Thursday, October 21, 2004

9:00-9:50
Opening Session
Chair: Sorin Antohi
Welcome: Yehuda Elkana, Richard T. Vann
Keynote Address: On the State of the Art in the Theory and History of Historiography, delivered by Georg G. Iggers

10:00-12:00
Panel One: History Textbooks in the Public Sphere
Chair and Discussant: Jörn Rüsen
Etienne François: Entangled History as Challenge: the Project of a French-German Common History Textbook
Attila Pók: Scapegoats Old and New: Some Remarks on the Politics of Teaching History in Post-Communist Hungary
Razvan Pârâianu: The History Textbooks Controversy in Romania. Four Years On
Hanna Schissler: Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Project

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

15:00-16:00
Opening of the Textbook Exhibition. Organized by Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, in cooperation with the Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, and the Romanian Institute of Recent History. Sponsored by Pasts, Inc., the French and German Embassies. Opening address by Sorin Antohi (in French), greetings by representatives of the Georg-Eckert-Institut, Goethe-Institut Budapest (in German), Institut Français de Budapest (in French). (Monument Building, First Floor, Exhibition Hall)

Reception to follow

16:00-19:00
Panel Two: Historical Studies: From Epistemology and Ideology to Ontology
Chair and Discussant: Jean-Claude Robert
Alun Munslow: History, Narrative, and Truth
Ewa Domanska: Sincerity and the Discourse about the Past
Michael Bentley: Chronism: A Doctrine about Authenticity in Historical Studies
Bo Strath: A European Teleology
Johann Tempelhoff: Environmental History and Sustainable Cultural Dynamics

Parallel Activity

16:30-18:30
Public Debate: History Textbooks in the Public Sphere.
From Bilateralisms to European Multilateralism (Institut Français, Fo u. 17)
Moderator: Gábor Klaniczay
Participants: Jörn Rüsen, Etienne François, Christiane Kohser-Spohn, Sándor Köles, Attila Pók, Gerhardt Seewann, Philippe Joutard

19:30
Concert, in cooperation with the Franz Liszt Music Academy. Followed by a reception offered by the French Embassy and the German Embassy (Goethe-Institut Budapest, Andrássy út 24).

Friday, October 22, 2004

9:00-11:00
Panel Three: History, Philosophy, Social Science, Science
Chair and Discussant: Yehuda Elkana
Matti Peltonen: Investigating the Borders of History Theory: Max Weber's and Michel Foucault's Central Historical Concepts as Examples of Excluded Methodologies of the 20th Century Historical Thinking
Zenonas Norkus: Troubles with Mechanisms: Some Problems of the 'Mechanismic Turn' in Historical Sociology and Social History
Oliver Kozlarek: Modernity and the Narrative Appropriation of Values: The Case of Latin American Philosophy
Jack Zammito: Historicism and Naturalism: Bridging the Epistemologies of the 'Two Cultures'

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-13:30
Panel Four: History, Fiction , Irony
Chair and Discussant: Hayden White
Rik Peters: Noli giudicare! Croce and White on Irony
Herman Paul: Deliver Us From Irony: Challenges and Limitations of Hayden White's Redemptive Strategy
Kalle Pihlainen: Committed Writing: History, Biography, and Poststructuralism
Jasmina Lukic: Post-Communist Historiographic Metafiction

13:30-15:00
Lunch Break

15:00-18:15
Panel Five: Historical Studies in Post-1989 Eastern Europe
Chair and Discusant: Sorin Antohi
Daniela Koleva: Historical Studies in Bulgaria: Between Academic Standards and Political Agendas
Michal Kopecek and Pavel Kolar: A Difficult Quest for New Paradigms: Czech Historiography after 1989
Péter Apor and Balázs Trencsényi: Fine-tuning the Polyphonic Past: Hungarian Historical Writing in the 1990s
Maciej Górny: Historical Studies in Poland in the 1990s
Cristina Petrescu and Dragos Petrescu: Mastering vs. Coming to Terms with the Past. A Critical Analysis of the Post-Communist Romanian Historiography
Zora Hlavickova: Slovakian Historiography in the 1990s
Bogdan Murgescu: Practical Dilemmas of Historians in Post-1989 Eastern Europe

Saturday, October 23, 2004

9:00-11:30
Panel Six: History, Memory, Trauma, and Culture
Chair and Discussant: Ewa Domanska
Keith Jenkins: On History, Historians, and Silence
Klas-Göran Karlsson: On How to Analyse Historical Consciousness
Moshe Idel: The Emergence of the 'Historical Jew'
István Rév: The Return of the Unsuppressed
Eelco Runia: Representation, Replication, Reproduction
Wulf Kansteiner: From Victim to Perpetrator Trauma: A Critique of the Cultural Trauma Metaphor

11:30-11:50
Coffee Break

11:50-13:30
Panel Seven: Comparative History (Related to the Workshop on Representations on the Past: The Writing of National Histories: Narrating National Histories, sponsored by the European Science Foundation).
Chair: Chris Lorenz
Gita Deneckere, Thomas Welskopp: 'Class' in Grand Narratives of National Historiography
James Kennedy: Nation and Religion in European Historiography
Ulrich Wyrwa: Jewish Historiography in Europe as Transnational Historiography
Discussant: Christoph Conrad

13:30-15:00
Lunch Break

15:00-18:00
Panel Eight: From World History to Global History
Chair and Discussant: Johann Tempelhoff
Donald R. Kelley: History at the Millennium
Chen Xin: The Rebirth of Historiography and Discourse Selecting: Western Thought and the Track of Chinese Historiography in the Past Twenty-five Years
Thomas H. C. Lee: Recent Developments in Historical Thinking in Taiwan and China
Bonnie Smith: Scenes from Women's Historical Reading
Carol Gluck: After the Shipwreck: New Horizons in History-writing
Daniel Woolf: Globalizing the History of Historiography: Problems, Challenges, Opportunities

18:15
Jazz Concert with Johnny Raducanu (piano) and Harry Tavitian (piano and other instruments, vocal)

Sunday, October 24, 2004

9:00-11:00
Panel Nine: Medieval Historiographies and Their Legacies
Chair and Discussant: János Bak
Gábor Klaniczay: Deciphering Palimpsests and Reconstituting Sites of Memory. Medieval Studies beyond the Methodological Debates of the Past Decades
Sarah Foot: Narrative and Representation in Recent Medieval Historiography
Masayuki Sato: The Realm of Historiography in the East Asian Culture
Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis: Changing Mental Maps: Byzantium, the Balkans and the Borders of Europe

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-13:45 Panel Ten: Historical Studies Today: From the (Ethno-) National to the Regional and the Global
Chair and Discussant: László Kontler
Jörn Rüsen : Ethnocentrism in Present-day Historical Writing
Aziz al-Azmeh: Postmodern Neo-Romanticism and Historical Categorisation
Halil Berktay: Nationalism in Turkish Historiography
Estevăo de Rezende Martins: European Paradigms/Models in Latin American Historiography
Jean-Claude Robert: The Trend Towards Globalization of History and International Perspective : Structural and Conjunctural Aspects

13:45-14:15 Closing Session
Chair: Sorin Antohi