Part II of the Conference Series "A Europe of Differences" (2020–2022) From 2020 until 2022, the IEG organizes a conference series to discuss the main results of its ongoing research programme on negotiating differences in early modern and modern Europe with international experts and thus identify new research perspectives. Special attention is being paid to the interaction of different categories of difference and their contingent hierarchisation. However, the conference series also looks at the fluent boundaries of Europe, which were also subject to diverse processes of negotiation. With »Contesting Unversalism«, the second conference of the series once again addresses a core problem of European approaches of negotiating differences. The latter is understood, as the subtitle »Provincialising Europe?« indicates, as both a historical object and a research perspective. The conference will study Europe as a world region and, from the outside, as a province. It will also look at cultural and ideal »provinces« within Europe, at its centres and peripheries. Finally, the papers will trace how »European« knowledge regimes and value systems changed and were reconfigured in confrontation with the »Other«. The conference addresses an academic audience. If interested, please email us at info@ieg-mainz.de.