Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
09.30 – 09.45 Registration
09.45 – 10.00 Introduction
10.00 – 11.20 Session 1 – Curating and Collecting: Domesticity on Display
Charlotte Johnson (University of Birmingham): Colonial mobilities on display: the ‘Eastern Museum’ at Kedleston Hall
Matthew Jones (University of Sussex in Art History): Displaying resistance: the absence of domestic life in narrative of enslavement
Carl Deußen (University of Amsterdam and Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne): Exotic Interiors: Ethnographic Collecting and the Bourgeois Home in Imperial Germany
11.20 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 13.10 Session 2 – Making and Remaking Home
Claudia Soares (Queen Mary University of London): Understandings of home, family, and belonging for poor child migrants from institutional care, Britain, Australia and Canada c.1820-1920
Dayana Ariffin (University of Malaya): What makes a colonial family? Noor Mahmud Hashim’s journey in finding home and family in British Malaya
Yasmine Shamma (University of Reading): Home is where the Warak Anab is: The Palestinian Poetics of Cooking as home-making
Kate McGregor (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada): Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Women’s Place in the Recreation and Reproduction of German Culture and Identity in the African Colonies, 1894- 1906
13.10 – 13.50 Lunch
13.50 – 15.10 Session 3 – Mobile Lives and Distant Homes
Katie Donington (London South Bank University): Domesticating slavery: At home with the Hibberts between Jamaica and England
Alex Lindgren-Gibson (University of Mississippi): Piecing Together Home: Making Sense of Family and Empire in the Papers of Mermanjan
Mikko Toivanen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich): Imperial childhoods in transit: the journey of Corry and Hugh Loudon to the Dutch East Indies in 1871-2
15.10 – 15.20 Break
15.20 – 16.40 Session 4 – Spaces of Encounter
Marie Grace Brown (University of Kansas): Running Bachelors, Running Households: Kitchens and Intimacy in Imperial Sudan
Rosie Dias (University of Warwick): The View from the Veranda: Negotiating Gender and Race in Colonial South Asia
Ellen Smith (University of Leicester): Indian encounters: race, identity and cultural exchange in British home and family life in colonial South Asia
16.50 – 17.50 Keynote
Dr Kate Smith (University of Birmingham)