or attitudes, which can also be examined in historians' autobiographies. In this article we present a study in which a questionnaire was used to ask historians about their orientations toward their subject matter. How do historians approach their work as agents and what might this reveal about the nature of historical production? In our model, we have distin- guished four criteria, sorted the answers using statistical analysis and weighed the results in the light of our expectations. Indeed, by exploring historians' presupposi- tions (exemplified in examining historians' autobiographies), historical production can be seen as an institutional process also steered by historians' orientations and agency with important philosophical implications for the integral relationship between historians' public and private roles. Introduction The reflexive questions concerning the historian's task, as presented in the questionnaire that serves as the basis of our study, is an approach designed to capture a particular matrix of historians' orientations and attitudes that serves to open up a tacit dimension in the pro- duction of history by the "historian as agent" (cf. Polanyi 2009 [1966]). In this article, -
Theory and Method Conceptual History
Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo To be published in Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method Conceptual History [9,000 – 10,000 words] 1. Introduction (c.500 words): w/ any basic definitions clarified At the most basic level, conceptual history is the history of words. These words, called “concepts” are of a specific kind, semantically richer, more ambiguous and thus more contested than those tasked with naming specific things in the physical world. The phrase itself is easily misunderstood, like other subgenres of historiography labelled in similar way. Just as there is nothing specifically “cultural” about cultural history, there is nothing particularly “conceptual” about “conceptual history” either. A more precise name would be “the history of concepts”, since “concepts” refer to the object of study rather than a carefully crafted analytics. Furthermore, many will consider “conceptual history” to be the translation of the German Begriffsgeschichte, which is also clearly the dominant tradition in the field, although by no means the only one. Thus, conceptual history has at least two meanings: in a more general sense, it studies how people have used words in changing historical contexts, with what meaning and purpose, drawing on a wide range of traditions, theories and methods, from etymology to text-mining; in a more specific sense, it refers to a set of theories and methods originating in post-war Germany at the interface between social history and intellectual history, and between hermeneutics and historicism, as well as to its main founder Reinhart Koselleck and the most decisive scholarly manifestation, the eight- volume lexicon Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, published between 1972 and 1992. -
Ambivalence, Anxieties / Adaptations, Advances: Conceptual History and International Law
Martin Clark Ambivalence, anxieties / adaptations, advances: conceptual history and international law Article (Accepted version) (Refereed) Original citation: Clark, Martin (2018) Ambivalence, anxieties / adaptations, advances: conceptual history and international law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 31 (4). ISSN 0922-1565 (In Press) © 2018 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/89381/ Available in LSE Research Online: July 2018 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. AMBIVALENCE, ANXIETIES / ADAPTATIONS, ADVANCES: CONCEPTUAL HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW MARTIN CLARK* Scholars of the history of international law have recently begun to wonder whether their work is predominantly about law or history. The questions we ask — about materials, contexts and movements — all raise intractable problems of historiography. And yet despite this extensive and appropriate questioning within the field, and its general inclination towards theory and theorising, few scholars have turned to the vast expanses of historical theory to try to think through how we might go about addressing them. -
Rede Vol 16.Indb
Review Reinhart Koselleck: Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Geschichte, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2010, 388 s. Koselleck’s Untimely Meditations Even though the edition itself never explicitly states this point, the latest volume of historical essays by Reinhart Koselleck, posthumously col- lected and published by Carsten Dutt, engages in a dialogue with an- other work, by another author, which was published almost 140 years ago. The work that comes to mind is, of course, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen, which came out in four parts between 1873 and 1876 and which has seen a number of English translations: Un- timely Meditations (Walter Kaufmann), Thoughts Out of Season (Anthony M. Ludovici), Unmodern Observations (William Arrowsmith). On the level of titles the idea of the untimely is retained in one of the most el- egant and original essays in the present volume, on Goethes unzeitgemä- ße Geschichte, “Goethe’s untimely history”. As everyone who has read Nietzsche knows, however, his essays were not unzeitgemäß in any tra- ditional sense of the word, except in the way they strayed from the well- trodden path of the Zeitgeist; on the contrary, they intervened quite di- rectly in the most urgent and immediate questions of the time, namely the uses of theology, history, philosophy and music for the purposes of cultural and intellectual refi nement and progress. Returning to the recently published collection of Koselleck’s essay, the title of the volume, suggested to the editor by the author himself (365), doesn’t only echo the more or less forgotten, intriguing work by Theodor Lessing, discussed in the title essay, Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen, from 1919, but also – and for most readers, primarily – the second of Nietzsche’s untimely meditations”: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben from 1874. -
