Empire Studies: (Post)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements

Empire Studies: (Post)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements

Veranstalter
Sarah Albiez-Wieck / Felix Brahm / Kevin Lenk / Neele Teneyken, Centre for Empire Studies: (Post)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements (Heereman’scher Hof (October 10th) / Käte Hamburger Kolleg (October 11th))
Ausrichter
Heereman’scher Hof (October 10th) / Käte Hamburger Kolleg (October 11th)
Veranstaltungsort
Königsstraße 47 (October 10th) / Servatiiplatz 9 (October 11th)
PLZ
48143
Ort
Münster
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
10.10.2024 - 11.10.2024
Von
Kevin Lenk, Historisches Seminar, LS für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (19.-21. Jh.), Universität Münster

Opening Conference of the Centre for Empire Studies: (Post)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements

Empire Studies: (Post)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements

The Centre for Empire Studies: (Post)colonial Histories and Global Entanglements has been founded at the University of Münster. Its aim is to pool and expand the existing on-site expertise in (historical) empire studies and to intensify its ties with the German and international research landscape. The University of Münster is organising an opening conference on 10th and 11th October to mark the official opening of the Centre.

Programm

Thursday, October 10
Venue: Heereman’scher Hof, Königsstraße 47, 48143 Münster

09:15 Welcome/Conference Opening

09:30-13:00 Panel 1: Transimperiality
Chair: Silke Mende (Münster)

Keynote Address: Maria Framke (Erfurt): Towards a Transimperial History of Humanitarianism, c. 1850s-1950s

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Vitalij Fastovskij (Münster): The Surveilled Traveler: Encouraging and Restricting Mass Mobility in the Age of Imperialism

Anne Schmiedl (Münster): Transimperial Knowledge Transfer between Europe, China and Japan, 1850-1920

Kevin Lenk (Münster): Securing the Coast, Ruling the World. The History of a Transimperial Project, 1870-1930

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:30 Thematic City Walk (Meeting Point: Heereman’scher Hof)

Philipp Erdmann (Münster)/ Felicity Jensz (Münster): Colonial traces in Münster: An explorative city tour (German/English)

17:00-18:00 Poster Presentations

18:00-20:00 Keynote Speech

Chair: Sarah Albiez-Wieck (Münster)

Greeting Message: Monika Stoll, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Münster

Greeting Message: Dean of the Department of History/Philosophy

Frederick Cooper/Jane Burbank (New York): Sovereignty: Imperial, National, and Transimperial Perspectives

Reception at Heereman’scher Hof

Friday, October 11
Venue: Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Servatiiplatz 9, 48143 Münster

9:30-13:00 Panel 2: Mobility and Global Entanglements
Chair: Felix Brahm (Münster)

Keynote Address: Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam): Empires, Migration, and Race (as seen by ‘an Englishman from Budapest’)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Sarah Albiez-Wieck (Münster): Controlling the Mobility of the Chinese. Spanish Philippines, 17th-19th century

Christoph Lorke (Münster): More than a Private Matter: "Mixed Marriages" in the Context of the German Colonial Empire and Beyond

Kirsten Kamphuis (Münster): Questions of Imperial Legitimacy in Indonesian Religious Women's Publications, 1920s-1940s

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-17:30 Panel 3: Imperial and Postimperial Societies and Cultures
Chair: Kevin Lenk (Münster)

Keynote Address: Markus Koller (Bochum): The ‘Marginalised Empire’ – Space and Society in Ottoman Provinces (17th/18th century)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:30 Lena Marasinova (Münster): Legislative Regulation of the Death Penalty as an Instrument of Legal Unification in the Russian Empire of the 18th Century

Ricarda Vulpius (Münster): Enlightened Colonialism: Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Tsarist Empire’s Age of Reason

Mark Stein (Münster): Making Empire Porous

17:30 End of Conference

Kontakt

Neele Teneyken
ces@uni-muenster.de

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