The Legacy of Enlightenment Race Theory
March 24 – 25, 2022
Organized by: Daniel Purdy, Pennsylvania State University
Sponsored by: Max Kade German-American Research Institute
and College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Updated
Thursday, March 24, 2022
The Grucci Room, Burrowes Building, Pennsylvania State University
10:20 Dean Clarence Lang, College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University:Welcome
10:40 Daniel Purdy, Penn State University
What do we want to learn from this conference?
11:15 Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University:
Philosophical Histories as Sites of Racism
Lunch Break
1:30 Jeannette Eileen Jones, University of Nebraska:
‘On the Brain of the Negro’: The Impact of the German Enlightenment on 19th Century Theories of Blackness
2:30 Patrice Nganang, State University of New York—Stony Brook:
The Peripheries of a World War
3:30 Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou, College of the Holy Cross:
Reinventing Kant
Coffee break
4:30 Micol Bez, Northwestern University/ Ecole Normale de Paris -- Institut Jean Nicod:
Facta, Ficta and Picta: Re-thinking Race with Nietzsche and against Kant?
Zoom Registration:
https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcud-ihqTkjHtQUnwoLubd6gYB0_71A4nI0
Friday, March 25, 2022
The Grucci Room, Burrowes Building, Pennsylvania State University
10:00 Jürgen Overhoff, University of Muenster:
Prussia's Hidden Slaves: The Lives of Africans in Berlin and Königsberg in the Eighteenth Century
11:00 Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana:
Race, Enlightenment Anthropology, and Radical Thought
Lunch Break
1:30 Adam Blackler, University of Wyoming:
Popularizing the Nation: Colonial Literature and the Imperial Imagination
2:30 Patricia Simpson, University of Nebraska:
Enlightened Climates: The Chemistry of Skin and the ‘Souls of Slaves’ (1800/1900)
3:30 John Noyes, University of Toronto:
Race as Urphänomen. Chamberlain reads Herder
Day Two Zoom Registration:
https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkce6opjorHtJTEKoK0PHi-ORagsdiEmCw
Questions? Contact conference organizer Daniel Purdy at
dlp14@psu.edu.
Conference Website: https://sites.psu.edu/racetheoryconference
