We are taking a break for the summer! We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable summer and will be back on September 9 with a new piece: #theoryofhistory.
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Blog for #TheoryOfHistory posts by @rileysline.bsky.social (rl), @philippmclean.bsky.social (pm), @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social (lr), Bettina Severin-Barboutie (bsb) and @marcuswystub.bsky.social (mw) gtw.hypotheses.org
We are taking a break for the summer! We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable summer and will be back on September 9 with a new piece: #theoryofhistory.
25.07.2025 12:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are pleased to announce that the first part of our #BielefeldTheoryTalks series has been published. It is a micro-monograph entitled "Temporal Vectors and the Compass of History. Politics and Ethics at the End-time" by @ethankleinberg.bsky.social.
24.07.2025 09:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Plus d’informations ici : gtw.hypotheses.org/31408
22.07.2025 07:00 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Elle constate toutefois la renaissance des espoirs et des idées utopistes actuellement. S’appuyant sur cette renaissance, elle invite les chercheurs à se concentrer avant tout sur les événements qui ont été portés par l’espérance et qui semblaient possibles, mais qui n’ont pas fini par se produire.
22.07.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0D’une part, elle montre comment l’utopie entre dans l’histoire avec les révolutions modernes ouvrant l’horizon des possibles.
D’autre part, elle révèle comment au XXe siècle elle perd à la fois son charme et l’idéal communiste qui le portait.
Il est mardi et Michèle Riot-Sarcey de #blogstheblog s’interroge sur l’évolution de l’utopie depuis le XIXe siècle.
22.07.2025 06:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vor der Sommerpause schon Vorfreude auf nach der Sommerpause, mit Freude an - neuen, anderen, fließenden, kreativen - Formen! Geschichte schreiben im 21. Jahrhundert mit @achland.bsky.social @susannequitmann.bsky.social @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social @modomodo.bsky.social @michaelwildt.bsky.social ua
07.07.2025 19:43 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1In today's blog post, Daria Novgorodova discusses traces in material objects within Russia's first public mineral collection. She asks how these polysemantic objects accumulate layers of meaning over time and leave traces.
Read more here 👇
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On July 10th, Stefan Haas will speak about "Nach der Narrativität. Warum für die Geschichtswissenschaft eine eigene Argumentationstheorie essentiell ist?"
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online!
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A new addition to Theory on the Edge is out now and we ask: What does the collection of books on theories of history look like in your academic/university library?
Please comment here 👇
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It's #blogtheblog Tuesday! In her blogpost, Agnes Piekacz asks how historians link the messiness of the objects they encounter to the past they aim to access and reconstruct.
Read the post here: 👇
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DOMINO-TALK: We are happy to announce a #dominotalk between @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social and Shahzad Bashir, which will take place next Thursday, the fifth of June.
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online! #theoryofhistory | #Material-Oriented-Theory-of-History
On today's #blogtheblog Tuesday, Dietmar Schenk re-reads Karl-Georg Faber's 'Theorie der Geschichtswissenschaft'. Read more here 👇
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Am heutigen #blogtheblog Dienstag liest Dietmar Schenk erneut Karl-Georg Fabers "Theorie der Geschichtswissenschaft". Lesen Sie hier mehr 👇
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Our June 2025 issue is out now! 🎉
Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...
Welche Rolle spielen Quellen in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Forschung? In @hist-theory.bsky.social schlägt Lisa Regazzoni vor, Quellen nicht als statische Dinge, sondern als Grenzflächen zu denken, die mit ihrer Umgebung kommunizieren ⬇
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Such an understanding, she argues, requires forms of representation in which research practices and methods, researchers and the material surface are included in the investigation both as subjects and objects.
13.05.2025 05:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In order to overcome these assumptions and reconceptualise historical materials, she proposes a new way of thinking: an understanding of historical materials as interfaces that emerge as contaminations and material rearrangements in the thought process and communicates with their 'surroundings'.
13.05.2025 05:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She claims that implicit ontological notions of historical materials as separate, complete and autonomous entities continue to shape conventional historiographical practices.
13.05.2025 05:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's Tuesday, and Lisa Regazzoni (@lisaregazzoni.bsky.social) #blogstheblog dealing with the existence of an ‘ontological in-between’.👇
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We are happy to announce that Riley Linebaugh (@rileysline.bsky.social) has joined the editorial board of Theory of History at Work and are looking forward to our theoretical work together.
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Today's #blogtheblog Tuesday features a post by Dietmar Schenk! In his post “What do archives have to do with historical theory?”, he reflects on the practice of historical archives and builds a bridge between archival science and historical theory. gtw.hypotheses.org/30545
22.04.2025 07:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Am heutigen #blogtheblog Dienstag gibt es einen Beitrag von Dietmar Schenk! In seinem Beitrag "Was haben Archive mit Geschichtstheorie zu tun?" reflektiert er die Praxis historischer Archive und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Archivwissenschaft und Geschichtstheorie. gtw.hypotheses.org/30545
22.04.2025 07:12 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0For more information, click here: gtw.hypotheses.org/30446
08.04.2025 06:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1This museography resists the colonial and racial ideology developed by a Europe that saw itself as a model of civilisation from the modern era onwards.
08.04.2025 06:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sauzaret points out, however, that the absence of objects in no way signifies a lack or underdevelopment. It is an alternative narrative, a different kind of museography.
08.04.2025 06:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Conceived on La Réunion island, this new type of museum is a museum without objects that is supposed to decolonise the Western museum through a programme of absolute disorder.
08.04.2025 06:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's Tuesday, and Thibault Sauzaret of #blogstheblog takes a look at the post-museum proposed by Françoise Vergès in her book “Programme de désordre absolu: Décoloniser le musée”.
08.04.2025 06:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really looking forward to the conversations on the production of historical knowledge at this year’s annual conference, organized by the Geschichte+Theorie network at ZiF (@zif-bielefeld.bsky.social) from March 27 to 29.
Take a look at the program: geschichte-und-theorie.de/tagungen/ges...
Today sees the publication of a new post from @marcuswystub.bsky.social! In “Randgänge in der Geschichtstheorie”, he seeks to understand the practice of theorizing as an activity on the edge of a text and, in certain parallels, also of philosophizing. gtw.hypotheses.org/30292
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