Institute for Social and European Studies
Köszeg, Hungary
30 June -6 July 2008
Deadline: 15 December 2007
The five-year European Science Foundation-funded Scientific Programme
"Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in
Europe (NHIST)" runs since 2003. It aims to
- analyse in depth national historiographies and their relationship to
wider national historical cultures,
- study systematically the construction, erosion and reconstruction of
national histories across a wide variety of European states,
- bridge the existing historiographical gap within Europe by bringing
together the histories of Western and Eastern Europe,
- combine cultural transfer and comparative approaches in examining the
relationship between national historiographies and national historical
cultures.
The programme is the collaborative effort of more than one hundred
scholars from around 30 European countries. Its agenda is being
implemented by four teams occupied with
- the institutions, networks and communities which produced national
histories and were themselves influenced by the idea of national history
(Team 1)
- the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories in
their relationship with competing representations structured by the
social cleavages in a society (Team 2)
- national histories and their relationship with regional, European and
world histories (Team 3)
- the national histories in their spatial relationships and mutual
interdependency with other national histories (Team 4)
For more details please see the programme's website:
www.uni-leipzig. de/zhsesf
The aim of the summer school is to promote the results of the NHIST
programme to the next generation of academics across Europe and to
identify new projects and researchers in the history of historiography
using comparative and cultural transfer approaches. Leading NHIST
scholars who will be present at the summer school include Professor
Stefan Berger (University of Manchester), Professor Christoph Conrad
(Université de Genevé), Professor Chris Lorenz (Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam), Dr. Frank Hadler (Geisteswissenschaf tliches Zentrum für
Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas) , Professor Ilaria Porciani
(Università di Bologna).
If you think your work fits in the NHIST remit and you would like to
present aspects of it at the summer school we look forward to hearing
>from you!
Travel Costs are reimbursed up to a maximum of EUR250, accommodation,
including meals, is provided. The trip includes one day of sightseeing
in Budapest (5th July). The group will have a final dinner, stay for the
night and depart the next day from Budapest.
Please send a 100 word CV and a 300 word abstract of your proposed paper
via email to:
Sven de Roode
ESF NHIST Programme Coordinator
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
University of Manchester
Email: Sven.DeRoode@ manchester. ac.uk
Abstract and CV should reach the programme coordinator by 15 December
2007. The executive group of the NHIST will select the participants of
the summer school and the programme coordinator will inform successful
applicants by the end of February 2008 at the latest. In case of
withdrawals a list of additional potential students will apply.
Sven de Roode
University of Manchester
0044 161 236 93 25
Sven.DeRoode@ manchester. ac.uk
Homepage www.uni-leipzig. de/zhsesf
