Wednesday, 9 October, 2013
Venue: Alte Aula, Grabengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
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18:00
Registration
18:30
Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg): Welcome
18:45
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg): Managing Empires – Introduction to the Conference
19:00
Keynote I:
Michael Broers (Oxford University): The European Origins of European Colonialism: Cultural Imperialism in the First Napoleonic Empire and the Subaltern Europe.
Chair: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg)
20:30
Reception
Thursday, 10 October, 2013
Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
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08:30
Registration & Coffee
09:00
Morning Panel I: Imagining Administration
Fritz Sager (Berne): Western Bloodlines of Public Administration and the Transatlantic Transfer of Administrative Ideas
Erk Volkmar Heyen (Greifswald): Aspects of Public Administration in European Painting
Walter Demel (Munich): Administration and Bureaucracy in East Asia, Described from Early-Modern European Perspectives
Chair & Introduction: Susan Richter (Heidelberg)
10:30 Coffee
11:00
Morning Panel II: Chinese Whispers: A Shared Eurasian Imaginaire of Professional Bureaucracy?
Rui Magone (Berlin/Heidelberg): Epigones of Gravity: Civil Service Examinations and the Late Imperial Chinese Empire
Kiri Paramore (Leiden): Competitive Feudalism, Creative Bureaucratism and Other Ironies: Counter-intuitive Transculturalism and the Birth of the Japanese Civil Service
Sebastian Meurer (Heidelberg): Civil Service - China’s Most Precious Intellectual Gift to the West? A Reconsideration
Discussant: David Mervart (Heidelberg)
12:30-14:00
Lunch
13:30
Lunch Session I: Tracing Travelling States. An Introduction to the Open Office Project
Presenters: Benjamin Auberer (Heidelberg), Timo Holste (Heidelberg), Carolin Liebisch (Heidelberg)
14:00
Afternoon Panel Ia: Premodern Empires between Universal Claims and Regional Administration
Martin Hofmann (Heidelberg): Regaining what Empire? Spatial Concepts and Political Discourse in Southern Song China (1127-1279)
Michael Grünbart (Münster): An Empire Vanishes - Imperial Concepts vs. Political Reality in Late Medieval Byzantium
Christoph Mauntel (Heidelberg): Empire on the Edge – Imperial Claims and Political Strategies in the Roman-German Empire (13-15th c.)
Chair: Klaus Oschema (Heidelberg)
14:00
Afternoon Panel Ib: Administrating Appearances. Intermedial (Re)presentations of City, Nation, State and Empire
Yan, Haiping (Shanghai/Ithaca): “My Dream”. Intermedial Performance and Embodied Cosmopolitans
Ai, Qing (Shanghai): At Home in the World: Creating “A Sense of Place” and the Rhetorics of Hybrid Architectures in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Film
Discussants:
Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg): Music and the Nation
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg): Images of Power, the Power of Images
Dorothea Redepenning (Heidelberg): Representing the State From Above and from Below
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Afternoon Panel IIa: Shifting Notions of Guilt: Managing and Critiquing Empires through Law
Simon Cubelic (Heidelberg): The Theology of Debt in an Early Colonial dharmasastra Text: The Case of Sarvoru Sarman’s Vivadasararnava
Axel Michaels/Rajan Khatiwoda (Heidelberg): The Nepalese Muluki Ain of 1856 as a Transcultural Law Text
Milinda Banerjee (Kolkata): Guilt, Religion, and the Question of Just War: A Dissenting Judgment on the Second World War
Lisette Schouten (Heidelberg): ‘An ambivalent retribution perspective'. The Dutch Representation at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo)
Kerstin von Lingen (Heidelberg): Apology and Forgiveness: the Notion of Guilt as a new Transnational Political Tool
16:00
Afternoon Panel IIb: Managing Ancient Mediterranean Empires: Friends, Education, Bureaucracy
Andrew Bayliss (Birmingham): “I Get By with a Little Help from my Friends”: The Role of Royal ‘Friends’ in the Administration of the Hellenistic ‘Successor’ Kingdoms
Simon Esmonde-Cleary (Birmingham): Administering an Empire without an Administrative Cadre
Michael Whitby (Birmingham): Servants of State, Guardians of Culture: the Benefits of Bureaucracy in the Later Roman Empire
Chair: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg)
17:30
Break
18:30
Keynote II:
Carol Gluck (Columbia University): Modernity in Common: Japan and World History
Chair: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg)
20:00
Reception
Friday, 11 October, 2013
Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
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08:30
Registration & Coffee
09:00
Morning Panel III: Global Elites. Rootless Cosmopolitans or Provincial Jet-Setters?
Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Basel): Being International in Times of Crisis and War
Markus Pohlmann/Volker Helbig (Heidelberg): Global Elites on the Move: Job-Hoppers and Jet-Setters in Asia and Europe
Jivanta Schöttli (Heidelberg): “The world is your canvas”: the Contemporary Indian CEO
Discussant: Subratra Mitra (Heidelberg)
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Morning Panel IV: Agency in “Modern Empires”
Panayotis Partsos (Stuttgart): The Role of Individuals in International Organisations: Diplomats or Bureaucrats?
Michael Ioannidis (Heidelberg): The Administration of International Conditional Lending: Agency and Responsibility in the Years of Debt
Chair: tba
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
13:30
Lunch Session II: The Heidelberg Research Architecture. Digital Humanities at the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context”
Presenters: Eric Decker (Heidelberg), Jens Petersen (Heidelberg), Cathrine Bublatzky (Heidelberg)
14:00
Afternoon Panel IIIa: Renegotiating Empire in East Asia through International Law and Extraterritorial Practices
Iokibe Kaoru (Tokyo): Reconciliation with Consular Jurisdiction: Case of Japan
Harald Fuess (Heidelberg): Collusive Imperialism: The European Role in the Japanese Annexation of Korea and the Abandonment of Western Extraterritorial Rights
Pär Cassel (Ann Arbor): Between Empire and Nation State: The Chinese Experience with Extraterritoriality, 1843-1943
Discussant: Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle/Heidelberg)
14:00
Afternoon Panel IIIb: Negotiating Empire. Agency and Group Identity in Segmental Power Structures
John Weisweiler (Basel): Meritocracy and Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire
Roberta Tontini (Heidelberg): Obeying Allah or Serving the Emperor? Islamic Scholars in the Qing Administrative Bureaucracy
Razak Khan (Berlin): Bureaucratic Raj: The Politics of Progressive Governance in Princely India
Discussant: tba
15:30
Coffee
16:00
Concluding Round Table