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Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock)

wednesday, 4 December 2024

The Chair of Early Modern History, Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht, invites you to a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock):

“Ambivalent Indigenous Voices in the American Enlightenment Archive”

on December 4, 2024, from 4-6 p.m. in GWII, room S 6.

About the lecture:
Dialogues with “savages” occupy a central position in the discourse of the Enlightenment and are currently receiving new attention in the struggle for deliberative democracy and ecological sustainability. The lecture examines this phenomenon on the basis of LaHontan's Dialogue with the Huron Condiaronk (1703) and David Graeber and David Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everything (2022).

About the speaker:
Prof. Dr. Gesa Mackenthun teaches North American Studies at the University of Rostock. She founded and headed the DFG Research Training Group “Cultural Contact and the Discourses of Scholarship” in Rostock and is editor of the series “Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship” (Waxmann). She is currently researching the connections between colonial land grabbing and environmental destruction as well as colonial and transcultural constructions of history in US-American discourse. Most recently, she published the essay collection Decolonizing “Prehistory” (with Christen Mucher) and the monograph Embattled Excavations (both 2021).

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