Inaugural Conference, International Society for Cultural History

Call for papers: Inaugural Conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Ghent, August 27-31, 2008

At this four-day event – the inaugural assembly of the International Society for Cultural History that was founded at a successful conference on cultural history in Aberdeen in July 2007 – we want to address a series of fundamental questions about the recent impact and the near future of diverse forms of cultural history. Taking its cue from the fundamental work of, among others, Catherine Belsey, Peter Burke, Lynn Hunt, and Philippe Poirrier, the conference will tackle the vexing question of the precise nature of cultural history. Which disciplinary models and/or critical paradigms can be brought together under this label? Do we actually need such a unifying label? If we do, then what exactly do we understand by it? Are there different, ‘national’ (British, French, German, Italian, Finnish…) forms of cultural history and what distinguishes them from one another? How does one teach cultural history and what does one teach when one teaches cultural history?Jürgen Pieters / Alexander Roose
University of Ghent
Belgium
Email: jurgen.pieters@ugent.be
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