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
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Join us on Friday, 12 September 2025 at 12:30pm for the 2025 History and Theory Lecture, Jacques Rancière's “Dividing Time: Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian,” with a response by Emily Apter (NYU).
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...
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.”
as.nyu.edu
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Join us on Friday, 12 September 2025 at 12:30pm for the 2025 History and Theory Lecture, Jacques Rancière's “Dividing Time: Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian,” with a response by Emily Apter (NYU).
May 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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....
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
April 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Directionless Times and the Question of History
1st Vilnius Convention in Historical Theory
29-31 August 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
1st Vilnius Convention in Historical Theory
29-31 August 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Directionless Times and the Question of History
1st Vilnius Convention in Historical Theory
29-31 August 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
1st Vilnius Convention in Historical Theory
29-31 August 2025, Vilnius, Lithuania
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#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/...
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
September 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
#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/...
Read this #OpenAccess article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
September 10, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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....
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
June 26, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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....
Read our project-closing essay in Early View in @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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...
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...
lestempsquirestent.org
April 26, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
March 4, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
#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)
February 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
#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)