Global History Student Conference 2015 (official program)

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Table of ConTenTs

Foreword 4Greetings from Prof. Sebastian Conrad 6

Tips for Your sTaY in Berlin 7Public Transport in Berlin 8Finding Accommodation for Your Stay 10

The ConferenCe 11Venue 12Directions 12Program 13

presenTaTions 16Panel 1 - Travelers, Migrants and Experts 17Panel 2 - Work, Exploitation, Capitalism 18Panel 3 - Reshaping the International Order 19Panel 4 - Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters 20Panel 5 - Knowledge Production Across Borders 21Panel 6 - Rethinking Educational Institutions 22Panel 7 - Transnational History of Ideas 23Panel 8 - Global History Before 1750, Session I 24Panel 8 - Global History Before 1750, Session II 25Panel 9 - Sexuality and Power in Global History 26Panel 10 - Representations Through Different Media 27

Workshops 28

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foreword

Dear conference participant,As this program reaches you, the Global History Student Conference

is only a little more than a week away.The idea to host a conference like this was born at the beginning of

last autumn. We – the organizers – are all studying a master in Global History in Berlin, and have thus been grappling with the subject for some time. One of us (Marius!) pointed out that there were still very few op-portunities for students interested in Global History to meet and discuss their ideas and work. After some deliberation, we decided to organize the first Global History Student Conference in order to start filling this gap. From its inception to the final stages of preparation, we always intended it to be a student conference – an event organized by students, for stu-dents – and we hope that this is reflected in the spirit of the event.

Since none of us had ever organized an event like this before, we initially felt uncertain about a number of things. Chief amongst these was the question whether there would be enough students who would be sufficiently interested in the subject to bother applying and attending the conference. We were even afraid that we would have to invite friends and relatives to fill empty seats. Luckily, it quickly turned out that this doubt was absolutely unwarranted. In the end, we received over 150 ap-plications from students hailing from different universities spread across four continents, and we are happy that the final selection of participants represents a wide mix of academic and cultural backgrounds. This high degree of interest, coupled with the positive feedback we have received from professors and fellow students, shows that there is something to be gained from discussing Global History – a relatively young field and ap-

proach within the discipline of history – at a conference like this. We would like to express our utmost gratitude to Prof. Sebastian Con-

rad, without whose general and financial support this conference would have never seen the light of day, at least not in its present form. We would also like to thank Mrs Heike Kubisch for managing the reimbursement process and Dr Michael Goebel for taking the time to give the opening lecture.

Finally, we would like to thank every participant for their input and interest in the conference. Needless to say, there would be no conference without you.

The Conference Team Max Laun, Jan Deeg, Elisabeth Köller, Philipp Kandler, Marius Oester-

held, Björn Holm, Thomas Lindner, Oscar Broughton

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GreeTinGs from Prof. sebasTian Conrad

Global history was born out of the impression that the tools historians had been using to analyze the past were no longer sufficient. Globaliza-tion has posed a fundamental challenge to the social sciences and to the dominant narratives of social change. Entanglement and networks char-acterize the present moment, which has itself emerged from systems of interactions and exchange. But in many respects, the disciplines today are no longer adequately able to pose the right questions and generate answers that help to understand the reality of a networked and globalized world.

These are the challenges global histo-rians face today. But what will their con-tribution be? Where will global history go, methodologically, theoretically, politi-cally? The term and concept have been ap-propriated for many different purposes, and they remain open to a variety of interpreta-tions. This is why it is important to con-tinue the critical probing, and to add to the self-reflexivity of the approach. And this is why a conference like this one is so impor-tant: It is high time that the next generation of global historians, hailing from different locations, takes the matter in their hands, and helps shape the overall agenda.

Sebastian Conrad is Professor for Global History at the Freie

Universität Berlin

TiPs for Your sTaY in berlin


PubliC TransPorT in berlin

ConferenCe VenueThe Global History Student Conference will take place at the Friedrich-meinecke-institut of the freie universität berlin (Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin). The nearest subway station is “dahlem-dorf” (subway U3 and buses M11 and X83).

For more detailed information about how to get to the conference ven-ue please visit the BVG website:

http://www.bvg.de/

raTes and areasThere are three different rates in the metropolitan area of Berlin:

“a” refers to the city centre (inside the circle formed by the “S-Bahn” lines S41 and S42).

“b” refers to the area inside Berlin, but outside the inner circle.“C” refers to the areas outside the administrative area of Berlin.

Berlin-Dahlem, where the conference will take place, is in area b.

raTes for The puBliC TransporTThe rate for a one-way ticket is 2.70 € for the areas ab (valid for 2 hours in one direction. Interruptions are allowed. It is not allowed to travel cir-cle-wise) and 3.20 € for abC. There is also the option of buying a block of four tickets for 9.00 € (2.25 € per one-way ticket) for the area ab.

