Making Europe, The Global Origins of the Old World

Making Europe, The Global Origins of the Old World

Organizer
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) School of History, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Venue
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
Location
Freiburg
Country
Germany
From - Until
27.05.2010 - 29.05.2010
By
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, School of History

In recent years, a new specter is haunting Europe - the explosion of writings on the history of the continent. These works all advocate an internalist view of Europe that explains Europe - its successes, its failures and its tragedies - largely out of itself, a perspective that contrasts Europe starkly to its Others. Making Europe will offer one of the first sustained critiques of that vision by investigating the economic, cultural, ideological, scientific, and political connections of Europe (and, especially, its regions) to the rest of the world. This conference, and the volume that will result from it, will argue, in contrast to much of the existing literature, that much of what is allegedly distinctly "European" is the result of interactions between particular European regions and other parts of the world. It will show that the efforts to write a history of Europe confined to its own ill-defined boundaries might serve particular political needs of the contemporary moment, but is, in fact, historically inaccurate.

Programm

FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010

10.00am Welcome
Sven Beckert (Cambridge, USA)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (Durham, USA)
Julia Seibert (Trier, Germany)

10.15am Economic Development; Science
Chair: Ibrahima Thioub
(Dakar, Senegal)

Aditya Mukherjee (New Delhi, India):
Colonial India in the World
Economy and the Shaping of the
Modern British Economy

Marcel Ngandu Mutombo
(Lubumbashi, DR Congo):
La Dépendance de la Belgique du
Congo

Ken Pomeranz (Irvine, USA):
A New World of Growth: European
Industrialization in Global Context

Pratik Chakrabarti (Kent):
Globalization, Science and the History
of Conquest: The Non-West and the
making of Western Science

Comment: Marcel van der Linden
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Discussion

12.15—2.00pm: Lunch in the FRIAS-Lounge

2.00pm State Formation

Chair: Andreas Eckert (Berlin, Germany)

Jeremy Adelman (Princeton, USA):
The Extra-European Origins of
European Revolutions

Eric D. Weitz (Minneapolis, USA):
Imperial Governance and the
Shaping of the Modern European
State System

Jie-Hyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea):
The Impact of Colonialism on
European Forms of Mass Dictatorship

Comment: Mridula Mukherjee (New Delhi)
Discussion

4.00—4.30pm: Coffee break

6.00pm Keynote Address (FRIAS-Lecture room)
Enrique Dussel (Mexico City, Mexico):
Modern Europe in World History: A Non-
Eurocentric Interpretation

SATURDAY, 29 MAY 2010

9.00am Ideas and Political Cultures

Chair: Mridula Mukherjee (New Delhi, India)

Selçuk Esenbel (Bogazici, Turkey):
The Global Dimensions of
European Nationhood

Lamin Sanneh (New Haven, USA):
The Papacy and Lessons from
Africa: Gray’s Anatomy of
Christianity

Gauri Viswanathan (New York, USA):
Making Subjects: The Role of
Colonialism in European Mass-
Education Programs

Comment: David Simo (Yaoundé,
Cameroon)
Discussion

11.00—11.15am: Coffee break

11.15am Society and Culture

Chair: David Simo (Yaoundé, Cameroon)

Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam,
Netherlands):
Outside In: How Colonial Managers
and Workers Shaped European
Labor Relatioins

Juergen Osterhammel (Constance,
Germany):
Global Horizons of European Musicmaking,
17th to early 20th Century

Naomi Davidson (Ottawa, Canada):
Colonial Islams, Metropolitan Islams:
Secularism and the Nation in France
and Britain

Jorge Liernur (Buenos Aires, Argentina):
Orientalism and Modern Architecture: The
'Flat Roof' Debate

Comment: Gauri Viswanathan (New York,
USA)

1.30—2.30pm: Lunch in the FRIAS-Lounge

2.30pm Concluding discussion

3.30pm End of conference

Contact (announcement)

Bettina M. Brune

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Uni Freiburg

bettina.brune@frias.uni-freiburg.de

www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/history/veranstaltungen
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16.04.2010
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