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 19^th 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