XVI Congress of the Contemporary History Association | Looking at the past, looking at the present. New horizons in contemporary historiography.

“The 16th Congress of the Contemporary History Association is intended to be a forum of reference in which to present and debate all the questions, themes and lines of research that currently interest and occupy the broad community that is united around contemporary historiography. The title of this year’s edition, “Glances at the past, glances at the present. New horizons in contemporary historiography”“, combines the triad of historical temporality around which the work of our profession develops. A framework that allows us to reflect on the diversity of experiences (individual or collective) lived by human societies throughout contemporaneity and in any of its spatial dimensions, from the most local to the necessary global consideration, as well as their different interconnections. It also invites us to think about how this historiographical reflection reaches the very present in which we carry out our scientific work, not only in a sort of temporal continuity, but also as a reality in which our work as historians makes sense. Consequently, the 16th Congress provides us with an extraordinary opportunity to become acquainted with the current state of contemporary historiography, while at the same time providing an ideal space in which to explore its future horizons.

The world in which we live, especially in times of increasing uncertainty, looks to history for clues to understand itself, its past, its present and even its possible futures. The Congress is a magnificent setting for responding to a challenge and fulfilling a social function that are consubstantial to contemporary historiography in today’s world”.