The JHI Blog’s sixth-annual Graduate Student Symposium will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024.

This year’s symposium, “The Uses and Abuses of History,” will include papers that explore the complex, multivalent, and ever-evolving concepts of history writing to analyze how knowledge about the past has been used or abused by intellectuals, groups, and actors.

The event is free and open to the public on Zoom. Please register in advance here. 

The symposium will consist of three panel sessions throughout the day. Each session will include presentations by the panelists followed by a 30-minute discussion session moderated by a member of the JHI’s Board of Editors.

Program

Panel 1: Global Discourses and Epistemologies

10:00 am Eastern / 3:00 pm BST / 4:00 pm CEST / 7:00 pm IST 

Ryoya Mizuno (London School of Economics): “The New Opportunities for Historians:” Arnold J. Toynbee’s Concept of World History as an International Political Thought

Sokratis Vekris (University of St Andrews / University of Bonn): Panagiotis Kondylis as a Historian of Ideas

Ionuț Văduva (University of Bucharest): History and the Discourse on Civilization: A Genealogical Relationship

Discussant: Prof. Robert Norton (University of Notre Dame)

Chair: Jacob Saliba (Boston College)

Panel 2: Narrativity in Context

11:30 am Eastern / 8:30 am PDT / 4:30 pm BST / 5:30 pm CEST

Alirageh Jama Barreh (University of Texas at Dallas): Lying as a Term of Art: V. Y. Mudimbe and the Herodotean Practice of History

Palvasha Khan (University of Toronto): Materializing the Spectral Witness: Jinns in Lahore’s Moti Masjid

Sofia Sanabria de Felipe (University of Oxford): Re-narrativizing Kant: Exploring AH Kératry’s Legitimization of the Bourbon Restoration by hHstory in Symbiosis with Aesthetics

Discussant: Prof. Nasser Zakariya (UC Berkeley)

Chair: Rajosmita Roy (SOAS, University of London)

Panel 3: Diagnosis and Analysis in History

1:30 pm Eastern / 10:30 am PDT / 6:30 pm BST / 7:30 pm CEST

Katherine Booska (Stanford University): Group Therapy and the Analysis of the Present

Nicholas Barden (Georgetown University): Curing the Patria: Diagnostic History and Law as Medicine in Hotman’s Francogallia (1573)

Discussant: Prof. Leah DeVun (Rutgers—New Brunswick)

Chair: Artur Banaszewski (European University Institute)