History of Humanities, Volume 9, Number 1 – Spring 2024 with Intro by Prof Wiebke Denecke
History of Humanities, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2024
The Table of Contents for Volume 9, Number 1 Spring 2024 of History of Humanities has been announced! Edited by Rens Bod, Julia Kursell, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn.
History of Humanities, along with the Society for the History of the Humanities, takes as its subject the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, musicology, philology, and media studies, tracing these fields from their earliest developments, through their formalization into university disciplines, and to the modern day.
By exploring the history of humanities across time and civilizations and along with their sociopolitical and epistemic implications, the journal takes a critical look at the concept of humanities itself.
THEME: SHARED PASTS FOR SHARED FUTURES; PROTOTYPING A COMPARATIVE GLOBAL HUMANITIES Introduction by Wiebke Denecke, Alexander Forte, and Tristan Brown
This introduction argues for a comparative and global reimagination of the humanities in their intellectual, disciplinary, and larger institutional forms. We seek to expand the geographical scope and temporal depth of inquiry while challenging Eurocentric biases through the promotion of neglected traditions and their conceptual vocabularies. Crucial to the success of our “comparative global humanities” is scholarship that fully embraces the complexities and diversities of human pasts.