Making Europe
The Global Origins of the Old World
A conference sponsored by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies—School of History
27—29 May, 2010
University of Freiburg, Germany
This conference will bring together historians from all parts of the world to analyze the global roots of Europe
In recent years, a new specter is haunting Europe - the explosion of writings on the history of the continent. These works often advocate an internalist view of Europe, a view 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 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.
The conference is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.
To register, please send an email to history@frias.uni-freiburg.de
For a full conference program, please visit:
http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/history/veranstaltungen/KonfBeckert
Organizers:
Sven Beckert (Harvard University)
Dominic Sachsenmaier (Duke University)
Julia Seibert (University of Trier)
Confirmed Presenters
Jeremy Adelman (Princeton, USA):
The Extra-European Origins of European Revolutions
Enrique Dussel (Mexico City, Mexico):
Modern Europe in World History: A Non-Eurocentric Interpretation
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
Gauri Viswanathan (New York, USA):
Making Subjects: The Role of Colonialism in European Mass- Education Programs
Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam, Netherlands):
Outside In: How Colonial Managers and Workers Shaped European Labor Relations
Juergen Osterhammel (Constance, Germany):
Global Horizons of European Music- making, 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
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
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
Other participants:
Mridula Mukherjee (New Delhi)
Andreas Eckert (Berlin, Germany)
David Simo (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Ibrahima Thioub (Dakar, Senegal)
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