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The Past, the Present, and the Future of History: Celebrating 100 Years of International Committee of Historical Sciences

  • Date

    III. Thursday, 27.08.2026, 11:00-13:00/30

    IV. Thursday, 27.08.2026, 14:30-16:30

  • Location
    SR9 A1004
  • Theme
    A- The Comité International des Sciences Historiques 1926-2026

Abstract

The challenges of historiography in the 21st century are numerous in a global, postmodern, and digital context that tend to undermine the rational, coherent, and scientific foundations on which historical knowledge has rested, to the point of questioning the very knowledge of the past, with a fragmented history, in fragments, dissolved into multiple local or national rationalities and subjected to permanent revisionisms that appropriate that past, adulterating it more than reinterpreting it. The panel's objective is to engage in a comparative reflection on these revisionist narratives in Europe and America. In the first case, the narratives pertain to a renationalization of the excluding, xenophobic, and negating history of their role in the colonial past and the genocides in their own territory. In the second case, the narratives are oriented toward the rise of nationalism, which is intertwined with religious identity and has reshaped political landscapes and influenced cultural dynamics. Contemporary religious nationalism in the XXIst century poses substantial obstacles to international peace, democratic governance, and social harmony. A dialogue between history and memory and interdisciplinary crossroads are required to reestablish the empirical foundations and methodological rigor, while considering the future of history and historiography, to compare the two perspectives. THE CHALLENGES OF HISTORIOGRAPHY. A REVIEW OF THE PAST THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA

Convenor

  • Rosa Maria Martínez de Codes (Department of American History, Medieval and Historiographic Sciences, Complutense University Madrid)

Panelists

  • Rosa Maria Martínez de Codes (Department of American History, Medieval and Historiographic Sciences, Complutense University Madrid)
  • Carlota Matesanz (Deptartement of Contemporary History, Autónoma University Madrid)
  • Jesús Martínez (Jesús Martínez (Departement of Modern and Contemporary History, Complutense University))
  • Sarah Lemmen (Deptartement of Modern and Contemporary History, Complutense University, Madrid)
  • Jeremy Gunn (International University of Rabat)
  • Amal Idrissi (University of Moulay Ismael in Morocco)

Papers

  • From Postwar Secularism to Sacred Politics: Religious Nationalism in the West

    Rosa Maria Martínez de Codes

  • Old Hatreds, New Faces: Rethinking Contemporary Antisemitism in 21st-Century America

    Carlota Matesanz

  • Renacionalizaciones excluyentes en Europa en el siglo XXI

    Jesús Martínez

  • Migraciones y exilios políticos en Europa Central y del Este

    Sarah Lemmen

  • Inventing Nationalist Mythologies to Destabilize Federal States: Serbia in Yugoslavia and MAGA in the United States

    Jeremy Gunn

  • The Manipulation of French Nationalism in Its Colonies in the Maghreb

    Amal Idrissi