Conjunctures in the Conceptual History of Korea* : Taking an Issue of Sattelzeit
Conjunctures in the Conceptual History of Korea* : Taking an Issue of Sattelzeit Seung-cheol SONG** This article is aimed to call for reconsideration of the idea of Sattelzeit used in the Hallym Academy of Sciences’ conceptual history project. As the project started under the heavy influence of earlier German and French projects, it teems with an assortment of ideas borrowed from the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and the Handbuch politische-sozialer Grund- begriffe in Frankreich, 1680-1820, and Sattelzeit is one of the key concept, borrowed from the German scholarship and reset in the Korean historical circumstances. This Sattelzeit, set ‘tentatively’ between the mid-19th and mid-20th century at the start of the project, has worked as a guideline for contributors to the Hallym Academy’s basic concept monograph series, and most contributors kept to the guideline. However, judging from the more than ten monographs published, adherence to the guidelines turned out to vary considerably from person to person, and some contributors suggested that as much attention should be paid to the post-liberation period as a source of conceptual transactions. To resolve the issue of an appropriate Korean framework, this article first sets up three conditions or conjunctures that are presumed to make approaches of conceptual history discourse more rewarding than others. Then, it endeavors to support its hypothesis by * This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government(NRF-2007-361-AM0001). ** Hallym University 168 CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS IN EAST ASIA providing the history of semantic transactions of the concept ‘realism’ from the late 1920s to the present. -
Postcolonial Studies After Foucault: Discourse, Discipline, Biopower, and Governmentality As Travelling Concepts
Postcolonial Studies After Foucault: Discourse, Discipline, Biopower, and Governmentality as Travelling Concepts Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie des Fachbereiches 05 der Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen vorgelegt von Thijs Willaert aus Gießen 2012 Dekan: Prof. dr. Magnus Huber 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. dr. Ansgar Nünning 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. dr. Theo D’haen Tag der Disputation: ................................. Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Postcolonial Studies After Foucault 1 2. Reading Concepts in Contexts 16 2.1. The Concept of Concept 2.2. Methodological Orientation: Analyzing Travelling Concepts in Three Steps 3. Discourse 28 3.1. Foucault and Orientalism : A Controversial Relationship 3.2. Foucault and Discourse: Archaeologies of Knowledge 3.2.1. Context: A Structuralist Approach to Knowledge 3.2.2. Cotext: Knowledge and its Relation to Power 3.2.3. Concept: Discourse as the Structure of Knowledge 3.3. Orientalism and Discourse: Exit Knowledge, Enter Identity, Exit Power, Enter Authority 3.3.1. Context: Between Marxism and Literary Studies 3.3.2. Cotext: A Double Conceptual Architecture 3.3.3. Concept: Double Trouble 3.4. Bhabha and Discourse: Further Down the Psychosocial Road 3.4.1. Context: Poststructuralism Meets Psychoanalysis 3.4.2. Cotext: Exit Knowledge, Enter Intersubjectivity 3.4.3. Concept: Discourse as the Structure of Intersubjective Relations 3.5. Conclusion: Knowledge Versus Identity, Authority, Intersubjectivity 4. Discipline 69 4.1. Foucault and Discipline: Reconceptualizing Power 4.1.1. Context: From Archaeology to Genealogy 4.1.2. Cotext: Three Rationalities of Power 4.1.3. Concept: Is Discipline a Totalizing Concept? 4.2. Mitchell and Discipline: Disciplinary Power as the Power of Modernity 4.2.1. -
Peaceful Change Second Revision 090819
"Peaceful Change" in International Relations A Conceptual Archaeology Kristensen, Peter Marcus Published in: International Theory Publication date: 2021 Document version Peer reviewed version Citation for published version (APA): Kristensen, P. M. (2021). "Peaceful Change" in International Relations: A Conceptual Archaeology. International Theory, 13(1), 36-67. Download date: 01. okt.. 2021 “Peaceful Change” in International Relations: A Conceptual Archaeology Peter Marcus Kristensen University of Copenhagen Abstract As the so-called liberal international order has come under duress, the problem of “peaceful change” has reappeared on the agenda of International Relations, mainly in a realist guise drawing upon E.H. Carr and Robert Gilpin’s renditions of the problem. Making a conceptual archaeological intervention, this paper recovers long-neglected multidisciplinary debates on “peaceful change” taking place in the tumultuous interwar period. It concurs that peaceful change is an International Relations problem par excellence, central to academic debates in the burgeoning interwar discipline, but also a more complex conceptual figure than posterity portrays it. The paper explores the debates between negative and positive conceptions of peaceful change, between political, legal-institutional and communitarian mechanisms of peaceful change, and different policies of peaceful change, particularly its troubled relationship to appeasement. The paper concludes that the interwar debate on peaceful change, while highly embedded in its context, does offer IR an alternative and more aspirational perspective on the problem of power and order transitions. The “Perennial Problem” of Peaceful Change1 There is a pervasive sense in International Relations (IR) scholarship that the so-called ‘post-war liberal international order’ is under pressure for change. -
