Bielefeld Science Award
Award ceremony
on June 30, 2023
The Bielefeld Science Award is presented to:
Professor Susan G. Pedersen
Professor of Global History at the Department of History, Columbia University in New York.
The award ceremony will start at 6 pm in the Lecture Hall Building Y of Bielefeld University. Admission is from 5:30 pm. Details on the program schedule can be found here.
Program
Greetings
Michael Fröhlich, Chairman of the Board of the Sparkasse Bielefeld Foundation
Pit Clausen, Lord Mayor of the City of Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Sagerer, Chairman of the Jury and Rector of Bielefeld University
Laudatio (language of presentation: German)
Patricia Clavin, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
Presentation by the award winner (language of presentation: English)
“The Interwar Order Revealed – or, how the Italy-Abyssinian war changed the world”
This lecture looks back at the way the European powers sought to use the League of Nations to stabilize the European settlement and the imperial order after 1919. It argues that the 1935-6 Italian attack on Ethiopia – and the public debates that generated in Geneva and around the world – at once exposed and delegitimized that order, as anti-imperialists and African diasporic groups made themselves heard. 1935, and not 1945, was the beginning of the end for the European imperial order.
Susan G. Pedersen
Music
Accocello Duo, Detmold University of Music
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Photographs
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