"Transnational giving. Evolving paths of religion, community and citizenship in globally connected Asia"

Convenors: Catherine Larouche, Sanam Roohi and Leilah Vevaina

Please email asiagiving2019(at)gmail.com if you would like to attend the workshop.

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DAY 1: THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2019

9.30-10.00 Short Introduction

10.00-12.00 Panel 1: Sharing Wealth, Generating Community Capital, Chaired by Liza Wing Man Kam, MPI-MMG

• Chinese “public interest”: Social value and the emergent political, Wei N. Gan, Princeton University
• From danadharma to donations: Evolving meaning of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma subjectivities, Sanam Roohi, Max-Weber-Kolleg
• Giving and belonging: The religious networks of African migrants in a multi-ethnic Muslim community in China, Qiuyu Jiang, McGill University

Discussion (11.00-12.00) with Rupa Viswanath, CeMIS

12.00-13.00 Break

13.00-15.00 Panel 2: Modes of Giving and Value Creation, Chaired by Scott MacLochlainn, MPI-MMG

• Transmuted obligations: Gulf migration, givings and Muslim community in North Malabar, Mubashir Hameed, University of Hyderabad
• Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy, Leilah Vevaina, MPI-MMGCharity, welfare, and development in Sri Lanka: A history of the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society, Tom Widger, Durham University

Discussion (14.00-15.00) with Radhika Gupta, Leiden University

15.00-15.30 Break

15.30-17.30 Panel 3: Moral Citizens: Giving and the Role of the State, Chaired by Jeremy Walton, MPI-MMG

• Inter-Asian transnational giving between Shikoku and Bagan: From memorializing one’s dead to more generalized philanthropy with peace and war reflections, Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia
• Indian overseas’ giving in Vietnam: The socialist state’s adjustment of cultural and social management, Chi P. Pham, Vietnam Institute of Literature (Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences)
• Transnational Islamic giving and the making of Kuwaiti citizens, Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University

Discussion (16.30-17.30) with Viola Thimm, University of Hamburg

DAY 2: FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019

9:30-10.00 Short comment on logistics

10.00-12.00

Keynote: Daromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoria: “Economy as Problem-Space: Ethnography for a Global Asia”

12.00-13.00 Break

13.00-15.00 Panel 4: Strategic Giving: Minorities, State, and Belonging, Chaired by Lisa Szepan, MPI-MMG

• “We will cope with all the problems ourselves”: Russian isolationism and Buddhist giving in Buryatia, Kristina Jonutytė, MPI for Social Anthropology / Vilnius University
• Development without the state? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in Uttar Pradesh, Catherine Larouche, University of Göttingen / University of Toronto
• Transformed through service: Changing reputation and belonging through Sikh Seva, Lauren Nippoldt, University of California, San Diego

Discussion (14.00-15.00) with Srirupa Roy, CeMIS

15.00-15.30 Break

15.30-17.30 Discussion and Publication Plan