Comparisons going Global? Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary World

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Comparisons Going Global? Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary World

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SFB 1288, Bielefeld University
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Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)
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Bielefeld
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Deutschland
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17.10.2024 - 19.10.2024
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https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1288/
Von
Sandra Sensmeyer, SFB 1288, Universität Bielefeld

At Bielefeld University we have been working on a new approach to comparison in a collaborative interdisciplinary project (SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World). The conference will focus on How different modes of comparing predetermine the outcome of a comparison and thus the dynamic and productive force of comparison for historical change. We are bringing together researchers from different disciplines, studying different regions of the world in order to answer the question as to whether practices of comparing were different around the globe before the European Expansion and the consequent overpowering of the respective, colonized regions.

Comparisons Going Global? Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary World

Much has been written, debated, and argued about comparison, in particular in the context of (post-)colonial history and -studies. At Bielefeld University we have been working on a new approach to comparison in a collaborative project (SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World) across several disciplines for the last six years. It’s called ‘practices of comparing’ and focuses on what historical (and contemporary) agents are actually doing when they compare. In other words, we are interested in how different modes of comparing predetermine the outcome of a comparison and thus the dynamic and productive force of comparison for historical change, from the micro to the macro scale. We are therefore focusing on how comparison is being ‘done’ across different epochs and different social, cultural, economic, and political settings, rather than on using comparison as a methodological tool.

With this conference we are bringing together researchers from different disciplines, studying different regions of the world in order to answer the question as to whether practices of comparing were different around the globe before the European Expansion and the consequent overpowering of the respective, colonized regions. Did practices of comparing function according to different logics prior to a sustained contact with European civilization? Or, conversely, did they exhibit logics that point to universal or more widespread features of doing comparisons that have so far been regarded as distinctly “Western” or “modern”?

Together with our invited guests we hope to be able to compare ‘practices of comparing’ on a global scale, and thus – different than usual – being able to start from non-European practices of comparing.

Programm

October 17, 2024

10:30 – 11:30 am Welcome: Antje Flüchter (SFB 1288 Spokeswoman, Bielefeld); Eleonora Rohland (Bielefeld)

11:30 am Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 pm Stephan Scheuzger (Zürich): How to Lock Up Efficiently and Humanely? Metropolitan, Colonial and Postcolonial Comparisons of Prison Regimes in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

13:00 pm Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:30 pm Annika Raapke (Uppsala): The Unbearable Unfairness of Being. Privilege, Comparison and Disappointment in 18th Century Caribbean Colonialism

15:30 – 16:30 pm Arndt Brendecke (München): Tropes of Otherness. Claiming Incomparability within Spain's Colonial Empire

16:30 pm Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 pm Birgit Schäbler (Erfurt): Going South. Orientalism as a Travelling Practice of Comparison

19:00 pm Joint Dinner

October 18, 2024

10:00 – 11:00 am Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg): Chinese Intellectual History and Practices of Comparing

11:00 am Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 pm Oge Samuel Okonkwo (Accra): Indigenous and European Trade Systems. Arochukwu Kingdom's Adaptation (Zoom)

12:30 pm Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 pm Martina Schrader-Kniffki (Mainz): From the Pre-Hispanic códice to the Colonial libro mántico. 'Lists' as an Instrument of Comparison in Indigenous Cultures in Mexico

15:00 – 16:00 pm Sebastian Jobs (Berlin): Through the Eyes of Others? – Visual Comparisons of Blackness in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Photography

16:00 pm Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 pm Kirsten Kamphuis (Münster): “If only I were a Dutchman”. Comparison as a Narrative Strategy in Indonesian Anticolonialism

17:30 – 18:30 pm Endre Sashalmi (Pécs): Comparison as a Tool of Self-Identity and its Role in the Formation of Russian Imperial Identity in the 18th Century. The Emergence of a Statist-Civilizational Outlook

19:00 pm Joint Dinner

October 19, 2024

10:00 – 11:00 am Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg): Practices of Comparing in Indian Philosophy. About and Around Doxographies

11:00 am Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 pm Mathilde Ackermann-Koenigs (Bielefeld): Negotiating Power and Emancipation. Comparative Practices in the Struggle for Haitian Independence (1814–1825)

12:30 pm Lunch Break

14:00 pm Final Discussion / Round Table:
Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi (Johannesburg); Ulrike Davy (Bielefeld), Kirsten Kramer (Bielefeld), Malick Gachem (Cambridge / MASS); Martin Petzke (Bielefeld)

15:00 pm Coffee Break / Departure

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