Call for papers

Open call

With this conference, we wish to invite a discussion on time, history, and related matters: How are they imagined through concepts and metaphors, from ancient Greek and Roman times to the present day, and how are they represented in texts, images, and art?

The conference is interested in works that engage with new and emerging agendas in intellectual and conceptual history, such as discussions on emotions and politics, the history of concepts and metaphors, the visual studies and the history of concepts in relation to the history of science and technology, among others. It has also become increasingly urgent to address social and political problems that are inherently global in nature, as reflected in discussions on "digitalisation" and about concepts such as "anthropocene", "climate" or "ecological crisis".

In this sense, the conference welcomes contributions that engage with the history of concepts in general, particularly those aligned with the following themes:

– History of concepts, languages, and intellectual history

– Arts and History (Iconography, Art History, Political Iconology)

– Visual studies

– Contemporary politics, ideologies, and their political concepts

– Temporalities, chronopolitics, and the politicization of time

– Metaphors, emotions, and ideologies

– History of science, technologies, and ecology

– Social Theory, concepts, and ideologies

– Marxist historiography and philosophy of history

– Critical Theory and philosophy of history

– Critical theories of time

– Postcolonial theories of time and history

Proposals should be sent to the conference’s e-mail address: hcg2025bo@gmail.com. All proposals should be in word files (.doc or .docx) that include names, institutional affiliations, and professional status (e.g. instructor/researcher or student), along with abstracts of the papers or panels.

Abstracts for individual papers should not exceed 250 words.

Proposals for panel sessions should not exceed 1000 words.

Panel proposals must include details for all participants. Panels with 3 speakers and 1 commentator are preferred; with 4 speakers and no commentator in exceptional cases.

Submission deadline: May 31^st 2025

Accepted participants will be notified by Juny 15^th 2025

Panels and Papers must be presented in English.

The conference is free of charge. However, participation with individual papers or panels requires an active membership in the History of Concepts Group. The membership fee includes a one-year subscription to our journal, Contributions to the History of Concepts. Membership rates come in three varieties: Sustaining Members: $150/ Regular Members: $100/ Concessionary Members (Students / Emerging Scholars / Emeritus): $40.
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