International Conference

Conception: Franziska Bomski, Susan Neiman, Benjamin Zachariah, Potsdam

Speakers include Aziz Al-Azmeh, Vienna; Bipasha Bhattacharyya, Cambridge; Amber Carpenter, London; Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Calcutta; El Hadji Ibrahima Diop, Dakar; Jonathan Keir, Aichtal/Tübingen; Teresa Koloma Beck, Hamburg; Sankar Muthu, Chicago; Carlos Peña, Santiago de Chile; Keidrick Roy, Cambridge, Mass.; Mithu Sanyal, Düsseldorf; Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Ithaca; Anna Vinkelman, Nijmegen; Raef Zreik, Jerusalem

The Enlightenment, we are often told today, was a Eurocentric project that imposed European ideas on a reluctant world, with its ideas serving to promote or justify various colonialist projects. This conference seeks to work through and disaggregate some of these assertions. The conference is held in cooperation with the Humboldt Forum.

Location: Einstein Forum, Potsdam
Aug. 29, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Aug. 30, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Location: Humboldt Forum, Berlin
Aug,. 30, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Aug,. 31, 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Admission free

The talks at the Einstein Forum can also be watched online via Zoom.
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Thursday, Aug. 29, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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Friday, Aug. 30, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
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Programm / Program

 
Do., 29. Aug.
Einstein Forum, Potsdam

10:00
Susan Neiman, Benjamin Zachariah (Potsdam)
Introduction

10:30
Aziz Al-Azmeh (Vienna)The Enlightenment: Singular and Global

11:30
Keidrick Roy (Cambridge, Mass.)Racial Feudalism and the Black American Enlightenmet

14:00
Bipasha Bhattacharyya (Cambridge, England)Enlightenment Goes South: Reflections on Unreason in the Age of Reason

15.00
Sankar Muthu (Chicago)Enlightenment Diagnoses of Global Oppression: On the Dystopia of Self-Hatred

16:30
Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty (Calcutta), interviewed by Benjamin Zachariah (Potsdam):Enlightenment and Its Discontents: Reading and Teaching the French Revolution in Calcutta/Kolkata

17:30
Carlos Peña (Santiago de Chile)Why Do We Need Kant?

 
Fr., 30. Aug.
Einstein Forum, Potsdam

10:00
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Ithaca, NY)On the Legacy of the Enlightenment: What Immanuel Kant Got Wrong and Wole Soyinka Got Right

11:00
Raef Zreik (Jerusalem)Kant in Jerusalem

 
Fr., 30. Aug.
Humboldt Forum, Berlin

Mit Simultanübersetzung
With simultaneous translation

19.30
Wer hat Angst vor der Aufklärung?Who is Afraid of the Enlightenment?
Teresa Koloma Beck (Hamburg) und Mithu Sanyal (Düsseldorf) im Gespräch mit Susan Neiman (Potsdam)

21:00
Aufklärung gesungen
Musikalische Performance von Anna Vinkelman (Nijmegen) und Benjamin Zachariah (Potsdam)

 
Sa., 31. Aug.
Humboldt Forum, Berlin

13:00
El Hadji Ibrahima Diop (Dakar)Kants Erbe im Spannungsfeld zwischen Afrozentrismus und Eurozentrismus
Anna Vinkelman (Nijmegen)Wo ist die Aufklärung in Russland?

14.00
Eine Frage des Ursprungs /
A Question of Origin
Tischgespräche mit den
Referent:innen

15.30
Amber Carpenter (London)Aufklärung östlich von Suez finden

Jonathan Keir (Aichtal/Tübingen)Der Neue Konfuzianismus und die Aufklärung

16.30
Religion versus Aufklärung
Religion versus Enlightenment
Tischgespräche mit den
Referent:innen

18:00
Letzte Ausfahrt Aufklärung?Last Exit Enlightenment?Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty (Calcutta); Keidrick Roy (Cambridge, Mass.) und Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Ithaca, NY) im Gespräch mit Susan Neiman (Potsdam)

Conference brochure

Eine Gemeinschaftsveranstaltung mit der Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss