Issue 3.2. of History of Humanities has recently been published. It is yet another rich issue containing 6 articles on a variety of topics such as Vico’s philology, 19th century French historiography, criticism in the modern humanities, epistemic virtues and national stereotypes, the marginalization of the humanities in Sweden and an exciting bibliometric analysis of 20th century Venetian historiography. Next to this there are over 20 book reviews. This sharp increase in number of reviews can be taken as a marker of extensive productivity in the field of the history of humanities. Enjoy!

 

The 7th The Making of the Humanities conference returned to Amsterdam from 15-17 November 2018. Since the conference has turned into an annual event in 2016 it has continued to grow. This year a record number of 144 presentations was accepted for presentation. A well-balanced programme and the high quality of contributions made for a very stimulating conference. We thank all participants for their contributions!

For the third time a prize of 500 Euro was awarded for the best Graduate Student paper. Out of 39 graduate papers Josephine Musil-Gutsch (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich) was selected as the winner for her paper “Material Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts. Cooperation between the Sciences and the Humanities (1880-1930)”. The jury report lauded this research for its excellents materials, fantastic choice of topic and brave and clever presentation.

We encourage all participants to submit their papers, presented at the conference, to our journal History of Humanities. Looking forward to 2019 we are happy to announce that The Making of Humanities VIII conference is planned to take place in Cape Town (South-Africa). The Call for Papers will be posted soon. We hope too see you all there again!

Pictures of the Amsterdam event (with thanks to Peter van Emde Boas for providing the pictures!):

The MOH7 conference is only two weeks away! Please find the online version of the conference booklet here. Participants receive a printed version at the registration desk at the conference site. We look very much forward to an exciting and stimulating conference!

We are less then two months away from The Making of the Humanities VII. After the selection of panels and papers, and the completion of the registration process, we are proud to present a packed, rich and high quality conference program which you can access here. Please note that the program is still pre-final because not all details are filled yet and minor adjustments possibly might still occur. You can register for the conference as a participant, even if you will not act as a presenter, commentator or chair. Please follow the instructions for registration here. For questions about registration, the pre-final program or any other inquiries related to the conference, please contact us via historyhumanities@gmail.com.