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Du 10 au 12 novembre prochain, se tiendra à Heidelberg le colloque :Order into Action How large-scale concepts of world-order determine practices in the premodern worldArgumentaire :In recent years, research on premodern sys-tems of world order (concepts and practices) and pertinent large-scale categories has inten-sified: numerous enlightening studies teach us about the perceptions and descriptions of “the world” in premodern Europe and Asia (c. 1300-1600). Many of these studies are valuable and help us to better understand how historical actors or societies constructed and perceived the world they inhabited. However, the ques-tion if and how such large-scale concepts that constituted the basic elements of overall world orders were translated into concrete actions or practices, remains underexplored.In order to analyse and underline the relevance of our insights into the mental representations of “the world”, it seems necessary and fruitful to ask, how theoretical or intellectual models influenced (or even determined) concrete ac-tions on an individual or collective level. The conference “Order into Action” addresses this question and seeks to combine and discuss the perspectives of scholars in European, Arabic and Islamic, and Asian Studies as well as of experts of non-Eurasian cultures. The different papers focus on exemplary case studies from different areas of expertise, which pos-sess the potential to be ‘generalised’ in the perspective of our overarching question.Programme :Thursday, November 1013:30 to 14.00Welcome/ Coffee14:00 to 14:30Veit Probst (Heidelberg): WelcomeKlaus Oschema/Christoph Mauntel: IntroductionPanel 1: Religious conceptsChair: Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg)14:30 to 15:20David Max Moerman (New York): The Buddhist World Continent and the European World Order: Transcultural Cartography in Japan, 1300-170015:20 to 16:10Nora Berend (Cambridge): The concept of christianitas: a guide to action?16:10 to 16:40 Coffee Break16:40 to 17:30Daniel König (Heidelberg): dār al-ḥarb and terra paganorum. On the Practical Implications of Circumscribing the Sphere of the ‘Infidels’Friday, November 11Panel 2: Political conceptsChair: Enno Giele (Heidelberg)09:00 to 09:50Michal Biran (Jerusalem): The Mongol World-Order: From Universalism to GlocalizationInternational Conference09:50 to 10:40Albrecht Fuess (Marburg): Global Historiography and Mirrors for Princes: Concepts of Political Rule in the Near East (15th-16th centuries)10:40 to 11:10 Coffee Break11:10 to 12:00Klaus Oschema (Princeton/Heidelberg)/Christoph Mauntel (Tübingen): Between Universal Empire and the Plurality of Kingdoms – the Influence of Political Concepts in Late Medieval Latin Europe12:00 to 14:00 Lunch BreakPanel 3: Geographic conceptsChair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)14:00 to 14:50Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (Marseille): Travelling through empires: how Medieval travellers conceived of Asia14:50 to 15:40Michael Wintle (Amsterdam): The Advent of the Black Magus: exoticism, court politics and the creation of a continental hierarchy15:40 to 16:10 Coffee Break16:10 to 17:00Donatella Guida (Naples): Bestowing Benevolence. The Chinese Imperial World Order and the Construction of its Margins.Saturday, November 12Panel 4: Outlook: premodern societies in Africa, the Americas and AustraliaChair: Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Darmstadt)09:00 to 09:50Mark Horton (Bristol): Beyond Eurasia – the African contribution to the premodern world09:50 to 10:40Veronica Strang (Durham): Seeing Through the Rainbow: Aboriginal Australian concepts of an ordered universe10:40 to 11:10 Coffee Break11:10 to 12:00Frauke Sachse (Bonn): Worlds in Words: The Encounter of Pre-Columbian and European Cosmologies in Colonial Missionary and Indigenous Texts from Highland Guatemala12:00 to 12:30Final discussion/Concluding remarksCe colloque est organisé dans le cadre du projet A 27, "World orders in transcultural perspective" du cluster d'excellence "Asia and Europe in a global context", par Christoph Mauntel, Klaus Oschema et Bernd Schneidmüller.Pour tout renseignement : www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de