The Center for Historical Culture and History@Erasmus invite you to attend this research seminar with dr. Tyson Retz (University of Stavanger). Dr. Retz is a specialist in intellectual history, the philosophy of history and history didactics and will be visiting ESHCC's History Department as part of the Erasmus+ Staff Exchange programme.
- Date
- Thursday 2 Dec 2021, 15:00 - 16:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Location
Zoom
- Ticket information
Due to the current circumstances, this event will take place exclusively through Zoom. Please contact dr. Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (adriaansen@eshcc.eur.nl) for the Zoom link.
Abstract
Progress is an idea that applies an understanding of the past to an expectation of the future. So how does the scale on which we conceive history shape how we think about progress? By developing five categories that disaggregate the principles and assumptions underlying the idea of progress, I explore the conceptions of history of ancient cultures who held no notion of progress, modern cultures for whom it served as a master concept, marginalised groups who both emulated and resisted its ideological undercurrents, and present-day movements seeking to redress the excesses of progress’s marriage with growth.
Bio
Tyson Retz is Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where he teaches and writes on intellectual history, the philosophy of history and history didactics. He received his PhD in history from the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Empathy and History (Berghahn 2018), a dual exploration of empathy's intellectual and educational history, including its place in historicist, idealist and hermeneutic traditions as well as in the school subject of history. He has written numerous articles on core issues in historical theory and more recently examined the history of the idea of progress in different conceptions of history.
