"Empire Off-center"
Workshops, conferences 2018
- Start: Oct 31, 2018 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Nov 1, 2018 07:00 PM
- Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
- Room: Library Hall
For more details please contact cziesielsky(at)mmg.mpg.de.
October 31, 2018
9:30 Opening remarks
10:00 Panel 1: Conceptual Interventions
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Glenda Sluga (University of
Sydney)
Imperialism, nationalism, and
internationalism, and the shifting horizon of expectation
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Banu Subramaniam (University of
Massachusetts - Amherst)
Nature In Place, Nature Out of Place:
Situating Empire in Naturecultural Worlds
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William O’Reilly (University of
Cambridge)
Palimpsest or Pentimento. The Habsburg
Empire in Central Europe and beyond
★ Discussant: Jeremy F. Walton (MPI MMG)
11:45 Break
12:00 Panel 2: Offset Geographies of Empire
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Mostafa Minawi (Cornell
University)
International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman
Sovereignty along the Somali Coast
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Netsanet Weldesenbet (Makerere
Institute of Social Research)
Converging and conflicting
Italo-Ethiopian imperial memories. Asmara as historical metaphor of the modern,
the feminine-beautiful and the segregated as reminisced from Ethiopia.
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Liza Wing Man Kam (MPI MMG)
Dereliction, Mutation and
Re-inhabitation: Shinto Shrines in post-colonial Taiwan and its ever-changing
representation in the post-war era
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Miloš Jovanović (MPI MMG)
On Displacement: Space and the Material
Legacy of Empire in Vienna, Belgrade and Tianjin
★ Discussant: Gruia Bădescu (Institute for Advanced Study - University of Konstanz and University of Oxford)
13:45 Lunch Break
14:40 Panel 3: Imperial Affects – Empires as Affective Formations
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Laura Mills (University of St.
Andrews)
Post-9/11 US Cultural Diplomacy: Emotion,
Empire, Exchange
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Mark D. Steinberg (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Metropolitan Melancholy, Ghostly Fogs,
and Disoriented Time: Experiencing the End at the Edge of Empire
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Serawit Bekele Debele (MPI MMG)
Of Taming Carnal Desire: Law in Imperial
Ethiopia (1930-74)
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Giulia Carabelli (MPI MMG)
Imperial Legacies, Affective Heritage and
the problem of Italian (neo)fascism
★ Discussant: Sabine Mohamed (MPI MMG)
16:45 Film Screening - “Waterfront: A post-Ottoman post-socialist story”
★ Miloš Miletić (KURS)
★ Mirjana Radovanović (KURS)
★ Miloš Jovanović (MPI MMG)
19:00 Dinner
November 1, 2018
10:00 Panel 4: Empire as Hierarchized Difference
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Nikita Dhawan (Justus Liebig
University Giessen)
What difference does difference make?
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Zach Sell (Center for the Study of
Slavery and Justice - Brown University)
U.S. Slavery in Imperial Perspective
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Priyamvada Gopal (University of
Cambridge)
Whatever happened to anticolonialism?
Resituating the moment and afterlife of empire
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Mnyaka Sururu Mboro (Berlin
Postkolonial e.V.)
TBD
★ Discussant: Rupa Viswanath (CeMIS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
11:45 Break
12:00 Panel 5: More-than-Human Imperial Legacies in the Capitalocene
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Annika Kirbis (MPI MMG)
Imperial Wasteland and
Recreation
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Deniz Sözen (Centre for Research
and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), the University of Westminster)
Coffee – the story of a global
trans-plant
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Anna-Sophie Springer (Goldsmiths
College - University of London)
Species of Exchange
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June Rubis (University of Oxford)
Orang utan - human relationships and the
political ecologies of orang utan conservation in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.
★ Discussant: Rachel Koroloff (Lichtenberg Kolleg)
13:45 Lunch Break
14:40 Final Discussion
16:30 Film Screening - “Delirio Güero”
★ Nina Höchtl (via Skype)
19:00 Dinner