Thursday, June 18th
18:15 - 18:30
Welcome/Introduction to the Workshop
Patrick Neveling
Historical Institute and Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland
18:30 - 19:30
Keynote
Steve Reyna
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester, Great Britain
The Gathering Storm: Commodity Chains, Economic Turbulence, and Global Warring (1973 - 2009)
From 20:00
Dinner
Friday, June 19th
Session I
Commodity Chains within Changing Ideologies of Development
Chair:
Daniel Marc Segesser
Historical Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland
10:00 – 10:50
Jan-Frederik Abbeloos
Department of Contemporary History, Ghent University, Belgium
National Development and the Global Copper Commodity Chain: Looking Back at the Limits of the 1960s Nationalisation Agenda
10:50 - 11:40
David Bozzini
Institute of Anthropology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Footwear for Liberation, Footwear for the Nation: War, Economic Policy, Plastic Sandals, and Public Discourse in Eritrea
11:40 - 13:00 Lunch break
Session II
Commodity Chains, Entrepreneurship and the State
Chair:
Julia Eckert
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland
13:00 - 13:50
Daniel Münster
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Settler Colonists, Agrarian Entrepreneurs and the Permissive State. Aspects of the Political Economy of Hill Produce in Wayanad, South India, 1920 - 1998
13:50 - 14:40
Patrick Neveling
Historical Institute and Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland
The (Dis-)Comfort of Global Commodity Chains: Colonial and Postcolonial New Deals for the Mauritian Economy
14:40 - 15:20 Coffee break
Session III
Commodity Chains within ”Stable” Ideologies of Development
Chair:
Heinzpeter Znoj
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland
15:20 - 16:10
Emma Reisz
Department of History, Queen’s University Belfast, Great Britain
Rubber Commodity Chains, Race and Development Ideologies in Malaya
16:10 - 17:00
Christian Strümpell
South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany
Steel to Mould the Nation: Nehru’s Vision of Postcolonial Development, India in the World Economy and the Rourkela Steel Plant
17:00 - 17:20 Coffee break
17:20 - 18:00 Final Discussion
From 19:30 Dinner