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@philippmclean.bsky.social (pm), @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social (lr), Bettina Severin-Barboutie (bsb) and @marcuswystub.bsky.social (mw)
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posts by @rileysline.bsky.social (rl),
@philippmclean.bsky.social (pm), @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social (lr), Bettina Severin-Barboutie (bsb) and @marcuswystub.bsky.social (mw)
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The Monument as a Mirror for the History of Historical Epistemology
Shahzad Bashir - Regazzoni’s purpose in The Episteme of the Gallic Past is to show that, in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, the term “monument” had a variety of meanings that underwent sign...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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On the other hand, he considers reading about a historical context outside one's area of expertise to be an instructive experience.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
On the other hand, he considers reading about a historical context outside one's area of expertise to be an instructive experience.
He does so by unpacking the story that the book tells through the monument of how objects and ideas that were understood as monuments went from being things of commemoration to things of history.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
He does so by unpacking the story that the book tells through the monument of how objects and ideas that were understood as monuments went from being things of commemoration to things of history.
On the one hand, he unveils one of the book's key scientific contributions: changes in the conceptualisation of knowledge in 18th-century France.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
On the one hand, he unveils one of the book's key scientific contributions: changes in the conceptualisation of knowledge in 18th-century France.
It’s Tuesday, and Shahzad Bashir reading Lisa Regazzoni’s The Episteme of the Gallic Past: French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It’s Tuesday, and Shahzad Bashir reading Lisa Regazzoni’s The Episteme of the Gallic Past: French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
A new blogpost from Lisa Regazzoni (@lisaregazzoni.bsky.social): In it she describes her experience visiting the town of Salem and reflects on finding words for the encounter of merging temporal horizons.
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
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Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
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American (Hi)storytelling: Report #1 from a Real Experience. Written by a Theorist of History after a Tourist Visit to Salem, Massachusetts.
Lisa Regazzoni - October 5th, 2025. In Salem, Massachusetts, the temporal horizons seem to merge. In this small town near Boston, the past – specifically the year 1692 – is present in a way I had not...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
A new blogpost from Lisa Regazzoni (@lisaregazzoni.bsky.social): In it she describes her experience visiting the town of Salem and reflects on finding words for the encounter of merging temporal horizons.
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/32090
#theoryofhistory
Read more about how "1692 is “queerly” alive" here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/32090
#theoryofhistory
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Court Cases as Epistemology: Reconstructing African History through Legal Archives
Sauda Nabukenya - Can court records be more than legal sources – can they serve as epistemological workshops for reconstructing African history? This essay argues that they can, drawing on more than 1...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Therefore, they challenge the conceptual frameworks through which African legal history has often been written, which privilege colonial categories of law over African epistemologies and practices.
September 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Therefore, they challenge the conceptual frameworks through which African legal history has often been written, which privilege colonial categories of law over African epistemologies and practices.
They show that law was a living practice constituted through social relationships and local knowledge rather than an abstract system.
September 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
They show that law was a living practice constituted through social relationships and local knowledge rather than an abstract system.
As she demonstrates, these records preserve not only the outcomes of disputes, but also the processes through which truth, justice, peace and reputation were defined, debated and determined.
September 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As she demonstrates, these records preserve not only the outcomes of disputes, but also the processes through which truth, justice, peace and reputation were defined, debated and determined.
To do so, Nabukenya draws on case files that she discovered, organised and catalogued from Buganda's native courts and the High Court of Uganda.
September 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
To do so, Nabukenya draws on case files that she discovered, organised and catalogued from Buganda's native courts and the High Court of Uganda.
It has been Tuesday, and Sauda Nabukenya of #blogstheblog arguing that African history can be reconstructed through court records.
September 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It has been Tuesday, and Sauda Nabukenya of #blogstheblog arguing that African history can be reconstructed through court records.
We're back from our summer break! More #theoryofhistory! And it's #blogtheblog Tuesday! We have a great post from Christian Wachter form the University of Bielefeld on "Multimodal History – Convergence of Text, Image, Diagram and Virtual Space"
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Multimodal History – Convergence of Text, Image, Diagram and Virtual Space
Christian Wachter - How can images reshape the way historians produce and share knowledge? What happens when we rethink the interplay between text and image, or even explore immersive formats like vir...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
We're back from our summer break! More #theoryofhistory! And it's #blogtheblog Tuesday! We have a great post from Christian Wachter form the University of Bielefeld on "Multimodal History – Convergence of Text, Image, Diagram and Virtual Space"
Read the post here: 👇
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Read the post here: 👇
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Did you know that you can also become a associated #member of the #ZThF?
To qualify for membership, you must demonstrate a clear research interest in #philosophyofhistory, #historicaltheory and/or #theoriesinhistoricalresearch, as well as a willingness to work with the #ZThF on a long-term basis.
To qualify for membership, you must demonstrate a clear research interest in #philosophyofhistory, #historicaltheory and/or #theoriesinhistoricalresearch, as well as a willingness to work with the #ZThF on a long-term basis.
August 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Did you know that you can also become a associated #member of the #ZThF?
To qualify for membership, you must demonstrate a clear research interest in #philosophyofhistory, #historicaltheory and/or #theoriesinhistoricalresearch, as well as a willingness to work with the #ZThF on a long-term basis.
To qualify for membership, you must demonstrate a clear research interest in #philosophyofhistory, #historicaltheory and/or #theoriesinhistoricalresearch, as well as a willingness to work with the #ZThF on a long-term basis.
