Next August (22-28/8/2010) will be held in Amsterdam the 21^st International Congress of Historical Sciences, which takes place every five years. It is considered the most prestigious and global historical meeting. This Congress provides an ideal venue for extensive reports, papers, debates, exchanges, and meetings reflecting historical research in action. In this occasion, the major themes are “The Fall of Empires”, “The City as Culture”, and “Religion and Power”. The inscription remains opened till 1 May 2010. It can be found more information in the web site  http://www.ichs2010.org/home.asp.

What exactly are past, present, and future? How have historians understood and managed time in different historical and cultural contexts? Which periodification criteria have prevailed? Are there turning points in History? All these questions are the core of the workshop that will be held next April at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Under the title Breaking up Time. Settling the Borders between the Present, the Past and the Future, historians, theoreticians of history and philosophers will gain together to clarify the relationship between temporal development and its narrative formulation in historical sciences. The organizers C. Lorenz and B. Bevernage call for papers: http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/history/veranstaltungen/PresentPastFuture.

The German research group “History in Popular Cultures of Knowledge” has organized an international and interdisciplinary Conference on Popular History 1800 – 1900 – 2000. (University of Freiburg, 22-24 July 2010). The group, leaded by Barbara Kortek and Sylvia Paletschek (editors of the book History goes Pop), studies the diffusion, the expression, and the use of historical representations in mass cultures. Conference’s schedule and inscription, at http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/historische-lebenswelten/veranstalungen-en/pophist.