Conference, Historical Studies: Disciplines and Discourses, Budapest, 21.-24.10.2004 Central European University Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies 21.10.2004-24.10.2004, Budapest Historical Studies: Disciplines and Discourses Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is time to assess the state of the art in the history and theory of historiography: Europe is expanding, the Cold War and its associated ideological (cognitive, epistemological, symbolic geographical, metaphysical) grand narratives seem to be subsiding, new histories are being experienced and written. Half a generation after 1989, while busy distancing the twentieth century, we may well need to reconsider theories, methods, paradigms, canons, vulgates, clichés, and maybe even some of the basics of our trade. Less than one year before the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences (Sydney, July 3-9, 2005), essentially European and North-American visions of these basics will be examined in a global perspective. To take stock and look forward, a major international conference is to be held in Budapest, at Central European University (CEU: www.ceu.hu). The conference was initiated and will be hosted by CEU's Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies (www.ceu.hu/pasts). Two related events will be integrated with the conference: (a) an workshop on "Representations of the Past: National Histories in Europe", organized by an international research network funded by the European Science Foundation, which will run parallel to the conference, and will also "feed" Panels Eight and Nine; (b) a day (October 21) devoted to the discussion of "History Textbooks in the Public Sphere", in the framework of the French-German Day. The conference is endorsed by the International Commission for the Theory and History of Historiography, and by the International Committee for Historical Sciences. Zsuzsa Torok Junior Research Fellow Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Research Central European University, Budapest Tel: (361) 327-3000/2699 torokzs@ceu.hu Homepage