Specialised Themes
Thèmes Spécialisés
1. An assessment of XXth-century historiography:
professionalisation, methodologies, writings
1. Bilan historiographique du XXe siècle: professionnalisation,
courants méthodologiques, écriture
Wednesday, 9 August, 9:00-12:00
Mercredi 9 août de 9h à 12h
Building C, Auditorium 1
Organiser:
Rolf
Torstendahl, Sweden
INTRODUCTION
AND ABSTRACTS
Discussants:
Beatriz Inés Moreyra, Argentine
Irmline Veit-Brause, Germany
Introduction:
The power over history includes the setting
of an agenda for historical studies. In the 20th century historians
in many countries have lost part of their power over the agenda-setting
in history to media people.
In other countries historians have become
freer then before in their relation to political power systems.
The authors will deal with such fundamental problems and also
analyse changes during the 20th century in respect to
- The relation between academic historians
(with a basis in academies and universities) and non-academic
historians (popular writers, journalists) and their eventual
competition for markets, audiences and public support; n the
growth of professional authority and methodological and theoretical
firmness, versus de-professionalisation and de-scientification
(postmodernism) as counter-movements
- The growth and change of thematic interests
among historians: specialisation vs. national history vs. transnational
themes, and eventual globalisation of research and themes;
- The place of historians in the academic
community: the relation of history to social science theory on
one hand and its relation to philosophy of history and to the
history of historiography on the other -which role have such
relations played for the community of historians?
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Papers:
- Richard Vann, USA
No Kings in Israel? Individuals
and Schools in American Historiography
- Stuart Macintyre, Australia
History in a New Country: Australians
Debate Their Past
- Masayuki Sato, Japan
The Two Historical Cultures in
Contemporary Japan
- Qiang Edward Wang, USA
Historical Writings in 20th Century
China: Methodological Innovation and Ideological Influence
- Atieno Odhiambo, USA
Re-introducing the "People
Without History": African Historiographies
- Lutz Raphael, Germany
Flexible Response? Strategies
of Academic Historians Towards Larger Markets for National Historiographies
and Growing Scientific Standards
- Aleksander Logunov, Russia
Russian Historical Science within
the Historiographical Culture and the Twentieth Century Historiographical
Project
- Attila Pòk, Hungary
Eastern European Historiography
in the Twentieth Century