Thursday, 30 June 2016
09:00 - 10:00 Arrival and Registration
10:00 - 10:30 X-A2-103 Welcome Address: Thomas Welskopp
10:30 - 12:00 X-A2-103 Keynote Lecture: Angelika Epple: "Modernity and Eurocentrism: Twin Sisters Revisited" (Bielefeld University)
12:00 - 13-30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 X-B2-103 Panel 1 - Eurocentrism and the Academy
Feminism Otherwise: Intersectionality beyond Occidentalism
Julia Roth, Bielefeld University, Germany
Perspectives for History Teaching beyond Eurocentrism
Philipp Bernhard, University of Augsburg, Germany
Studying the Indian Society in Western Way: Evaluating the Theoretical Models Adopted by Indian Sociologist
Anita Misra Shukla, Government Postgraduate College Noida, India
Petrified Worldviews. Eurocentristic Legacy in Academic Knowledge Bases
Beate Löffler, EAST School of Advanced Studies of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
15:30 - 16:00 Lounge X-B2-109 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 X-B2-103 Panel 2: Religion and Ethnicity in Conversation
Of Eurocentric orders and divisions: Reflections on "Race" and "Religion"
Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, Goethe University Frankfurt;
Zubair Ahmad, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dancing Indigeneity: Representations of Australian and Indigenous Australian Identity and Culture in Dance Performance and Dance Historical Texts
Luke Forbe, Independent Scholar
Turning Away from Eurocentrism: Transnational Orientation toward Religion and Ethnicity
Thien-Huong T. Ninh, California Polytechnic State University, USA
The Concept of "Indigenous Peoples": Eurocentrism Redux
Tathagato Ganguly, University of Hyderabad, India
19:30 Conference Dinner
Friday, 1 July 2016
9:00 - 10:30 X-A2-103 Keynote Lecture: Shahzad Bashir: "Eurocentrism and Islam: Space, Time, and the Intellectual Politics of Cultural Essentialism" (Stanford University)
10:30 - 11:00 Lounge X-B2-109 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 X-B2-103 Panel 3 - Politics and International Policy
Why Words Matter: Understanding the Black Box of Chinese Foreign Aid
Marina Rudyak, Heidelberg University, Germany
Alternative Approaches to International Development Agenda
Juan Manuel Delgado Rascón, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Cultural Meanings of Nature: Local Identities and Empowerment Practices in the Context of Agrofuel Production. The Case of Colombia
Pilar Ramírez Gröbli, University of Bern, Switzerland
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 X-B2-103 Panel 4: Memories, Discourses, and Narratives
Narratives on 1989: Towards a Global Perspective by Comparing Protests in Lepizig and Beijing
Daniel Palm, Bremen International Graduate School for Social Sciences, Germany
Eurocentrism as a Model for Post-Colonial Ukraine?
Oleksandr Svetlov, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
Being Conscious of One's Past: An Approach to Historical Learning in a Non-European Context
Hendrikje Grunow, University of Konstanz, Germany
Beyond Bipolarity? Rise and Fall of the Argentine Third Position (1947-1950)
Mirko Petersen, Bielefeld University, Germany
15:30 - 16:00 Lounge X-B2-109 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 X-A2-103
Keynote Lecture: Hsuan L. Hsu: "Geographies of Risk: Environmental Violence and the Global South" (University of California, Davis)
17:45 Photo Exhibition and Reception "Art Begins in Streets. Art Lives in Streets." An Exhibition of Photos by Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University)
Saturday, 2 July 2016
9:00 - 10:30 Panel 5 - Semantics and Interpretation
Eurocentrism in the Historiography of Israeli Literature: Is There a Levantine Literary Tradition?
Judith Müller, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
In Love in East Asia: A Sketch on the Semantics of Love in Japan and China
Justus Heck, Bielefeld University, Germany
Knowledge about the "Orient" between Voice and Scripture: The Expedition to Felix Arabia (1761-67)
Mirjam Hähnle, University of Basel, Switzerland
10:30 - 11:00 Lounge X-B2-109 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 X-A2-103 Keynote Lecture: Aram Ziai: "The Colonial Methodology of Development Studies and Post-Colonial Alternatives" (Kassel University)
12:30 - 13:30 WestEnd (Main Building) Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 X-B2-103 Panel 6 - Ethnographic Engagements
Deportations of Malians from African Countries: The Missing Link
Susanne Schultz/Almamy Sylla, Bielefeld University, Germany / Institut Supérieur de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée de Bamako (ISFRA), Mali
Re-mapping Europe: Fieldnotes from the French-Brazilian Border
Fabio Santos, Freie Universität Berlin., Germany
Health and Culture beyond Eurocentrism: Africa Belief in Spiritual Attacks and Illness Only Curable by Traditional Medicine
Adetayo Olorunlana, Igbinedion University Okada, Nigeria
Working with Concepts: Conceptualizing Work
Hannah Schilling, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
15:30 - 16:00 Lounge X-B2-109 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 X-A2-103 Roundtable: Concluding Remarks
17:00 Departure