Columbia University
october, 2016
The Historian as Healer
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Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027, USA
- 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027
19oct6:00 pm- 8:00 pmThe Historian as Healer
Event Details
Until the beginning of the 20th century, writing on contemporary topics for which the historian deals with living actors, was regarded as something suspicious. The idea still
Event Details
Until the beginning of the 20th century, writing on contemporary topics for which the historian deals with living actors, was regarded as something suspicious. The idea still remains here and there among professional historians. Meanwhile, this part of the discipline became rather dominant in the last decades, fostered by the so-called ?memory boom?, which gave a new role to historians and other social scientists. Their activity isn?t any more the sole research for a better knowledge of the past. They are asked to be stakeholders in the global process of healing or repairing the wrongdoings of history. www.universit ysem inars.colum bia.edu
Henry Rousso is the Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is Professor of History at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. This semester he teaches at Columbia, History Department. His latest book in English is The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary.
Hosted by Columbia University Seminar on “History, Redress and Reconciliation’
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027, USA
64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027