THURSDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2017
13:00
Arrival, Registration, Coffee
CONFERENCE OPENING
14:00
Opening Address by Gerhard Sagerer, Rector
Introduction by Convenors: Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart, Johannes Grave
14:15
Angelika Epple, Bielefeld: The Practices of Comparing as a New Research Paradigm: the Anatomy of White People
CHAIR: ANTJE FLÜCHTER
PANEL I: COMPARING AND THE EMERGENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS
CHAIR: MATHIAS ALBERT
15:00
Leopold Ringel, Tobias Werron, Bielefeld:
The Emergence of Rankings: on the History and Institutionalization of a Modern Practice of Comparison, 1700–1980
Matthias Kranke, Warwick: Practices of International Comparison and the Indirect Power of Global Benchmarking
17:00
Coffee Break
18:00
KEYNOTE: ANN LAURA STOLER, NEW YORK:
ON THE LIMITS OF COMPARISON
CHAIR: BETTINA BROCKMEYER
19:30
Evening Reception
FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2017
9:30
Walter Erhart, Bielefeld:
Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels. Literature as a Comparative Practice
CHAIR: KAI KAUFFMANN
PANEL II: ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS COMPARED: THE MARGINS OF COMPARISONS
CHAIR: KIRILL POSTOUTENKO
10:30
Hartmut von Sass, Zürich:
The Non-Comparable. A Report from the Margins of Comparing
Carlos Spoerhase, Bielefeld:
The Quantification of Comparison. Practices of Ranking Artistic Achievement in Early Modern Europe
12:00
Lunch
PANEL III: COMPARING ART AND THE ART OF COMPARING
CHAIR: CHRISTINA BRAUNER
13:00
Peter Geimer, Berlin:
What Happens Between Two Pictures? On Comparative Seeing
Joris Corin Heyder, Bielefeld:
‘Goût de comparaison’. Practices of comparative vision in 18th Century Connoisseurship
Britta Hochkirchen, Bielefeld:
Genealogies of Modernity. Curatorial practices of Comparing in 20th Century Art Exhibitions
PROJECT INF: DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES
CHAIR: WILLIBALD STEINMETZ
15:00
Anna Maria Komprecht, Silke Schwandt, Bielefeld:
Comparing in the Digital Age: about the Transformations of Practices
16:00
Coffee Break
PANEL IV: COMPARING IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE AND HISTORY
CHAIR: MARCUS HARTNER
16:30
Andrea Frisch, Maryland:
The Challenge of Comparative History in the European Renaissance: the Case of Louis Le Roy
Kirsten Kramer, Bielefeld:
Comparing Worlds. Modern French Travel Writing and World Literature
18:00
KEYNOTE: HAUN SAUSSY, CHICAGO:
ARE WE COMPARING YET? AN ASIANIST REVISITS MARCEL DETIENNE
CHAIR: WALTER ERHART
19:30
Dinner
SATURDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2017
PANEL V: THE MAKING OF ‘COMPARATA’ ACROSS PERIODS
CHAIR: RALF SCHNEIDER
10:00
Alexander Martin, Notre Dame:
‘Venice‘ on the Baltic, ‘Amazons‘ in Crimea, ‘Columbus‘ in Siberia: the Use of Transnational Comparisons in the Construction of Imperial Russian Culture
Longxi Zhang, Hong Kong:
Comparison and East-West Encounter in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries
Gary Shaw, Middletown:
The Weight of Comparison across Periods: some Medieval English Evidence
12:00
Lunch
PANEL VI: POLITICS AND PARADOXES OF COMPARISONS
CHAIR: SILKE SCHWANDT
13:00
Thomas Müller, Bielefeld:
Assessing and Negotiating Military Balances: the Politics of ‘Force Comparisons’
Peer Vries, Amsterdam:
Comparing the Wealth of Nations: the Case of Meiji Japan
Kirill Postoutenko, Bielefeld:
Paradoxes and Patterns of Comparions in Poetry, Political Speeches and Religious Pamphlets
15:00
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
CHAIR: JOHANNES GRAVE