Towards a global history of humanitarianism?
A Princeton – PSL Workshop
6-7 April
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Thursday April 6
Evening discussion: Jeremy Adelman (Princeton). Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS), George Steinmetz (University of Michigan): “The Future of Global History and the Problem of Humanitarianism”
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Friday April 7
9-10:30 Religion and humanity
Valentine Zuber (EPHE): Christianity and human rights. A history of a reappropriation
Divya Cherian (Princeton): “Helping Others in Eighteenth-Century Marwar? Unfreedom, Untouchability, and Human Welfare in Pre-Colonial South Asia”
Serge Gruzinski (EHESS) commentary
10:45-12:15 Global utilitarians?
Alessandro Stanziani: Jeremy Bentham between Britain Russia and India
Linda Colley: Jeremy Bentham and constitutionalism/liberty 19th century
George Steinmetz (University of Michigan) commentary
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:45-3:15 Borderlands and citizens
Catherine Goussef (CNRS/ Marc Bloch Center, Berlin): Humanitarian aids in Russia and Eastern Europe in the interwar period
Rosina Lozano (Princeton): “Language Rights and Citizenship: Spanish in the US Southwest”
Shel Garon (Princeton) Commentary
3:30-5:00 Displaced
Claudio Lomnitz: “Indigenismo and the Jewish Question, around José Carlos Mariátegui”
Max Weiss: “The Slow Witness: Syrian War Literature in Real Time”
Phil Nord (Princeton) Commentary