Till van Rahden, Université de Montréal Navigating Differences in (Early) Modern Europe, Workshop, November 3, 2015 The workshop will start on Tuesday, November 3, at 10 a.m. will end around 6.30 p.m. We will meet in the Salle Michel Fortmann, CEPSI (530-1.1), à côté du CCEAE, au cinquième étage, 3744 rue Jean Brillant, (Métro Côte des Neiges). After the workshop we will head for dinner. Please let me know whether you can join us for dinner. 10 a.m. to 11.15h: Opening Panel Each participants should use 3-5 minutes to explain how her or his research interests relate to the theme of the workshop. Questions you could address include the following: 1) How useful are diversity and differences for your work? 2) In what way have they shaped your understanding of European history? How useful a category is Europe in this context? 3) Which are the most promising avenues for scholars interested in such questions? 4) Which are blind spots in scholarly conversations on the topic? In your opening statement please draw freely and in any way you want on the essays by Homi Bhabha ( Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences, 2006) and Joan W. Scott ( Evidence of Experience, 1991) as well as the research program, Negotiating Differences, of the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (http://www.iegmainz.de/en/research/research-program). 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m: Whose Afraid of Phenomenology? Rudi Visker, "Uneuropean Desires. Towards a Provincialism without Romanticism" in Truth and Singularity. Taking Foucault into Phenomenology (The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999), p. 144-164. Emmanuel Lévinas, Section 1. The Same and The Other, in Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1979), pp. 31-105. (Please focus on subsection B, "Separation and Discourses" pp. 53-79)
1 p.m. to 2.30 pm. Lunch Break 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. The Spectre of the Nation George L. Mosse, Introduction: Nationalism and Respectability, and Chapter 7 Race and Sexuality: The Role of the Outsider, in Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (New York: Howard Fertig, 1985), pp. 1-22, pp. 133-152. Anthony Marx, History and Arguments, in Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism (Oxford, 2003), pp. 3-32. 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. A Workshop That Workshops Ariel Salzmann, Is there a Moral Economy of State Formation? Religious Minorities and Repertoires of Regime Integration in the Middle East and Western Europe, 600 1614, Theory and Society 39 (2010), no. 3-4, pp. 299-313. Till van Rahden, Minority and Majority a Asymmetrical Concepts. The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Purity. Unpublished Paper. Workshop Rationale From October 12 to November 6, 2015, Johannes Paulmann is a visiting fellow at the Centre canadien d études allemandes et européennes. He is one of the two directors of the Institute for European History in Mainz, now known as the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG). The revitalization of the Institute for European History was made possible by a new umbrella theme that Johannes helped identify, namely Umgang mit Differenz ( navigating differences or perhaps dealing with differences ) in Europe since the late 15th century, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, some members of the institute explore how differences are established/made/produced, whereas others analyze how differences are negotiated/managed/handled and some explore how differences are
facilitated and made possible (In German, the focus is on: Etablierung, Bewältigung und Ermöglichung von Differenz ) Those who can read German can find an excellent summary on the institute s homepage: http://www.ieg-mainz.de/forschungsprogramm As so often we have a little money left at the end of the year and would like to use the opportunity of Johannes Paulmann s visit to the Université de Montréal to organize a small and very informal workshop on November 3. There will be no formal presentations. All you have to do is come and take part in our exchanges. The only thing I would like to ask from all participants is to name an essay or a book chapter that has shaped their understanding of differences generally and the peculiar role of historians (of Early Modern and Modern Europe) in conversations about differences. If anyone wants to workshop a paper that is relevant to conversations about differences, we would happy to make room for up to three such papers that we would circulate in advance. Participants and Reading Suggestions Aidan Beatty, History, Concordia University David Nirenberg, Introduction: Thinking About Judaism, or The Judaism of Thought, and The Revolutionary Perfection of the World, 1789 - " (Chapter 11). In Anti- Judaism. The Western Tradition (New York: Norton, 2013), pp. 1-12, pp. 361-386. Rebecca Bennette, History, Middlebury College (either E. Francois's Die Unsichtbare Grenze or--more generally--durkheim's work, especially on the cult of the individual...)
Martina Chumova, History, Université de Montréal Elizabeth Elbourne, History, McGill University Jennifer Evans, History, Carleton Adi Gordon, History, Amherst College Marie-Claude Haince, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, and CEETUM, Université de Montréal. John Hall, Sociology, McGill University Inga Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians and First Contact (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Joan W. Scott, Evidence of Experience. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Summer, 1991), pp. 773-797. George L. Mosse, Introduction: Nationalism and Respectability, and Chapter 7 Race and Sexuality: The Role of the Outsider, in Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (New York: Howard Fertig, 1985), pp. 1-22, pp. 133-152. Emmanuel Lévinas, Section 1. The Same and The Other, in Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, The Hague: Nijhoff, 1979. Anthony Marx, History and Arguments, in Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism (Oxford, 2003), pp. 3-32. Martina Leeker, Theatre and Media Studies, Universität Lüneburg Anthony Pagden, Political Science/History, UCLA Johannes Paulmann, History, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Till van Rahden, Université de Montréal Negotiating Differences (http://www.iegmainz.de/en/research/research-program). Homi Bhabha, Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, ed. B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, H. Tiffin, Routledge, New York 2006, p. 155 157. http://monumenttotransformation.org/atla s-of-transformation/html/c/culturaldiversity/cultural-diversity-and-culturaldifferences-homi-k-bhabha.html
Philip Rousseau, Anthropology, Université de Montréal Ariel Salzmann, History, Queen s University Rudi Visker (1999) "Uneuropean Desires. Towards a Provincialism without Romanticism" in Truth and Singularity. Taking Foucault into Phenomenology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 144-164. Ariel Salzmann, Is there a Moral Economy of State Formation? Religious Minorities and Repertoires of Regime Integration in the Middle East and Western Europe, 600 1614, Theory and Society 39 (2010), no. 3-4, pp. 299-313. Robert Schwartzwald, études anglaises, Université de Montréal Sherry Simon, French Studies, Concordia University Régine Robin Helmut Walser Smith, History, Vanderbilt University Anthony Steinhoff, History, UQAM