Thursday, 10 October 2019
17.00
arrival and welcome with refreshments
(meeting room, CRC 1199)
18.00–20.00
Social cohesion and the production of difference / Cohésion sociale et construction de la différence
Chair: Roswitha Böhm (TU Dresden / Centrum Frankreich / Frankophonie [CFF])
Anne Kwaschik (University of Konstanz)/ Katja Naumann (GWZO Leipzig)
Co-production of knowledge on social cohesion: Issues and approaches – introductory remarks
Elísio Macamo (University of Basel)
The way they never were: Re-tribalisation and the Enlightenment
Wiebke Keim (Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Alsace)
Exclusive solidarities: Polarising social cohesion
Friday, 11 October 2019
10.00–12.00
Coproduction of urban knowledge between Africa and Europe / Coproduction du savoir urbain entre l’Afrique et l’Europe
Chair: Geert Castryck (Leipzig University)
Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu (Université de Lubumbashi)
Problématique de la co-construction des savoirs dans la ville de Lubumbashi
Johan Lagae (Ghent University / Institut d’études avancées Paris)
Curating the city of Lubumbashi, DR Congo: On the “positionality” of architectural history in a postcolonial context
Luce Beeckmans (Ghent University / KU Leuven / University of Antwerp)
African place-making and urban citizenship in Europe: Balancing global relationality and territorial embeddedness
13.30–17.00
Knowledge pluralism, transregional coproduction and (dis)integration / Savoirs pluriels, coproduction transrégionale et (dés)intégration
Chair: Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger (Max Weber Kolleg Erfurt)
Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Leipzig University)
Invisible and visible forms of co-production: Historical examples and present-day uneasiness
Benoît de l’Estoile (École normale supérieure Paris)
From sharing colonial research on Africa to knowledge co-production in Brazil
Özkan Ezli (University of Konstanz):
“How universals work in practical sense”. Uncontrollable paths of co-production in literary texts between Europe and late Ottoman Empire
coffee break
Hana Horáková (Metropolitan University Prague)
Politics of identity in the age of globalisation: Integrative and exclusionary strategies in Czech and South African society
Justyna A. Turkowska (University of Edinburgh)
Infrastructuring community people: The social trajectory of Swedish water supply programs in Ethiopia in the 1970–1980s
Saturday, 12 October 2019
9.00–13.00
Construction of difference in the social sciences / Construire la différence en sciences sociales
Chair: Matthias Middell (Leipzig University)
Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay)
Commitment in social science
Katja Naumann (GWZO Leipzig)
UNESCO’s building of international social sciences: Divisions and tensions in the global production of universal knowledge
coffee break
Svetla Koleva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)
Africa viewed from Eastern and Western Europe during the 1960s and 1990s: From the neglected difference to the production of indifference
Stéphane Dufoix (Université Paris-Nanterre / Institut universitaire de France)
Relevance and indigenization as calls for another universality
12.00–13.00
Keynote-Conclusion
by Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg)
and final discussion