Europe and the Colonial Knowledge 1500-1850

Europe and the Colonial Knowledge 1500-1850

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Prof. Dr. Maria-Theresia Leuker / Prof. Dr. Jakob Vogel, Zentrum für Vergleichende Europäische Studien (ZEUS), Universität zu Köln
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Köln
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Germany
From - Until
18.06.2010 -
By
Jakob Vogel

Das ZEUS-Zentrum der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln lädt ein zum Workshop ""Europe and the Colonial Knowledge 1500-1850"

Programm

Part I: Workshop
Ort: Philosophikum, Philosophische Fakultät, Raum 038

13.45-14.00 Introduction
Maria-Theresia Leuker / Jakob Vogel

14.00-15.40 Knowledge Transfers

Bettina Noak (Berlin): Mit fremden Augen? Koloniales Wissen in Olfert Dappers Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten (1668)

Hanco Jürgens (Amsterdam): Enlightenment between Prussia and India: Faith, Knowledge and Company networks of German missionaries in Tamil Nadu, 1750-1810

15.40-16.10 coffee break

16.10-18.10 Actors and Representations

Anna-Teresa Grumblies (Cologne): Colonial Interest in Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: Scientific Endeavors, Developments and Processes of Scientisation (16th - 18th century)

Kathrin Reinert (Cologne): Visual fantasies on Latin America: Casta painting, costumbrismo and ‘type’ photography

Pascal Schillings (Cologne): Resisting Representation? The Polar Regions and British Colonial Knowledge, 1770-1850

Part II: Public Keynote and Discussions
Ort: Hörsaal E, Hörsaalgebäude, Albertus-Magnus-Platz

18.30-20.00 Networks and Circulations

Siegfried Huigen (Stellenbosch/South Africa): François Valentyn’s Construction of the Geography of the Cape of Good Hope (1726)

Kapil Raj (Paris): On 'Colonial Knowledge' as a Category in the History of Science: Reflections from a Circulatory Perspective

Wichtig: Aus Platzgründen wird für den Workshop am Nachmittag Anmeldung erbeten unter : phil-fak.zeus[at]uni-koeln.de

Contact (announcement)

Antje Weber, M.A.

Zentrum für Vergleichende Europäische Studien (ZEUS), Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln

phil-fak.zeu[at]uni-koeln.de

http://www.zeus.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/
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