The Concept of Conceptual the “Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe”
The Concept of Conceptual History(Begriffsgeschichte) and the“ Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe” Lucian Hölscher*ㅣProfessor, Department of History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum University, Germany The concept of conceptual history is based on a simple idea: the idea that language is a basic structure of the historical world. In understanding and describing, as much as in acting and changing things in the past and present, we rely on words and sentences. Though not the only tool, language is the most important one that human beings have to come to terms with their life and their environment. As part of this idea of language, we have learned to distinguish between language and reality in terms of the distinction made by the famous French linguist, Ferdinand Saussure, between the“ signifiant” and the“ signifié”: the word and what it relates to in the world. But, looking * Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft Universitätsstr. 150 D-44780 Bochum Gebäude GA 5/32 Germany The Concept of Conceptual History … _ 179 back to the history of linguistics, we find that the relation between language Historical time and Reality and reality was seen very differently at various times. And it is the way of conceptual history to describe this relation, which makes the difference Is reality something“ outside”language, existing on its own, or, does it between traditional realistic and modern conceptual studies of history. exist only in language constructed by our use of words? The question goes In traditional studies of history, historians were concerned exclusively with to the core of conceptual history, which is why it is worthy of discussion. what had happened in the past, language (the language of the sources, as Historians do not deal with reality in general, but with reality in the past, much as the language that they used in writing history) was simply a tool to present and future─i.e.: they deal with reality in time. -
Are Historical and Aesthetic Understanding Distinctively Individualizing? Narrative Description
Are Historical and Aesthetic Understanding Distinctively Individualizing? Narrative Description According to a distinguished tradition in philosophy, historical and aesthetic understanding differ from that found in the sciences. While scientific understanding is inherently generalizing, understanding art or history is a matter of grasping the relevant phenomena in all their individuality. To understand a scientific, or social scientific, phenomenon is at root to place it in a larger grouping of similar phenomena, perhaps bringing them under general laws that relate things of that kind to other kinds. In contrast, understanding a work of art or an historical event lies precisely in seeing what is distinctive to this work or event in particular. If the tradition is right, the study of art and history offers a form of understanding not matched in other disciplines. But is it right? Our project attempts to provide part of the answer. Only part, because we will not attempt to assess the tradition’s claims about scientific understanding. Nor will we attempt to establish whether all historical and aesthetic understanding is individualizing. We will address the following questions: What is individualizing understanding: what would it be to understand a phenomenon in all its individuality? Whatever the possible answers, is it true that some or all of them are central to understanding works of art and other aesthetic phenomena? Do some or all of them play a significant role in the understanding offered by the study of history? Insofar as historical and aesthetic inquiry allow for understanding in this form, what do we learn about their subject matters, and about the relations between the two inquiries? Background The loci classici for the claims that historical and aesthetic understanding are distinctively individualizing is the work of Benedetto Croce (1902) and R.G.Collingwood (1938, 1939, 1946). -
Eurozine – Network of European Cultural Journals
Critique and crisis. Reinhart Koselleck's thesis of the genesis of modernity” Isenberg, Bo Published in: Eurozine – Network of European cultural journals 2012 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Isenberg, B. (2012). Critique and crisis. Reinhart Koselleck's thesis of the genesis of modernity”. Eurozine – Network of European cultural journals. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-18-isenberg-en.html Total number of authors: 1 General rights Unless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply: Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Read more about Creative commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. LUND UNIVERSITY PO Box 117 221 00 Lund +46 46-222 00 00 Bo Isenberg Critique and crisis Reinhart Koselleck's thesis of the genesis of modernity The modern consciousness as crisis. This was Reinhart Koselleck's premise in his famous study of the origins of critique in the Enlightenment and its role in the revolutionary developments of the late eighteenth century.