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On Thursday 22 October, from 14:00-16:00, the Leibniz-Science Campus “Europa and America” in Regensburg, the Herder Institute Research Academy in Marburg, and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) are holding an online discussion on “The Range and Limits of Travelling Concepts in Area Studies”. You are warmly invited to join the event via Zoom: https:\/\/uni-regensburg.zoom.us\/j\/82404482367<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access via Zoom: https:\/\/uni-regensburg.zoom.us\/j\/82404482367<\/a>.
Access to readings: please contact campus@europeamerica.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Range and Limits of Travelling Concepts in Area Studies – Online Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this online meeting, doctoral researchers, postdocs and faculty in Leipzig, Marburg and Regensburg will discuss the significance and applicability of travelling concepts for area studies. As Mieke Bal suggests, concepts do offer a foundation for scholarly discussion across the humanities and social sciences, but they are not epistemically neutral analytical tools. They are shaped both by their origins in certain disciplines, periods and geographical or institutions spaces and by their encounters with other disciplines, discourses and spaces as they travel. The discussion seeks to address this intersection of \u2018roots\u2019 and \u2018routes\u2019, to use James Clifford\u2019s distinction (Clifford 1997), in the emergence of increasingly salient travelling concepts following area studies\u2019 recent \u2018rebirth\u2019 (Multinovic, ed. 2019). How do concepts travel across disciplinary and regional boundaries? Do they move smoothly or face restrictions? Does area studies facilitate a productive translation of concepts or does it still perhaps reproduce epistemic asymmetries that have traditionally shaped the field as the sites of production of analytical theories and empirical data have often differed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We propose to open the session with a discussion of two key texts addressing the place of travelling concepts in the humanities and social sciences. In the second part, colleagues will give short talks on particular travelling concepts drawng from their ongoing research that explores the potential for crossing regional and disciplinary boundaries.
The discussion of the two texts will be led by Dr. Anna-Veronika Wendland (Herder-Institut, Marburg).
The following themes and travelling concepts will be discussed by colleagues currently based in Marburg, Leipzig and Regensburg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n