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.

The latest issue of History of Humanities has just come out. Issue 8.1 contains a selection of papers from The Making of the Humanities conference in Barcelona 2021, including by the keynote speakers Cristina Dondi and Mercedes Garcia-Arenal. The issue also contains a review essay on “The Swedish Exception?” and several book reviews.

You can read the entire issue here. Enjoy!

We are delighted to announce that the Society for the History of the Humanities has been extended with a separate Board of Events (BoE). The BoE will organize the Making of the Humanities conferences and various satellite events on the history of the humanities. Members of the BoE will rotate every 2-3 years. The BoE currently consists of:

Isak Hammar (Lund University, Chair)

Eric Hayot (Penn State)

Judith Kaplan (Science History Institute)

Camilla de Simone (U. of Chieti)

Floris Solleveld (KU Leuven)

Click here for more information on the organizational structure of the Society.