A ticket for the whole day (valid from midnight until 3 a.m. the next day) for the areas ab is 6.90 €; for the three areas abC 7.40 €.

A ticket for a group up to 5 persons for the whole day is 16.90 € for the areas ab; for the areas abC the price is 17.40 €.

You can buy tickets:• at the ticket machines in all subway stations, • in the offices of the BVG in the major stations, • or directly on the bus. It is not possible to buy tickets on the trains.

TraVelling WiThouT a TiCkeT maY resulT in a fine of 50 €.

http://www.bvg.de/index.php/en/index.html

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findinG aCCommodaTion for Your sTaY

It will be your responsibility to organize the accommodation for your stay in Berlin.

aCCommodaTion in a hoTel/hosTelOn the GHSC website you can find a number of links to widely used booking-websites. Please see:

https://globalhistorystudentconference.wordpress.com/accommoda-tion/

before making your booking, please keep the following points in mind:

• We can reimburse a total of 70.00 € for accommodation• The conference building is located in Dahlem. From the city cen-

tre of Berlin it takes at least a 35-40 minutes ride to get there, traffic congestion not considered. From other parts of Berlin it might take up to an hour or more to get to Dahlem. Please remember that the conference will start at 9.00 on both days. If you want to book yourself into a hostel which is located within reasonable proximity of the conference building, you might find the following two links useful:

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/unterbringung/ http://www.booking.com/

The ConferenCe

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/unterbringung/individuell/Hostel/

http://www.booking.com/landmark/de/free-university-of-berlin-fu-berlin.en-gb.html?aid=356985;label=gog235jc-landmark-de-de-freeNuniversityNofNberlinNfuNberlin-unspec-de-com-L%3Ade-V%3A0CCIQFjAA-O%3Aunk-B%3Aunk-N%3AXX-S%3Abo;sid=da06f4b78722e1fda6c65b440bfe8037;dcid=4;inac=0&


Venue

The Global History Student Conference will take place at the friedrich-meinecke-institut of freie universität berlin. The institute is located at Koserstraße 20 in Berlin-Dahlem. The conference rooms (A121, A124, A125, A127) are located on the first floor.

direCTions

The nearest subway station is “dahlem-dorf” (subway U3 and buses M11 and X83). From Dahlem-Dorf you need to follow “archivstraße” to “Koserstraße”. The friedrich-meinecke-institut is the biggest build-ing on the street, on the right hand side. The conference rooms are on the first floor, to the left. The address is Koserstraße 20, 14195 berlin.

ProGramsaturday, 25th of april

registration

Keynote speech - dr. michael Goebel: “Global ur-ban history. The world in Parisian archives”

Coffee break and registration

Panels iPanel 3 - Reshaping the International OrderPanel 1 - Travelers, Migrants and ExpertsPanel 2 - Work, Exploitation, Capitalism

lunch break

Panels iiWorkshop 1 - Collaborative WorkingPanel 4 - Colonial and Postcolonial EncountersPanel 5 - Knowledge Production Across Border

09:00-09:30

09:30-11:00Room A127

11:00-11:30

11:30-13:30Room A121Room A124Room A125

13:30-14:30



sunday, 26th of april

Panels iiiPanel 8 - Global History Before 1750, Session IPanel 6 - Rethinking Educational InstitutionsWorkshop 2 - Global History and International Devel-opment

Coffee break

Panels iVPanel 8 - Global History Before 1750, Session IIPanel 7 - Transnational History of Ideas

lunch break

Panels VPanel 9 - Sexuality and Power in Global HistoryPanel 10 - Representations Through Different Media

snacks and drinks

Concluding session


11:00-11:30

11:30-13:30Room A121Room A124

13:30-14:30

14:30-16:30Room A124Room A125

16:30-17:00

17:00-18:00Room A127

a121 a124 a125 a12709:00-09:30 Registration09:30-11:00 Keynote11:00-11:30 Coffee Break11:30-13:30 Panel 3 Panel 1 Panel 213:30-14:30 Lunch Break14:30-16:30 Workshop 1 Panel 4 Panel 5

a121 a124 a125 a12709:00-11:00 Panel 8 Panel 6 Workshop 211:00-11:30 Coffee Break11:30-13:30 Panel 8 Panel 713:30-14:30 Lunch Break14:30-16:30 Panel 9 Panel 1016:30-17:00 Snacks and Drinks

