Monday, 16 September
9am Registration
10am Conference opening with an introduction from Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, Seoul) and Frank Hadler (GWZO/Leipzig University), organizers of the conference
10:30am Naoki Sakai, Cornell University, Ithaca: On Civilizational Transference: on the Discourse of the West and the Rest
Chair: Jie-Hyun Lim, Hanyang University, Seoul
12:30pm Lunch break
2pm-6:00pm Panel I – New Regionalisms and Subregions
Chair: Matthias Middell, Leipzig University
Kearrin Sims, University of Western Sydney: New (?) Geographies of a Rising Asia: The Greater Mekong Subregion
Frank Mattheis, Leipzig University: The regionalism of „non-regions“
Thomas Plötze, Leipzig University: Spatialization through securitization? New Regionalism in Central America
Commentary: Urmi Engineer, University of Pittsburgh, Matthias Middell, Leipzig University
2pm-6:00pm Panel II – New Regionalisms and the Political Right
Chair: Frank Henschel, Leipzig University
Matthew Wright, UCLA: Transnational Anti-Communism in Cold War East Asia
Phillip Karl, Andrássy University Budapest: New Regionalisms and the radical right in Central Europe. The case of Slovakia and Hungary
Ulrike Kaden, Leipzig University: Borders as Resources: Actors of Transnationalism in the German-Polish Border Region
Commentary: Frank Henschel, Leipzig University, Sabine Stach, Leipzig University
6pm Reception (Centre for Area Studies)
Tuesday, 17 September
9am-11am Peter Haslinger, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg: Regions, Nations, Empires, Federations - state concepts and group identity in 20th century East Central and Southeast Europe
Chair: Frank Hadler, GWZO/Leipzig University
11:30am-1pm Round table discussion with Ulf Engel, Jie-Hyun Lim, Matthias Middell, Ana Ribeiro, Naoki Sakai and Stefanie Wodrig
1pm-2pm Lunch break
2pm-6:00pm Panel III – Actors of and Events for New Regionalisms
Chair: Ninja Steinbach-Hüther, Leipzig University
Stefan Hübner, Universität der Bundeswehr München/ Jacobs University Bremen: Building Asian Nations through Sports Events
Robert Kramm-Masaoka, ETH Zürich: Hi, GI, want pretty flower girl?“ Prostitution, Sanitation, and Colonial Legacy in Occupied Japan and Postcolonial Korea, c. 1945-1953
Giulia Dal Maso, University of Western Sydney: New regionalism in financial education: Chinese returnees from Australia in the Shanghai financial market
Commentary: Jie-Hyun Lim, Hanyang University, Seoul, Ninja Steinbach-Hüther, Leipzig University
2pm-5:30pm Panel IV – New Regionalisms and Regulation
Chair: Antje Dietze, Leipzig University
Won Cho, Hanyang University, Seoul: The Conquest and the Adaptation: The Mongol Rule through Dispatching the Darughachi in the East Asia
Jenny Wang Medina, Columbia University:
Present Past: Contextualizing Historical Fiction in 21st Century Korean Literature, Film, and Television
Jaekyom Shim, FU Berlin: Purification of Gayo (歌謠淨化): Regulation on ‘Vulgar’ Songs in Korea, 1945-1961
Commentary: Antje Dietze, Leipzig University, Frank Hadler, Leipzig University
Wednesday, 18 September
9am-11am Diana Mishkova, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia: The Balkans as Historical Space: Contemporary Lessons from an 'Old' Regionalism
Chair: Stefan Troebst, GWZO/Leipzig University
11:30am-1pm Panel V – The Economic Perspective of New Regionalisms
Chair: Felix Müller, Leipzig University
Ute Rietdorf, Leipzig University: Mobile Money. New Economic Regionalisms in Theoretical Perspective
Megan Campbell/Richard Adu-Gyamfi, Leipzig University: Pursuing Economic Zones and Free Trade Agreements in a Regional Context; Paradoxes and Intricacies
Commentary: Felix Müller, Leipzig University, Julia Oheim, Leipzig University
1pm-2pm Lunch break
2pm - 6pm Panel VI - New Regionalisms: Security and Development
Chair: Jie-Hyun Lim, Hanyang University, Seoul
Nicholas Dietrich, Leipzig University: Regulation of Transnational Crime in Africa
Stefanie Wodrig, Kiel University: Intervention regionalism in East and Southern Africa
Gilad Ben-Nun, Leipzig University: From Aleppo to Musa-Dagh: a century of minorities' exile across the Syrian - Turkish border
Wenke Krestin, Leipzig University: Developmental Discourses in North Africa
Commentary: Lena Heinze, Leipzig University, Ulf Engel, Leipzig University, Gilad Ben-Nun, Leipzig University
2pm-6pm Panel VII – New Regionalisms and Globalisation
Chair: Marina Renault, Leipzig University
Ana Ribeiro, Leipzig University: Shifts in wealth, power and cooperation patterns in the lusophone world within evolving global patterns
Bianca Marina Mitu, University of Bucharest: Global Frameworks, Local realities: Media and Migration
Michal Vit, Leipzig University: Influence of the EU Administrative Division on Political Parties in Region Kłodzko (PL) and Jeseníky Mountains (CZ)
Claudia Baumann, Leipzig University: New Regionalisms in Higher Education
Commentary: Marina Renault, Leipzig University, Marie Müller-Zetzsche, Leipzig University, Stefan Troebst, Leipzig University
Thursday, 19 September
9am-11 am Guido Franzinetti, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria: The Rediscovery of the South: Southern Europe as a re-emerging category
Chair: Stefan Troebst, GWZO/Leipzig University
11:30am-1pm Concluding discussion
1pm Farewell Lunch