Title:The Party as a New Utopia: Reshaping communist identity after Stalinism
Author(s):KOLAR, PavelDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the transformation of communist identity in the eastern bloc after 1956, showing both moments of decline as well as attempts to reforge it. It explores how communist identity was negotiated and reshaped ...
Title:L’histoire intellectuelle : quelles idées, quel contexte ?
Author(s):THOMSON, AnnDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Cet article discute dans un premier temps l’histoire intellectuelle telle qu’elle se pratique notamment dans le monde anglophone, tout en soulignant les résistances que rencontre en France cette branche des études historiques. ...
Title:Forum: Intellectual history in and of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark ...
Title:La Mettrie ou les morts de Monsieur Machine
Author(s):THOMSON, AnnDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article, after evoking the hostile fictitious account of La Mettrie’s death in which he is described as a machine, studies first of all how this doctor discussed death in his own works, in particular in Système ...
Title:Beyond 'Media Panics': Reconceptualising public debates about children and media
Author(s):BUCKINGHAM, David; JENSEN, Helle StrandgaardDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper presents a critical review of the use of “moral panics” theory as a means of understanding public debates about children and media, and specifically of the notion of “media panics.” Following a brief presentation ...
Title:La “Public History”: una disciplina fantasma?
Author(s):NOIRET, SergeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The essay aims to analyze how the past is appropriated in the European Public Sphere and which institutions, media and actors are involved in Public History practices. In contrast to the Anglo-Saxon world, a variety of ...
Title:Public History oltre lo Stato: presentare il passato Yiddish nell’Europa contemporanea
Author(s):ZAAGSMA, GerbenDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses how Europe’s ‘Yiddish past’ is presented, commemorated and engaged with in contemporary Europe from a Public History perspective. It investigates the ways in which Yiddish, its culture and its speakers, ...
Title:I festival di storia: una via italiana alla Public History?
Author(s):CATASTINI, FrancescoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper discusses the absence of public history-teaching programs in Italian universities, and focuses on the practice of history in Italian open public spaces. The emergence of history festivals is analyzed as a ...
Title:Genocide and the Terror of History
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas ...
Title:La Digital History : histoire et mémoire à la portée de tous
Author(s):NOIRET, SergeDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:L’histoire numérique (Digital History) dans sa version 2.0, a certainement permis de désenclaver la «culture haute» mais avec l’apparition du web 2.0, l’histoire et la mémoire sont à présent la prérogative de tout le monde ...