[H-PAD] Questions, answers, and zoom link for June 16 and June 22 Left Historian Discussion

[Margaret Power]

*What is the role of Left historians today?*



Below are the questions and the answers received so far are attached. The
zoom link for June 16 is:
https://iit-edu.zoom.us/j/87190512433?pwd=N1dHd3BwMlNLTkdWbzVLZzd5WFBuQT09

Time: EST: 4:00; CST 3:00; PCT 1:00

I will send the zoom link for June 22 closer to the date.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Margaret Power




Over the past half-century, historians writing from the Left have crafted a
scholarship that is openly public, political, and popular.  We have shifted
the direction of our discipline sharply so that it is now commonplace for
many historians to cast a more critical eye at established systems of
oppression and, at the same time, foreground the struggles of people
to transform these systems and structures.  We have brought our historical
understanding to various mass movements. These are two reasons why the
legitimacy of historical scholarship and the scholarship of historians
itself are under attack by self-proclaimed patriots.  At the same time, we
find that it is unclear what it means to be a Left historian today. That is
why we would like to discuss with you the question:  *What is the role
of Left historians today?*



 To engage and focus the discussion, we have developed the following
questions:



·      What does it mean to you to be a Left historian?

·      What are some of the ways you have expressed this?

·      What are some of the challenges you have faced/face?

·      What role has H-PAD played (or could play) in supporting radical
activism among historians?
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