Programme update for Marginal Voices in Global History

P77 Marginal Voices in Global History (Double Panel)-Part2
Venue: N1017
Chair: Barbara Lüthi (Leipzig University)

The panel focuses on minority histories and often marginalized voices and how these can
be integrated into the broader picture of a non-Eurocentric global history as well as raising
critical questions about the ways in which historiography itself may be a site of both inclusion
and exclusion. By paying attention to various actors – reaching from Dalits in India,
Muslims in the pre-modern Western Mediterranean, refugees during the 1947 partition of
India to Hui Muslims in China – the papers ask about the interconnectedness of different
voices over time and space, but also question the dangers of the glorifications of regional
civilizations and pasts, of nationalist reifications, and the tension between subaltern collective
memory versus nation-state remembrance. How are marginalized voices finding entry
into global history vis-à-vis a reappearance of nationalist and autochthonous narratives?
What are the means of making marginal voices heard? And what are the methodological
and pedagogical challenges of integrating these histories into the broader discourse of
global history?

Papers:
Amit Kumar ( Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi):
Rewriting Global Histories: Eurocentrism, Nationalism and the Marginalized Voices of
Dalits
Mònica Colominas Aparicio (University of Groningen):
Minority Voices in Global History. Muslims in the Pre-Modern Western Mediterranean
(11th-17th centuries)
Shuangxia Wu (Brown University):
Linear History, Nested Memory: The Layers of a Six-Page Article