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#English / Theory of History in Media

Traces of Meanings in Catalogues and Collections. The Eighteenth-Century Mineral Cabinet.

Daria Novgorodova – A museum item has no single meaning but layers of them. All these meanings, both historical and contemporary, interact and accumulate, are unseen but remain a crucial part of its museum essence, and they leave traces. In this contribution, I aim to address the question of traces left behind, engaging with the history of the Mineral Cabinet of the SPb Kunstkamera (1714-1836), the first public mineral collection in Russia.

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#English / Theory of History in Media

Beyond ‘Reading’ Materials: Trace (on Trace) and Value

Agnes Piekacz – In the early 20th century, British colonial government representatives introduced a new tariff schedule in British-South Africa. At the docksides of British-South African ports, colonial customs officials were subsequently tasked with sorting the commodities they encountered into the orderly classifications that the tariff schedules prescribed. The ensuing early-20th century disputes between customs officials and importers over the causational links drawn by the latter point to broader theoretical-methodological issues faced by historians: How do we link the messiness of the objects we encounter to a past we aim to access and reconstruct?

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#English / Theory of History Wide Open

Françoise Vergès’s post-museum: the culmination of a programme for decolonising history in Western museums

Thibault Sauzaret – Rethinking the history of countries formerly colonised by European powers is a broader issue than might seem at first glance, since it involves not only the need to decentralise our perspective, but also to question how this past is represented, particularly in museums.
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#English / Theory of History Polyphonic

Knowledge and Responsibility. Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Historiography and Morality on the Occasion of the 5th INTH Conference (Part II)

Georg Gangl – Having advocated a three-pronged historiographic, sociological and philosophical approach towards questions of historiographic morality in the first part of this text, I will now zoom in on some of the philosophical issues that for the most part have to do with morality’s supposed (negative) impact on historiography’s prime goal: the production of knowledge of the past.

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#English / Theory of History Polyphonic

Knowledge and Responsibility. Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Historiography and Morality on the Occasion of the 5th INTH Conference (Part I)

Georg Gangl – Never really out of mind, questions on the relationship between historiography and morality resurface with a certain regularity, usually following human-made calamities. After World War II for example, philosophical and historiographic discussions were occupied, reasonably enough, with the issue of choice between resistance and collaboration, and hence with questions of moral responsibility and praise and blame for past deeds.

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#English / KOMPOSITA / Theory of History Wide Open

Geology

Koselleck 100

Paul Kurek – Now that the widespread interdisciplinary call to finally face our geological foundations as an overarching material and intellectual framework is getting louder and louder, it seems unavoidable that we become aware of how close our collective weight has come to exceeding our planet’s load-bearing capacity.

#English / Theorie als Praxis / Theory of History Wide Open

Theory as Practice – Transfer of the Theory(ies) of History in Research and Teaching

Jana Kristin Hoffmann & Philipp McLean – Theories of history have gained considerable prominence in recent scholarship. Much has been written on the significance of theory in the field of historical science. Since Reinhart Koselleck’s seminal essay, ‘Wozu noch Historie?’ (Why History?), published in 1970, it has become evident that historical science is fundamentally dependent on theoretical foundations. Furthermore, the cultural turn and the advent of the digital humanities have led to a proliferation of theoretical approaches. There is also increasing recognition of the need for theoretical discussions, with the question of what constitutes historical theory remaining a topic of ongoing debate. However, a gap persists in the (university) teaching of historical-theoretical thinking in connection with the instruction of historical research practice.

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#English / KOMPOSITA

A Year with KOMPOSITA: Punctum…

Koselleck 100

Bettina Brandt, Jonathon Catlin, Jana Kristin Hoffmann & Lisa Regazzoni – After a year of essayistic forays through Reinhart Koselleck’s intellectual cosmos, it is time for the KOMPOSITA blog edition to come to a point. Or rather two points: A “punctum” in the sense of a closing punctuation mark that marks the provisional conclusion of the anniversary project, but also, in reference to Roland Barthes’s theory of photography…