The conference will take place on Cisco Webex. To attend kindly send an e-mail to isabella.schwaderer@uni-erfurt.de
Digital Conference
From Universalism to Ethnopathos – Religious Knowledge in the Colonial Encounter between India and Germany
16 January 2021
2:00 – 2:15 PM | Opening and Welcome Note
Isabella Schwaderer, Katharina Waldner (Erfurt)
Keynote lecture
2:15 – 3:00 PM | Religion as colonial knowledge category. Approaches to the decolonization of social thought
Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld)
Historical Perspectives: German Religious Views of India and Indian Reactions
Chair: Florian Wagner (Erfurt)
3:00 – 3:30 PM | “To read in an Indian way” (Johann Gottfried Herder). On whether the Germans were of Indian Origin and how this was related to the Hebrew Bible
Simon Wiesgickl (Hongkong)
3:30 – 4:00 PM | Ecumenical Tendencies of German Missions in 19th century India: Broad Themes and Ethnic Dialectics
Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay (Salamanca, Mexico)
*** Coffee Break ***
Religion and the Performing Arts: Artistic Research on Indian Fantasies in Germany and Beyond
Chair: Jessie Pons (Bochum)
4:30 – 5:00 PM | ‘Something completely different.’ Menaka, Uday Shankar and Indra Ramosay in the Dutch press (1931-1937)
Parveen Kanhai (Den Haag)
5:00 – 5:30 PM | Death and Transfiguration: Indian Fantasies of Redemption in the Reception of Wagner and Schopenhauer
Isabella Schwaderer (Kiel)
5:30 – 6:00 PM | “The Indian New Testament” on the German opera stage. Aesthetic and Philosophical Syncretism in Felix Gotthelf’s opera Mahadeva (1908)
Markus Schlaffke (Weimar)
6:20 – open-end *** Digital Dinner Party ***
17 January 2021
Religion, Colonialism and Politics
Panel 1 – Chair: Johannes Duschka (Leipzig)
2:00 – 2:30 PM | Conceptions of Religion: A View from Colonial India
Rinku Lamba (Delhi)
2:30 – 3:00 PM | The Search for a ‘Religion of the Future’ in Interwar Berlin
Gerdien Jonker (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
3:00-3:30 PM | Lajpat Rai’s Re-definition of Hinduism in the Colonial Encounter
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Leipzig)
*** Coffee Break ***
Panel 2 – Chair: Maria Framke (Berlin)
4:00 – 4:30 PM | Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The “religious factor” in Nazi cultural politics regarding India
Baijayanti Roy (Frankfurt)
4:30 – 5:00 PM | Two Expressions of Sarva Dharma Sambhava in Indian Political Thought
Sushmita Nath (Leipzig)
5.00 – 5:20 PM | Concluding remarks
Katharina Waldner (Erfurt)
5:20 – 5:30 PM | Farewell note
Isabella Schwaderer (Erfurt)