{"id":27912,"date":"2021-10-21T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=27912"},"modified":"2021-10-21T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T07:04:00","slug":"how-does-europe-represent-its-past-an-epistemic-inquiry-at-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=27912","title":{"rendered":"eUI: How does Europe represent its past? An epistemic inquiry at the Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using research carried out at the Historical Archives of the European Union, Vibeke S\u00f8rensen Grant recipient Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt takes a look at how European institutions have shaped European historiography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does Europe represent its past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt, a PhD candidate in history at Ghent University, has taken on this question in her dissertation project <em>Sponsoring a European historical culture: Representations of the past promoted by the European Union, 1970-today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More specifically, Marie-Gabrielle is examining what EU funding for historical projects in the past reveals about how people have thought about the value of historical research for European integration and society at large, how decisions about \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d research have changed over time, and what kinds of historical topics and themes have been promoted above others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To inform her research, this summer she spent five weeks at the EUI\u2019s Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), supported by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eui.eu\/en\/academic-units\/historical-archives-of-the-european-union\/research-support\/postgraduate-vibeke-soerensen-grant\">Vibeke S\u00f8rensen<\/a> grant, one of the post-graduate research grants the HAEU offers to early career scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The HAEU holds the archives of all EU institutions, such as the European Parliament and the European Commission, but also of several European organisations and movements. In relation to the history of EU funding for academic historical research, Marie-Gabrielle was especially interested in the archives of the European Science Foundation (ESF), an international, non-governmental organisation that has supported international and interdisciplinary research on the European level since 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she explains, \u201cthe history of the European Science Foundation is fascinating not only because it is a precursor to the much larger European Research Council (ERC) that exists now, but also because it reveals how European funding for the humanities \u2013 amongst which historians \u2013 was organised and thought about during the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe many minutes of meetings\u201d, she continues, \u201cshow how decisions were made about fundable and non-fundable projects. The lists of members reveal how a committee that started with an all-male elitist make-up grew into a diverse and inclusive team of scholars. Looking at the evaluation practices and forms in turn exposes the slow and late introduction of peer review in this committee \u2013 only in the mid-90s! \u2013 as well as the lack of concrete selection criteria before 1988.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the success of her research mission, Marie-Gabrielle was enthusiastic. \u201cI expected a visit to these archives would be fruitful, but the amount of useful material I found far exceeded my expectations. To understand how EU funding for historians grew from a few ad hoc grants in the 1970s to the large-scale framework programmes that we know today \u2013 think, e.g., about the millions of dollars historians receive each year through the European Research Council grants \u2013 the sources deposited at the HAEU turned out to be fantastic leads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eui.eu\/news-hub?id=how-does-europe-represent-its-past-an-epistemic-inquiry-at-the-archives\">https:\/\/www.eui.eu\/news-hub?id=how-does-europe-represent-its-past-an-epistemic-inquiry-at-the-archives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/eui.jpg?fit=1920%2C760&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54487,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54487","url_meta":{"origin":27912,"position":0},"title":"Workshop &#8220;Experts in Transition: Political Epistemologies of 1980s\u20132000s East Central Europe&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"7. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"On July 9\u201310, 2026, the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana will host the international workshop: Experts in Transition: Political Epistemologies of 1980s\u20132000s East Central Europe The workshop is open to the public and to interested scholars. 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