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Conference Announcement Theme: What is Western about the West? Subtitle: Ideological Chronologies and Cartographies Type: International Conference Institution: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Erfurt Location: Erfurt (Germany) Date: 24.–26.10.2019 __________________________________________________ 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. Programme Thursday, October 24, 2019 09:00–09:30 Welcome & Introduction 09:30–11:30 Session I: What is Western about the West? Orientalism? Nil Palabiyik (Munich): Was there an Eastern Orientalism? How Ottoman Learned Practices Shaped Oriental Studies in Early Modern Europe Ottfried Fraisse (Halle/Saale): Ignác Goldziher’s Perspective from the Margins of Europe: Historicizing Islam between East and West Lena Salaymeh (Tel Aviv): What is Western about the West? Coloniality of Scholarship Coffee Break 12:00–14:00 Session II: East Asian Perspectives on the West Hong-Bin Lim (Seoul): Korean Soul at Crossroads: Against Antiliberal Use of “Orientalism” (in German) Changwon Sung (Seoul): Reflections on “Western” Morality Lunch 15:30–17:30 Session III: What does Western Reason mean? Heiner Klemme (Halle/Saale): Self-Conceptions of Reason in Kant Klaus Vieweg (Jena): Reason and Universalism in Hegel – against the Terror of the Particular (in German) Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig): The Universal Notion of a Person in a Globalized Western Culture Coffee Break 18:00–19:00 Keynote Mark Bassin (Stockholm): A Russian Clash of Civilizations? Huntington’s “West” and Lev Gumilev’s Theory of “Superethnos” Conference Dinner Friday, October 25, 2019 09:00–11:00 Session IV: What is Western about the Postcolonial? Sam Haddad (New York): Bypassing the West with Derrida and Glissant James Kim (New York): Homer, Fanon, and the Angry Little Asian Girl: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Racial Anger Cristiana Sogno (New York): Response Coffee Break 11:30–13:30 Session V: What is Western about the Postsecular? Mahlika Hopwood (New York): The Genderings of Eden: Postsecular Communities and the Loneliness of the West Holt Meyer (Erfurt): Orthodox Postsecularism in The Americans Chris GoGwilt (New York): Producing a Postsecular West: The Television Set of The Americans Lunch 15:00–17:00 Session VI: Orthodox Christian Cultures and their Neighbors on the West: Constructions, Overlappings, Alliances Alfons Brüning (Amsterdam-Nijmegen): Inter-Religious Dialogue or Strategic Alliance? Encounters between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam since the End of the Soviet Union Mark Sedgwick (Aarhus): Alexander Dugin, Orthodoxy and Islam: The Geopolitics of Eurasia and the Atlantic West Vasilios N. Makrides (Erfurt): Dimitri Kitsikis and his Geopolitical Theory about the “Intermediary Region” between East and West Coffee Break 17:30–19:30 Session VII: The (Medieval) Occident – a Spatio-Temporal Construct and Its WorldShaping Claims Christoph Mauntel (Tübingen): Competing with the East. Geographic Ideas and Cultural Selfassessments of the West in Medieval Latin-Christian Thought Thorsten Wollina (Dublin): Power and Knowledge About History: Syrian and Egyptian Engagements with the ‘Middle Ages’ Markus Vinzent (London/Erfurt): What is Foreign Becomes Close and what is Close Becomes Foreign. Meister Eckhart’s Geography Dinner Saturday, October 26, 2019 09:00–11:00 Session VIII: Masaryk’s realistic Center in spatial and textual Models between East and West Nora Schmidt (Erfurt): A (Western) Culture of Dialogue and its Transformations into Text. The figure of T.G.Masaryk Johannes Gleixner (Munich): The Empirical Foundation of a Discursive Space. Masaryk as a Mediator between East and West (in German with English summary) Vratislav Doubek (Prague): Czech Political Thought between East and West during World War I (in German with English summary) Coffee Break 11:30–13:30 Session IX: Places and Times of the Utopian and the West Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley): Revisioning Diaspora Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton): Re-reading the West Justus Fetscher (Mannheim): Unbridging the Gap. The Resilience and Return of Things Southern in Saša Stanišić’s “Wie der Soldat das Grammophon repariert (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone)” 13:30 Final Discussion 16:00 Guided City Tour Venue: Augustinerkloster Erfurt, Luther-Saal Augustinerstraße 10, 99084 Erfurt, Germany The Augustinerkloster can be reached within ten minutes from Krämerbrücke & city centre. Contact: Prof. Dr. Holt Meyer Research Group “What is Western about the West?” Faculty of Philosophy University of Erfurt Nordhäuser Str. 63 99089 Erfurt Germany Email: w...@uni-erfurt.de Web: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/philosophische-fakultaet/west/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
