The German Invention of Race
4-6 May 2001, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Harvard Department of German, the Harvard Department of
Afro-American Studies, and the Max Kade Foundation.
"The German Invention of Race" brings together scholars from numerous disciplines
to explore the emergence of race as a "scientific" category in Germany at
the end of the eighteenth century and to examine its consequent developments
during the initial decades of the nineteenth century. Speakers and respondents
draw on traditions of philosophy, law, science, anthropology, and literature
in order to reconsider the early history of racial thinking in the development
of European modernity.
The conference organizers would like to add two or three additional papers
to the already existing program. Especially welcome is work that engages
any of the following: the history of art, science, anthropology or law, either
in a German or a comparative context; the function of racial thinking in
German perceptions of Asia or the Ottoman Empire; the issue of miscegenation;
the perception of the human/animal barrier; or the function of race in the
tradition of "Naturphilosophie."
A book of essays based upon the conference proceedings is planned.
Email titles and abstracts by March 23 to:
Sara Paulson Eigen
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
spaulson@fas.harvard.edu
or
Mark Larrimore
Department of Religion
Princeton University
larimore@princeton.edu
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