This week, ending in September 28 2017:
Today's thread is for open discussion of:
History in the academy
Historiographical disputes, debates and rivalries
Implications of historical theory both abstractly and in application
Philosophy of history
And so on
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion only of matters like those above, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
I'm not a historian, I'm a poli sci/gender guy, but one of the subjects I do work in are the ways in which conflict and trauma are remembered and memorialized in post-conflict and deeply divided spaces.
I'd be really interested to read about how history as a discipline, and historians themselves navigate these kind of post conflict spaces.
Any Balkanists that can comment on Heavenly Serbia by Branimir Anzulovic and Land Without Justice by Milovan Djilas?