Global histories of the social survey in the long nineteenth century

Programm
Tuesday, February 18

9.00 – 9.30 a.m.: Introduction

9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Panel 1: Forms, practices and technologies of social and colonial surveys
Chair and commentary: Irmela Gorges (Berlin)

Julien Vincent (Paris I): Land surveying and colonization: the political economy of the New Zealand Company (1837-1853)

Anne Kwaschik (Constance): “La colonisation est une science qui ne s’improvise pas”: The scientification of colonialism in the age of empire

Frederico Agoas (Lisbon): Towards an integrated historical sociology of Portuguese imperial and metropolitan social research

1.00 – 2.00 p.m.: Lunch

2.00 – 5.30 p.m.
Panel 2: Enquêtes et contre-enquêtes: Epistemic resistance, appropriations and inquiries from below
Chair and commentary: Johannes Paulmann (Mainz)

Philipp Reick (Berlin/Jerusalem): In awe of numbers: A workers’ malady

Amadou Dramé (Paris/Dakar): “Se tenir au courant de tous les faits et gestes des lettrés musulmans”. Le broussard et l’enquête coloniale sur l’islam en Afrique occidentale française

Leyla Dakhli (Berlin): Thinking “Eastern society” through minorities: A construction of orientalist expertise

6.00 – 8.00 p.m.: Keynote
Andrea Ploder (Constance): Making and appropriating methods. Towards a historical praxeology of qualitative research
Commentary: Fabian Link (Francfort/Wuppertal)

Wednesday, February 19

9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Panel 3: “Global histories of inquiries”? Methodological elements, questions and challenges of a historical-political epistemology of the early social sciences
Chair and commentary: Jakob Vogel (Berlin)

Fabian Link (Francfort/Wuppertal): Writing the history of the social sciences as historical epistemology and as history of intellectual practices

Nicolas Hatzfeld (Evry Val d’Essonne): Présentation de l’ouvrage collectif Les enquêtes ouvrières dans l’Europe contemporaine (La Découverte, 2019 ; sous la dir. de E. Geerkens, N. Hatzfeld, I. Lespinet-Moret et X. Vigna) (with simultaneous translation)

Concluding discussion and future cooperation