KOCHI 1514
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Cross-Cultural Networks between Central Europe, South Asia and Beyond in the Early Modern Period
Friday, 14 November 2014
3.00-3.30 pm
OPENING REMARKS
Prof. Dr. Michael Mann, Director of the Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Panel A. Mercenaries, Missionaries and Travellers
3.30-4.30 pm
Gregor M. Metzig (Regensburg)
Kochi 1514 as a beginning? The Central Europeans and the S. Bartholomew Chapel
4.30-5.30 pm
Keyvan Djahangiri (Berlin)
Mission beyond Mission: Cross-Cultural Networks in Eighteenth-Century South India
5.30-6.00 pm Coffee Break
6.00-7.00 pm
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Knabe (Mercator Research Group, Königsbrunn)
Trading Goods from Southern Germany to India 1533
7.00-8.00 pm Break
8.00 pm Conference Dinner at Restaurant ‘Neumond’
Saturday, 15 November 2014
9.00-10.00 am
Nicole Heidel (Kassel)
‘That we may praise Him’ – The Representation of the Philippine Nature in the Histories of the Jesuits in the Seventeenth Century
10.00-11.00 am
Sebastian R. Prange (Vancouver)
Balthasar Springer and the King of Cochin: Early-Modern Encounters between India and Europe
11.00-11.30 am Coffee Break
Panel B. Merchants, Goods and Companies
11.30 am-12.30 pm
Sven Trakulhun (Zurich)
Jeremias van Vliet in Siam. The cultural transgressions of a Dutch merchant-scholar
12.30-1.30 pm
Felicia Gottmann (Dundee)
Bilateral or Global? ‘Indiennes’ in Eighteenth-Century France
1.30-3.00 pm Lunch Break
3.00-4.00 pm
Tim Wätzold (Belo Horizonte)
The Columbian Exchange from the West to the East and the Dutch trading companies acting in early Globalization
4.00-5.00 pm
Vibe Maria Martens (Florence)
A spidery web: global textile connections of Eighteenth-Century Danish trade between India, Guinea and Europe
5.00-5.30 pm Coffee Break
Panel C. Art, Artefacts and Science
5.30-6.30 pm
Toon van Hal (Leuven)
Eighteenth-Century European polymaths interested in Asian languages: tracing the influence of Leibniz’ linguistic research program
Sunday, 16 November 2014
9.00-10.00 am
Nuaiman Keeprath Andru (Hyderabad)
Zainudheen Maqdoom and Malabar’s global connections in the Sixteenth Century
10.00-11.00 am
Kim Siebenhüner (Bern)
Diamonds. Transcultural Values and Cross-Cultural Trade between India and Central Europe
11.00 am-12.00 pm
Marília dos Santos Lopes (Lisbon)
‘All to use’. Circulation and presence of Indian goods in Central European Art, Science, and Culture
12.00-12.30 pm Coffee Break
12:30-13.30 pm
CONCLUDING REMARKS
The Kochi 1514 International Conference cordially welcomes anyone interested to attend and discuss. Please register giving name and institution until November 11, 2014 via Email: kochi1514@gmail.com