Writing the Global History of a Man Who Never Traveled

3 woe
Date
3 juli 2019
From
9:00
until
11:00
Address
Academiegebouw Utrecht

Prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Georg-August University Göttingen)

Wednesday 3 July 2019, Academiegebouw Utrecht

Programme: 09.00-9.30: registration and coffee/tea | 9.30-9.40: introduction | 9.40-10.40: lecture | 10.40-11.00 Q&A

Combining global historical and micro-historical perspectives opens up new opportunities for the individual researcher but it also brings new challenges. This talk will present some experiences with writing the book “Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled. A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and his Conflicted Worlds” which was published by Columbia University Press in 2018. It also presents some key arguments of the latter – for instance the idea that we need to pay more attention to the power constellations (local and global) that shaped the religious exchanges during that epoch in the history of Chinese Christianity.

 Bio: Dominic Sachsenmaier holds a chair professorship in “Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives” at Göttingen University/Germany. Before coming to Göttingen in 2015, he held faculty positions at Jacobs University, Duke University as well as the University of California, Santa Barbara. One of his monographs is “Global Perspectives on Global History. Theories and Approaches in a Connected World” (Cambridge UP, 2011). Dominic Sachsenmaier is one of the three editors of the book series „Columbia Studies in International and Global History“ (Columbia UP). He is also the president of the US-based Toynbee Prize Foundation and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

 

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