Du 10 au 12 novembre prochain, se tiendra à Heidelberg le colloque :
How large-scale concepts of world-order determine practices in the premodern world
In recent years, research on premodern sys-tems of world order (concepts and practices) and pertinent large-scale categories has inten-sified: numerous enlightening studies teach us about the perceptions and descriptions of “the world” in premodern Europe and Asia (c. 1300-1600). Many of these studies are valuable and help us to better understand how historical actors or societies constructed and perceived the world they inhabited. However, the ques-tion if and how such large-scale concepts that constituted the basic elements of overall world orders were translated into concrete actions or practices, remains underexplored.
In order to analyse and underline the relevance of our insights into the mental representations of “the world”, it seems necessary and fruitful to ask, how theoretical or intellectual models influenced (or even determined) concrete ac-tions on an individual or collective level. The conference “Order into Action” addresses this question and seeks to combine and discuss the perspectives of scholars in European, Arabic and Islamic, and Asian Studies as well as of experts of non-Eurasian cultures. The different papers focus on exemplary case studies from different areas of expertise, which pos-sess the potential to be ‘generalised’ in the perspective of our overarching question.
Programme :
Thursday, November 10
13:30 to 14.00
Welcome/ Coffee
14:00 to 14:30
Veit Probst (Heidelberg): Welcome
Klaus Oschema/Christoph Mauntel: Introduction
Panel 1: Religious concepts
Chair: Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg)
14:30 to 15:20
David Max Moerman (New York): The Buddhist World Continent and the European World Order: Transcultural Cartography in Japan, 1300-1700
15:20 to 16:10
Nora Berend (Cambridge): The concept of christianitas: a guide to action?
16:10 to 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 to 17:30
Daniel König (Heidelberg): dār al-ḥarb and terra paganorum. On the Practical Implications of Circumscribing the Sphere of the ‘Infidels’
Friday, November 11
Panel 2: Political concepts
Chair: Enno Giele (Heidelberg)
09:00 to 09:50
Michal Biran (Jerusalem): The Mongol World-Order: From Universalism to Glocalization
International Conference
09:50 to 10:40
Albrecht Fuess (Marburg): Global Historiography and Mirrors for Princes: Concepts of Political Rule in the Near East (15th-16th centuries)
10:40 to 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 to 12:00
Klaus Oschema (Princeton/Heidelberg)/Christoph Mauntel (Tübingen): Between Universal Empire and the Plurality of Kingdoms – the Influence of Political Concepts in Late Medieval Latin Europe
12:00 to 14:00 Lunch Break
Panel 3: Geographic concepts
Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
14:00 to 14:50
Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (Marseille): Travelling through empires: how Medieval travellers conceived of Asia
14:50 to 15:40
Michael Wintle (Amsterdam): The Advent of the Black Magus: exoticism, court politics and the creation of a continental hierarchy
15:40 to 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 to 17:00
Donatella Guida (Naples): Bestowing Benevolence. The Chinese Imperial World Order and the Construction of its Margins.
Saturday, November 12
Panel 4: Outlook: premodern societies in Africa, the Americas and Australia
Chair: Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Darmstadt)
09:00 to 09:50
Mark Horton (Bristol): Beyond Eurasia – the African contribution to the premodern world
09:50 to 10:40
Veronica Strang (Durham): Seeing Through the Rainbow: Aboriginal Australian concepts of an ordered universe
10:40 to 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 to 12:00
Frauke Sachse (Bonn): Worlds in Words: The Encounter of Pre-Columbian and European Cosmologies in Colonial Missionary and Indigenous Texts from Highland Guatemala
12:00 to 12:30
Final discussion/Concluding remarks
Ce colloque est organisé dans le cadre du projet A 27, “World orders in transcultural perspective” du cluster d’excellence “Asia and Europe in a global context“, par Christoph Mauntel, Klaus Oschema et Bernd Schneidmüller.
Pour tout renseignement : www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de