Global Histories of the Social Survey in the Long 19th Century

Organized by Léa Renard and Martin Herrnstadt in cooperation with the research focus Dynamics and Experiences of Globalisation at the Centre Marc Bloch and the research area Mobilitiy and Belonging at the Leibniz-Institute of European History Mainz (IEG)

Tuesday, Feb 18

09.15–9.30 Introductory remarks
Léa Renard (Berlin), Martin Herrnstadt (Mainz/Berlin)

09.30–13.00 Panel 1
Forms, practices and technologies of social and colonial surveys
Chair and commentary: Irmela Gorges (Berlin)
Julien Vincent (Paris I): Land surveying and colonization: the political economy of the
New Zealand Company (1837 1853)
Anne Kwaschik (Konstanz): “La colonisation est une science qui ne s’improvise pas”:
The scientification of colonialism in the age of empire

Coffee break

Frederico Agoas (Lisbon): Towards an integrated historical sociology of Portuguese
imperial and metropolitan social research

13.00–14.00 Lunch

14.00–17.30 Panel 2
Enquêtes et contre enquêtes: Epistemic resistance, appropriations and
inquiries from below
Chair and commentary: Johannes Paulmann (Mainz)

Philipp Reick (Berlin/Jerusalem): In awe of numbers: A workers’ malady

Amadou Dramé (Paris/Dakar): “Se tenir au courant de tous les faits et gestes des
lettrés musulmans”. The broussard and the colonial survey on Islam in French West
Africa (XIX XX e siècle)

Coffee break

Leyla Dakhli (Berlin): Thinking “Eastern society” through minorities: A construction of
orientalist expertise

17.30–18.30 Apéritif

18.30–20.00 Keynote lecture: Andrea Ploder (Konstanz)
Making and appropriating methods.
Towards a historical praxeology of qualitative research
Commentary: Fabian Link (Frankfurt am Main/Wuppertal)

20.30 Dinner

Wednesday, Feb 19

09.30–12 30 Panel 3
Global histories of the social survey? Challenges of a historico political
epistemology of the early social sciences
Chair and commentary: Jakob Vogel (Berlin)

Fabian Link (Frankfurt am Main/ Wuppertal): Writing the history of the social
sciences as historical epistemology and as history of intellectual practices

Nicolas Hatzfeld (Evry Val d’Essonne): Présentation de l’ouvrage collectif Les
enquêtes ouvrières dans l’Europe contemporaine (La Découverte, 2019 ; sous la
dir. de E. Geerkens, N. Hatzfeld, I. Lespinet Moret et X. Vigna)
Simultaneous translation will be provided by the Centre Marc Bloch

Coffee break

Concluding discussion and future cooperations

Downloads

Program