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🛎️ How can the theory of history be rethought through things and materiality? In this new blog post @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social explores “inbetweenness” as an ontological problem within the historical discipline - out of the box. #Theoryofhistory #materiality👇
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Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Knowledge and Narrative by yours truly. Free access available until 5 December at
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🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀
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The article will (as in the last week) shortly be published on the Geschichtswissenschaftsdidaktik Blog, as it is a collaborative effort.
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This week, we are publishing the second part of an conversation with Andreas Frings (geschichtsadmin.bsky.social), Jana Hoffmann, Philipp McLean (philippmclean.bsky.social), and Heidrun Ochs, about the question of how to teach #theoryofhistory.
Read more here 👇
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The article will shortly be published on the Geschichtswissenschaftsdidaktik Blog, as it is a collaborative effort.
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This week, we are publishing the first part of an conversation with Andreas Frings (geschichtsadmin.bsky.social), Jana Hoffmann, Philipp McLean (philippmclean.bsky.social), and Heidrun Ochs, about the question of how to teach #theoryofhistory.
Read more here 👇
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Our December 2025 "Philology Now" theme issue, edited by Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith, is out!
Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...
Mit den Blogs Geschichtstheorie am Werk und dem theorieblog.de haben sich zwei Plattformen etabliert, die sich für eine breite Öffentlichkeit den theoretischen Grundfragen ihrer Fachdisziplinen (Geschichtswissenschaften und Politikwissenschaften) widmen.... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30404
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#REMINDER We are delighted to announce that #MartinaKessel will be joining us on Thursday for a #COLLOQUIUM on 'Das exkludierende Selbst. Die Moderne als Identitätspolitik in ungleicher Absicht".
Join us at Bielefeld University in Room X-E0-002 or online! #theoryofhistory #genderhistory
Call for Papers: In Zusammenarbeit mit @theorieblog.bsky.social laden wir zu Einreichungen ein, die beide Disziplinen verbinden oder die Texte/Theorien der jeweils anderen Disziplin kritisch untersuchen. Deadline: 12. April 2026.
Mehr hier👇
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#theoryofhistory #politicaltheory
Call for Papers: In collaboration with @theorieblog.bsky.social we invite submissions linking both fields or critically assessing each other’s texts/theories. Deadline: 12 April 2026
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#theoryofhistory #politicaltheory
Call for Papers: In Zusammenarbeit mit @theorieblog.bsky.social laden wir zu Einreichungen ein, die beide Disziplinen verbinden oder die Texte/Theorien der jeweils anderen Disziplin kritisch untersuchen. Deadline: 12. April 2026.
Mehr hier👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/33120
#theoryofhistory #politicaltheory
Call for Papers: In collaboration with @theorieblog.bsky.social we invite submissions linking both fields or critically assessing each other’s texts/theories. Deadline: 12 April 2026
For more information 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/33150
#theoryofhistory #politicaltheory
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The editorial board would like to wish you a happy winter break with the final post of the year. 👇
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This week, Clemens Wischermann writes about emotions in research, proposing an empathic difference to avoid misidentification and excessive sympathy.
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#REMINDER We are pleased to announce that Jürgen Renn will be joining us tomorrow for a #COLLOQUIUM on 'Das Anthropozän – Eine Herausforderung für die Menschheit und die Wissenschaft'.
Join us at Bielefeld University in Room X-E0-001 or online! #theoryofhistory #Anthropocene
More #theoryofhistory at gtw.hypotheses.org ! We have a great post from Gion Wallmeyer form the University of Bielefeld on "Are the Times a-Changin‘? Argumentieren mit Zeit und Wandel in der Geschichtswissenschaft"
Read the post here: 👇
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11.11.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1On the other hand, he considers reading about a historical context outside one's area of expertise to be an instructive experience.
11.11.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He does so by unpacking the story that the book tells through the monument of how objects and ideas that were understood as monuments went from being things of commemoration to things of history.
11.11.2025 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On the one hand, he unveils one of the book's key scientific contributions: changes in the conceptualisation of knowledge in 18th-century France.
11.11.2025 09:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s Tuesday, and Shahzad Bashir reading Lisa Regazzoni’s The Episteme of the Gallic Past: French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
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A new blogpost from Lisa Regazzoni (@lisaregazzoni.bsky.social): In it she describes her experience visiting the town of Salem and reflects on finding words for the encounter of merging temporal horizons.
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
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24.09.2025 07:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Therefore, they challenge the conceptual frameworks through which African legal history has often been written, which privilege colonial categories of law over African epistemologies and practices.
24.09.2025 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They show that law was a living practice constituted through social relationships and local knowledge rather than an abstract system.
24.09.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As she demonstrates, these records preserve not only the outcomes of disputes, but also the processes through which truth, justice, peace and reputation were defined, debated and determined.
24.09.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To do so, Nabukenya draws on case files that she discovered, organised and catalogued from Buganda's native courts and the High Court of Uganda.
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