Symposium 'Meanings and Mutations of History and Historiography', December 9, 2024 [by invitation only]

History, widely acknowledged to be an anthropocentric, ‘scientific’, modern, European discipline of institutionalized enquiry that took shape in the second half of the nineteenth century, has been heterogeneous since its inception. Donald Kelley’s tracing of historical imagination and the writing of history to classical antiquity with Thucydides and Herodotus respectively representing the analytic and the hermeneutic ‘faces’ of history (1998), and Romila Thapar’s upholding of the itihasa-pur...