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International Conference
“History between Reflexivity and Critique”
Organizers
Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories
International Commission of Historiography and Theory of History
Historical Archive of the University of Athens
Athens, October 30th - November 1st, 2008
Preliminary Program
Thursday, October 30
18:00-20:00
Antonis Liakos: Opening remarks
INTRODUCTORY SESSION: Homage to Fernand Braudel’s “Long durée” 1958-2008
Erato Paris: “La gréco-latinité dans la naissanse de La Méditerranée de Fernand Braudel
(1924-1947)”
Nikos Karapidakis: “Braudel and the readings of Globalization”
Chen Qineng and Jiang Peng: Braudel’s “Long durée” and Chinese Historiography
Coffee Break
20:15-21:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Hayden White: “The Practical Past”
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Friday, October 31
9.30-11.30, REFLEXIVE HISTORIOGRAPHY, REFLECTIONS ON HISTORIOGRAPHY
Zhu Zhenghui: “Zhang Xuecheng: Historical Criticism in China”
Masayuki Sato: “East Asian Annalistic Historiography (Hennen-tai) as a Reflexive
Expression of Historical Narrative”
Kostas Gaganakis: “Thinking about history in the sixteenth century: La Popelinière and his
quest for "perfect history”
Coffee Break
12:00-14:00, TOWARD A HISTORY OF CRITICAL HISTORY
Patrick Joyce: “What is the history of critical history?”
Haris Exertzoglou: “Can History have a critical edge?”
Irmline Veit-Brause: “Historical knowledge and Critique: The history wars and the hidden
agendas”
Lunch Break
17:00-19:00, DANGEROUS LIAISONS? HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE
Servanne Jollivet: “Philosophical historicism as critical reflexivity. From Dilthey to
Heidegger”
Vasso Kindi: “A spectre is haunting History --the spectre of science”
Kostas Gavroglu: “Historians and Historians of Science: The Convergence of Diverging
Traditions”
Coffee Break
19.15-21.30, CRITIQUE AND MODERNITY
Edoardo Tortarolo: “Unspeakable tragedy? Thomas Carlyle and the French Revolution”
Michael Bentley: “Herbert Butterfield and the problem of historical critique”
Axel Korner: “Benjamin, Croce, Gramsci, and the concept of critique in the Philosophy of
History”
Alexandra Lianeri: “Dêmokratia and the Modern Political Imaginary: Setting the History of
Democracy as a Field of Critique”
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Saturday, November 1
9.30-11.30, REPRESENTING THE OTHER
Aziz al Azmeh: “Civilisation as a Strategic Disposition”
Diana Mishkova: “Politics of Regional Representation: Reflection on the History of
Southeast-European Historiography”
Henriette-Rika Benveniste: “The "coming out" of Jewish history in Greece”
Coffee Break
12.00-13.30, HISTORIES/ POST-HISTORIES
Kalle Pihlainen: “Critical historiography in the entertainment age”
Ewa Domanska: “Beyond Anthropocentrism in Historical Studies”
Lunch Break
17.00-19.00, POST-COLONIALISM AS CRITIQUE
Daho Djerbal: “La difficile écriture de l’histoire d’une société colonisée. Interférence des
niveaux d’historicité et d’individualité historique” (“History writing as cultural and political
critique”)
Edward Wang: “The Power of Paradox: The Double-Edged Effect of the Postcolonial
Challenge to Modern Historiography”
Catherine Hall: “Postcolonial reflections on national history: the case of Thomas Babington
Macaulay”
Sanjay Seth: “Historiography after Society”
Coffee Break
19.15-21.15, CRITICAL CONCEPTS
Joanna Bourke: “Trauma Theory and the Politics of History”
Richard (Dick) Vann: “Herstoriography as Critique”
Effi Gazi: Concluding remarks
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Organizing Committee
Haris Exertzoglou (University of the Aegean)
Effi Gazi (University of Thessaly)
Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens)
Vangelis Karamanolakis (University of Athens)
Antonis Liakos (University of Athens)
Despoina Valatsou (Historical Archives of the University of Athens)
Websites: www.historein.gr & http://www.nnet.gr/historein.htm
E-mail: historein@historein.gr
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