World History and the Temporalities of the Precolonial

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Programme

09:30 - 10:00 Opening Remarks

  • Rajeev Kinra (Northwestern University)

10:00 -12:00 Session one

  • Between Rome and Delhi: imperial universalism and the temporalities of pre-colonial
    Peter Fibiger Bang (University of Copenhagen)
  • Beyond Colonialism: studying the Great and the Little Tradition in Rome and India
    Kristian Kanstrup Christensen (University of Copenhagen)

13:00 - 15:00 Session two

  • The times and spaces of Ottoman history: from the particular to the universal
    Kaya Sahin (University of Indiana)
  • Dynamics of the late Pre-colonial: China, France and the Austrian Habsburg Empire
    Lars-Emil Nybo Nissen (University of Copenhagen)

Sponsored by The Saxo Institute & Research Fund Denmark, University of Copenhagen and Northwestern University’s Global Humanities Initiative which is supported by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities