Interview

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König

Processing history

12 June 2025

(0:14 h)

Interview

Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König

Processing history

How do we define a process? What types exist, and how does our understanding of them reflect our historical and cultural context? In this interview host Kim König and GHIL/UCL Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Almuth Ebke (University of Mannheim) talk to Wolfgang Knöbl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research) about the research behind his GHIL lecture on (historical) processes. Their conversation explores these questions while examining the role of storytelling in claims about social processes and why plausible process claims cannot be made without knowledge of narratological arguments.

Don't miss Wolfgang Knöbl's accompanying GHIL lecture “The Problem with (Historical) Processes: Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic”.