Events

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Upcoming Events

2026

External Event

25
Jun

NHESR online lecture series # 3: Missionary Ethnography and the Problem of the ‘Fetish’: Collecting Kongo Crucifixes in Late Colonial Northern Angola (Ana Rita Amaral)

Online

Network Event

14 - 16
Dec

Facts that Matter: Enquête Practices and the Politics of Worldmaking

University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar

Past Events

2026

External Event

29
Jan

NHESR online lecture series # 2: Liberation Statistics: Making Data for Alternative Worlds in India and West Africa (Tiago Saraiva)

Online

2025

Network Event

4 - 5
Dec

Intellectual Extractivism. Colonial Data Collection and the Enquête as Encounter

Center for Advanced Studies "Applied Humanities", HU Berlin (Georgenstrasse 23, 6th floor)

External Event

17
Jul

NHESR online lecture series # 1: The lady vanishes – Women in the history of empirical social research (N. Holzhauser)

Online (zoom)

External Event

12 - 13
Jun

International Conference: Prisons and Prisoners in the History and Sociology of Knowledge (17th-20th century)

University of Fribourg

Network Event

15 - 16
May

Contre\Enquête. Political and Aesthetic Forms of Investigation – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main

2024

Network Event

5 - 6
Dec

Rhetoric and Remains of the Field: Intentionality and Materiality in the Struggle for Reality

University of Bremen

Network Event

2 - 3
May

Global Cultures of Enquête. Towards a Praxeology of Surveying (17th – 21st Century)

Centre Marc Bloch

2022

Network Event

21 - 22
Feb

Towards Global Histories of Surveying Cultures: Administrative Knowledge Production and Statistics 17th – 21st Century

Centre Marc Bloch

2020

Network Event

18 - 19
Feb

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

Centre Marc Bloch