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| Time | Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House | |
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09.00-09.30 |
Coffee and Registration |
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09.30-09.50 |
Welcome Address Tom Devine |
Why a Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies in the University of Edinburgh |
| Session 1: Chair- Sebastian Conrad | ||
09.50-11.10 |
1/ Natascha Gentz 2/ Andreas Eckert |
Early Chinese Student Migration and the Politics of Maintaining Boundaries Varieties of the Black Atlantic: Africans in Europe in the Early 20th Century |
| 11.00-11.30 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | |
Session 2: Chair-
Roxanne Prazniak |
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| 13.00-14.30 | 3/ Paul Bailey 4/ Yang Chia-ling |
Transnational Diasporas: The Case of Li Shizeng in China and France 1902-1928 Reconstructing Heritage: Culture-Making of Qing Yilao in Global Shanghai and Dalian |
| 13.00-14.30 | LUNCH | |
Session 3: Chair- Paul Bailey |
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| 14.30-16.00 | 5/ Jeeson Hong 6/ Stefan Rinke |
Building Desires, Selling Spaces: Department Stores in Early Twentieth Century Polyvalent Actors: The Global and the Lure of the Modern in Early Twentieth Century Latin America |
| 16.00-16.15 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16.15-17.00 | General Discussion | Moderation: Andreas Eckert |
| 17.00-18.00 | BREAK | |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS & RECEPTION |
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| 18.00-19.30 | 7/ Arif Dirlik | Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives |
| Time | Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House | ||
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Session 5:
Chair- Robert Bickers |
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09.30-11.00 |
8/Sebastian Conrad 9/ Roxanne Prazniak |
Reworking the “Enlightenment”: Actors, Appropriations, and Concepts Siena on the Silk Roads: Translocal Exchange and Early Modernity |
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| 11.00-11.30 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||
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| 11.30-13.00 | 10/ Robert Bickers 11/ Michael Facius |
Linked by Light: The Chinese Maritime Customs and the Lighting of the China Coast Globalizing Knowledge: The Japanese Tōa dōbun shoin in Shanghai |
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| 13.00-14.00 | LUNCH | ||
Session 7: Chair - Arif Dirlik |
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| 14.00-15.30 | 12/ Maria Moritz 13/ Harald Fischer- Tiné |
A South Asian Cosmopolitan: Bhagavan Das and the Critique of the Theosophical Society, 1913-1914 Resistance in Interaction: Indian Exiles in Europe and the Emergence of Anti-imperialist “Terrorism”, 1905-1914 |
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| 15.30-15.45 | Tea/Coffee Break | ||
Session 8: Chair -
Sebastian Conrad |
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| 15.45-17.15 | 14/ Jochen Meissner
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TBC General Discussion |
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