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• 10 nov 2016

  11 nov 2016

  12 nov 2016

  Heidelberg

  Conference, symposium - History

  Order into Action

  How large-scale concepts of world-order determine practices in the premodern world?

  The conference “Order into Action” asks if political, geographical or religious large-scale concepts constituted the basic elements of systems of world order and how those concepts were translated into concrete actions or practices. In order to include a comparative view on regions and cultures, the confereince combines the perspectives of scholars in European, Arabic and Islamic and Asian Studies, as well as outlooks on premodern societies in (sub-saharan) Africa, the Americas and Australia.

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