In 2024, the eleventh conference in this series on the history of the humanities will be hosted by the Lund Center for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Lund University between 9 and 11 October 2024. Updated with final program (scroll down).
Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences
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.
This year’s special conference theme is Shifting Cultures of Knowledge in the History of the Humanities. In 2024, we encourage papers that address the history of the humanities in relation to broader, multidisciplinary studies on knowledge and scholarship. In what ways can the role of knowledge in the history of the humanities be understood and analyzed? To what extent have the humanities fostered specific cultures of knowledge? Is it time to rethink the history of the humanities in relation to other epistemic formations? Has the relationship between the history of the humanities and the history of the human/social sciences been sufficiently explored? How should the history of the humanities be understood in light of longstanding debates on the so-called two (or three) cultures and their respective functions and values?
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.
Keynote speakers
Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University)
Title: Learning from the Father of Lies: Herodotus’ Lessons for Modern Truth-Seekers
Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo)
Title: Adam and Eve, Moses, Three Pyramids, and a Manned Balloon: Shifting Times and Spaces of Knowledge in the Long 18th Century
Program
Papers & Panels
If you have submitted a panel proposal, please keep in mind that panels get a total of 1,5 hours regardless of number of papers. It is up to you to distribute the time among paper presentations, commentary and discussion. We advise to leave sufficient time for general discussion.
For individual papers a total of 30 minutes is scheduled, to be divided into 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion.
Conference Fee
The standard registration fee is 260 euros (+VAT).
For graduate/doctoral students the fee is 210 euros (+VAT).
The fee includes access to all sessions, the welcoming reception (Wednesday 9th), lunches, and tea and/or coffee during the breaks. There is also an optional conference dinner and a guided city tour on Thursday the 10th.
Every participant (including chairs and commentators) has to register individually for the conference by September 1.
Each participant also 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.
Organization
Local Organizing Committee: Isak Hammar, Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Johan Östling (Lund University)
Program Committee: The Society of the History of the Humanities’ Board of Events – Isak Hammar, chair (Lund University), Eric Hayot (Penn State University), Judith Kaplan (Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine), Camilla de Simone (University of Chieti), Floris Solleveld (University of Bristol)
For questions about you participation, please contact us at MoHXI@ht.lu.se.
Lund University is based in the city of Lund in the south of Sweden. The main campus buildings of Lund University are located in the center of Lund and are an approximate 5-20 minutes’ walk from the Lund C, railway station.
Conference venue: LUX building Lund University
Venue address: Helgonavägen 3, Lund, Sweden.
Conference participants are asked to make their travel arrangements and pay for their own tickets.
You can find more information about travel and accomodation by following these links:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/visit-lund-university
The MOHXI Conference is generously sponsored by Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet, Sven och Dagmar Saléns Stiftelse, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse and the Society for the History of the Humanities.