Next meeting of young researchers (Zaragoza, September 6-8th, 2017)

The information regarding the VIth International Meeting of Young Researchers in Contemporary History, organized by the colleagues of the University of Zaragoza and that will take place in that city between the 6th, 7th and 8th of September of 2017, it’s already available.

The deadline for sending panel and scriptoria (a cooperative project and the most important newness in this meeting) proposals will be opened until March 1st, 2016. You can send your proposals to the email address joveneshistoria2017@gmail.com.

In the following link you could find the meeting’s first notice which is hosted in the meeting’s website.

Reminder! We are moving to the UAB Campus.

We remind you that due to the problems with Can Batlló, we have moved the Vth Meeting to the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

You could find the programme and the activities here.

You can download the schedule with the rooms in which the panels will take place here.

Activities and programme (final)

Notice

Due to the present conditions at Can Batlló, that we were warned last Thursday and that the space does not fit the minimun requirements for the celebration of the conferce, the Organising Committee of the Vth Meeting of Young Researchers in Contemporary History has moved its activities from Can Batlló to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, FGC -S2/S55- Universitat Autònoma).

Activities

Roundtables

Fourth Notice

(15th May 2015)

Fourth Notice (PDF English)

We have the pleasure to announce the latest news to all those attendees to the V Meeting of Young Researchers of the Contemporary History Association (AHC). With this notice, we close the term for the reception of papers which will be discussed during the meeting. Also, the period for registration is now open and we appeal other groups to take over in organising the next Meeting of 2017. [Read more]

Third Notice

(December, 15th 2014)

Third Notice UPDATED (PDF English)

List of panels – papers February 2015 (PDF English)

With this notice, we have the pleasure to announce the final list of papers accepted for the Vth Meeting of Young Researchers of the Contemporary History Association, attached in the Annex. The success of the two previous calls has fuelled us with optimism and allows us to perceive a Vth Meeting committed to the historiography and the world in which we live. Both the national and international reception that this Vth Meeting has enjoyed restates the fact that the community of young researchers requires horizontal spaces for the debate among equals, providing the feasibility of continuing these meetings of young historians, which will necessarily have to go on in the future. [Read more]

Second notice: call for papers

17th of July, 2014

In this second notice, we are pleased to publicise the final panel-workshop list which will constitute the V Meeting of Young Scholars of the Contemporary History Association, in which we invite you to attend by submitting your paper proposals. Despite the difficulties faced in the selection process due to the great success in receiving panel proposals, we think that the wide and diverse range of sessions we are presenting here is the most accurate reflection of the dominant interests of the young scholars within our historiographical community, in which we are adding the interests of some foreign colleagues who have decided to join us in this very special occasion. [Read more]

First notice: call for panellists

FIRST CALL FOR PANELLISTS

24th of february

Following with the unquestionable success of former editions, the Vth Meeting of Young Researchers in Contemporary History of the AHC (Contemporary History Association) aims at continuing to support a working space in which the concerns of young scholars are represented, offering the chance to present, defend, contrast and hold-up with criticism their respective work and matured projects. The Organising Committee launches this First Call for Panellists (CFP) to collect the proposals for the organisation of “panel-workshops” chaired by one or more panellists, accepting also proposals from different collectives, research groups, and also from scientific journals with a clearly defined historiographical approach, which is a model that has provided such good results in former editions. [Read more]

Intellectual Manifesto of the 5th Meeting of Young Researchers of the AHC

Manifesto (PDF English)

As the Organising Committee of the 5^th Meeting of Young Researchers, we have considered necessary to head the first call for panellists of this new historiographical challenge with a manifesto which attempts to synthesise the spirit and proposals that lie behind our motivation. Facing the ceaseless and relentless attack of the neoliberal policies directed against culture, public education, research and, more specifically, Social Sciences, the present Meeting of Young Researchers of the Contemporary History Association (AHC), represents to us, as the future of our society and the historiographical community, a moral responsibility and a clear expression of our quotidian struggle for dignity.

Despite the multiple difficulties we face in our profession and in our society, seven years of uninterrupted biannual congresses mean a reason to congratulate ourselves, as they constitute a challenge in front of those who try to deprive our personal and collective future. In fact, the previous and forthcoming Meetings are a proof of the increasing ascendancy of the historiography in Spain and, in particular, of its youngest representatives as: a natural generational shift; the bearers of new perspectives and researching experiences, which are the only guarantee of the continuity of the ongoing work and interpretations; and, also, the contributors to the improvement of the debates which will condition the future of our discipline. Therefore, our aim is no other than that of supporting all those young researchers who begin their first steps in the increasingly more difficult path of post-graduate research. So, we defend the need and the historiographical value of our meetings, which represent a space of trust and mutual exchange made by and for young researchers but, as it could not be otherwise, opened to the general historiographical community and society as a whole.

In this sense, the young researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) claim the legacy of the former editions of this event and defend the need to:

1. Instate the Meetings of Young Researchers as a part of our immaterial heritage as a historiographical community.
2. Give continuity to the Meetings of Young Researchers as a space to deepen the process of historiographical renewal, the exchange of ideas and the nurturing of a critical conscience.
3. Open and make the historiographical production available to the entire society, claiming and stating the usefulness of our work and offering a whole series of tools for a critical knowledge of our present reality.
4. Promote solidarity, debate and horizontal collaboration, teamwork and the defence of our collective interests as a model to face the present challenges and to succeed in our research.
5. Find contact points and to ease the convergence between the most diverse approaches, interpretations, methodologies and points of view.
6. Directly oppose to old-fashioned models of “debate” clearly unproductive, being able to ask ourselves for seeking links with other views and the explanation of our knowledge and research.
7. Promote novel and ambitious reflections in theoretical, methodological and conceptual terms as a shared aspect of any valuable historiographical project and the main value of our discipline.
8. Deepen in the use of comparative, transnational and multidisciplinary perspectives, defending at any time the inherent complexity of the past and fomenting the dialogue with other areas of knowledge and culture.
9. Project our work and thoughts at international level, helping and intensifying the exchange of ideas with other intellectual traditions and historiographical schools, being aware of it as the only path to drive forward our respective research.
10. Give impulse to the talent, ambition and value of young researchers.

Barcelona, 24th February 2014

The Organising Committee of the 5^th Meeting of Young Researchers of the Contemporary History Association (AHC):

Joel Sans Molas, Helena Saavedra Mitjans, Oriol Luján Feliu, Adrià Llacuna Hernando, Cristian Ferrer González, Francisco de Paula Fernández Gómez, Assumpta Castillo Cañiz, César Castañón Ares, Laura Canalias Chorrero, Miguel Alonso Ibarra, David Alegre Lorenz

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