All are welcome to UCC's spring conference on historiography. Keynote speakers are Shlomo Sand, author of The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso Press, 2009) and Tom Bartlett, author of Ireland: a history (Cambridge University Press, 2010). The other papers focus on the writing of history in 19th century Ireland. Patrick Maume, Jim McGeachie, BrianJackson, Alan Ford, Fintan Cullen, Clare O'Hallaron and Hiram Morgan are amongst the speakers. Begins 5 pm Friday May 6, continues all day Saturday. Venue Boole 2 lecture theatre, main campus University College Cork. [More information].

Over sixty experts from USA, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain participated in the VIII International Conversations on History, held at the Faculty of Filosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra (October 6-9, 2010), discussing on "History and Globalization". These Conversations are an imoprtant forum for debated started in late 1970. Among the Portal collaborators participated prominently Frank Ankersmit, F. Sánchez Marcos, Ewa Domanska and Stefan Berger. Also Jaume Aurell and Ignacio Olábarri, these ones as organizers of the event. [Program].

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 Amsterdam University Press has published Performing the Past: Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe (July 2010). This book, edited by Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree and Jay Winter, counts among its authors some of the best known specialists on theory of history and historical culture. Among them: A. and J. Assmann, P. Burke, R. Koselleck (+), C. Lorenz and A. Rigney. No doubt this book will become a reference work. We are pleased to have incorporated into the texts section the full-blown collaboration of Chris Lorenz in this book: "Unstuck in Time: the sudden Presence of the past".