You are cordially invited to the seminar entitled Historical Reflections on Historical Method, which will be hosted by
Prof. Holly Case from the Brown University,
as part of the NextGenPhDs NAWA STER project
The workshop will take place on 7 May at 14.00 at The T. Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences, room 32
(Rynek Starego Miasta 31, Warsaw)
The poet and writer Paul Valéry once referred to history as „the most dangerous compound yet contrived by the chemistry of the intellect.” His claim inspired the historian Marc Bloch to write The Craft of History, long a standard text on the nature and possibilities of historical method. The seminar considers what drove the search for a better historical method in the interwar period and what has become of that drive in our time.
Holly Case is Professor of History at Brown University. Her first book, Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during WWII (2009), shows how the struggle for mastery among Europe’s Great Powers was affected by the perspectives of small states. She also wrote The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond (2018), about when and why people started thinking in terms of “questions” and how it altered their sense of political possibility. Case has written on European history, literature, politics and ideas for various magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, The Chronicle Review, Aeon, The Nation, Dissent, The Times Literary Supplement, Eurozine, and Boston Review.
Photo: https://www.iwm.at/fellow/holly-case
