{"id":45992,"date":"2025-04-23T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=45992"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:00:16","slug":"cfp-in-and-out-of-the-canon-in-intellectual-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=45992","title":{"rendered":"CfP: In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individual papers that target the conference theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference is during 15-17 December 2025, at the University of Helsinki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deadline for proposals is end of April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conference of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History\u00a0<\/strong>
15-17 December 2025
University of Helsinki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intellectual history is not a unified tradition of thought, but a series of interventions on what topics should be studied, which perspective should be deployed and to what end should intellectual history be written. Some interventions harmonize, while others are vehemently opposed to one another. This conference is aimed at discussing the history and current state of the kind of boundary making that is involved in the self-reflexive process of doing intellectual history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of intellectual history is unavoidably a chain of exclusions and inclusions, sometimes based on articulated political beliefs, sometimes unintentional blind spots and sometimes the result of a deliberation among intellectual historians. Past debates include remarks on which topics, thinkers and sources are included or excluded from intellectual history. Gender, ethnicity, language and geographically situated intellectual milieus among other things have all affected whether or not particular intellectuals have been made part of the canon of intellectual history. However, the process of canon making and the inevitable changes in who or what are included in the canon are different in different parts of the world. Ultimately there is no one canon, but rather there have been multiple different canons that do overlap, but also change over time. Canon-making has affected other canons, but so has the critique of canons and the questioning of intellectual traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The canon can then be that of intellectual history, but it can also be about any tradition, question or methodological choice relevant for intellectual history. Wherever intellectual historians make boundaries and define a tradition there is a question of in and out of the canon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individual papers that target the conference theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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