7 July: Competing Notions of the Global

Suez Canal in the 19th century. Wikimedia Commons.

15:45 Conference Check-in.
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16:00 Berlin, 7:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 New York City, 11:00 Buenos Aires, 19:30 New Delhi
Conference Opening
by the Directors of the EXC 2020
Andrew James Johnston
and Anita Traninger
and the Conference Organisers
Frank Kelleter
, Miltos Pechlivanos, and Chunjie Zhang

Panel 1: Competing Notions of the Global

Part One
16:30-18:00 Berlin
(7:30-9:00 Los Angeles, 10:30-12:00 NYC, 11:30-13:00 Buenos Aires, 20:00-21:30 New Delhi)

Moderated by Simon Godart

with presentations by Chunjie Zhang and Sebastian Conrad

Part Two
19:00-20:30 Berlin
(10:00-11:30 Los Angeles, 13:00-14:30 NYC, 14:00-15:30 Buenos Aires, 22:30-00:00 New Delhi)

Moderated by Jasmin Wrobel

with presentations by Anita Traninger and Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Access both sessions via the Digital Meeting Room.

Part One Presentations

Part Two Presentations

Chunjie Zhang
“World as Method in the Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective”
Abstract & Bio

Sebastian Conrad
“What is the ‘Global’ in Global History?”
Abstract & Bio

Anita Traninger
“Temporal Communities: Connecting the Dots”
Abstract & Bio

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
“How the Arts and Literature May Destabilize the Abyssal Line Structuring: The Spatio-temporal Cartography of Western Modernity”
Abstract & Bio

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Worlds of Literature: Competing Notions of the Global