HistoryInterviews
Susannah Gold interviews Peter Brown and his Balzan research project leader, David Michelson, about the process of “reconceiving the historical reference work” with the online historical reference for Syriac studies, syriaca.org, the cornerstone of Figures in a Landscape.
Essays
Osterhammel surveys global history’s evolution, noting its establishment in academe while highlighting its fragility. He calls for methodological awareness and pluralism in an approach balancing movement-building and the field’s transformative potential.
Interviews
Islamicist Massimo Campanini interviews Michael Cook, 2019 Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies, touching on focal points in his research, method and the historian’s profession, the role of history in education, and the current situation of Islamic Studies.
Research project
A report on Cook’s project 2021-22, consisting of Zoom meetings, two conferences, and future plans, mainly for the publication of a book series on premodern states. Due to the Covid crisis, the project end-date has been extended to 2027.
Research project
Through FRIAS fellowships and workshops at FRIAS and an edited volume, Osterhammel’s project will “rethink” the situation of global history, which remains ambiguous an academic subdiscipline after the past 30 years of expansion.
Research project
Marilyn Kelly and Giorgio Buccellati
The Buccellatis’ Balzan Research Project Cybernetica Mesopotamica will use “digital discourse” to create model websites on their Urkesh excavations that will serve as a new epistemic system in parallel with printed publications.
Forum
The Buccellatis’ finds from the excavation of Urkesh (4000 BCE) reveal the intricate relationship between artifacts, the dirt they are found in, and the digital tools employed to decipher their meaning.
Research project
Friedländer’s Balzan Research Project, extends his work on the Holocaust, seeking to transform how scholars approach bystanders in genocide by analyzing egodocuments for a nuanced understanding.
Forum
Friedländer reflects on his Holocaust experiences, suggesting that the lessons of history are often overlooked and emphasizing the need for continued exploration of historical evidence to uncover hidden or heretofore unrevealed perspectives.
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