Before and Beyond European Hegemony
Global history in a multipolar age / Moving beyond Eurocentric models of Global History
University of Copenhagen Workshop, 6 August 2019.
As the twenty-first century progresses, the global dominance of the West is on the wane, and what was earlier considered a natural end-point of history increasingly seems to have been only a temporary phenomenon. This presents a challenge to older, Eurocentric narratives of World History, and leads to the question of what alternative visions we should have for new global historical narratives. This workshop brings together scholars working in history and sociology to reflect on this question and engage, perhaps even playfully, in debate about the shape of world history before and beyond European hegemony. Presentations will be short informal papers of some 15-20 minutes, followed by ample discussion.
Peter Fibiger Bang (Copenhagen): After the Silk Road, Beyond the postcolonial?
Lars-Emil Nybo Nissen (Copenhagen): The age of immiseration - dynamics of decline in an agrarian world
Lilliana Riga (Edinburgh): Recentering the Russian Lands
Lunch 12:15 - 13:00
John Hall (McGill): 'The Nation-State', i.e., is it the end result of modernity?
Jacob Tullberg (Copenhagen): The Middle Ages as an Epoch in Global History?
