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4th HIP-Workshop

You are cordially invited to participate in the 4th Humboldt India Project (HIP) Workshop which will take place on the 29th June, 2012. The workshop aims to provide a forum for exchange across institutional and disciplinary boundaries on topics related to South Asia.

4th HIP-Workshop

You are cordially invited to participate in the 4th Humboldt India Project (HIP) Workshop which will take place on the 29th June, 2012. The workshop aims to provide a forum for exchange across institutional and disciplinary boundaries on topics related to South Asia.

International Workshop: Beyond the Line - Cultural Constructions of the Sea (June 22–23, 2012)

The international workshop “Beyond the Line – Cultural Constructions of the Sea” examines the relationship between land and sea. It investigates how the currently changing constellations in South-South relationships can be understood historically and culturally. If the active participation of the regions south of the Sahara since early modern times is denied, what is the situation today? And beyond that: is it justified in any way to attribute a historical insignificance to regions neighboring Africa on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?

International Workshop: Beyond the Line - Cultural Constructions of the Sea (June 22–23, 2012)

The international workshop “Beyond the Line – Cultural Constructions of the Sea” examines the relationship between land and sea. It investigates how the currently changing constellations in South-South relationships can be understood historically and culturally. If the active participation of the regions south of the Sahara since early modern times is denied, what is the situation today? And beyond that: is it justified in any way to attribute a historical insignificance to regions neighboring Africa on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans? These questions will be analyzed in the framework of a current trend in the social and cultural sciences that is called the “oceanic turn.” The symposium aims to pursue these questions and make its own contribution to them. Participants present the Atlantic and Indian Oceans as a cultural space. Individual panel discussions examine case studies of literature, migration, piracy, and trade cultures. In this way, research results on the sub-Saharan part of Africa will be investigated in their relationship to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and new approaches will be formulated. Conceived by Michael Mann and Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger