Thursday, 18th May 2017
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 9.45 Welcome Address by Chris Hann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome, Introducing the Participants, Organisational Matters by the Organiser
Chair: Michael R.N. Jansen
10.00 – 10.45 Burkhard Schnepel (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saale): Uses and Abuses? Introduction into the conference theme
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick
11.15 – 12.00 Gwyn Campbell (McGill University, Indian Ocean World Centre, Montreal): Black or White? The Indian Ocean World context for the racial politics of cultural heritage in Madagascar
12.00 – 12.45 Vijaya Teelock (University of Mauritius, Reduit): The Anatomy of World Heritage Sites in Mauritius: The interplay of politics, memory and cultural competition
Chair: Tobias Holzlehner
14.15 – 15.00 Abdul Sheriff
(University of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute (formerly), Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar): Contradiction in the Heritagisation of Zanzibar ‘Stone Town’
15.00 – 15.45 Pamila Gupta (University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg): Door, Shutter, Balcony: Ornate heritage making in Stone Town (Zanzibar)
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
Chair: Eva Maria Knoll
16.15 – 17.00 Iain Walker (ZIRS, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saale)): Somebody Else’s Heritage? How to be Mahorais without being Comorian
17.00 – 17.45 Ulrike Freitag (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin): History of the Hajj: Asset or burden to the Saudi national state?
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at restaurant ‘Wenzel Prager Bierstuben’
20.00 – 21.30 Wrap-up and discussion
Friday, 19th May 2017
Chair: Jean-Claude Galey
9.15 – 10.00 Markus Verne (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz): Travelling Sounds: Aesthetic reconstructions of Madagascar’s Asian heritage
10.00 – 10.45 Katja Müller and Boris Wille (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Saale): Materiality and Mobility: Comparative notes on heritagisation in the Indian Ocean World
Chair: Tansen Sen
11.15 – 12.00 Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Saale): Global Linkages, Connectivity and the Indian Ocean in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
12.00 – 12.45 Nigel Worden (University of Cape Town, Cape Town): Ambiguous Pasts: The Indian Ocean World in Cape Town’s public history
Chair: Gwyn Campbell
14.15 – 15.00 Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz (Independent Scholar, Berlin): Whose Heritage? Contested ownership about maritime war memorials and historic wrecks in Southeast Asia
15.00 – 15.45 Mareike Pampus (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Saale): Heritage Food: The materialisation of connectivity in Nyonya cooking
Chair: Hermann Kulke
16.15 – 17.00 Tamara Chin (Brown University, Providence): ‘One Belt, One Road’: China and the Indian Ocean World
17.00 – 17.45 Tansen Sen (City University, New York): Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, connectivity, and identity in the Maritime World
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at restaurant ‘Haus & Hof’
20.00 – 21.30 Final Discussion: Conference Theme, Future Collaboration and Publication