Faculty of Philosophy

Figures, types and images of the social in the 19th and 20th centuries: Practices of social imagining in the history of knowledge and science

Date
20. Nov 2025, 10.00 am - 21. Nov 2025, 4.00 pm
Location
M38 – IBZ, Internationales Begegnungszentrum (Michaelisstraße)
Organizer
Professur für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Event type
Workshop
Event Language(s)
English
German
Audience
open to the university public

Workshop as part of the EXC "Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining"

Information from the organisers

"It is no easy matter [...] to arrange the several varieties of work into 'orders', and to group the manifold species of arts under few comprehensive genera, so that the mind may grasp the whole at one effort - it is a task of most perplexing character", wrote Henry Mayhew in London Labour and the London poor (1849-1851). Mayhew's early social research in London is well known - but far less so that he lived in Paris at the end of the 1830s, when the new medium of illustrated journals and collective publications experienced its heyday there, bringing together images and texts, artistic-literary and scientific circles in a new, creative way.

Back in London, Mayhew also worked between popular journalism and social statistics, consciously drawing on pictorial representations of social types for the latter, with which he fundamentally helped to shape ideas of the social.

We look forward to receiving abstracts (max. 400 words, in pdf format) with proposals for approx. 25-minute presentations together with a short CV by 2 May 2025 to adriana.markantonatos@uni-jena.de. The presentations will be in English, the discussions bilingual English / German. The workshop will take place in Erfurt. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organisers.

All dates of the colloquium

  • 21.10.2025: Der Süchtige. Zur Geschichte einer Sozialfigur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert | Annelie Ramsbrock (Universität Greifswald) Gemeinsam mit der Professur für Globalgeschichte
  • 28.10.2025: Transparency and the Ethics of Expert Advising  | Alfred Moore (University of York)
  • 04.11.2025: Differenz, Transformation, Zusammenhalt – Ein Forschungsprojekt gemeinsam mit der Zivilgesellschaft | Max Zarnojanczyk et al. (Universität Erfurt)
  • 11.11.2025: German Conceptualisations of Civilisation in Siam, 1890-1914 | Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University)
  • 20./21.11.2025: Figuren, Typen und Bilder des Sozialen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Praktiken sozialen Imaginierens in Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Workshop im Rahmen des EXC „Imaginamics. Praktiken und Dynamiken sozialen Imaginierens“
  • 25.11.2025: Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present | Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF Potsdam) / Gemeinsam mit der Professur für Globalgeschichte
  • 02.12.2025: Strukturwandel des Besitzindividualismus | Dirk Schuck (Universität Erfurt)
  • 09.12.2025: Fortune, Gold, and Consumption on the Elizabethan Stage | Anne Enderwitz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • 16.12.2025: Lektüresitzung
  • 06.01.2026: (online) Techniken des Bezeugens | Chris Tedjasukmana (Universität Mainz)
  • 13.01.2026: Kulturen des Forschens: Formen der Produktion von Wahrheit in hybriden Settings | Stefan Böschen (Universität Aachen) / Gemeinsam mit der Professur für Globalgeschichte
  • 20.01.2026: Dejima als soziale Praxis? Wissenstransfer und Japanimagination, 1650-1830 | Sascha Harnisch (Universität Erfurt)
  • 27.01.2026: Eine kleine Geschichte des frühsozialistischen Feminismus, oder: Wie erzählt man Ideen? | Caroline Arni (Universität Basel)
  • 03.02.2026: Ein gerupftes Huhn als Argument. Diogenes von Sinope und seine performative Philosophie | Andreas Gehrlach (Universität Wien)

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