Participants

 

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History at the Ruhr University Bochum , where he is also Director of the Institute for Social Move m ents and the Executive Chair of the Foundation Library of the Ruhr. He has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century European history, in particular the history of social movements, including the labour movement, the history of historiography, nationalism and national identity. His last monograph was Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949 –1990 (Berghahn Books, 2010, jointly authored with Norman LaPorte).

Katarzyna Bojarska, PhD (born 1981) graduated fro m MA progra m in the Individual Studies in the Humanities (College MISH) at the University of Warsaw: Cultural Studies (2006) English Studies (2005),and doctoral program at the Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2008 has worked as an adjunct in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of upco m ing book Events after the Event: Bialoszewski, Richter, Spiegel m an (Warsaw2013). Co-editor of “Teksty Drugie. Teoria literatury, krytyka, interpretacja” [Second Texts: Literary Theory, Criticism, and Interpretation]. She is Interested in comparative study of contemporary literature, visual art and theory in the context of representation and critical reception of the past. Translator of the book by Dominick LaCapra History in Transit (Historia w okresie przejsciowym, Kraków 2009), numerous articles by a.o. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Cathy Caruth, Marianne Hirsch, Ernst van Alphen and others. Fulbright Fellow at Cornell University , Ithaca NY.Participated in the School ofCriticis m and Theory (2007), Konstanzer Meisterklasse Trauma and Narration (2009). Bojarska wasawarded a stipend by the Foundation of Polish Science “Start” (2010) as well as by the weekly “Polityka” “Zostancie z nami” (2006), she was also three ti m e laureate of the annualstipend sponsored by Polish Ministry of Education (2002, 2004, 2005) and the laureate of the Minister of Culture (Mloda Polska 2011), in 2012-2014 she is in charge of a group grant “World as an Archive – Critical Modes of Historiocity” (National Programme for the Development of the Humanities), as well as an individual grant Events after the Holocaust.

Ewa Domanska is Associate Professor of theory and history of historiography in the Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, Poland and since 2002 Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. Her teaching and research interests include comparative theory of the human and social sciences, history and theory of historiography, posthumanities and ecological humanities. She is the author of 4 books, recently Existential History. Critical Approach to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities (in Polish, 2012); History and the Contemporary Humanities (in Ukrainian, 2012) and editor and co-editor of 13 books including recently published: French Theory in Poland (with Miroslaw Loba, 2010, in Polish) and Theory of Knowledge of the Past and the Contemporary Humanities and Social Sciences (in Polish, 2010).

Piotr Filipkowski, Ph.D., (born 1977), sociologist, m ethodologist, oral historian; researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Acade m y of Science in Warsaw and at the Buchenwald Concentration Ca m p Me m orial Site; engaged in nu m erous European oral history projects with survivors and witnesses of the Second World War, co-founder and collaborator of the Polish biggest Oral History Archive in Warsaw, m e m ber of the Social Me m ory Laboratory at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, president of the Polish Oral History Association. Key publication: Historia mówiona i wojna. doswiadczenie obozu koncentracyjnego w perspektywie historii zycia. Wroclaw 2010 [Oral history an the War. Concentration Camp Experience in Biographical-Narrative Perspective - English translation in progress]

Antonis Liakos (born 1947), historian, professor at the University of Athens since 1990, m anaging editor of the historical review Historein and chair of the board of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography 2010-15. Visiting scholar at Princeton, New York University, Ecole Normale Superieure, European University Institute, University of Sydney and Peking University. Writings on the history of nationalism, social history, and history of historiography. He contributes to the Greek dailies and he is member of the Initiative for the Defence of Society and Democracy in Athens. Main books: Apocalypse, Utopia and History (Athens 2011), How the Past Turn to History? (Athens 2007), The nation and how has been imagined by those preaching the change of the world (Athens 2005); Labour and Politics in the Interwar Greece (Athens 1993). On line essays in http://uoa.academia.edu/AntonisLiakos; http://antonisliakos.gr/articles/and http://www.culturahistorica.es/liakos.english.html

Chris Lorenz is Professor of German Historical Culture at VU University Amsterdam and at Amsterdam University College. His research comprises modern historiography, philosophy of history, and educational policies. Visiting professorships in Graz (1999), Erfurt (2000), Stellenbosch (2003) and Ann Arbor (2005). Recent publications: (ed.), If you're so smart why aren't you rich? (Amsterdam 2008); Bordercrossings. Explorations between Philosophy and History (Poznan 2009, in Polish translation); (eds Stefan Berger ), Nationalizing the Past. Historians as Nation Builders in Modern Europe ( Houndmills 2010); (eds. with Berber Bevernage ),Breaking up Time. Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future (Götingen 2013).

