Infinite Double: Persons/Things: Empire/Economy

This class is intended both for qualified third-and fourth-year undergraduates and for graduate students. In addition, it has often been attended by visiting scholars (graduate students and faculty) from other countries, and this presence has often added much to the course.

Annales (English ed.)

This article responds to a variety of criticisms of our thesis that the longue durée is returning after a period of retreat, and that this return provides a necessary means to revive the discipline of history as a critical human science. We argue that the longue durée has different meanings in distinct historical traditions and that its importance for non-academic audiences will not be the same as for an academic readership. We also suggest that the longue durée should be combined with other historical time-scales (including those covered by microhistory), and that this combination can help us all to better understand the present in light of the past and then orient ourselves toward the future. In sum, we argue that the revenant longue durée can be one means, among others, to address the widespread “crisis of the humanities” that has been discerned by scholars around the world.

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Foucault Studies, 2007

TRADITIONS AND TRANSITIONS | VOLUME TWO, 2019

Traditions and Transitions: this double volume features selected papers presented at a conference of the same name, organized by the Department of English and American Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia in September 2018. The conference aimed to celebrate a double anniversary: 90 years since the study of English was established as an autonomous degree subject within the Germanic Studies Department in 1928, and 130 years since the founding of the University of Sofia in 1888, the first higher academic institution in Bulgaria, opened shortly after the country’s liberation from Ottoman rule. Тhe conference brought together more than eighty academics from different generations, countries, and theoretical backgrounds. It offered a rich spectrum of topics and invited stimulating interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchanges. A year later, these two volumes present some of the most interesting and thought-provoking papers delivered in 2018. Preserving traditions and honouring the past, but also looking into the future and embracing transition and change, the forty papers in the two volumes offer a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. They have been organised into four parts. While strict boundaries between disciplines and themes are not easy to draw, multiple internal connections and shared themes are evident within each category. The two parts in the current Volume Two follow the traditional, and often arbitrary, divisions between Language and Literature. LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE AND TRANSLATION comprises papers from the fields of historical linguistics, phonology, prosody, lexicology, political discourse, interlanguage pragmatics, and translation theory. The findings are applied to literary translation, interpreting, and language teaching. The ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND WORLD LITERATURE part explores a rich array of themes: memory, history, contradiction, counterfactuality in historical fiction, national stereotypes, survivance and resistance, traditional and new gender roles as well as dystopian environmentalism. The last paper offers a fitting sense of an ending to the two volumes, with its exploration of Aristotle’s Poetics and their application to postmodernist fiction. The past and the present blend together, and we are back to the beginning: Traditions and Transitions.

2001

The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas, 2017