PD Dr. Julia Hauser on vegetarianism between Europe and India in the 19th and 20th century
Guest Lecture: "Schweigen und Austausch"
PD Dr. Julia Hauser talks about the knowledge exchange between vegetarianism movements in the West and India since the mid-19th century.
Note: The event will be held in German!
The history of vegetarianism has long been seen as the history of national movements. However, since its beginnings in the mid-19th century, the vegetarian movement in the West has been fascinated by dietary patterns in other parts of the world and exchanged ideas with protagonists from these regions. India in particular played a decisive role. This lecture is dedicated to the question of how this knowledge exchange took place, who was involved in it, how it shaped vegetarianism in the West and in India - and what knowledge was not communicated in the global exchange and for what reasons. As we will see, this was primarily knowledge that contradicted the idea of equality of all living beings.
Dr. Julia Hauser is a private lecturer ('Privatdozentin') in Modern History at the University of Kassel and researches the entangled history of Europe, West Asia and South Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. From 2014 to 2021, she held a temporary W1 professorship for Global History at the University of Kassel. Her publications include German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions. Leiden; Boston 2015 and A Taste for Purity. An Entangled History of Vegetarianism. New York 2024.