Friday, 12th June 2015
8:30
Introduction: concept of the workshop
Damien Tricoire (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
The construction of similarity: Policies towards indigenous peoples and indigenous agency in imperial border regions after 1750
8:45
Portuguese Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Policies in Age of Enlightenment: Assimilationist Proposals and the Maintenance of Indigenous Identities
Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil)
9:45
Colonial Concepts and Practices of ‚Enlightened‘ Russian Governors in Imperial Borderlands
Ricarda Vulpius (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany)
11:15
Administration as a Forum of Enlightened Communication? Scholars in the Service of the Russian Empire in the late 18th Century
Yvonne Kleinmann (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
12:15
New Old Assimilationism: Enlightened Scriptural Strategies, Silencing, and the Writing of a French Colonial Novel in Madagascar (1760s-1810s)
Damien Tricoire (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
14:45
New Forms of Colonialism in Imperial Border Regions: Political Agency, Ideology of Change and Internal Contradictions (Río de la Plata, late 18th century)
Lía Quarleri (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
15:45
Creating differences for integration: Enlightened reforms and civilizing mission in the Eastern European possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy
Klemens Kaps (University Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain)
Transoceanic points of views: Writing about change and revolution around 1800
17:15
Jean-Francois de Saint-Lambert and his moral conte "Ziméo" (1769) in the context of abolitionist and imperial/colonial activities
Anja Bandau (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany)
18:15
Colonial Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Julien Raimond and Milscent Créole
Jeremy D. Popkin (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA)
Saturday, 13th June
9:00
From an Asian Point of View: Colonialism and Enlightenment in the Age of Revolution (c. 1780-1820)
Sven Trakulhun (Constance University, Germany)
10:00
Lessons Learned From the Crisis of Empire? The French Revolution and the 18th-century Imperial History
Matthias Middell (Leipzig University, Germany)
11:30
Black Athena in Haiti: Universal History, Civilization, and the Pre-History of Negritude in the Kingdom of Henry Christophe
Doris L. Garraway (Northwestern University, USA)
12:30
Enlightenment universal history and world history in the age of Historismus
Franz Fillafer (European University Institute, Florence)