Comparing Colonialism/Beyond European Exceptionalism
Colonial expansion is a common, nearly universal phenomenon in human history. Though colonialism has shaped the modern world in many ways, it is not limited to modernity. Conquering foreign lands and subjugating other people(s) are basic processes in the formation of empires and states, and they existed long before the modern era. This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Basel, seeks to explore varieties of colonialism throughout history and to uncover their common features. But, by comparing different areas, periods, and forms of colonial expansion and rule the conference will also examine the (possibly) unique characteristics of modern European expansion.
Anmeldung https://www.comparing-colonialism.ch/events/comparing-colonialism/form
09h30 – 10h00 Comparing Colonialism: Introductory Remarks, Axel T. Paul (University of Basel)
10h30 – 10h45 Conquest and Founding of Cities: Forms of Colonization in the Greco-Roman World, Hans-Joachim Gehrke (University of Freiburg)
11h00 – 11h45 Were the Muslim Arabs who Conquered the Middle East Colonialists?, Robert Hoyland (New York University)
11h45 – 12h30 Ottomans in Syria: “Turkish Colonialism” or Something Else?, James Reilly (University of Toronto)
14h00 – 14h45 An Entangled History of the British and French “Imperial Nation-States” in the Age of Revolutions, c.1770–1850, Tanja Bührer (University of Bern)
14h45 – 15h30 Colonialism at the Fringes of Empire: Reassessing Afghanistan’s Place in the British Colonial History, 1857–1900, Francesca Fuoli (University of Bern)
15h45 – 16h30 Contradictions of British Colonialism in the Uganda Protectorate, Klaus Schlichte (University of Bremen)
