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Wilhelm Dilthey and Historical Consciousness

International Conference

November 2nd-3rd, 2023

 

This conference aims at unfolding the fundamental relation of the development of Wilhelm Dilthey’s epistemology of the human sciences and his engagement and eventual confrontation with the rise of historical consciousness. 

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Programme

(all times are UK time)

 

Day One

12:50-13:00 – Introduction (Aaron Turner)

 

13:00-14:00 – Laurence Hemming (Lancaster University) – ‘Dilthey . . . restrained himself from a systematic conclusion until the end’ (Martin Heidegger) - Should We Concur?

 

14:00-15:00 – Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky) – Thinking with Robert Scharff about Dilthey, Historical Consciousness, and Knowing

 

15:00-15:30 – Break

 

15:30-16:30 – Ronny Miron (Bar-Ilan University) – Historical Consciousness between Immanence and Transcendence

 

16:30-17:30 – Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) – Dilthey, the Historical School, and the Theory and Practice of History

 

17:30-18:00 – Break

 

18:00-19:00 –David Carr (Emory University) – “History sets us free”: Dilthey and the Paradoxes of Historical Consciousness

 

Day Two

13:00-14:00 – Matthias J. Tögel (Philipps-Universität Marburg) – How does Historical Consciousness become productive?

 

14:00-15:00 – Henriikka Hannula (University of Vienna) – Walls of Facticity: Dilthey on Volitions and Anthropological Universalisms

 

15:00-15:30 – Break

 

15:30-16:30 – Christopher Myers (Fordham University) – Dilthey’s Hermeneutics of the Living and the Dead: Rereading Dilthey on “Historical Consciousness” and “Religious Experience”

 

16:30-17:30 – Aaron Turner (Royal Holloway, University of London) – The Last Consequences of Historical Consciousness

 

17:30-18:00 – Break

 

18:00-19:00 – Robert C. Scharff (University of New Hampshire) – Interpreting Life-Experience in Its Own Terms: Dilthey to Heidegger

 

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The Essence of History
Research Seminar Series 2022

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This seminar series brings together some of the most significant historical thinkers in the world from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds for the purpose of re-posing the question of the essence of history and asks, what is history? What, in the ‘progress’ of historical thought from antiquity to modernity, did we lose along the way? And what does it mean, if it means anything at all, to have history, to be historical?
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Programme
 
Tuesday April 26th – Jeffrey A. Barash (University of Amiens) – “Historical Reflection and the Passive Presence of the Historical Past”
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Tuesday May 3rd – Laurence Hemming (University of Lancaster) – “The Essence of History as the History of Essence: the Ground of History as a Difficulty”
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Tuesday May 10th – David Carr (Emory University) – “The Varieties of Historical Experience”
 
Tuesday May 17th – Hans Ruin (Södertörn University) – “Soliciting and Speaking for the Dead - History as Necromancy”
 
Tuesday May 24th – Ewa Domańska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań/Stanford University) - "Dehistoricizing the Past"
 
Tuesday May 31st – Susan A. Crane (University of Arizona) - "Time's Travelers" 
 
Tuesday June 7th – Frank Ankersmit (University of Groningen) – "Peter Munz’s Evolutionist Philosophy of History and the Anthropocene"
 
Tuesday June 14th – Emily Baragwanath (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - "Perception as Essence in Ancient Greek Historiography"
 
Tuesday June 21st – Robert C. Scharff (University of New Hampshire) - "If History Had An Essence, It Wouldn't Be History"
 
Tuesday June 28th – Rosie Harman (UCL) – "Form and Meaning in Ancient Greek Historiography"

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