Preliminary Programme

Browse networks

Showing: Asia (all days)

Tue 26 February
14.15
16.30

Wed 27 February
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Thu 28 February
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Fri 29 February
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Sat 1 March
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

All days

Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45

Q-4 ASI01 Minorities in Asia
Amphitheatre 3

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

Graham Brown, Regina Lim : Minorities within a majority: Non-bumiputera relations with the state in Malaysia
Nikita Sud : Metamorphosing and multiple minorities: the case of Gujarat India
Tariq Thachil, Ronald Herring : Poor Choices: Dalit and Adivasi Electoral Politics in India

Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15

W-5 ASI02 ASI02 : The City in Asia (I): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12

Networks: Asia , Urban	Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Markus Daechsel : Dr. Doxiadis and the people of Korangi
Prashant Kidambi : Rethinking the Asian City: Recent perspectives in Indian and Chinese Historiography
Manish Kumar Thakur : The Making of A Mofussil Netaji: A Study in Urban Political Culture

Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30

W-6 ASI03 ASI03 : The City in Asia (II): Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Room 2.12

Networks: Asia , Urban	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Nandini Gooptu : Globalization, Work and Urban Identities in Kolkata, India
Jaideep Gupte : Communal Violence, Organised Crime and Vulnerability: urban survival strategies in Mumbai, India
Ami Shah : Global Dreams, Local Nightmares: Urban 'Development' and Destruction in Ahmedabad, India

Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45

M-8 ASI05 Colonialism, Capitalism and Network Formation: the Indian Ocean Region, 1800-1950 1
Room 5.2

Network: Asia	Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizers: Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Takashi Oishi	Discussants: -

Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Solid ground beneath their feet? Armenian entrepreneurs in India, 1800-1950
Claude Markovits : Bombay as the hub of Indian merchant networks in the Indian Ocean c. 1800-1950
Takashi Oishi : Intra-regional Network and Trust: Indian Muslim merchants in Southeast and East Asia, 1800-1950

Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30

A-10 NM Network meeting: Africa & Asia & Latin America
Cave A

Networks: Africa , Asia , Latin America	Chairs: -
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Friday 29 February 2008 8.30

C-11 ASI04 Colonialism, Indigenous Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
Cave C

Networks: Asia , Urban	Chair: Bhaswati Bhattacharya
Organizers: Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Takashi Oishi	Discussants: -

Gijsbert Oonk : Opening and Closing transnational South Asian Networks.
Prista Ratanapruck : Kinship networks and state institutions: engagements and circumventions in Manangi and Newari trade networks compared
Huibert Schijf : Regenten Capitalists, their Rise, Decline and Reorientation in Colonial and Independent Indonesia, 1900-1962

Friday 29 February 2008 10.45

N-12 ASI07 Connecting Asia and the West: Knowledge and Identities
Room 6.1

Networks: Asia , Religion	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Marine Carrin : Cultural Growth as a Distributed Process:Coherence, Change and Agency in two Religious Medical Traditions of India
Leila Moein : Health and medicine in ancient Iran specially Zartosht religions
Arabinda Samanta : Colonial Construction of Smallpox in Nineteenth Century India

Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45

W-16 LAB22 Global Commodities
Room 2.12

Networks: Asia , Labour	Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Ratna Saptari	Discussants: -

Ulbe Bosma, Marga Alferink : Transition from local to world market production: early 19th century sugar production in East Java.
Ratna Saptari : Cultures of Tobacco: The shaping of Peasant Worker Communities in 19th century Java
Emile Schwidder : Forced Labour in the Coffee Cultivation of West Java: Report of Otto van Rees on the 'Preanger Stelsel' (1867)