Chen Qineng Male, born in October 1934 in Shanghai, China. Graduated fro m the Depart m ent of History, Leningrad University (now Saint-Peterburg University), Russia in 1959. Honorary Member of CASS; Senior Fellow, Professor, Institute of World History, CASS. Former Deputy Director of the Institute of World History, CASS (1988–1994). Former Editor-in-chief of the Journal “Historiography Quarterly” (1992–1996). Research Fields: Theory and History of Historiography, Russian History. Main Publications: Theory of Civilization (co-author, 2010 ), British Imperial Retreat (ed. 2007), New Development of Euro-American Historiography since 1945 (ed., 2005), Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada (co–editor, 2003), The History of Modern Western Social Thoughts (co-editor, 2002 ), Clio From the West: Eastern Echoes on Western Historiography (co-author,2000), The Great Dictionary of Historical Theory (co-editor,1999), Contemporary Western Historical Theories (co-editor 1996, 2003), The Historical Theory in USSR (co-author, 1996), Historical Theory and Historical Research (1993), A Survey of World History Studies in China Since 1949 (ed.,1991) and others.

Jiang Peng Female, (born in 1950 in Tianjin, China). Graduated as Master of History from the History Department of Beijing Normal University in 1981. Senior Fellow, Professor, Institute of World History, CASS. Deputy Editor-in-chief of the Journal “Historiography Quarterly”. Research Fields: Theory and Methodology of History, Canadian Studies. Main Publications: The Theories and Schools of the Western Historiography (ed.), Theory of Civilization (co-author), Chinese and Canadian Culture: Facing the Challenge of Globalization (co-editor ), Community Development in China and Canada (co-editor ), Canadian Civilization (ed.), Clio From the West: Eastern Echoes to Western Historiography (co-author), A New Study of Marxist Historiography (co-author), Outline of Sub-disciplines of Contemporary Historiography (co-author), Political Syste m in Canada and Other Western Democracies - Canadian and Chinese Perspectives (co-editor) etc.

Masayuki Sato was born in Japan. He read Economics, Philosophy, and History at Keio University and Cambridge University. After teaching in Kyoto, He was invited to the University of Yamanashi and is now Professor Emeritus of Social Studies in the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences. He was President of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (2005-10) and a Programme Officer of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007-2010). His latest books are Historiographical Time and Space [Rekishininshikinojiku] (Tokyo 2004), Time in World History [Sekaishiniokerujikan] (Tokyo 2009) and The Oxford History of Historical Writing Volume 3: 1400-1800, co-edited with José Rabasa, Edoardo Tortarolo, and Daniel Woolf (Oxford 2012).

Edoardo Tortarolo - educated at the University of Turin, he has taught at several Italian universities, at the University of Leipzig (1997-8), and at Northwestern University (2010 and 2011). In 2006 he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. In 2012-13 he is a member of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, where he is writing a book on the impact of the revolutionary transition from the 1770s to 1820s on the European political and religious beliefs. He is the author of several books on the political culture of the European Enlightenment and most recently a co-editor of volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing (Oxford University Press).

Hayden White - Professor Emeritus at the University of California, is one of the m ost influential theorists of historiography. His essays on historical representation and narrative discourse have strongly contributed to a "narrative turn" in the study of historical thought. The author of Metahistory (1973), Tropics of Discourse (1978), The Content of the Form (1987), Figural Realism (1999) and The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007 (2010). White has also published recent essays on historical fiction, witness literature, and Holocaust representation.

Malgorzata Wosinska, (born in 1985). Ethnologist and Psychotraumatologist. Ph.D. student in the final year at the Faculty of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, Poland. Her research interests include Holocaust and Genocide Studies, anthropology of memory, modern curatorial and museum studies. She also works with the witnesses of traumatic events. Currently she is working on her doctorial thesis which concerns the identity of genocide survivors in Rwanda, where she has been conducting regular field researches since 2009. She is an expert on the management of memorial sites and trauma advising both governmental and non-governmental organizations of a preventive character in Rwanda (i.e. National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide Rwanda, Aegis Trust). Curator of exhibitions for the former concentration camps (including KL Stutthof and Gross-Rosen) in Poland. Author of 23 published articles, co-editor of 3 books and 1 collection of Reportages.