Projeto
“Core Concepts of Historical Thinking” (CORE): Brazilian/The Romance Language workgroup on historical concepts
Resumo
The European Research Council - NAMO - project brings together a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Working with a broad network of leading foreign and domestic partners, the team conducts humanist research on core concepts of historical thinking from across European, Asian, North American, and Latin American traditions of theory and philosophy of history. The research output will be presented on a sophisticated digital platform in a multimedia design. Using analytics software, the project pursues a novel process of scholarly innovation for the humanities by relying on digital reader feedback to uncover real-time conceptual connections between contents, and using the feedback for setting new directions for further research on the project's foci. From the NAMO project derives the “Core Concepts of Historical Thinking” (CORE), a digital platform delivering a comprehensive study of approximately 500 core concepts of historical thinking, it is envisioned that the team over the three-year period will produce four doctoral dissertations, two habilitation degrees, three scientific articles, and one monograph. The outcome is foremost a scholarly engagement by the team in Poland with a considerable international and domestic network of leading scholars, a significant contribution towards developing a new form of digital humanities, and a major cross-cultural study on humanist conceptual history, which aims to move the modern university towards a broader intellectual basis on a global scale. The CORE/NAMO project can be considered a unique and innovative initiative, with an enormous potentiality of impact on conceptual history in its global interactions. I had the chance of engaging in parts of the “pilot” study that has preceded the current application, and I recognize the value and originality in enlarging the initiative to a broader cross-cultural comparison transcending the traditional boarders of conceptual history and historical theory itself. Other relevant initiatives in terms of a historical concept dictionary such as the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe by Conze, Koselleck and Brunner and Iberconceptos by Sebastian and et al. limit themselves to the linguistic and cultural universe of German and Spanish-Portuguese respectively. Apart from other significant difference in their goals, these previous endeavors do not include any intercultural and global comparison, which can lead to a better understanding of historical experience in its diversity.
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