The INTH is pleased to announce its second network conference on the topic of ‘The Practical Past: on the advantages and disadvantages of history for life’. This conference will be hosted and co-organized by the Sociedade Brasileira de Teoria e História da Historiografia (SBTHH) and will take place August 23-26, 2016 in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

The conference will feature keynote talks by: Christophe Bouton, Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin, Jerome De Groot, Chris Lorenz, Guillermo Zermeño Padilla, Hans Ruin and Sanjay Seth.

We will also have numerous parallel sessions on a range of topics including but not limited to:

- ethics of history
- experience/presence
- epistemology
- history as science (causation, explanation, lawfulness, modelling, …)
- historical time
- hermeneutics
- historical (in)justice
- history and mourning/trauma
- public/popular history
- substantial/speculative philosophy of history
- narrativism
- politics of history and memory
- relations between history and other scientific fields
- history of historiography

Please visit our conference page on the INTH website (http://www.inth.ugent.be) to see the full call for papers and to get more information about the conference location and other practical matters.

We hope that you can make it to the conference in Brazil, if you would like to submit an abstract for consideration, please send it to inthconference@gmail.com before the 15th of December, 2015.