BGHS.NEWS
8th Annual Seminar 2016
Map of the world created by traveller and writer, al-Idrisi in 1154 for Roger II, King of Sicily (oriented with South at the top). The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Pococke 375, fols. 3v-4r. Courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
From 30 June till 2 July 2016 the 8th Annual Seminar took place at the BGHS. This year's Annual Seminar dealed with the topic: Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Welcome Address and Introduction by the organizers
Keynote Lecture: Angelika Epple (Bielefeld University): Modernity and Eurocentrism: Twin Sisters Revisited
Participants of the Annual Seminar 2016
Panel 1 - Eurocentrism and the Academy
Keynote Lecture: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University, USA): Eurocentrism and Islam: Space, Time, and the Intellectual Politics of Cultural Essentialism
Coffee break in the BGHS lounge
Panel 4: Memories, Discourses, and Narratives
Keynote Lecture: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California, Davis, USA): Geographies of Risk: Environmental Violence and the Global South
Art&Science project: Art Begins in Streets. Art Lives in Streets. An Exhibition of Photos by Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University) and Reception
Roundtable Discussion
For further information, please see:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/Ansem/2016.html