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The article presents a report on a Franco-German historical conference on the historiography of contemporary history, held at the German Historical Institute in Paris, France, from October 17-19, 2013. Topics of discussion included sources for writing the history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the relationship between the social sciences and history, and the influence of time perception and time perspective on history.

The article reports on a conference on the historiography of contemporary history since the 1970s, held in Cologne, Germany, from May 23-24, 2013. Topics of discussion included the history of globalization, the representation of global economic dependency and interdependency in the mass media, and the economic history of Germany since the late 1980s.

The article presents information about a conference held in Berlin, Germany from September 28, 2010 to October first, 2010. Topics under discussion at the conference included interdisciplinary studies, academic attitudes toward history that is contemporary to its own historians, and perspectives on social research. Presentations were given by international scholars including Rüdiger Graf, Benjamin Ziemann, and Christina von Hodenberg.

The article presents a report on a conference about the methodology of contemporary history, held at the Centre Marc Bloch research institute in Berlin, Germany, from June 6-8, 2013. Topics of discussion included interdisciplinary scholarship, the relationship between history and the social sciences, and research on the history of violence.

The article reports on a conference for doctoral students in France and Germany on theoretical and methodological trends in the writing of contemporary history, held in Rennes, France, from November 30-December 1, 2012. Topics of discussion included questions of periodization in history, the connection between historiography and nationalism, and the conceptualization of the history of the present as an interdisciplinary research project.

The article presents the summary of a conference that focused on global history during the 21st century. It was held from August 22 to 28, 2010. Topics under discussion at the conference included the importance and the role of water (including floods, rivers, water shortages) for historical developments and conflicts, a talk on how the French Revolution period of upheaval in France was presented during the 18th century, and how World War II is perceived in popular culture.