Dr. Antoon de Baets

 

Chair

Lecturer of History and Human Rights and History and Philosopy of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen.

Founder (1995) and coordinator of the Network of Concerned Historians.

Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
97212 EK Groningen
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0) 50 363 6031
e-mail: a.h.m.de.baets@rug.nl

 

Some Recent Publications

De Baets, A. (2009). Responsible History. New York/Oxford: Berghahn.

De Baets, A. (2008). Gebruik en misbruik van geschiedenis [The Use and Abuse of History]. Amsterdam: Boom.

De Baets, A. (2002). Censorship of Historical Thought: A World Guide 1945-2000. Westport CT/London: Greenwood Press.

 

Texts

De Baets, A. (2009). "A Code of Ethics for Historians (proposal)", in Antoon de Baets. Responsible History. New York/Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 188-196.

De Baets, A. (2008). "The Abuse of History: Demarcations, Definitions and Historical Perspectives", in Herman Hoen & Mary Kemperink, eds. Vision in Text and Image: The Cultural Turn in the Study of Arts. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 159-173.

De Baets, A. (2007). "The Grandeur of Historiography". Storia della Storiografia, n. 51, pp. 141-147.

De Baets, A. (2007). "A Successful Utopia: The Doctrine of Human Dignity". Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories, n. 7, pp. 71-85.

De Baets, A. (2006). "Histoire et diffamation", in Pascal Durand, Pierre Hébert, Jean-Yves Mollier & François Valloton, eds. La censure de l'imprimé: Belgique, France, Québec et Suisse romande, XIXe et XXe siècles. Québec: Éditions Nota Bena, pp. 397-428.

De Baets, A. (2006). "The Network of Concerned Historians: A Decade of Campaigning". History Australia: The Australian Historical Association, Bulletin, 3, n. 1, pp. 16.1-16.4.

De Baets, A. (2006). "Exile and Acculturation: Refugee Historians since the Second World War". International History Review, n. 2, pp. 316-349.

De Baets, A. (2005). "Last Rites, Old Wrongs". The Times Higher Education Supplement, n. 1861 (4 March), p. 16.

De Baets, A. (2004). "The Dictator's Secret Archives: Rationales for Their Creation, Destruction, and Disclosure", in Alasdair MacDonald & Arend H. Huussen, eds. Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1600-1960. (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, vol. 7). Louvain: Peeters, pp. 181-196.

De Baets, A. (2002). "Defamation Cases against Historians". History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History, 41, n. 3, pp. 346-366.

De Baets, A. (2002). "History: School Curricula and Textbooks", in Derek Jones, ed. Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London/Chicago: Fitzroy, pp. 1067-1073.

De Baets, A. (2001). "Resistance to the Censorship of Historical Thought in the Twentieth Century", in Sølvi Dogner, ed. Making Sense of Global History: The 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo 2000, Commemorative Volume. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, pp. 389-409.

De Baets, A. (2001). "Human Rights, History of", in Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 10. Oxford, etc: Elsevier-Pergamon, pp. 7012-7018.