Mastery, Ownership, Divinity: Self and Power in Transregional and Transtemporal Perspectives

Mastery, Ownership, Divinity: Self and Power in Transregional and Transtemporal Perspectives

Organizer
Milinda Banerjee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Venue
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A U113
Location
München
Country
Germany
From - Until
18.09.2018 - 19.09.2018
By
Milinda Banerjee

The field of global intellectual history has increasingly demonstrated how concepts of power are constructed through transregional and transtemporal processes, which need to be understood beyond area studies lenses. This conference intersects these discussions with allied fields like political economy, anthropology, and critical theory. Hence, our focus on a specific triangle: the relation between notions and practices of mastery and models of ownership and property, with varied forms of political theology moulding this nexus.
with resolutely global valence.

We ask as to how these relations can be comprehended across the planetary scale in which social forces can be seen to operate, with ever greater intensity, today. Simultaneously, how do we acknowledge subalternized (along race, class, gender, and so on) actors, categories, and modes of resistance to lordship as originary in transfiguring political theory? Going beyond granular historicization, we further investigate how, through dialectical engagement, we can make past arguments transtemporally productive of revolutionary ethical futures

Programm

Day One
10.30-11.00
Agendas at Stake: Preliminary Considerations
Milinda Banerjee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Ilya Afanasyev, University of Birmingham

Panel 1
Birth of the State: Origin Narratives

11.00-11.30
Robert Yelle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Father-Right: An Inquiry into the Connections among Patriarchy, Property, and Religion

11.30-12.00
Michael Kinadeter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Shaping Identity, Constructing Power?
Ancient Japan on her Quest for the Construction of Political Power

12.00-12.15
Break

12.15-12.45
Devin Singh, Dartmouth College
Sacred Obligations: Debt Slavery and the Patterns of Sovereignty

12.45-13.15
Questions

13.15-14.15
Lunch Break

Panel 2
Sovereignty, Property, Democracy: Political and Economic Theologies in Early Modern and Modern India (I)

14.15-14.45
Tanuja Kothiyal, Ambedkar University Delhi
Sovereignty, Authority and Control in the Borderlands: Religious Shrines and Networks in the Thar Desert (c 1400-1800)

14.45-15.15
Aditi Saraf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Hifazat - Law, Land and Security in Kashmir

15.15-15.30
Break

15.30-16.00
Milinda Banerjee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Divine Subalterns and Sovereign Labour:
A Manifesto for Revolutionary Being and Action

16.00-16.30
Questions

16.30-16.45
Break

Panel 3
Animals, Humans, and Social Theory: From the Indo- Europeans to Modernity

16.45-17.15
Kresimir Vukovic, British School of Rome
Warriors, Priests, and Cattle in some Indo-European Myths

17.15-17.45
Annabel Brett, University of Cambridge
From the Image of God to Commercial Society: The Use of Animals in the Western Natural Law Tradition, 17th and 18th Centuries.

17.45-18.15
Questions

Day Two

Panel 4
Political and Economic Theologies in Early Modern and Modern India (II)

10.00-10.30
Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Śūdra: A History

10.30-11.00
Anastasia Piliavsky, University of Cambridge
Tba

11.00-11.15
Break

11.15-11.45
Bhrigupati Singh, Brown University
Psychic Sovereignty – Perspectives from Mental Illness and the World of Spirits

11.45-12.15
Questions

12.15-12.30
Break

Panel 5
Sacred Body Parts, Tributes, and Medieval Subjectivities

12.30-13.00
Simon Yarrow, University of Birmingham
Material Religion or Religious Materialism? Money, Relics and Christian Agonism in Twelfth-Century Latin Christendom

13.00-13.30
Jules Gleeson, Universität Wien and FOVOG, TÜ Dresden
Athanasios of Athos and Normative Shaming Practices at his Great Lavra: 'Moderating' Ascetic Hierarchy, Monks as Limbs & Submission as Activity

13.30-14.30
Lunch Break

14.30-15.00
Lorenzo Bondioli, Princeton University
Tributary State and Islamic Justice in Fatimid Political Theology

15.00-15.30
Questions

15.30-15.45

Panel 6
The Sacred and the State: (Anti-) Slavery, Surveillance, and Modern Political Economies

15.45-16.15
Ceyda Karamursel, University of London
Person-things of the Reform-era Ottoman Empire

16.15-16.45
Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell University
Sovereignty and Self in the Era of Total Surveillance: The Political Theology of China's "Orwell 2.0"

16.45-17.15
Questions

17.15-17.30
Break

17.30-18.30
Roundtable

Contact (announcement)

Milinda Banerjee
milindabanerjee1@gmail.com

https://www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/personal/gastwissenschaftler/banerjee/mastery_ownership_divinity/index.html
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22.08.2018
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