What Does “Presentism” Stand For? Towards a Critical Appraisal of the Presentist “Turn”
Event: Conference
Location: Zoom
26 October 2023, 10.00-19.00 (Bucharest time)
Conveners: Veronica LAZĂR and Andrei-Dan SORESCU
Participants: François HARTOG (keynote speaker), Hakob BARSEGHYAN, Holly CASE, Raul CÂRSTOCEA, Adrian GRAMA, Gregory JONES-KATZ, Veronica LAZĂR, Ondřej SLAČÁLEK, Andrei-Dan SORESCU, Irina TROCAN
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PROGRAM
10.00-10.30
Introductory remarks by Veronica LAZĂR (University of Bucharest) and Andrei SORESCU (New Europe College / University College London)
10.30-11.30 Keynote address
Prof. François HARTOG
Le présentisme et après
11.30-12.20 Q&A
12.20-13.00 Coffee Break
13.00-15.15 Session One
13.00-13.25
Adrian GRAMA, IOS Regensburg
Presentism and the Family Novel
13.25-13.50
Ondřej SLAČÁLEK, Charles University, Prague
Three Versions of Appropriating History
13.50-14.15
Raul CÂRSTOCEA, Maynooth University
Fascist Presentism, Or: On the Impossibility of Redemption
14.15-14.30 Coffee break
14.30-15.15 Q&A
15.15-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-19.00 Session Two
16:00-16:25
Holly CASE, Brown University
Taint Tracing as Presentism
16:25-16:50
Irina TROCAN, National University of Theatre and Cinema, Bucharest
Romanian Revolution in the Film Festival: ‘Between Revolutions’, a Transnational Found Footage Fiction
16:50-17:15
Hakob BARSEGHYAN, Victoria College, University of Toronto
A Typology of Presentist Practices in Academic History
17:15-17:40
Gregory JONES-KATZ, Independent Researcher
Koselleck and Gumbrecht on the Task of the Historian; Or, the End of Sattelzeit and the Beginning of Re-Enactment
17.40-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.00 Q&A