Patterns and Principles in Rens Bod: Call for Contributions: Special Issue on The Structure of Humanistic Revolutions

zondag 15 november 2026

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on The Structure of Humanistic Revolutions

The journal History of Humanities invites essays that contribute to a special issue devoted to The Structure of Humanistic Revolutions.

Inspired by a conference of the same name that took place earlier this year in Toruń, this special issue will critically explore the transformations that have shaped the history of the humanities. Departing and diverging from Thomas Kuhn’s seminal work “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” authors will engage in a reflective analysis of how “revolutions” within humanistic disciplines have been conceptualized, contested and institutionalized over time.

The issue will include reflections on epochal movements — from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and from Romanticism to contemporary posthumanism. What are the “structures” that underpin these transformations? Can we even speak of unified revolutions in the history of the humanities, or are these shifts more nuanced, gradual, and contested than the revolutionary label suggests?

Deadline for contributions: 1 April 2027.

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5 December 2025: Digital Round Table on the Global Perspectives on the History of the Humanities

31 december 2023: Ik spreek in "OVT" over het tragische einde van Taqi al-Din's observatorium

12 December 2023: Lecture at VUB Brussels: "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?"

On 12 December at 16.15h, I will give a talk at the KIIP seminar entitled "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?". In this talk I will present a longue durée exploration of meaning-making from a global perspective. I argue that a total of 185 distinct meaning-making practices can be discerned that can be grouped into 30 themes. I discuss a number of general patterns and principles that can be found in meaning-making practices across the world and will go into the question as to what kind of knowledge meaning-making actually is. For more info, see https://events.vub.be/kiip-seminar-rens-bod

14-15 November 2023: Online Workshop "Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities"

On 14 November I will give a brief presentation to introduce the workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities. Why and how do humanities disciplines borrow knowledge from one another? Under what conditions has knowledge transfer been (un)successful in the past? And what light, if at all, do historical examples shed on current forms of (inter)disciplinarity? If you're interested in these questions, join our online workshop. For more info, see https://www.historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-meetings/workshop-epistemic-transfer/

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zondag 15 november 2026

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on The Structure of Humanistic Revolutions

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