Freitag, 12. Juli

10:00-13:00 Global Trajectories

Michael Borgolte (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): "The Global Middle Ages? Answers for a New Historiography"

Almut Höfert (Universität Basel): "Royalty and Kingship as Global Concepts in Medieval Arab and Latin World Orders"

Christoph K. Neumann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): "Liminality or 'Global' Consciousness: İbrāhīm Müteferriḳa as Author"

13:00-14:30 Mittagspause

14:30-17:30 Transregional Entanglements

Beatrice Gründler (Yale University): "Wisdom from India in Pieces"

Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London): "Shakespeare and Islam: an Unholy Alliance?"

Jerold Frakes (State University of New York, Buffalo): "Marvels of the East and the Paradisical Otherworld in the Nordic West: The Vínland Sagas"

17:30-18:00 Kaffeepause

18:00-19:30 Keynote
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University, New York): "Afloat in the Global " (mit Simultanübersetzung)

Samstag, 13. Juli
09:30-14:00 Challenging Chronology

Emily Apter (New York University): "Eurochronology and the Politics of Periodization"

Aamir Mufti (University of California, Los Angeles): "The Wounded Gazelle: The Ghazal between Tradition and Modernity"

11:30-12:00 Kaffeepause

Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universität Berlin): "Beowulf as World Literature"

Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin): "Locating the Qur'an in the Epistemic Space of Late Antiquity"

14:00-15:30 Mittagspause

15:30-17:30 Circulation of Knowledge

Richard R. K. Sorabji (Wolfson College, University of Oxford): "Influences from 6th Century Greek Philosophy on Persia, and on Syriac and Arabic Writing"

Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): "The Globalisation of Knowledge in History"

17:30-18:00 Kaffeepause

18:00-19:30 Keynote
Wang Hui (Tsinghua University, Beijing):" Three Sets of 'Antithetical' Concepts in Narratives of Chinese History: Empire and Nation-state, fengjian and junxian; Rites/Music and Institutions" (mit Simultanübersetzung)