Conference announcement and call for papers:

The German Invention of Race
4-6 May 2001, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Harvard Department of German, the Harvard Department of
Afro-American Studies, and the Max Kade Foundation.

"The German Invention of Race" brings together scholars from numerous
disciplines to explore the emergence of race as a "scientific" category in
Germany at the end of the eighteenth century and to examine its consequent
developments during the initial decades of the nineteenth century. Speakers
and respondents draw on traditions of philosophy, law, science,
anthropology, and literature in order to reconsider the early history of
racial thinking in the development of European modernity.

The conference organizers would like to add two or three additional papers
to the already existing program. Especially welcome is work that engages
any of the following: the history of art, science, anthropology or law,
either in a German or a comparative context; the function of racial
thinking in German perceptions of Asia or the Ottoman Empire; the issue of
miscegenation; the perception of the human/animal barrier; or the function
of race in the tradition of "Naturphilosophie."

A book of essays based upon the conference proceedings is planned.

Email titles and abstracts by March 23 to:

Sara Paulson Eigen
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
spaulsonfas.harvard.edu

or

Mark Larrimore
Department of Religion
Princeton University
larimoreprinceton.edu