The program for the upcoming workshop Comparing Comparing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Comparative Methods and their Histories is now set. The workshop is open for all, free of charge. For more information, see the workshop webpage: https://www.grk-gegenwart.uni-bonn.de/de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsarchiv/workshops/workshop-comparing-comparing-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-comparative-methods-and-their-histories-1

• 9 July, 18:00 c.t. – A public evening lecture by Prof. Benjamin Hutchinson (University of Kent), titled “Comparison and its Discontents”
• 10 July, approx. 10:00–18:00 – Workshop sessions with nine papers

Please register for the workshop in advance at grk2291@uni-bonn.de.

The Board of Events is happy to announce a Call for papers for a 2025 digital workshop: Comparing Comparing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Comparative Methods and their Histories

The Workshop is hosted by the Contemporary/Literature DFG-Research Training Group at the University of Bonn in cooperation with the Society for the History of the Humanities.

The workshop will take place on 9–11 July 2025, in hybrid (in person/digital) format. It is open to all those interested and will be free of charge.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2025.

Read the call for papers here!

The History of the Humanities is one of six focus areas in the newly published Call for Papers for the second international History of Knowledge Conference on 8–10 October, 2025, to be held at Lund University, Sweden. The conference is hosted by the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK).

The History of Knowledge Conference aims to gather scholars from different backgrounds to continue to develop the field of history of knowledge and inspire international collaboration. More info can be found at: https://newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/the-history-of-knowledge-conference/

Confirmed keynote speakers are Robert Darnton (Harvard) and Susanne Schmidt (Berlin).

The deadline for abstracts is 1 May, 2025.

It is with great pleasure that we present this conference report on The making of the Humanities XI, written by Klara Müller and Christian Hoekema.

Conference Report: “Deconstruct or sing our own songs?”

With the eleventh edition in the conference series having taken place in October, the field of the history of the humanities can no longer be called a newcomer. Since the first edition was held in Amsterdam in 2008 – which focused on comparative studies between humanities disciplines – the conferences have since steered toward a broader ambition of developing more consolidated and empirically-oriented research on the history of the humanities. To this extent, after this first on-site conference since the pandemic, the field can be said to increasingly mature into a fully-fledged integrative platform.

Click here for the full report.