Veranstaltungen

Wann? 23.01.2020, 16 - 18 Uhr
Wo? LG4, D01

Wir hören Prof. Dr. Denis Eckert (CNRS Paris) mit dem Vortrag 

Die Gründungswerke des Esperanto (1887–1892). Verbreitung, Zirkulation und Kartographien eines universalistischen Projekts.

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Wann? 24. - 26.10.2019
Wo? Augustinerkloster Erfurt

Abstract:

The conference “What is Western about the West?” focuses on spatio-temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. Taking critical perspectives, which view the West from the inside and the outside, the nine panels plus keynote address issues of highest political and social relevance. The word “West” is omnipresent and often unquestioned, which implies quite effective and uncritical figures of thought. The goal of the conference is to elaborate a critical reflection on this concept and make these implicit processes explicit. The contemporary crisis of globalization can be interpreted as ideological (or intensional) crisis as well as a cartographic (or extensional) crisis of the concept of the West itself. The conference brings together researchers from different continents, various disciplines and points of view, which bring forth different ideological chronologies and cartographies of the “West”. They work through the West’s past and present, also retracing lines of development, which give hints about its future.

Ansprechpartner: Sergey Sistiaga

Wann? 06.06.2019, 18 - 20 Uhr
Wo? LG2, 106

Vortrag mit Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse (Universidade de São Paulo)

Eine regressiv-progressive Befragung des Westlichen im São Paulo des 19. Jahrhunderts

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Wann? 27.05.2019, 19 Uhr
Wo? Kinoklub am Hirschlachufer

Wir zeigen im Rahmen unseres Kolloquiums Der Duft des Westpakets im Kinoklub am Hirschlachufer. Brit-Jeanette Grundel, eine der beiden Regisseurinnen des Films, wird anschließend mit Holt Meyer in ein öffentliches Gespräch kommen und dabei noch einmal dem Duft des Westpakets nachspüren.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf den Seiten des Kinoklubs sowie auf der Filmwebsite.

Wann? 26. - 27.04.2018
Wo? Forschungszentrum Gotha (FZG)

Workshop veranstaltet vom Arbeitskreis Außereuropäische Geschichte (AAG) des VHD in Kooperation mit der
Erfurter RaumZeit-Forschung (ERZ) und dem Forschungszentrum Gotha (FZG)

Organisation: Dr. Sebastian Dorsch 
Die Veranstaltung wurde gefördert durch die Ernst Abbe Stiftung 

Workshop-Programm zum Download

Wann? 15. - 17.03.2018
Wo? Senatssaal der Universität Erfurt

Internationale Fachtagung in Kooperation mit der Fordham University (New York)

Abstract:

It is hard to deny that contemporary and historical discourses defining, supporting, attacking, and deconstructing the "West" are essential for defining the "global condition", but explicit examination of the term "West" itself and its language, textual and visual underpinnings, especially as mobilized by the human sciences, is currently seldom undertaken, mainly because many assume that the term is either obsolete, completely clear, or both. The workshop is associated with the examination of the "West" in connection with the Erfurt research project "What is western about the West?", which is gathering expertise and is in the process of establishing and deepening inter-university and international cooperation in order to pursue its goals with higher stakes and a larger scholarly base.

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Holt Meyer, Prof. Dr. Vasilios N. Makrides

Pressemitteilung zur Veranstaltung