Enlightenment in the World

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.

10:00-18:00 August 29 and 10:00-13:00 August 30 at the Einstein Forum,
Potsdam
19:00 August 30-19:00 August 31 at the Humboldt Forum Berlin
Admission free

Eine Gemeinschaftsveranstaltung mit dem Humboldt Forum, Berlin