Tagung: Colonial Knowledge in a Decolonial Age

20. April 2023 9.00 Uhr Disciplines Chair: Anne Kwaschik (University of Konstanz) Marieke Bloembergen (Leiden University), Knowledge Networks and Moral Geographies in Greater India Johannes Grossmann (Tübingen University/HU Berlin), Decolonizing Dinosaurs. Colonial Dimensions of Palaeontological Knowledge Production Priska Gisler (Bern), Producing a Colonial Imaginary: The Lion Diorama in the Natural History Museum of Bern (online) 11.00 Uhr Environmental Knowledge Chair: Frédéric Graber (CMB Berlin) Samuël Coghe (Ghent University/CMB Berlin), Veterinary Sciences at the Cattle Frontier in Colonial Madagascar Stephanie Zehnle (Kiel University), “the baboon is… too much like man”. Colonial and Indigenous Knowledge in the Panzootic Age 12.30 Uhr Lunch 13.30 Uhr Narratives Chair: Alexandra Przyrembel (FernUni Hagen) Camille Buat (University of Göttingen), The Indian Factory Labour as an “Agriculturalist at Heart”: ColonialTypologies, National Development and Regional Consolidation in Eastern India (1930s-1950s). Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel), ‘Accelerated Colonization’ in the Era of Decolonization: Implementation of Knowledge During the Zionist Settlement in Palestine (1920-1948). 15.30 Uhr Disease Chair: Jakob Vogel (CMB Berlin) Stefanie Gänger (Heidelberg University), 37°C. Fever and the Rise of Medical Quantification in the Modern World (online) Romain Tiquet (CMB Berlin),Decolonizing Psychiatry in West Africa: A Clinical and Historical Reflection 17.30 Uhr Memories Chair: Lisa Weber (FernUni Hagen) Fabian Fechner (FernUni Hagen), Still Colonial? Reconfigurations of padrão-Monuments as Symbols for Portuguese Expansionism (Portugal, Namibia/South Africa) Arne Segelke (Uni Greifswald), Images of the Buddha: The “Gal Vihara” in Ceylon/Sri Lanka