For registration and further information please send an e-mail to isabella.schwaderer@uni-erfurt.de
16. Jan 2021 - 17. Jan 2021
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Faculty of Philosophy,
Religion, Society, and World Relations
From Universalism to Ethnopathos – Religious Knowledge in the Colonial Encounter between India and Germany
Location
online
Speaker(s)
various
Event type
Workshop
Audience
public with registration
DAY 1: Saturday 16 January 2021: Understanding Religion through Projection and Appropriation
| 2:00 – 2:15 PM (CEST) | Opening and Welcome Note | Isabella Schwaderer, Katharina Waldner (University of Erfurt) |
| 2:15– 3:00 PM | Keynote Lecture: Religion as colonial knowledge category. Approaches to the decolonization of social thought | Heidemarie Winkel (Research Group "Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights" at ZiF / Bielefeld University) |
| Historical Perspectives: German Religious Views of India and Indian Reactions. Chair: Florian Wagner (University of Erfurt) | ||
| 3:00-3:30 PM | “To read in an Indian way” (Johann Gottfried Herder). On whether the Germans were of Indian Origin and how this was related to the Hebrew Bible | Simon Wiesgickl Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hongkong |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | Ecumenical Tendencies of German-Catholic Missions in 19th century India: Broad themes and Ethnic Dialectics | Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay (Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, Mexico |
| 4:00-4:30 PM | Virtual coffee break | |
| Religion and the Performing Arts: Artistic Research on Indian Phantasies in Germany and Beyond. Chair: Jessie Pons (Ruhr University Bochum) | ||
| 4:30-5:00 PM | ‘Something completely different.’ Menaka, Uday Shankar and Indra Ramosay in the Dutch press (1931-1937). | Parveen Kanhai (Den Haag) |
| 5:00-5:30 PM | Death and Transfiguration: Indian Fantasies of Redemption in the Reception of Wagner and Schopenhauer | Isabella Schwaderer (University of Erfurt) |
| 5:30-6:00 PM | “The Indian New Testament” on the German opera stage. Aesthetic and Philosophical Syncretism in Felix Gotthelf's opera Mahadeva (1908) | Markus Schlaffke (Bauhaus University Weimar), Richard Siedhoff (Weimar, Silent Film Pianist) |
| 6:00 PM | Virtual Dinner, Cultural Program |
DAY 2: Sunday 17 January 2021: Religion, Colonialism and Politics
| Religion and (Colonial) Encounter. Chair: Johannes Duschka (KFG Multiple Secularities, Leipzig University) | ||
| 2:00 – 2:30 PM (CEST) | Conceptions of Religion: A View from Colonial India | Rinku Lamba (Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi) |
| 2:30-3:00 PM | The Search for a ‘Religion of the Future’ in Interwar Berlin | Gerdien Jonker (EZIRE - Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| 3:00-3:30 PM | Lajpat Rai’s Re-definition of Hinduism in the Colonial Encounter | Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (KFG Multiple Secularities, Leipzig University) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 PM | Virtual coffee break | |
| Religio-Political Entanglements. Chair: Maria Framke (University of Rostock) | ||
| 4:00-4:30 PM | Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The “religious factor” in Nazi cultural politics regarding India | Baijayanti Roy (Goethe University of Frankfurt) |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | Two Expressions of Sarva Dharma Sambhava in Indian Political Thought | Sushmita Nath (KFG Multiple Secularities, Leipzig University) |
| 5.00-5:20 PM | Concluding remarks | Katharina Waldner (University of Erfurt) |
| 5:20-5:30 PM | Farewell note | Isabella Schwaderer (University of Erfurt) |
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