Rethinking Historical Time

Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. His primary research fields are cultural history of medieval Europe, theory and history of historiography, and cultural memory studies. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, Bloomsbury 2019), Juri Lotman – Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (2019), Debating New Approaches to History (ed. with Peter Burke, Bloomsbury 2018), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015), and a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (ed. with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, Ashgate 2011). He is also the co-editor of A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, Bloomsbury 2020). Laurent Olivier is Curator in Chief of the Celtic and Gallic Department at the French National Museum of Archaeology in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. His main area of research is the archaeology of the European Iron Age, but he is also interested in the history of the archaeological discipline and its place in the building of collective identities. He is the author of The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory (2015).

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List of Contributors

Introduction: Rethinking Historical Time, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Laurent Olivier (French National Museum of Archaeology, France)

Part I: Presentism and New Temporalities
1. Out of Time? Some Critical Reflections on François Hartog’s Presentism, Chris Lorenz (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2. Return to Chronology, Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo, Norway)
3. Coming to Terms with the Present: Exploring the Chrononormativity of Historical Time, Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University, Sweden)
4. The Transformation of Historical Time: Processual and Evental Temporalities, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Part II: Multiple Temporalities
5. Revolutionary Presence: Historicism and the Temporal Politics of the Moment, Hans Ruin (Södertörn University, Sweden)
6. Time Outside History: Politics and Ontology in Franz Rosenzweig’s and Mircea Eliade’s Reimagined Temporalities, Liisi Keedus (Tallinn University, Estonia)
7. Pictorial Times and the Times of History: On Seeing Images and Experiencing Time, Johannes Grave (Bielefeld University, Germany)
8. Time as History in Twentieth-Century Photography, Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Part III: Material Temporalities
9. Heritage and the Untimely, Torgeir Rinke Bangstad (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
10. ‘Let’s Get Rid of That Old Stuff!’ Family Heritage Objects in France at the Age of Presentism, Jean-Pierre Legendre (French Ministry of Culture, France) and Laurence Ollivier (French Ministry of Culture, France)
11. Death and Archaeology in the Present, Tense, Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago, USA)
12. Rewilding Time in the Vale do Côa, Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter, UK)

Conclusion: A Creed That Has Lost its Believers? Reconfiguring the Concepts of Time and History, Aleida Assmann (University of Constance, Germany)

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