Third International Conference History under Debate (July 14-18 2004)

Topics (15/3/04)

THEMATIC SECTIONS

I. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HISTORIGRAPHIC PARADIGM

Proposals for national and international consensus among historians on methodology and historiography, theory and the teaching of history and its relationship with society that have appeared or been reformulated in the last decade either following the 2001 from History under Debate Manifesto or from other stances.

II. GLOBAL HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Digital historiography

Analysis and reflections on HuD and other digital communities of historians, and more generally, the relationship between history and the Internet.

2. Between historiographies

Past, present and future of exchange forms between national and continental historiographies, paying particular attention to the impact of the different manifestations of globalisation.

III. INDIVIDUAL PARADIGMS

1. Mixed history as global history

Intradisciplinary analysis and reflections on research (and teaching) experiences and proposals seeking a comprehensive approach mixing sources, approaches and thematic and chronological specialties of both the discipline of history and the areas of historical research which academically fall within the realms of other scientific and humanistic disciplines.

2. World history as global history

Theories, debates and outcomes of the recent proposal to investigate a world or universal history understood as a global history.

3. New forms of historiographic commitment

Analysis and reflections on the most recent experiences of solidarity and social, political and cultural commitment by historians.

4. Is an Immediate History possible?

Theories, debates and outcomes of a truly present-day, current or recent history investigating the events and processes of historical relevance we are witnessing today.

5. The ends of history, today

Theory, immediate history and historiography on the aims and objectives of the history we are living and its protagonists the "ends of history" after the "end of history".

IV. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND PRESENT

1. History and democracy

History and historiography of democracy as a legal concept, practice and social mentality, national and international political system; history, historiography and the struggle for democracy current debates and perspectives for the future from history.

2. History and human rights

The history and historiography of human rights (political, socio-economic, environmental, gender-related and homosexual, individual and collective rights); history, historiography and the struggle for human rights; current debates and perspectives for the future from history.

3. Historical formation of the political subject

The role of history and historiography in the different periods, of the teaching and spreading of history in the construction of social and political subjects; current debates and perspectives for the future from history.

4. The historical idea of Spain

Theories and outcomes of the recent recovery of the historical idea of Spain; current debates and perspectives for the future.

5. Historical active memory

Theories, debates and outcomes of the growing recovery of historical memory in the form of committed and pro-active research in Latin America, Spain and elsewhere.

 

ROUND TABLES

 

I. GREAT DEBATES

A. The forms of society and its transitions

Critical updating and new reflections on the historical forms of societies and civilisations; transitions, regularities and prospective.

B. The state and the civil society in history

Interaction political society / civil society throughout history historiography, current debates and prospective.

C. Individual and collective protagonists in history

The interaction common people / "great men" throughout history social history and/or biography, current debates and historiographic proposals.

D. "Great historians" and collectives tendencies in historiography

The collective trends / individual historians interaction in contemporary historiography; current debates and historiographic proposals.

E. Fragmentation of history, globalisation of society

Debate on the growing fragmentation or the specialisation of history being written in a time of technological revolution in communications and the galloping globalisation of society and history we are witnessing; analysis of the alternatives and consequences for the historical profession.

F. Current paradigms in social sciences

State of the paradigmatic issue in social sciences (history, geography, sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, education) and its relationship with the changes in paradigms in natural sciences, philosophy, literature and other humanities.

II. IMMEDIATE HISTORIOGRAPHY

G. Groups, methods and historiographic movements

The sharing of information, experiences and the history of both HuD and other groups and networks of historians that have appeared throughout the nineties or in the new century.

H. Historical concepts and present

The great concepts of history and its mental environment in the current historiographic, humanistic, scientific, socio-political and media scenario.

I. Official histories

Recent appearance or reformulation of official histories and their connection with historiographic, political and mass media circles at a regional, local and international level.

J. Transitions to democracy

Debate, comparison, and historical and historigraphic updating on the transitions to democracy in Spain, Latin America, East Europe and elsewhere.

K. The return of civil society

Roots and immediate, historical and historiographic repercussions of the return of social movements and the appearance of a new global civil society in the nineties and the new century.

L. Indigenous peoples, historiography and present

Immediate history and historiography of indigenous peoples in America and indigenous communities in other continents "indigenismo" and current debates, proposals for the future from history.

III. IMMEDIATE HISTORY

M. 9/11 and 3/11

Immediate history, historiographic, historical-theoretical and future repercussions of 9/11 and 3/11, and its aftermath; the Project for a New American Century under debate http//www.newamericancentury.org http//pnac.info; the Spanish and European alternative to fight against terrorism.

N. Globalisation, antiglobalisation, history

Immediate history, historiographic, historical-theoretical and future repercussions of alternative processes of economic, political, ecological, informative cultural and academic globalisation we are witnessing.

O. Europe at a historical crossroad

Immediate history, historiographic, historical-theoretical repercussions and future of the European Union in the 21st century.

P. America at a historical crossroad

Immediate history, historiographic, historical-theoretical repercussions and future of the current scenario in the Americas.

Q. The Orient and the West

Immediate history, historiographic, historical-theoretical repercussions and future of the relationship between the eastern and western worlds in a global era.