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
The latest issue of History of Humanities is now online!
With a Theme section on “Sounds of Language—Languages of Sound”, a Forum section on “The Rise and Decline of ‘Colonial Humanities'”, two regular articles, 2 review essays, and 13 book reviews.
Two quotes from respectively the Theme and the Forum sections:
” Our findings support authors who have recently questioned the supposed divide between the humanities and sciences.”
“The humanities are still in urgent need of being decolonized and deprovincialized.”
The latest issue of History of Humanities is online!
With 6 full papers from 4 different continents, a Forum section on “Libraries as Laboratories”, and 19 book reviews.
Wang Hui’s paper on “Humanities in China: History and Challenges” is open access.