講　題：Colonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making

主講人：Sebastian Conrad 教授（德國柏林自由大學）
主持人：吳孟軒 副研究員
時　間：2023年03月23日（四）15:00-17:00
地　點：中研院史語所研究大樓7樓704會議室

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中研院史語所世界史研究室、禮俗宗教研究室 合辦
聯絡人：
張助理 (chunhistory@gmail.com) 、
黎助理 (crd.ihp.as274@gmail.com)

演講提要：
Colonial hierarchies were constituted not by military and economic power alone, but also by imperial worldviews. Chief among their ingredients was a particular temporality. The expansion of the European (and, soon, American and Japanese) empires, and the grafting of imperial structures onto colonized communities, confronted large groups of people with new temporal norms. This “temporal invasion” found expression in the proliferation of clocks as levers of punctuality and temporal discipline; the alignment of calendars and the concomitant synchronization of the globe; and the dissemination of History as the privileged form of linking past, present, and future. Consequently, as I will argue, historians emerged as imperial agents in their own right. They helped introduce “historical time” and a cosmology that redefined narratives about the past, and trajectories into the future, in the colonizing/colonial world. How did historians achieve this revolutionary form of world-making? Was this only a colonial imposition, or must it be seen as a response to global conjunctures? What are the legacies of this refashioning of temporality in an age of imperial globality, and how does it resonate today?