Organization Committee: Jeffrey Andrew Barash (Université d’Amiens/Paris), Christophe Bouton (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Servanne Jollivet (CNRS/Pays Germaniques – Transferts culturels) Institutional affiliation: Pays Germaniques (Transferts ...
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Workshop: Historical and Scientific Explanation: Reexamining the Connection
15-06-2018 (00:00) - 16-06-2018 (00:00)
Keynote Speaker: Michael Strevens (NYU) Invited Speakers: Philippe Huneman (CNRS/Paris Sorbonne 1), Sylvia Wenmackers (KUL) In a 1942 article Carl Hempel famously described historical explanations as (scientific) ‘explanation sketches’: incomplete ...
Workshop: (Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation
14-12-2017 (09:00) - 15-12-2017 (19:00)
Thinking About the PAst (TAPAS) is pleased to announced the programme for their workshop '(Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation' in Ghent on 14-15 December 2017. Keynote speakers are prof. Robert Meister, prof. George ...
Workshop: Practicing Foucault: truth, conduct and politics
29-06-2017 (00:00) - 30-06-2017 (00:00)
This doctoral seminar wishes to explore how historians can engage with Foucault’s heuristic concepts. Which challenges and difficulties does the historian face when appropriating concepts such as “governmentality” or “parrhêsia”? The seminar consists ...
Workshop: The Times of History
20-03-2017 (00:00) - 21-03-2017 (00:00)
The question of historical time(s) is at the core of theoretical debates on history. In fact, it has already played a central role in a large variety of perspectives and has created a point of convergence among the well-established approaches of ...