International Affiliated Organizations
Title
International Society for History Didactics – Progressive narratives in the post-Cold War area II
Session code
IAO18
Date Time
Friday, August 26th / 14.00-17.30
Organizers
Susanne Popp; Terry Haydn; Markus Furrer; Joanna Wojdon
Place
Collegium Historicum, 3.132
Papers
- Chair
- Without progress? Alternatives and scope for action in history lessons
- History in Ukraine: approach to progressive narrative in political transitions
- Dealing with Nuclear War as a global problem in Post-Cold War Estonian history textbooks
- The double end of history… in relation to an epoch with a beginning and an end
- Current Social Crises in Austrian Textbooks
- Narratives of progress or threat? Europeanization and Globalization in Danish history textbooks
- Progress and Regression in Civil Society. The LGBTQ+Movement in transnational perspective – examples from the Erasmus+TEEM-Project
Abstract
With the end of the Cold War the supporting narratives of progress collapsed – the liberal-capitalistic one and the one of a communist ideology; and were replaced by a confusing multiplicity of histories and partial narrations. But we also know that “progress” as a figure of thinking is a social reality (Jörn Rüsen). The session will be dealing with the following questions:
• How do actual textbooks deal with the end of progressive narratives since the end of the Cold War and with the actual phenomenon of crises of various kinds
• How is progress used as a historical category and is connected with agency?