8th Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History Transformation: Transfer, Transdisciplinarity. Doing History Beyond the Nation-State in the 21st Century

8th Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History Transformation: Transfer, Transdisciplinarity. Doing History Beyond the Nation-State in the 21st Century

Organizer
Danish Graduate School for Historical Studies
Venue
Location
Aarhus, Denmark
Country
Denmark
From - Until
08.08.2010 - 12.08.2010
Deadline
03.05.2010
By
Jørgensen, Claus Møller

The 1990s and early 2000s have seen a rising intellectual debate about how to understand global, international and transnational entanglements, and new historical narratives emerged to explain the post-Cold War world. Within these new historical narratives the nation-state appears as something to go beyond in order to reach a more apt perspective and thus a more apt explanatory approach.

These new challenges to the historical academic community constitute the point of departure for the 8th Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History. How can historians ‘do history’ in the 21st Century when issues relating to transformations, transfers and transdisciplinarity across traditional boundaries are on the research agenda?
Until today, the new approach has attracted an increasing amount of practitioners. It establishes a dialogue between fields of historical research that was lacking before, and brings together comparative history; international, transnational and global history; imperial and (post)colonial history; political, social and economic history; conceptual history and historical methodology.

The Summer School addresses questions to both historiography and the resulting historical interpretations following this move beyond the nation-state.

Four thematic fields serve as a focus for this broad debate:
- Global conceptual and entangled history
- Transdisciplinarity and historical method
- Transnational institutions and their actors and structures
- Cultural and religious encounters and essentialisations

The 8th Nordic Summer School invites PhD students globally working in the field to apply for participation. Scholars excellent in their field will provide keynote lectures, discuss with and comment on the chosen PhD papers.

Registration date (including title on proposed paper): April 9th 2010.
Message of admittance April 16th 2010.

Deadline for papers: Juli 7th 2010.
Number of participants: 25.
The Summer School is organized by the Danish Graduate School for Historical Studies. It will take place at the campus of Aarhus University (DK)

Programme and updates will be published on the web page http://www.historie.forskerskole.au.dk/index.jsp

Programm

8 August
15.00‐18.00 Check in and registration
18.00 Welcome by by Johnny Laursen, Vice‐dean, Aarhus University
Introduction to the summer school by Ann‐Christina Lauring Knudsen, Aarhus University and Hagen Schulz‐Forberg, Aarhus University
19.00 Dinner

9 August
09.00 Transnational history ‐ session I
Lecture
Patricia Clavin, Professor, Jesus College, Oxford University:
Transnational History: Method and relevance
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 PhD Workshops (1)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Transdisciplinarity
Lecture
Ian Manners, Professor, Roskilde University Center:
Title forthcoming
15.0 Coffee break
15.30 Ph.D. Workshops (2)
18.00 Dinner

10 August
09.00 Post‐Colonialism
Lecture
Rochona Majumdar, Professor, University of Chicago:
Postcolonial History in times of Globalization
10.30: Coffee break
11.00 PhD Workshops (3)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 Early Modern Networks
Lecture
Pascal Briorist, Professor, University of Tours:
Title forthcoming
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Ph.D. Workshops (4)
17.00 Global History ‐ Session I
Lecture
Hans‐Erich Bödeker, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck‐Institute for History, Göttingen:
On the Necessity to historize Luhmann’s ‘World Society (Weltgesellschaft)’ for an Understanding of Global History
19.00 Dinner

11 August
09.00 Transnational History ‐ Session II
Lecture
Andreas Eckert, Professor, Department of History, Berlin:
Transnational History at Work
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 PhD Workshops (5)
12.30 Lunch break
13.30 National Histories
Lecture
Jie‐Hyun Lim, Professor, Director of the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture Hanyang University, Seoul:
A Transnational History of ‘Victimhood Nationalism’ and Historical Culture (Korea, Japan, Poland, Germany, and Israel)
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 PhD Workshops (6)
18.00 Dinner

12 August
09.00 Interwar European ?????
Lecture
Mark Gilbert, Professor, University of Trento:
Title forthscoming
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 PhD Workshops (7)
12:30 Lunch break
13.30 Global History ‐ Session II
Lecture
Dominic Sachsenmaier, Professor, Duke University:
Chinese Reactions to World War I ‐ Seen from a Transnational Perspective
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 PhD Workshops (8)
17.00 End of program
19.30 Conference Dinner

13 August
10.00 Breakfast and departure

Contact (announcement)

Claus Møller Jørgensen
Aarhus University
Building 1410
8000 Aarhus C
Tlf. +45 8942 2106.
Fax: +45 8932 2047
Email: hiscj@hum.au.dk

http://iho.au.dk/nyheder/senestenyheder/
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16.04.2010
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