17:00-18:00 ConcludingSession

sundaY, 26Th of april

saTurdaY, 25Th of april


PresenTaTions

panel 1 - TraVelers, migranTs and experTs

room: a124Time: saturday, 25th of april, 11:30-13:30Chair: max laun / elisabeth Köller

11:30-12:00 Gabriel schimmeroth (Freie Universität Berlin / Hum-boldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

building the infrastructure for a rising lagos: The Julius berger Tiefbau aG as an actor of urban Governance in the nigerian Capi-tal between 1965-1975

12:00-12:30 ester Pink (University of Oxford, Great Britain)

for King, for Country or for Cousin Jack? Cornish migrants and nested identities in australia, south africa and mexico, 1869-1910

12:30-13:00 nari shelekpayev (Université de Montréal, Canada)

ottawa, brasília, astana, 1857-1997: a Transnational history of Postcolonial Capital Cities

13:00-13:30 andreas Greiner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

“Cook’s Crusaders” on an unpleasant Pleasure Trip: late ottoman Palestine in Tourists’ Gazes and writers’ words


panel 2 - Work, exploiTaTion, CapiTalism

room: a125Time: saturday, 25th of april, 11:30-13:30Chair: oscar broughton / Jan deeg

11:30-12:00 Joe Kelly (University of Liverpool, Great Britain)

supplying the slave Trade: Transnational Trade, Corporate social responsibility and west africa in anti-slavery britain

12:00-12:30 Peter h. bent (University of Massachusetts, United States / University of Oxford, Great Britain)

The development of Precarious work in egypt and india under british imperialism

12:30-13:00 Jonas söderqvist (Södertörns högskola, Sweden)

archive of the unrecorded: researching histories from the infor-mal labour market using a Global history approach

13:00-13:30 wesley house (University of London, Great Britain)

migration and the spatial fix: an exploration of migrant labour and state formation in the Gulf Cooperation Council

panel 3 - reshaping The inTernaTional order

room: a121Time: saturday, 25th of april, 11:30-13:30Chair: björn holm / marius oesterheld

11:30-12:00 Philipp Kandler (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

opportunity to Protect? security rhetoric during the incorpora-tion of the nicaraguan miskito Coast (1894)

12:00-12:30 sean Phillips (University of Oxford, Great Britain)

Problems of the Pacific: Imperial Internationalism and the Early Years of the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1925-1931

12:30-13:00 Tobit Vandamme (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

from Cosmopolitanism to “mobilization of the minds”: The french and Germans in shanghai during the first world war in Their local Press

13:00-13:30 Julian a. Theseira (The Graduate Institute Geneva, Swit-zerland)

Gentle as Jade: Perspectives upon the multiple lives of lou Tseng-Tsiang


panel 4 - Colonial and posTColonial enCounTers

room: a124Time: saturday, 25th of april, 14:30-16:30Chair: björn holm / Thomas lindner

14:30-15:00 damilola a. adebayo (The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland)

racial discrimination in Transnational Perspective: black ameri-can baptist missionaries in south africa, 1880 – 1915

15:00-15:30 Paromita das Gupta (Eidgenössische Technische Hoch-schule Zürich, Switzerland)

foreign “spirits” in “native” Community: baboos and the “evils” of intemperance in Colonial india

16:30-16:00 Tatjana Poletajew (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düssel-dorf, Germany)

The slide-shows of the German Colonial society and its successor organizations

16:00-16:30 eman abdeen (The Aga Khan University International London, Great Britain)

representing islamic art in western museums

panel 5 - knoWledge produCTion aCross Borders

room: a125Time: saturday, 25th of april, 14:30-16:30Chair: Jan deeg / Philipp Kandler

14:30-15:00 Julia mariko Jacoby (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)

The international entanglement of Japanese seismology and Global Translation of Knowledge in the late 19th and early 20th Century

15:00-15:30 Thilo neidhöfer (Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Aus-tria)

Culture Cracking: margaret mead, Gregory bateson, and the Transformation of american anthropology, 1930-1950

15:30-16:00 Zoltán Gyimesi (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Hun-gary)

Towards a Globalized understanding of Cold war Geography in hungary

16:00-16:30 malavika binny (Leiden University, Netherlands / Jawa-harlal Nehru University, India)

Plants, Power and Knowledge: an exploration of the imperial networks and the Circuits of botanical Knowledge and medical systems on the western Coast of india against the backdrop of european expansionism


panel 6 - reThinking eduCaTional insTiTuTions

room: a124Time: sunday, 26th of april, 09:00-11:00Chair: Philipp Kandler / Jan deeg

09:00-09:30 andreas oberdorf (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)

Catholic enlightenment: a Transatlantic history

09:30-10:00 natalia Pashkeeva (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France)

