practices of historiography

Re-imagining academic exchanges: creating unconferencing formats for the 2024 Historicidagen

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In December 2023, our “unconferencing” committee brainstormed on opportunities to redefine academic discourse and collaboration during the 2024 Historicidagen in Maastricht. In this post, we would like to share our ideas and invite fellow researchers, educators, and heritage professionals to suggest their own pioneering formats. At the beginning of our meeting, we briefly defined what the theme of the 2024 Historicidagen, “Undisciplined History”, means to us and what the notion of “undisciplined” research has to do with transcending traditional conference formats. What excited us about undisciplining was that it looks like an invitation to do things differently. Different by reaching out [Read more...]

Always walk alone? Historians and Collaborations

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Why do historians like to write alone? In this blog article, Camilo Erlichman reflects on the reluctance of historians to engage in collaborative forms of writing, tracing the reasons to the development of the discipline in the 19th century. In doing so, he argues that while mono-authorship will remain a key pillar of the discipline, historians need to embrace more emphatically collective forms of writing: not to succumb to the logics of marketisation, but to diversify their sources and widen their intellectual horizons.

The East-West Divide in the EU: Reconsidering Scales, Pursuing Historicization

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Dr Ferenc Laczó recently authored a blog on the East-West divide within the European Union from a historical perspective. This was published on the website of the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. Please find his contribution here: https://recet.at/blog/november-30-2020/.