Zentrum für Vergleichende Europäische Studien ZEUS
an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
http://www.zeus.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/

Workshop:
Europe and the Colonial Knowledge 1500-1850
18 – 6 – 2010
organized by Maria-Theresia Leuker / Jakob Vogel

Part I: Workshop Philosophische Fakultät, Philosophikum, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, room 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: Keynote and DiscussionsHörsaalgebäude, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, room E

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

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