“russian work” of the american YmCa between social Christian-ity and Geopolitics, 1900-1940: Transfer of models, Constitution of Knowledge and information Gathering

10:00-10:30 martin wagner (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt Uni-versität zu Berlin, Germany)

Conflicting Forms of Nationalism and Interethnic Entanglement: harbin education field as “Third space”, 1908-1932

10:30-11:00 ifeyinwa mbakogu (McGill University, Canada)

The Politics of Colonial legacies: enduring effects of retarded advancement of Girls education in northern nigeria (1928-1954)

panel 7 - TransnaTional hisTorY of ideas

room: a124Time: sunday, 26th of april, 11:30-13:30Chair: max laun / Thomas lindner

11:30-12:00 oscar broughton (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

unlikely allies: anarchism and nationalism in the early Kibbutz movement

12:00-12:30 Tim rudnicki (University of Cambridge, Great Britain)

The enduring dutch: The image of the dutch republic in british Political Thought, 1763-1776

12:30-13:00 Julian zur lage (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

Global histories in the late european enlightenment: scholarly disputes as Case studies

13:00-13:30 scott schorr (University of St. Andrews, Great Britain)

writing a Global history of Virtual space: historicizing Concepts of human-Computer interaction and human-data interaction from Computer science and exploring their relationship with “human-human interaction” Prevalent in historical and socio-logical research


panel 8 - gloBal hisTorY Before 1750, session i

room: a121Time: sunday, 26th of april, 09:00-11:00Chair: elisabeth Köller / marius oesterheld

09:00-09:30 Philipp meller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Ger-many)

Global Contacts at the Court of otto i.

09:30-10:00 richard herzog (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

fernando de alva ixtlilxochitl: Knowledge exchange and mestizo identity in new spain

10:00-10:30 meera G. muralidharan (Universiteit Leiden, Nether-lands)

forging identities: south indian brahmin Communities in dutch accounts

10:30-11:00 discussion

panel 8 - gloBal hisTorY Before 1750, session ii

room: a121Time: sunday, 26th of april, 11:30-13:30Chair: elisabeth Köller / björn holm

11:30-12:00 Christiane borchert (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Ger-many)

Going beyond sakoku interactions between the dutch “Vereenigde oostindische Compagnie” and Tokugawa Japan in intra-asian Trade relations

12:00-12:30 radu dipratu (Universitatea din București, Rumania)

foreigners in the ottoman empire: english Visitors to Jerusalem c. 1600

12:30-13:30 final discussion


panel 9 - sexualiTY and poWer in gloBal hisTorY

room: a124Time: sunday, 26th of april, 14:30-16:30Chair: marius oesterheld / oscar broughton

14:30-15:00 Josh mentanko (York University, Canada)

hart Crane Photographs mexico, 1931-1932: The Place of Travel in a Transnational history of sexuality

15:00-15:30 sebastién Tremblay (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

“and it is still not much different in europe!”: understanding and Translating anxiety: homophile emotional Ties across the atlantic 1950-1965

15:30-16:00 nailya shamgunova (University of Cambridge, Great Britain)

anglophone Conceptualisations of sexual diversity in south east asian and Japanese societies in the 17th Century

16:00-16:30 iris shahar (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt Univer-sität zu Berlin, Germany)

Cannot Keep it a secret: a Comparative study of women’s experi-ence of sexual Violence in berlin (1945) and the Punjab (1947-1948)

panel 10 - represenTaTions Through differenT media

room: a125Time: sunday, 26th of april, 14:30-16:30Chair: Thomas lindner / elisabeth Köller

14:30-15:00 Charlotte Piepenbrock (Freie Universität Berlin, Ger-many)

beyond the image? The my lai incident and the origins of a Global iconography of war

15:00-15:30 elisabeth Gheorghe (University College London, Great Britain)

The soviet anekdot: The Circulation of underground satire across the iron Curtain

15:30-16:00 beninio Tranza mcdonough (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

images of “self” and “other” in the british Colonial imagination: The Case of Japan Punch, 1862-1887

16:00-16:30 mahmoud baballah (Université Abdelmalek Saadi, Mo-rocco)

The representation of sahrawi Community: spanish media as Case study


worKshoPs

Workshop 1 - CollaBoraTiVe Workingroom: A121Time: Saturday, 25th of April, 14:30-16:30Chair: Oscar Broughton / Sebastién Tremblay

Workshop 2 - gloBal hisTorY and inTernaTional deVel-opmenT: lisTening To The suBalTern VoiCe

room: A125Time: Sunday, 26th of April, 09:00-11:00Chair: Kelly Robbins / Anna Orinsky

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