The Making of the Humanities II
Second International
Conference on the History of the Humanities
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21-23 October 2010,
Call for Abstracts
The theme of this year’s meeting is From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines, focusing on the period 1600-1900.
We
especially encourage submissions on:
Increasing specialization and institutionalization: How
did various branches of the humanities develop into modern differentiations
between disciplines?
Historization of the humanities: How
did the historical approach become the leading method underlying the humanities
-- from philology to musicology?
Humanties vs sciences: How
were the humanities positioned with respect to the sciences? Was there a continuing
search for patterns and ‘laws’ in humanities?
Interaction between regions: What
was the impact of the European humanities on the humanities in
Rise of
canonical figures and themes: How did individual scholars come
to be identified with their disciplines? How did certain historical moments or
works obtain canonical positions, often in relation to the ideals of cultural
nationalism?
We strongly favor abstracts that are as comparative as possible, i.e.
that explore the connections between different
disciplines and/or persons in the history of the humanities.
Abstract Submission
Send an
abstract of maximally 400 words to: HistoryHumanities@gmail.com
Deadline for abstract submissions:
Auspices: Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
(ILLC)