Thursday 29 April
14:00-17:00 CEST

Sabine Dedenbach (University of Sterling)
Knowledge shared through language and enactment: How God became an Apu

Asaph Ben-Tov (University of Copenhagen)
Enquiries touching the Diversities of Languages and Religions: Edward Brerewood (c. 1565-1613) and other universal histories of language and religion in the seventeenth century

Sven Osterkamp (Ruhr University Bochum)
Polyglot interpreter Yoshio Gonnosuke (1785–1831) and his unpublished Dutch–Japanese Comparative Syntax

Ian Stewart (Queen Mary, London)
Language and the Development of Racial Thought: J.C. Prichard and the Case of British Ethnology

Luz van den Bruel (KU Leuven)
Language as a Racial Characteristic: Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman’s Views on the Languages of the Americas in Relation to the Unity of Mankind

Friday 30 April
14:00-17:00 CEST

Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam)
From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective

Judith Kaplan (UPenn)
The Turfan Expeditions and the Instrumentality of Philological Knowledge

Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (ENS, Paris)
War(s) and peace: the role of international conflicts in the reorganization of Orientalist knowledge, as exemplified by the history of Orientalist congresses

Floris Solleveld (KU Leuven)
The Global Networks of 'Pygmäen-Schmidt': Wilhelm Schmidt and the Afterlives of 19th-Century Ethnolinguistics