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The graduate programs in Classical Studies at Duke University and in Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill are collaborating to organize the Inaugural Duke/UNC-CH Graduate Workshop in Classics Pedagogy for the weekend of March 28-30, 2014. Teaching classical languages, culture, history, and archaeology presents unique challenges, dissimilar to those of any other discipline in the humanities. Graduate instructors in Classics must not only communicate to undergraduates the results of their own research, they must also bring excitement to the study of two languages that have not been spoken for millennia, develop appealing presentations of visual art and monumental architecture, and offer insight into complicated and difficult cultural practices, such as animal sacrifice, slavery, and imperial conquest. While many graduate programs now run conferences at which graduates may share research papers with one another, no venue exists at any other institution of higher education in which graduates and faculty in Classics may address their common efforts as educators. This workshop establishes an entirely unique venue in which graduate instructors may benefit one another by sharing their knowledge and experience and by drawing upon the recognized excellence of talented professionals in the field.
While histories within the context of a single humanities discipline have been written for more than a century, it is only over the last decade that we have witnessed histories that go beyond single humanities disciplines and that bring together different fields, periods or regions. It thus comes as a surprise that virtually no studies go into the methodological problems of the new métier. Questions abound: What do we mean by “bringing together” different humanities fields across time and space? Should we study their shared concepts, methods, virtues, research practices, historical actors, pedagogical practices, personal interactions, or yet something else? And when in history can we speak of the “humanities” as a group of disciplines? And how can we compare the humanities from different parts of the world? In this essay, I will discuss four methodological challenges which I believe to be constitutive for the history of the humanities as a field. These are the challenges of demarcation, anachronism, eurocentrism and incommensurability. Any history of the humanities that goes beyond the scope of a single discipline, period or region will have to address at least one of these challenges. While none of my challenges have absolute solutions, I will give a motivated choice for each of them. I will argue that my solutions provide a viable way to write a comparative history of the humanities, and that we can therefore speak of them as maxims. Although the preferred solutions will differ among historians, the challenges remain the same. At the end of my essay, I will discuss other possible solutions to the challenges, as well as other possible challenges for the history of the humanities, such as the challenge of forgotten scholars, non-academic humanities and colonial humanities. Finally, I will go into the relation between the history of the humanities and the history of science and knowledge.
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