Call for Papers: “Agency of Concepts in Interface Regions: Asymmetries, Asynchronities, and Discontinuations”

The 24rd International Conference on the History of Concepts, organized by Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Piotr Kuligowski and Wiktor Marzec on behalf of the History of Concepts Group (HCG), brings together scholars from all disciplines interested in conceptual history. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary exchange on the problems and practice of the history of concepts and fosters the international network of conceptual historians.

The organizers welcome proposals for papers or panels focusing on the conference theme, not excluding proposals on any other aspect of conceptual history. Proposals can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Historical agency of concepts and conceptual change
• Imperial and state-related Eastern European legacies of concepts
• Rethinking concepts and conceptual history from the global South and global East
• The spatialized legacy of concepts and geopolitical aspects of their history
• Multiple temporalities of concepts and their embeddedness in social realities
• Concepts of modernity and their various benchmarks and reference points in time and space

Proposals for panels (preferably 3 speakers and 1 commentator; in justified cases, 4 speakers) should not exceed 800 words. The language of the conference is English.

Please send your proposals to hcg2023@gmail.com as a Word Document. The deadline for sending in proposals is March 30. 2023. Accepted participants will be notified by the end of April.

More information: https://bit.ly/HCG2023