Provincializing Europe?, 24-26 March 2021

H-German ANN (Conference):Contesting Universalism – Provincializing Europe?, 24-26 March 2021

Discussion published by Stefanie Mainz on Friday, March 12, 2021 Type: Conference Date: March 24, 2021 to March 26, 2021 Location: Germany Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, Modern European History / Studies, Political History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, World History / Studies

Part II of the conference series »A Europe of Differences« From 2020 until 2022, the IEG organizes a conference series to discuss the main results of its ongoing research programme on negotiating differences in early modern and modern Europe with international experts and thus identify new research perspectives.

Special attention is being paid to the interaction of different categories of difference and their contingent hierarchisation. However, the conference series also looks at the fluent boundaries of Europe, which were also subject to diverse processes of negotiation. With »Contesting Unversalism«, the second conference of the series once again addresses a core problem of European approaches of negotiating differences. The latter is understood, as the subtitle »Provincialising Europe?« indicates, as both a historical object and a research perspective. The conference will study Europe as a world region and, from the outside, as a province. It will also look at cultural and ideal »provinces« within Europe, at its centres and peripheries. Finally, the papers will trace how »European« knowledge regimes and value systems changed and were reconfigured in confrontation with the »Other«.

Programme:

3/24/2021

16:00–16:15 (MEZ) Johannes Paulmann (Mainz): Introduction How to Provincialize Europe – Reflections on Historical Perspectives Moderation Johannes Paulmann 16:15–17:00 Kiran Klaus Patel (München): The Province of a United Europe: A Global Perspective on the History of European Union 17:00–17:45 Marcia C. Schenck (Potsdam): Pan-Africanism, Decolonization and the Organization of African Unity’s 1969 Refugee Convention in Global Perspective 17:45–18:25 Dana Robert (Boston, MA): Provincializing Christianity? Constructing and Collapsing the »Grand Narrative« of Modern Christian Europe

Citation: Stefanie Mainz. ANN (Conference):Contesting Universalism – Provincializing Europe?, 24-26 March 2021. H-German. 03-12-2021. https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/discussions/7410056/ann-conferencecontesting-universalism-%E2%80%93-provincializing-europ e-24 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-German

Provincializing Europe – the case of Islam Moderation Noëmie Duhaut (Mainz) 18:45–19:30 Gudrun Krämer (Berlin): Muslimisch-christliche Kontaktzonen zwischen Europa, dem Vorderen Orient und Nordafrika 19:30–20:15 Manfred Sing (Mainz): Muslim Histories as Global History

3/25/2021 Contact Zones – conflicts and asymmetries in transcultural settings Moderation Monika Barget & Thomas Weller (Mainz) 16:00–16:45 Christian Windler (Bern): Kulturelle Diversität und Normenkonkurrenz im globalen Katholizismus 16:45–17:30 Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (Penn State, PA): Die Jesuitenmission in China im Widerspruch zwischen katholischen, europäischen, und nationalen Identitäten 17:30–18:15 Denise Klein (Mainz): Negotiating Difference in a City of Immigrants: Ottoman Istanbul between 1453-1800 18:15–19:00 Stanislau Paulau (Mainz): Mission as a Mode of Provincializing Europe? The Making of Global Eastern Orthodoxy in the long 19th Century

Contested Universalisms – translocal practices and claims – part I Moderation Andrea Hofmann (Mainz) 19:20–20:05 Monika Juneja (Heidelberg): Modernity’s Invention of Art – Travails of an Itinerant Concept 20:05–20:45 Ulrike Strasser (UC San Diego): Global knowledge and the making of the enlightenment

3/26/2021 Contested Universalisms – translocal practices and claims – PART II Moderation Eveline Bouwers (Mainz) 16:00–16:45 Esther Möller (München/Mainz): Provincializing the Red Cross. Humanitarianism in the Arab World in the Twentieth Century 16:45–17:30 Andrea Rehling (Augsburg): Heritage of Mankind – Whose claims is it?

Provincializing Perspectives, concluding comments Moderation Irene Dingel (Mainz) 17:50–18:00 Renate Dürr (Tübingen): Practices of Knowledge: Microhistorical Perspectives on Global Transfers 18:00–18:10 Judith Becker (Berlin): »European« Religion in Global Contact Zones. The Concept of Contact Religiosity 18:10–18:20 Madeleine Herren (Basel): Europe in Transit – conceptualizing a Global History of Europe 18:20–19:20 Discussion

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