A cross team conference on A usable Past? Roles of the historian and the politics of memory, was organised by Christoph Conrad in Chateau-Coppet, Geneva, Switzerland, 12-14 May
Team 1 Institutions, networks and communities
Workshop on Institutions, Networks, and Communities of National Historiography: Comparative Approaches organised by Jo Tollebeek in Leuven, Belgium, 17-19 November
Team 2 Narrating National Histories
Workshop on The National Paradigm in History-Writing and its Others: Class, Religion and Ethnicity organised by Stefan Jordan in Munich, Germany , 3-5 November
Team 3 National Histories and its interrelation with regional, European and world histories
Workshop on World History Writing in Europe organised by Matthias Middell in Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 September
Team 4 Overlapping National Histories
Workshop on Overlapping National Histories: an European Panorama organised by Frank Hadler in Dresden, 1-3 December