Issue 7.1 of History of Humanities has been published!
It contains a Theme on “HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION ACROSS THREE CULTURES” edited by Daniel Woolf, an article on the rise and fall of the discipline of gnostologia by Marco Sgarbi, and several book reviews.
Click here to read the issue.
After several requests and due consideration, we have decided to turn the 10th Making of the Humanities conference into an online meeting, from 3 till 5 November 2022.
The submission deadline has been extended to 1 July 2022.
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of fields, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies/philology, etc.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University
Eric Hayot, PennState College of the Liberal Arts
Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2022
Notification of acceptance: August 2022
Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: 1 July 2022
Notification of acceptance: August 2022
There will be NO conference fee, but each presenter needs to be a member of the Society for the History of the Humanities ($30 for PhD students, $60 for others). Membership includes subscription to the journal History of Humanities. Click here to become a member of SHOH.
Local Organizing Committee: Christopher Drew Armstrong (Pitt), David Lachlan Marshall (Pitt), Carla Nappi (Pitt), David Shumway (CMU)
Program Committee: International Board of the Society
We are delighted to announce that History of Humanities 6.2 is out!
It contains 16 articles divided as follows:
A Theme section “DECENTRALIZING THE HISTORY OF THE HUMANITIES”
A Forum section “THE CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE HISTORY OF THE HUMANITIES”.
In addition, the issue contains 18 book reviews.
For a full overview of contents and access, please use this link.
We are proud to announce that the preliminary program of The Making of the Humanities IX conference in Barcelona (20-22 September 2021) is now available online and can be found here.
Please note that due to the circumstances surrounding COVID19, the entirety of the 2021 conference will be digital.
REGISTRATION: If you would like to join for what promises to be an excellent set of presentations, you can find instructions for registering here.
There is no conference fee, but each participant needs to be a member of the Society for the History of the Humanities ($30 for PhD students, $60 for others). Membership includes subscription to the journal History of Humanities and will also give access to the entire MOH-IX conference. The registration deadline is 31 August 2021.
Cristina Dondi (Oxford University): “The history of the book and libraries: from bibliophilia to social and economic history”
Mercedes García-Arenal (CCHS-CSIC Madrid): “The European Quran: the role of the Muslim Holy Book in writing European cultural history.”
Matthew Rampley (Masaryk University): “Naturalistic Theories in the Humanities: Past and Present”
Local Organizing Committee: Daniele Cozzoli (UPF), Linda Gale Jones (UPF), Tomas Macsotay (UPF) and Neus Rotger (UOC)
Program Committee: International Board of the Society