We are taking a break for the summer! We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable summer and will be back on September 9 with a new piece: #theoryofhistory.
July 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We are taking a break for the summer! We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable summer and will be back on September 9 with a new piece: #theoryofhistory.
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We are pleased to announce that the first part of our #BielefeldTheoryTalks series has been published. It is a micro-monograph entitled "Temporal Vectors and the Compass of History. Politics and Ethics at the End-time" by @ethankleinberg.bsky.social.
July 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We are pleased to announce that the first part of our #BielefeldTheoryTalks series has been published. It is a micro-monograph entitled "Temporal Vectors and the Compass of History. Politics and Ethics at the End-time" by @ethankleinberg.bsky.social.
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De l’utopie hier et aujourd’hui
Michèle Riot-Sarcey - Pourquoi parler aujourd’hui d’utopie ? Le mot véhicule des idées si contradictoires qu’il semble avoir perdu son sens subversif : oscillant, entre totalitarisme et illusion mythi...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Elle constate toutefois la renaissance des espoirs et des idées utopistes actuellement. S’appuyant sur cette renaissance, elle invite les chercheurs à se concentrer avant tout sur les événements qui ont été portés par l’espérance et qui semblaient possibles, mais qui n’ont pas fini par se produire.
July 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Elle constate toutefois la renaissance des espoirs et des idées utopistes actuellement. S’appuyant sur cette renaissance, elle invite les chercheurs à se concentrer avant tout sur les événements qui ont été portés par l’espérance et qui semblaient possibles, mais qui n’ont pas fini par se produire.
D’une part, elle montre comment l’utopie entre dans l’histoire avec les révolutions modernes ouvrant l’horizon des possibles.
D’autre part, elle révèle comment au XXe siècle elle perd à la fois son charme et l’idéal communiste qui le portait.
D’autre part, elle révèle comment au XXe siècle elle perd à la fois son charme et l’idéal communiste qui le portait.
July 22, 2025 at 6:59 AM
D’une part, elle montre comment l’utopie entre dans l’histoire avec les révolutions modernes ouvrant l’horizon des possibles.
D’autre part, elle révèle comment au XXe siècle elle perd à la fois son charme et l’idéal communiste qui le portait.
D’autre part, elle révèle comment au XXe siècle elle perd à la fois son charme et l’idéal communiste qui le portait.
Il est mardi et Michèle Riot-Sarcey de #blogstheblog s’interroge sur l’évolution de l’utopie depuis le XIXe siècle.
July 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Il est mardi et Michèle Riot-Sarcey de #blogstheblog s’interroge sur l’évolution de l’utopie depuis le XIXe siècle.
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Vor der Sommerpause schon Vorfreude auf nach der Sommerpause, mit Freude an - neuen, anderen, fließenden, kreativen - Formen! Geschichte schreiben im 21. Jahrhundert mit @achland.bsky.social @susannequitmann.bsky.social @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social @modomodo.bsky.social @michaelwildt.bsky.social ua
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Vor der Sommerpause schon Vorfreude auf nach der Sommerpause, mit Freude an - neuen, anderen, fließenden, kreativen - Formen! Geschichte schreiben im 21. Jahrhundert mit @achland.bsky.social @susannequitmann.bsky.social @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social @modomodo.bsky.social @michaelwildt.bsky.social ua
In today's blog post, Daria Novgorodova discusses traces in material objects within Russia's first public mineral collection. She asks how these polysemantic objects accumulate layers of meaning over time and leave traces.
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Read more here 👇
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#theoryofhistory #blogtheblog
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 m...
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July 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
In today's blog post, Daria Novgorodova discusses traces in material objects within Russia's first public mineral collection. She asks how these polysemantic objects accumulate layers of meaning over time and leave traces.
Read more here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/31242
#theoryofhistory #blogtheblog
Read more here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/31242
#theoryofhistory #blogtheblog
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On July 10th, Stefan Haas will speak about "Nach der Narrativität. Warum für die Geschichtswissenschaft eine eigene Argumentationstheorie essentiell ist?"
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online!
| #theoryofhistory #Narrativity
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online!
| #theoryofhistory #Narrativity
June 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
On July 10th, Stefan Haas will speak about "Nach der Narrativität. Warum für die Geschichtswissenschaft eine eigene Argumentationstheorie essentiell ist?"
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online!
| #theoryofhistory #Narrativity
Join us at Bielefeld Univ (Room X E0-002) or online!
| #theoryofhistory #Narrativity
A new addition to Theory on the Edge is out now and we ask: What does the collection of books on theories of history look like in your academic/university library?
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Please comment here 👇
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Theory on the Edge #2: Dusty books versus digital access?
Editorial Board - How do these collections change when shifting from the physical bookshelf to the digital space? Please share your thoughts in German, English, French or Italian here.
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June 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
A new addition to Theory on the Edge is out now and we ask: What does the collection of books on theories of history look like in your academic/university library?
Please comment here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/31101
#theoryofhistory #blogtheblog
Please comment here 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org/31101
#theoryofhistory #blogtheblog
It's #blogtheblog Tuesday! In her blogpost, Agnes Piekacz asks how historians link the messiness of the objects they encounter to the past they aim to access and reconstruct.
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Read the post here: 👇
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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, coloni...
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June 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
It's #blogtheblog Tuesday! In her blogpost, Agnes Piekacz asks how historians link the messiness of the objects they encounter to the past they aim to access and reconstruct.
Read the post here: 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org?p=30994
Read the post here: 👇
gtw.hypotheses.org?p=30994