We are pleased, once again, to invite researchers from all over the world to follow the Road to Santiago in this Jubilar Year to debate the state of History at the threshold a new millenium.

The first edition of 'History under Debate' (1993) focused on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the proclamation of the end of History. At the time of this second conference of History under Debate, and despite the short lapse of time since our last conference, we are living through a return to History - a history with renewed values of humanity and.peace, of justice and solidarity, both global and social. And is it not true that when history changes, its writing changes as well?

We wish to bring up to date our previous reflections and debates on the methodologies and epistemology of History, to further new research approaches, to help shape historiography as an increasingly important field of study, to fight the fragmentation of our discipline, and to promote the globalisation of the history being written . . .

Our aim, above all, is to go beyond the 'crisis of history' by encouraging historical alternatives, opening new paradigms or consensus to direct the historian to the next century. We can only accomplish this if, at the same time, we are willing to embrace our social responsibilities and take upon our shoulders the responsibility of History as we are faced by the problems of a changing world. We must begin by acknowledging as researchers and as history teachers.

 ROUND TABLES

I. Political uses of history

A. Assessment of 20th History
B. Myths, historiography and nationalism
C. Chiapas and History
D. Sexuality, History and politics
E. The historian and power

 II. What is the use of history now?

F. The debate of humanities: assesment and perspectives
G. The historian, ethics and social commitment
H. History, employment and generational renewal
I. The University: access to teaching and to a teaching career

 III. Science, postmodernity, a new rationality

J. Is History still a science ?
K. History and discourse, narrative and fiction
L. Postmodernity, History and New Enlightment

 IV. Interfaces of history

M. Interdisciplinarity under debate
N. Is the division of History in chronological areas obsolete ?
O. Men and women: a common History ?
P. Theory and History: a difficult relationship

 V. Latin historiographies

Q. Galician Historiography under debate
R. The future of Spanish historiography
S. Latin American historiography and its identity

 THEMATIC SECTIONS

I. Turn of the century

1. Assessment of 20th century historiographies
2. The crisis of History, a change in paradigms
3. Return of the social subject and the end of violence
4. Mentality, otherness and multiculturalism
5. Pasts and presents, pasts and futures

 II. New Paradigms

6. History in the 21st century: new approaches
7. How can history be made global ?
8. New technologies and the writing of History
9. Ecologic History, General History
10. What History should be taught in the new century ?

 III. Historiographic problems

11. Historiography: definition and history of the science
12. History, historiography and globalisation
13. Post-colonial historiographies
14. The work of a historian: sociability, material conditions and mass media
15. Historical specialities: convergencies and cross-section relationships

 Enrolments

Fees:

*Ordinary fee: 10,000 pts
*Fee with a right to conference report: 20,000 pts

 Forms of payment:

*bank cheque
*postal order ( enclose receipt copy)
*bank transfer to the a/c number 2080-0156-49-0040005041 of Caixavigo ( enclose copy of receipt).
*credit card (to indicate type, number and date of expire)

Please return the completed enrollement form provided below prior to 15 June 1999

There will be a 50% discount in enrollement fees for students and unemployed graduates ( enclose relevant documentation) and for all those who return the completed International Enquiry 'The State of History' that will be posted and which will also be avaliable on Internet.

Assistance certificates will be issued.

 Papers

Those inscribed are entitled to submit papers in the thematic sections.

They should forward the title together with a one-page abstract on inscription. the complete text ( original and a copy on paper and a WordPerfect or Word disk) up to a maximum of 20 pages ( DIN A4 double-spaced) prior to 1 june 1999.

Those enrolled are entitled to propose in writing contributions in the different round tables, each of them summarized in one sheet ( except for exceptional cases) prior to 1 june 1999.

Abstracts will be circulated before and during the conference.

Fifty out of the one hundred speakers scheduled to participate in the conference, both in the thematic sections and the round tables will be selected among those enrolled who send along with their paper a summarised c/v ( one sheet). They will be entitled to a 30,000 pts travel grant (provided they come from outside Galicia) and a copy of the Conference. Report together with an offprint of their paper ( provided it has been read personally).

Those papers that are not chosen will be summarised in the corresponding thematic section.

Empirical works that do not adapt to the contents of the conference, which is specifically devoted to reflection , historiography, methodology and debate- whatever their quality or origin- will not be accepted as contributions.

We will accept papers in any of the main languages of Europa, America and of course the Iberian Peninsule. However, simultaneous translation will only offered for Spanish,French and English.

The parallel conference sessions in Internet will be announced in due course.

 

 

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