Margrit Pernau appreciation post 🫶

Dexter Fergie I agree! I think it’s great you want to do it. I’m not sure the field agrees. It tends to find such discussions a distraction, with lots of gatekeeping. Big names make a habit of criticising non-traditional perspectives and in my own view the profession still hides from theory

The great Richard Slotkin still going strong Harvard University Press podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ope…

Out of the ashes of Les Temps Modernes emerged Les Temps qui restent (TQR)

The first issue has been launched yesterday, including a dossier on “Inheriting Modern Times” – what a venue, what a wonderful website, and what a brilliant lineup

lestempsquirestent.org/fr/numeros/num…

🎙️ Stefanos Geroulanos (Remarque Institute at NYU) sketches the major ways the story of humanity’s emergence conceived over the past centuries, and reflects on what our fashionable prehistories may reveal about the world we currently live in.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 tinyurl.com/4dr3yxdz

My contribution to the #HistoricalFutures series in History and Theory edited by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm is out. The #future starts...now!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hi…

A workshop some of us have organised in honour of our PhD supervisor on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

🥁Today on #KOMPOSITA , a very intriguing chapter of German-American History of Ideas around the concept of PROGRESS: a personal reflection from John P. McCormick on studying with #Koselleck , followed by a response by Jonathon Catlin Jonathon Catlin 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/26925

Great podcast on Stefanos Geroulanos’s great book podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new…

Next Thursday at Wesleyan/Wesleyan University

It's #blogtheblog Tuesday and Christian Wachter (now on Mastodon/LinkedIn) from Bielefeld University has written an exciting post in the ' #theoryofhistory (re)read' section about Shahzad Bashir's book A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures. gtw.hypotheses.org/26324

I’m delighted 2 have a piece forthcoming - this April I hope - in this Chilean journal. It has a rather portentous title - “Historical interpretation as the foundational concept for history education.” It’s a summation of most of the things I’ve been working on since c.1999.

#ArticleSnapshot 📸: Christopher Stedman Parmenter's 'The Twilight of the Gods?' 'discusses the impact of genomic history.'

Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith.1…

If you are curious about The Surge or what I’ll be up to in my Nugent lecture, take a look at this interview. Thanks Russell!

…and the future!

A new #KOMPOSITA contribution to #postcolonial historiography: David Scott’s marvellous “FUTURES PAST” recounts his experiences of reading and rereading James’s The Black Jacobins in the light of #Koselleck ’s theory of historical times. Hypotheses
gtw.hypotheses.org/26077

Heading North...

Our March 2024 issue is out now! 🎉

Read it here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303/2…

Happening soon!

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