Conference Venue: Leuphana University, C40.704
Thursday, 28 May
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Reception and opening remarks Maud Meyzaud and Oliver Precht (Hosts)
6:00 – 7:30 pm
LIAS and Keynote Lecture Nick Nesbitt (Princeton): ‘I am Toussaint Louverture’: Who is the Subject of Radical Enlightenment?
8:00 pm
Conference dinner (at Mälzer Mühle)
Friday, 29 May
9:00 – 12:30 am
Conference panel “Decentering the Enlightenment”
9:10 – 10:00 am
Kirsten Mahlke (Konstanz): Inca knowledge in knotted cords: Madame de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1746) and female Enlightenment
10:00 – 10:50 am
Elena Arigita (Granada): European modernity from the Northern Mediterranean: the legacy of al-Andalus and its Temporalities
11:00 – 11:20 am
Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:10 am
Michael Gaudio (Minnesota): Dancing in Circles: Enlightenment and the “Idolatrous Nations” in Bernard Picart’s Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
12:10 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (at Klippo)
1:45 – 6:00 pm
“Oriental Illumination: Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān in the European Enlightenment” (1st workshop)
Opening Remarks
Maud Meyzaud (Lüneburg): On the many Enlightenment Uses and Abuses of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Living, Son of Wakeful)
Inputs
Hanna Zoé Trauer (Munich): Ḥayy Between Idyll and Utopia Animals and Humans in Ibn Ṭufail's Philosophical Novel
Stephan Milich (Cologne): Comparing two island narratives. A decolonial Reading of Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Alive, Son of Awake, 12. c.) and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (18. Jh.)
Stefan Schick (Leipzig): Aristotelian Science, Mystical Union, or Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone? Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān in Kantian and Post-Kantian Philosophical Historiography
7:00 pm
Conference diner (at Buddha)
Saturday, 30 May
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
“Who enlightens whom? Indigenous Thought and European Projections in Lahontan’s Dialogues avec un sauvage” (2d workshop)
Opening Lecture
Élisabeth Décultot (Halle): The Invention of the Savage: On an “Aesthetics of Decentering” in Lahontan and Diderot
Inputs
Tomaz Amorim (Bochum/São Paulo): The Indigenous Critique of Modernity: Crossed Dialogues Between Adario and Guamán Poma
Johannes Kleinbeck (Berlin): The Writing of Free Love: Lahontan and the Question of Gallantry
Oliver Precht (Lüneburg): Bewilderments: Lahontan’s Dialogues and the long history of (missed) encounters with the New World
1:00 pm
Lunch (at Klippo)
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Brainstorming for the conception of a book following up the event, farewell
3:30 pm
After work program (optional): visit to Kloster Lüne with the LIAS-fellows
Conference Venue: Leuphana University, C40.704
Thursday, 28 May
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Reception and opening remarks Maud Meyzaud and Oliver Precht (Hosts)
6:00 – 7:30 pm
LIAS and Keynote Lecture Nick Nesbitt (Princeton): ‘I am Toussaint Louverture’: Who is the Subject of Radical Enlightenment?
8:00 pm
Conference dinner (at Mälzer Mühle)
Friday, 29 May
9:00 – 12:30 am
Conference panel “Decentering the Enlightenment”
9:10 – 10:00 am
Kirsten Mahlke (Konstanz): Inca knowledge in knotted cords: Madame de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1746) and female Enlightenment
10:00 – 10:50 am
Elena Arigita (Granada): European modernity from the Northern Mediterranean: the legacy of al-Andalus and its Temporalities
11:00 – 11:20 am
Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:10 am
Michael Gaudio (Minnesota): Dancing in Circles: Enlightenment and the “Idolatrous Nations” in Bernard Picart’s Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
12:10 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (at Klippo)
1:45 – 6:00 pm
“Oriental Illumination: Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān in the European Enlightenment” (1st workshop)
Opening Remarks
Maud Meyzaud (Lüneburg): On the many Enlightenment Uses and Abuses of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Living, Son of Wakeful)
Inputs
Hanna Zoé Trauer (Munich): Ḥayy Between Idyll and Utopia Animals and Humans in Ibn Ṭufail's Philosophical Novel
Stephan Milich (Cologne): Comparing two island narratives. A decolonial Reading of Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (Alive, Son of Awake, 12. c.) and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (18. Jh.)
Stefan Schick (Leipzig): Aristotelian Science, Mystical Union, or Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone? Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān in Kantian and Post-Kantian Philosophical Historiography
7:00 pm
Conference diner (at Buddha)
Saturday, 30 May
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
“Who enlightens whom? Indigenous Thought and European Projections in Lahontan’s Dialogues avec un sauvage” (2d workshop)
Opening Lecture
Élisabeth Décultot (Halle): The Invention of the Savage: On an “Aesthetics of Decentering” in Lahontan and Diderot
Inputs
Tomaz Amorim (Bochum/São Paulo): The Indigenous Critique of Modernity: Crossed Dialogues Between Adario and Guamán Poma
Johannes Kleinbeck (Berlin): The Writing of Free Love: Lahontan and the Question of Gallantry
Oliver Precht (Lüneburg): Bewilderments: Lahontan’s Dialogues and the long history of (missed) encounters with the New World
1:00 pm
Lunch (at Klippo)
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Brainstorming for the conception of a book following up the event, farewell
3:30 pm
After work program (optional): visit to Kloster Lüne with the LIAS-fellows