Beyond the Canon
Final announcement
International Conference - Rotterdam, the Netherlands 16-17 June 2005
BEYOND THE CANON: HISTORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Organised by the Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam in collaboration with Utrecht University (OGC), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
CONFERENCE THEME
Although it would be exaggerated to proclaim the end of the nation in the near future, it cannot be denied that nations have become porous and contested. Consequentially, the practices of cultural transmission and education based upon them have likewise become precarious. After a half-century of decolonization, migration and postcoloniality, feminism and the gendering of historical discourse, the received canon of national history and political thought no longer commands the 'natural authority' it once possessed. Even so, we have to confront the paradox that, despite the vast amount of criticism leveled at it, the canon is still being recycled over and over again in textbooks and publications aimed at a broader public. Educators and public moralists frequently recommend the canon as the only alternative to the postmodernist maze of relativism and contingency. The conference BEYOND THE CANON sets out to discuss various dimensions of this paradox of de-canonization, such as gender, postcoloniality and migration, equality and the Enlightenment, situating them in the shifting balance of national, European and World History. It will investigate the feasibility of revised, multiform and more open 'canons', and the role they might playin cultural transmission in the twenty-first century.
A detailed conference programme is available at :http://www.fhk.eur.nl/onderzoek/paradoxes/beyondthecanon.html
HOW TO REGISTER
The number of tickets available is limited because of size limitations of our venues. Therefore we recommend that you make your registration as early as possible. If you wish to register for the conference, please download the registration form fromhttp://www.fhk.eur.nl/onderzoek/paradoxes/Registration%20form.doc and send your request by e-mail to : beyondthecanon@fhk.eur.nl
International Conference - Rotterdam, the Netherlands 16-17 June 2005
BEYOND THE CANON: HISTORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Organised by the Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam in collaboration with Utrecht University (OGC), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
CONFERENCE THEME
Although it would be exaggerated to proclaim the end of the nation in the near future, it cannot be denied that nations have become porous and contested. Consequentially, the practices of cultural transmission and education based upon them have likewise become precarious. After a half-century of decolonization, migration and postcoloniality, feminism and the gendering of historical discourse, the received canon of national history and political thought no longer commands the 'natural authority' it once possessed. Even so, we have to confront the paradox that, despite the vast amount of criticism leveled at it, the canon is still being recycled over and over again in textbooks and publications aimed at a broader public. Educators and public moralists frequently recommend the canon as the only alternative to the postmodernist maze of relativism and contingency. The conference BEYOND THE CANON sets out to discuss various dimensions of this paradox of de-canonization, such as gender, postcoloniality and migration, equality and the Enlightenment, situating them in the shifting balance of national, European and World History. It will investigate the feasibility of revised, multiform and more open 'canons', and the role they might playin cultural transmission in the twenty-first century.
A detailed conference programme is available at :http://www.fhk.eur.nl/onderzoek/paradoxes/beyondthecanon.html
HOW TO REGISTER
The number of tickets available is limited because of size limitations of our venues. Therefore we recommend that you make your registration as early as possible. If you wish to register for the conference, please download the registration form fromhttp://www.fhk.eur.nl/onderzoek/paradoxes/Registration%20form.doc and send your request by e-mail to : beyondthecanon@fhk.eur.nl
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