Map of the world created by traveller and writer, al-Idrisi in 1154 for Roger II, King of Sicily (oriented with South at the top). The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Pococke 375, fols. 3v-4r. Courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

Vom 30. Juni bis 2. Juli 2016 fand an der BGHS das 8. Annual Seminar statt. Das Thema der BGHS-Jahrestagung lautete: Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology

Welcome Address and Introduction by the organizers

Keynote Lecture: Angelika Epple (Bielefeld University): Modernity and Eurocentrism: Twin Sisters Revisited

Participants of the Annual Seminar 2016

Panel 1 - Eurocentrism and the Academy

Keynote Lecture: Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University, USA): Eurocentrism and Islam: Space, Time, and the Intellectual Politics of Cultural Essentialism

Coffee break in the BGHS lounge

Panel 4: Memories, Discourses, and Narratives

Keynote Lecture: Hsuan L. Hsu (University of California, Davis, USA): Geographies of Risk: Environmental Violence and the Global South

Art&Science project: Art Begins in Streets. Art Lives in Streets. An Exhibition of Photos by Wilfried Raussert (Bielefeld University) and Reception

Roundtable Discussion

Weitere Informationen unter:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/Ansem/2016.html