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Wednesday 12 May

Time Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House

09.00-09.30

Coffee and Registration

 

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
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

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
18.00-19.30 7/ Arif Dirlik Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives




Thursday 13 May

Time Confucius Institute for Scotland, Abden House
Session 5: Chair- Robert Bickers

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

11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee Break  

Session 6: Chair- Natascha Gentz

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

13.00-14.00 LUNCH  

Session 7: Chair - Arif Dirlik

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

15.30-15.45 Tea/Coffee Break  
Session 8: Chair - Sebastian Conrad
15.45-17.15

14/ Jochen Meissner

 

TBC

General Discussion