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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
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Chunjie Zhang
“World as Method in the Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective”
Abstract & Bio
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Sebastian Conrad
“What is the ‘Global’ in Global History?”
Abstract & Bio
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Anita Traninger
“Temporal Communities: Connecting the Dots”
Abstract & Bio
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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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