I continued to be active in the bureau of the International Commission on the History of Historiography. Our journal, Storia della Storiografia (History of Historiography), which publishes articles in four languages, was separated from the commission and is now edited by a young Italian from Turin, Edoardo Tortarolo, with me as co-editor. There had been problems with the quality of the journal before the change, but it has noticeably improved.
In 1995 I was elected president of the commission for a five year term. I organized two important international meetings. The first was in 1997 in Budapest, with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences our host, on the current state of historical theory. There were participants from Europe, East and West, North America, Latin America, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Australia and leading theorists of historiography, including Hayden White, Jerzy Topolski, Frank Ankersmit, and Peter Novick attended.
The second was in Oslo in 2000, where I was asked to organize and chair one of the three Grand Themes at the International Congress of the Historical Sciences on the “Responsibility and Irresponsibility of Historians.” In preparation for this session I had given the keynote address in the summer of 1999 at a meeting of high school teachers from all over Europe, sponsored by the Council of Europe; a conference on this topic was organized later that same year in Kofu, Japan, by Masayuki Sato.
Source: Wilma and Georg Iggers, Two Lives in Uncertain Times, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006, p. 190