The latest issue of History of Humanities is online!
With 6 full papers from 4 different continents, a Forum section on “Libraries as Laboratories”, and 19 book reviews.
Wang Hui’s paper on “Humanities in China: History and Challenges” is open access.
UPDATE: The MOH 2021 Conference will go digital (or perhaps hybrid), and the submission deadline has been postponed until May 15.
The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) will host the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, from 20 till 22 September 2021. The conference will take place each day between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. (Central European Time).
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of fields, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.
This year there is a special conference theme. We encourage submissions that explore this theme, but remain fully open to submissions addressing other subjects.
This year’s conference theme is Unfolding Disciplines in the History of the Humanities.
A growing body of scholarship suggests that the historiography of the humanities is increasingly organized around new interdisciplinary collaborations that affect the very understanding of what it means to belong to a humanities field. This year we invite contributions that interlace different disciplinary approaches in order to frame humanistic scholarship in terms of a continued engagement with the limits and possibilities offered by the softening and even erasure of disciplinary boundaries. Participants are also encouraged to think expansively about the impact of the ongoing process of reinvention of established as well as new fields as a result of increased cross-pollination and collaboration.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies/philology, etc.
Cristina Dondi (Oxford University): “The history of the book and libraries: from bibliophilia to social and economic history”
Mercedes García-Arenal (CCHS-CSIC Madrid): “The European Quran: the role of the Muslim Holy Book in writing European cultural history.”
Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University): “Naturalistic Theories in the Humanities: Past and Present”
Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2021
Notification of acceptance: July 2021
Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: 15 May 2021
Notification of acceptance: July 2021
Since the conference will be digital (or perhaps hybrid), the conference fee will be kept to an absolute minimum, and will possibly be waived. More information about the conference fee will follow later. Yet each participant needs to be a member of the Society for the History of the Humanities ($30 for PhD students, $60 for others). Membership includes subscription to the journal History of Humanities. Click here to become a member of SHOH.
Local Organizing Committee: Daniele Cozzoli (UPF), Linda Gale Jones (UPF), Tomas Macsotay (UPF) and Neus Rotger (UOC)
Program Committee: International Board of the Society
History of Humanities 5.1 has just come out with a special Theme on the History of Scholarly Forgetting. The Theme contains 11 contributions ranging from the forgetting of Nazi classical scholarship, the overlooking of amateurs in scholarly research, to the forgetting of Newton as a scholar. The special issue is topped off by a discussion about the phenomenon of scholarly oblivion beyond disciplinary boundaries.
In addition, issue 5.1 has three marvelous regular articles, on E. Panofsky, E.B. Tylor and the Ciceronian topos of historia magistra vitae, as well as 10 in-depth book reviews.
Enjoy!
The journal History of Humanities solicits submissions for a special issue on
Decentralizing the History of the Humanities
A growing body of scholarship suggests that historiography of the humanities unnecessarily limits itself if it takes a given knowledge center — often Europe — as its main focus. For this special issue we are interested in contributions that help to recognize a poly-centric or decentralized perspective on the history of the humanities. For example through investigations that highlight the circulation of humanistic knowledge between multiple centers in different parts of the world, or through the study of scholarship from places none of which can be called a center.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2020
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2021
Deadline of final paper: May 15, 2021
Date of publication: October 2021 (issue 6.2 of History of Humanities)
Maximum word length (including notes): 8,000
Manuscripts must be submitted via the website of History of Humanities, www.journals.uchicago.edu/hoh/, adding under the title of the manuscript: “Submitted to the Special Issue on Decentralizing the History of the Humanities”