Thursday, 30 June 2016
5:00-7:00 pm
Welcome and opening: Eric Vanhaute (U Ghent)
Opening lecture: Zaur Gasimov (Orient-Institut Istanbul): Science and knowledge transfer between (Eastern) Europe, Turkey and Iran: The case of linguistics
Friday, 1 July 2016
9:00-12:00 am – Session 1
Introduction and chair: Stefano Bellucci (IISH Amsterdam, tbc)
Anahita Arian (U Groningen): The politics of alterity of the Safavid Diplomatic Mission to Siam
Dina El-Sharnouby (Free U Berlin): The Egyptian Revolution and its Impact on Youth Political Subjectivities
Maximilian Georg (IfL Leipzig): Native workforces in German-led archaeological excavations in Egypt, 1898–1914: The workers’ socio-Economic background and the excavations’ impact on their lives
Berhard Hemetsberger (U Vienna): On ways to look at travelling ideas in the history of education
Comment: Matthias Middell (U Leipzig)
12:00-1:30 pm lunch
1:30-4:30 pm – Session 2
Introduction and chair: Eric Vanhaute (U Ghent)
Tobit Vandamme (U Ghent): The Empain group: A Belgian multinational enterprise in the first global cconomy (1880-1914)
Ruth Ennis (U Leipzig): Revivals and revisions: Histories on the regulation of prostitution and human trafficking
Jinping Ma (Warwick U): The transformation from psychiatry to mental hygiene in Republican Shanghai
Robin Möser (U Leipzig): Nuclear disarmament and the nonproliferation debate: The case of South Africa
Comment: Geert Castryck (U Leipzig/ U Ghent)
Saturday, 2 July 2016
9:00 am -12:00 am – Session 3
Introduction and chair: Katja Naumann (GWZO Leipzig)
Megan Maruschke (U Leipzig): The French Revolution and new processes of spatialization
Heidrun Mühlbradt (U Göttingen): The global Llaboratory “Ireland”: Going on hunger strike to invoke civil rights
Lena Dallywater (U Leipzig): “All art is propaganda and ever must be”: Ideas of a new black aesthetic in South Africa and USA compared
Comment: Zaur Gasimov (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
12:00-1:00 pm – summary and lunch