From Time to Space? Current Conceptual Challenges in History and Sociology

From Time to Space? Current Conceptual Challenges in History and Sociology

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Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University
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Bielefeld
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Germany
From - Until
07.02.2011 - 09.02.2011
Deadline
31.01.2011
By
Annika Wellmann

History and sociology traditionally organise their research in terms of time. It is difficult to imagine historical research without temporal selectivity and typological chronologies, while the emergence of sociology is usually linked with ideas of modernity and the forward movement of society along linear trajectories. Central questions have been continually framed in a historical and sociological semantic of “Tradition/Modernity”, “Re-/Evolution”, or “Stagnation/Progress” etc. These semantics still play a crucial role, but both disciplines are now facing a shift towards research questions that are framed in terms of spatial concepts. As concepts like “World Society”, “Entangled Histories”, “Transnationalism”, “Multi-Locality” or “histoire croisée” suggest, research is increasingly represented in topological forms and structures. Today it seems that studies on “modernisation” will be almost entirely replaced by research on “globalisation”. These conceptual shifts challenge central and classical approaches in both history and sociology.

At the Third Annual Seminar of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University, junior researchers reflect on these shifts and discuss aspects of the new approaches outlined above in the context of empirical topics.

Programm

February 7, 2011, 18:15
Reception: Thomas Welskopp, Universität Bielefeld
Opening lecture: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Technische Universität Dresden: Der neu entdeckte Raum. Anmerkungen zu Tabuisierung und Karriere eines Begriffes

February 8, 2011, 9:15
Keynote: Kiran Klaus Patel, European University Institute, Florenz: Rivalisierende Zeit-Raum-Ordnungen: Verhandeln im europäischen Integrationsprozess im 20. Jahrhundert

February 9, 2011, 9:15
Keynote: Barbara Adam, Cardiff University: History of the Future

Panel I: Reflecting Time and Space (Chairs: Klaus Nathaus / Kiran Klaus Patel / Andreas Vasilache)

February 8, 11:15-12:45
Anca Pop, University College London: Time and Space in Discourse-Analysis of Social Change
Christian Dayé, Universität Graz: Why do historians of sociology continue to neglect methods?

February 8, 14:15-15:45
Steffi Marung, Universität Leipzig: Regimes of Territorialization in East Central Europe: Approaches to a Transnational History of the Region
Andreea Lazar, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca: The Rise of Transnational Migration Studies. Reframing Sociological Imagination and Research

February 8, 16:15-17:45
Aleksandra Đurić, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest: Cultural Construction of Time: Socially Regulated Time as Exemplified Through Legal Acts in Europe after the Council of Trent
Caio Simões de Araújo, Central European University, Budapest: On African Legalscapes: transcalar and transtemporal views on Legal Pluralism

February 9, 11:15-12:45
Thomas Hoebel, Universität Bielefeld / Christoph Seidel, Universität Bielefeld: Globalität als organisatorischer Prozess
Gunter Weidenhaus, Technische Universität Darmstadt: Von der Zeit über den Raum zur Raumzeit?

Panel II: Analysing Spaces and Localities (Chairs: Anna Amelina / Felix Brahm / Alan Lessoff)

February 8, 11:15-12:45
Joshua Jeffers, Purdue University, West Lafayette: The End of Pre-History: Environmental Epistemology in the Lower Ohio River Valley
Dellvin Williams, State University of New York at Binghamton: Spatiality, Material Processes, and World-Economy: Rethinking Landscape in the Circulation Time of Capital

February 8, 14:15-15:45
Karol Kurnicki, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: From Urban Sociology to Urban Studies. Recombination of Time and Space in Contemporary Discourse on Cities
Ana Aceska, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: Street wisdom: the very peculiar way of “re-negotiating” the “present” and the “past” times in the accounts of the city dwellers in post-war Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

February 8, 16:15-17:45
Ren Pepitone, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: Historicism and Cosmopolitanism in the Victorian and Edwardian Inner and Middle Temples

February 9, 11:15-12:45
Ricarda Drüeke, Universität Salzburg: Raum, Öffentlichkeit und politische Kommunikation im Internet
Anne Dippel, Wien: AEIOU@world.at. Deutsche Sprache und österreichische Nation im globalen Zeitalter: ein identitäres Paradoxon?

Panel III: Analysing the Global and the Transnational (Chairs: Angelika Epple / Thomas Faist / Ulrike Lindner / Tobias Werron)

February 8, 11:15-12:45
Anne K. Krüger, Berlin Graduate School of Social Science / Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam: Auf der Suche nach “Versöhnung“ – Die Enquête-Kommission zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur in globaler Perspektive
Gleb J. Albert, Universität Bielefeld: Vom “Weltsowjet” zum “Vaterland aller Werktätigen”. Antizipierte Weltgesellschaft und globale Selbstverortung in frühsowjetischen Diskursen und Praktiken

February 8, 14:15-15:45
David Gutman, State University of New York at Binghamton: Agents of Mobility: The Emergence of an Underground Migration Network in Eastern Anatolia, 1885-1915
Judith Syga, Universität Bielefeld / École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris: Rockefeller und die deutschen Sozialwissenschaften: Fellowships und institutionelle Förderung (1924-1939)

February 8, 16:15-17:45
Felix Schürmann, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.: Verflechtungsräume im südöstlichen Atlantik und westlichen Indischen Ozean: Interaktionen zwischen Walfängern und Küstenbevölkerungen, ca. 1760-1900
Murat Çağlayan, Bochum: Transregionale Identitäten im griechisch-türkischen Kulturraum: Das Beispiel der Pontusgriechen (1878-1924)

February 9, 11:15-12:45
Friedemann Pestel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/DHI London: Transnationales Exil. Zum Analysepotential von Transferforschung und histoire croisée am Beispiel französischer Revolutionsemigranten
Kerstin Danielsson, Linné-Universität, Växjö: Vergangenheit und Migration

February 9, 14:15-16:00
Closing Plenary Session: Anna Amelina, Angelika Epple, Ulrike Lindner, Andreas Vasilache

Registration: AnnualSeminar@uni-bielefeld.de
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