Links: Saul Friedländer, Martin Jay, Judith Butler and Hayden White

• Saul Friedländer: Trends in the historiography of the Holocaust (video)
• Why the humanities?, by Martin Jay (from early July)
• Willing the impossible: an interview with Judith Butler
• In Brazil, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES) will be holding the event The 40th Anniversary of Metahistory in October 10 to 13, 2013. The presence of many of the major commentators of White's work is confirmed:

Hayden White (University of California, USA)
Chris Lorenz (VU University Amsterdam, Holand)
Herman Paul (Leiden University, Holand)
Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University, New York USA)
Hans Kellner (North Carolina University,USA)
Ewa Domanska (AM University, Poznan, Poland)
Robert Doran (University of California, USA)
Claudio Fogu (University of California, USA)
Verónica Tozzi (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Kalle Pihlainen (Abo Akademi University, Finland)

More information in available at the event's website: http://metahistory-ufes.blogspot.com.br/