We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 8.2 of History of Humanities. The latest issue has a Forum section on the possible futures of the field with contributions from Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Isak Hammar, Rens Bod, Herman Paul, Suzanne Marchand, Kevin Chang, Helen Small and Sverker Sörlin. The issue also contains two review essays by David Marshall and Bas van Bommel, as well as eight book reviews. Click here for reading issue 8.2. Enjoy!
The Board of Events is announcing that the next Making of the Humanities conference will be held at Lund University, Sweden from October 9-11, 2024. Conference details to follow.
The MoH conferences bring together scholars and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
The first workshop organized by the Board of Events will be on Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities. The event will take place digitally on 14-15 November 2023 and will be open to all, free of charge. See the full program here.
In 2023, the Board of Events is helping to launch a new Working Group, hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Modeling a different type of satellite event, this group will convene monthly online to discuss issues of epistemic transfer in the history of the study of language.
The first meeting of this group will take place on 12 September at 9:00 a.m. EDT. For this meeting, conveners invite all participants to bring an object of interest (an image, slide, excerpt, artifact, or recording) to share and discuss. We hope that these will help us introduce our interests to one another and, ideally, to frame the theme of epistemic transfer, which will guide our readings and presentations this year. With this thematic focus, our goal is to highlight historical interactions between the language sciences and other knowledge traditions, so we heartily welcome objects for show-and-tell that come from outside mainstream linguistics.
To inform our discussion and analysis of these objects, we ask everyone to please read the essay “History of Science and History of Philologies” by Lorraine Daston and Glenn Most before coming to the meeting.
Anyone interested can sign up for membership, locate shared readings, and find Zoom links at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.