Maria Mudrovcic (Comahue): Time, History and Philosophy of History. Zoltan Boldizsar Simon (Bielefeld): History Set into Motion Again. Rafael Winkler (Johannesburg): Is History as a Science Possible? Historical Duree and the Critique of Positivism. Meg Foster (Sydney): Online and Plugged In? Public History and Historians in the Digital Age. Joris van Eijnatten, Toine Pieters, and Jaap Verheul (Utrecht): Big Data for Global History: The Transformative Promise of Digital Humanities. Manuel Perez Garcia (RUC): From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The New Challenges in Global History. Jack Tsonis (Western Sydney): Transformation Not Progress: Moving Away From “Development” in the Age of Big History. George Steinmetz (Michigan): Comparative History and its Critics: A Genealogy and a Possible Solution. All power to the (historical) imagination: McKenzie Wark reviews The Structure of World History by Kojin Karatani. Historians, go big or go home: Rebecca Onion reviews The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi and David Armitage (and more). The new histories: Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past. Rich Yeselson on what New Left history gave us. Bonfire of the humanities: Samuel Moyn on how historians are losing their audience, and searching for the next trend won’t win it back. Public debate is afflicted by short-term thinking — how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view?
