Preliminary Programme

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Showing: Asia (all days)

Wed 22 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30

Thu 23 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30

Fri 24 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30

Sat 25 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30

All days

Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30

M-1 ASI01 Colonialism, law and policy
Room M

Network: Asia	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Leela Sami : Famines, Public Health and Colonial Medicine: A Study of Madras Presidency 1858-1880
Mitra Sharafi : Creating Legal India: Colonialism and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Gerry van Klinken : Indirect rule, ethnicity and ethnic criminality in late colonial Indonesia

Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:30

E-4 LAT05 Global Labour and Commodity Production
Room E

Networks: Asia , Latin America	Chair: Touraj Atabaki
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Ulbe Bosma : Global Labour and Commodity Production
Norbert Ortmayr : Demographic changes in 19th and 20th century Trinidad
Willem Van Schendel : Blue Feet: Indigo Producers in India (1800-1860)

Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30

W-5 ASI03 Contesting Asian Identities
Committee Room 2

Network: Asia	Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Pritam Singh : Political Economy of the Cycles of Violence and Non-violence in the Sikh Struggle for Survival and Political Power
Sawarin Suwichakornpong : History of Education and the Making of Identity: The Case of Southern Thailand
Natasa Visocnik : The role of food in identity processes in Japan

Thursday 23 March 2006 14:15

P-7 WOM10 Sexuality, Gender, and Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Room P

Networks: Asia , Women and Gender	Chair: Ruth Mandel
Organizers: -	Discussant: Ruth Mandel

Elif Gozdasoglu : Thinking About Turkish Women's Past: Some Reflections on the Intersection of Turkish Nationalism and Gender
Tuba Kanci : Women and Men of an Imagined Community: Gender Constructions of the Turkish Republic in Textbooks
Selçuk akşin Somel : Woman, state, and religion: The Issue of Abortion in the Late Ottoman Empire

Friday 24 March 2006 8:30

O-9 ETH17 Migration of domestic servants
Room O

Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration , Labour	Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: -	Discussant: Sylvia Hahn

Sjoukje Botman : The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Marina de Regt : "Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti : Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Monica Smith : Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Friday 24 March 2006 10:45

G-10 ASI04 Asian Historiographies
Room G

Network: Asia	Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Remy Delage : Ethnography of Ancient Records for Exploring Historical Geography of Pilgrimage in Uttaranchal (North India)
Zoe Headley : Structure and functions of the past(s) amongst a denotified caste (Tamil Nadu)
Ratna Saptari : The Uses and Limits of Event-Based History: An Industrial Strike on Jakarta's Urban Fringe
Subir Sinha : Subalterns, Trans-nationality, Globalisation: On the crises of historiographies of resistance

Friday 24 March 2006 14:15

W-11 ASI02 Globalization and change
Committee Room 2

Network: Asia	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Nandini Gooptu : The Indian Civil Service and Changing Conceptions of Work
Anna Lindberg : “‘Modernization’, Globalization and Change: Marriage, Gender Relations and Traditions
Nikita Sud : The global face of new Hinduism in Gujarat

Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30

S-13 LAB26 Class, Community, Culture: Analysis and Construction of Historical Identities
Room S

Networks: Asia , Labour	Chair: Janet Hunter
Organizers: -	Discussant: Janet Hunter

Angelo Goode : A Socially Contructed Working Class Culture: The Study of the Filipino Woodworking Industry
Marion Leffler : What good are research circles?
Monica Sharma : Culture of the Neighbourhood and Formation of Community Identity among the Factory Workers in Colonial India
Georg Stöger : Unskilled factory work in Vienna before 1918. Reflections on juvenile socialisation

Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15

L-15 ETH18 Asian Labour Migration
Room L

Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration	Chair: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Organizers: -	Discussant: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

Lars Amenda : From Southern China to the North Sea. Chinese Migration and its Reception in Western European Port Cities, 1900-1950
Young-Sun Hong : "Lotus Flowers from the Far East": Orientalism and Transnational Migrants in Germany
T. V. Sekher : History of Indian Labour Migration to Persian Gulf