No end to history? Historiography since the 1990s

Kantorowicz Lecture 2024

With Prof. Dr.Monika Dommann (Professor of Modern History, University of Zurich)

35 years after the end of history proclaimed in 1989, the lecture looks back on the transformation of historiography since the 1990s from the perspective of the history of knowledge and media. How has historiography changed since it increasingly became an authority on the reappraisal of history? How has the proclamation of a provincialization of Europe affected the history book market? Can historians still be up to their job after the digitization of their archives? And what does it mean that history is booming in museums, in the cinema and on the book market – and at the same time the number of people studying history is falling?