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The deadline for contributions is January 3, 2019. If your contribution is accepted,
the deadline for submitting the two-page paper is June 5, 2020. The registration deadline
 for participants in the discussion who are not presenting their own paper is also
June 5, 2020. We look forward to receiving your submissions and registrations.

Reconfguring History beyond Disciplinarity:  
Emerging Interdisciplinary Research Fields and Their Approaches
Towards History  

Jena (Imre Kertész Kolleg)  |  September 18th –19th 2020

Call for Papers

In recent years, various cross-disciplinary research felds have been fourishing in
the humanities, transgressing disciplinary boundaries in their scholarly interests and
practice. This development, to a large extent, has impacted the scope of interdisciplinarity,
 transforming it from a rather marginal realm into an everyday practice of
research centers and study programs. Heritage and Memory Studies, Human-Animal
Studies, Performance Studies or Material Culture Studies, to name just a few, are telling
 examples of the turn towards interdisciplinary research that the humanities have
been undergoing. Standing for circulation, transfer and the merging of ideas, they
promise to yield a dialogue between scholars, inspire new fndings, and as a result,
foster a new and better understanding of social, cultural and historical phenomena.
Taking into account the vast variety of research felds, interdisciplinarity seems to
have evolved from a trendy catch phrase and a standard buzz word in grant applications
 (often perceived of by sceptics as mere lip-service which causes more conceptual
 and practical problems than it solves), to an established research practice. With
their interdisciplinary cores, these new felds necessarily borrow from various theoretical
 and methodological backgrounds and disciplines bringing them into dialogue
and transforming them into their very own research and teaching agendas, settings,
approaches and practices. We would like to take this current state of the humanities as
a starting point for refecting upon the ways in which history and historical inquiry is
being understood, carried out, and theorized in interdisciplinary research felds.

The aim of the workshop is to map the diferent conceptualizations and uses of the
notion of history in order to highlight how they are informed by the changed interdisciplinary
 settings in which they are rooted. In other words, we would like to explore
how historical inquiry is (re)shaped when it is taken out of the history department and
carried out by those who are not necessarily trained historians.