Preliminary Programme

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Showing: Asia (all days)

Wed 23 April
8.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
8.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
8.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
8.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 18.30

All days

Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00

J-2 ASI01 The Confluence of the Social Sciences and History in the Study of Chinese Religion
Hörsaal 29 first floor

Network: Asia	Chair: Patrick Pasture
Organizer: Gene Cooper	Discussants: -

Shin-yi Chao : Our Lady on the Mountain: a Case Study of the Revival of Communal Religion in Rural Northern China
Adam Chau : A Religious Public Sphere?: The Formation of the ‘Religion Sector’ in Modern China
Gene Cooper : At the Confluence of History and Ethnography: The Saga of Hugong Dadi
Ping Yao : Religious Faith and Everyday Experience of Tang Dynasty Buddhist Women

Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00

J-3 ASI02 Beyond Subaltern Studies: New Approaches to the Study of Ideas in South Asia
Hörsaal 29 first floor

Network: Asia	Chair: Nandini Gooptu
Organizer: Rochana Bajpai	Discussants: -

Rochana Bajpai : India's Constitutional Settlement
Tobias Berger : Non-state Justice & “the Rule of Law”: Local Responses to Global Liberalism in Bangladesh
Matthew Nelson : Voting for Impunity: On the Conceptual Limits of Democracy
Rahul Rao : Marxism v. Postcolonialism: queering the debate

Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30

Y-4 SOC12 Migration and Inequality in Colonial Societies
UR3 Germanistik second floor

Networks: Asia , Social Inequality	Chair: Ulbe Bosma
Organizer: Lynn Lees	Discussant: Ulbe Bosma

Lynn Lees : Urban Civil Society and the Blurring of Racial Inequalities in British Malaya, 1900-1940
Natasha Pairaudeau : Mobility and Multiple Struggles for Equality within the French Empire: the Shaping and Practice of Colonial Citizenship in French India and Indochina
Jennifer Sessions : Debating Settler Sovereignty in Fin-de-Siècle French Algeria

Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00

J-6 ASI03 History of Materials, Objects and Waste in Asia
Hörsaal 29 first floor

Networks: Asia , Material and Consumer Culture	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizers: -	Discussants: -

Saurabh Arora : An Exploration into the Materiality of Colonial Governance: Mixing Humans and Nonhumans in South Indian 'Criminal Settlements’ 1911-1930
Evelien de Hoop, Dr. Saurabh Arora : Material Meanings: Historicizing the Indian 'Wasteland’ as a Performative Classifier
Chieko Nakajima : Privy, City, and Empire: Human Waste Disposal in Semi-Colonial Shanghai

Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00

J-7 ASI04 Work, Skill and Professions in India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Hörsaal 29 first floor

Network: Asia	Chair: Ratna Saptari
Organizer: Nandini Gooptu	Discussants: -

Nandini Gooptu : Soft Skills, Emotional Labour and Class Relations in the Contemporary Indian Labour Market
Prashant Kidambi : Between Capital and Labour: Clerical Workers in Late Colonial Bombay
Divya Nambiar : Teaching India’s Youth to Dream? Shaping Aspirations through Skill Training Initiatives in India

Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30

I-9 LAB08 Imperial Connections and Household Labour Relations
Hörsaal 28 first floor

Networks: Asia , Family and Demography , Labour	Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Louella de Graaf	Discussant: Susan Zimmermann

Corinne Boter : The Dynamics of the Household. Labour Division in Dutch Households 1830-1940.
Louella de Graaf : Between Forced Labor and Market Work. Javanese Households, the Allocation of Labor and Time, and Consumption under Colonial Rule, 1830-1970
Michiel de Haas : Measuring African Rural Welfare: A Reconstruction of Ugandan Rural Living Standards in the 1920s-30s
Steffen Rimner : When Opium Enters the Household: the Division of Labor, Paternal Drug Consumption and Familial Impoverishment in India and China, c. 1880-1900

Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00

J-10 ASI05 Nations, Borders and Identity Politics
Hörsaal 29 first floor

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

Gisela Brinker-Gabler : Practicing (Un)belonging –– Tawada, the “Specular Border Intellectual”
Diana Dimitrova : Religion, Gender and Culture in Bollywood Film 1994- 2001
Jari Okkonen : Archaeology of the Defeated – The Toro Excavation (1947–1950) and US Occupation Authorities

Z-10 MID05 Analysing Networks of Communication: China and Europe in Comparative Perspective (800-1600)
UR4 Germanistik second floor

Networks: Asia , Middle Ages	Chair: Peter Stabel
Organizers: -	Discussant: Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Francisco Javier Apellániz : Cooperating in Complex Environments: Cross-cultural Trade, Commercial Networks and Notarial Culture in the Islamic Cities of Commerce (1350-1500)
Hilde De Weerdt : Analyzing Political Affiliations in Notebooks and Correspondence: Factionalist Politics Revisited
Franz-Julius Morche, Sergio Currarini : An Economic Model of Political Communication: Informational Networks in Venetian Long-Distance Trade, 1350-1500
Maria Riep : tba