Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
zoltanbsimon.bsky.social
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
@zoltanbsimon.bsky.social

time history theory Anthropocene | History in Times of Unprecedented Change 2019 | The Epochal Event 2020 | The Fabric of Historical Time 2023 | Plurihistoricity 2026

History 27%
Political science 12%
Jacques Rancière will deliver the 2025 History and Theory
lecture on September 12 with a comment by Emily Apter.

RSVP to attend online or in person: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
History & Theory Lecture: Jacques Rancière, “Dividing Time. Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian.”
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For the upcoming theme issue of Rethinking History on “Memories of the Future,” I wrote a piece on how historical understanding imposes limits on imaginaries of the future. It contains at least one very good footnote (endnote, actually) - check it out!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Historical futures and the pull of the past: on the poverty of imagination
This article explores how historical understanding imposes limits on imaginaries of the future. The article fleshes out the ‘anticipation paradox’ to capture how this happens even in the most imagi...
www.tandfonline.com

Directionless Times and the Question of History

1st Vilnius Convention in Historical Theory

29-31 August 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
#ArticleSnapshot📸: Our September 2024 issue includes Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm's "The Opening of Historical Futures," which is their conclusion to the #HistoricalFutures Iterations series.

Read this #OpenAccess article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
THE OPENING OF HISTORICAL FUTURES*
With a touch of irony, the project-closing piece of the “Historical Futures” collective research endeavor pulls together the threads of its four years of explorative work by showcasing an opening of ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Our September 2024 issue is out now!

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...

Exceeding all expectations, the Historical Futures project is in its 4th year already - and we thought that it’s time to bring it to a conclusion

Read our project-closing essay in Early View in @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
THE OPENING OF HISTORICAL FUTURES*
With a touch of irony, the project-closing piece of the “Historical Futures” collective research endeavor pulls together the threads of its four years of explorative work by showcasing an opening of ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Out of the ashes of Les Temps Modernes emerged Les Temps qui restent (TQR)

The first issue has been launched yesterday, including a dossier on “Inheriting Modern Times” –  what a venue, what a wonderful website, and what a brilliant lineup

lestempsquirestent.org/fr/numeros/n...
Les temps qui restent
Les Temps qui restent (TQR) est un collectif multimédia déployé autour d’une revue généraliste en ligne, lancé à l’initiative du dernier comité de rédaction des Temps Modernes (interrompu en 2018). Ou...
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Our March 2024 issue is out now! 🎉

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303...
#HCG2024 Olá Rio 🥳 We are happy to announce the 25th International Conference on the History of Concepts “Political Ideologies: Tracing the History of Concepts and Languages in a Global Context” which will take place on December 5–7th 2024 in Rio de Janeiro! (Submission until May 19th)