SHOWCASE

Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons : Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements

Panel Discussion 01

Global Intellectual History and the History of Capitalism

Chair: Dr. Ilya Afanasyev, Stanford House, Oxford

Discussant: Dr. Carola Lorea, National University of Singapore


Panelists

Anirban Karak, New York University

Devotional Poetry and Political Economy in 16th Century Bengal

Shilanjani Bhattacharyya, Goethe-Universität

Traversing continuity and change: Contemporary Baul repertoire(s) in a global world

Arijit Banerjee, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Global Intellectual History and the Historical Theatre of Utpal Dutta

Senjuti Jash, Independent Researcher

At the Intersection of Caste and Political Economy: Revisiting the Ugrakshatriya Community of Bengal

Panel Discussion 02

Gender in Global Intellectual History

Chair: Prof. Samita Sen, University of Cambridge

Discussant: Dr. Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex


Panelists

Arkamitra Ghatak, Heidelberg University

The Female Guru as “Universal Mother”: Divine Selfhood, Ritual Action and Cosmic Nation-making

Giulia Pra Floriani, Heidelberg University

Quotidian Visual Scandals: Negotiating Feminine Spaces in the 1910s Chinese Periodical Press

Elena Barattini, Università degli Studi di Torino

Re-signifying freedom: slave women, petitions, and the archive in Cuba (1791-1886)

Mary Ann Houser, Ouachita Baptist University

‘A World That Questions Our Right to Exist:’ Soweto, Havana, and a Global Black Audience

Panel Discussion 03

Thinking the Vernacular: Democracy, Nationalism, Archive, and Politics

Chair: Prof. Lucia Michelutti, University College London

Discussant: Dr. Martin Bayly, London School of Economics and Political Science


Panelists

Rajarshi Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Ascetic and the Bahubali: Vernacular Styles of Politics in India

Asha Sarangi, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Vernacularization of Democratic Politics

Mohinder Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Concept of Dharm in the Vernacular Social Imaginary of Hindu Nationalism (1870s-1920s)

Iman Mitra, Shiv Nadar University

Researching Experience, Archiving the Vernacular: An Early-twentieth-century Experiment

Panel Discussion 04

Decolonising Intellectual History

Chair: Prof. Emma Hunter, The University of Edinburgh

Discussant: Prof. Miles Larmer, University of Oxford


Panelists

Professor Miles Larmer, University of Oxford (Introductory Presentation)

'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt'

GVGK Tang, Independent Researcher

We Are Everywhere? On Decolonizing the Queer Canon

Khedidja Chergui, École Normale Supérieure de Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria

A “Constellation of Delirium”: The Crisis of Re/Writing Algeria’s Intellectual History

Bennett Brazelton, Boston Public Schools

On the Erasure of Black Indigeneity

Roundtable 01

Intellectual History and Political Economy


Discussants

Dr. Milinda Banerjee, University of St Andrews

Shuvatri Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

Dr. Andrew Liu, University of Villanova

Dr. Sara Marzagora, King’s College London

Professor Andrew Sartori, New York University

Professor Samita Sen, University of Cambridge

Dr. Julian Strube, Universität Wien

Panel Discussion 05

Philosophy as Intellectual History: Rethinking the Canon

Chair: Professor Robert Yelle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discussant: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies


Panelists

Phillip Sperner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Absent Archives and Missing Connections: Ambedkar, Adorno and Kabir in the Century of Negative Identity

Ankit Kawade, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Who is Nietzsche’s chandal? Caste and Contempt in Nietzsche’s reading of the Manusmriti

Antaripa Bharali, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Ambedkar’s Buddhism: A New Model towards Universalism

Jonathan Egid, King’s College London

Hegel, Zera Yacob and the Exclusion of Africa from the History of Philosophy

Panel Discussion 06

Marginal Lives, Powerful Intellections: Ideas and Individuals in Intellectual History

Chair: Dr. Simon Yarrow, University of Birmingham

Discussant: Dr. Egas Bender de Moniz Bandeira, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory


Panelists

Wen Yu, University of Michigan

Historical Consciousness and Global Political Modernity: Zhang Taiyan’s Redefinition of Confucianism for a Chinese Canon of Self-Government (1891-1904)

Banu Turnaoğlu, University of Cambridge

Positivism and Anti-Imperialism in Ahmet Riza

Chanthu S, University of Hyderabad

Forgotten Lives, Remembering Public: Marking R Sugathan in History

Panel Discussion 07

Contesting Repositories: Practice as a Method in Studying Sovereignty

Chair: Professor Anshu Malhotra, University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant: Dr. Julian Strube, Universität Wien


Panelists

Aisarya Dutt Roy, University of Hyderabad

A Sanctuary of Anatomy: Rereading Binaries of Queer Lives in the Archives

Ashesh Kumar Dhar, University of Hyderabad

Sovereignty on Trial: Episodes of Violence as Practice in 18th Century Bengal

Sagnik Saha, University of Hyderabad

Travels in Time, Travails of Time: The Sovereign Worlds of Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay

Shreyashi Paul, Amity University

In Cloak and Dagger: Reading an Agro-Military Production in 19th Century India

Panel Discussion 08

Alternative Archives for Intellectual History Writing

Chair: Professor Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University

Discussant: Dr. Hussein Omar, University College Dublin


Panelists

Senayon Olaoluwa, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

(Dis)connected Evolution: Toward a History of the “Longer African Novel Tradition”

Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, City University of New York

Feelings, Futures, Frontiers: Settler Colonial Affect in the Visual Archive

Olga Byrska, European University Institute, Italy

Archive, drama, margin: Borderlands of intellectual history and theatre

Panel Discussion 09

Conceptualising Resistance: Relocating Intellectual History within Empire(s)

Chair: Professor Jon Wilson, King’s College London

Discussant: Dr. Gautam Chakrabarti, Europa-Universität Viadrina


Panelists

Manaswini Sen, University of Hyderabad

Tracing An Alternative Narrative of Anti-Colonialism: Intellectual History and Trade Union Leadership in Late Colonial

Bengal (1920-47)

Shruti Balaji, London School of Economics and Political Science

Towards Historical Indian Women’s International Thought: A Conceptual Overview

Madeleine Lafuse, City University of New York

“The Deadly Upas Tree”: An Antislavery Symbol Growing in the Gardens of Empire

Sanjana Chowdhury, Texas Christian University

Prostitute as 'holy warrior' in the Empire: (Re)Creation of Women's Identity through Political Resistance

Panel Discussion 10

Religion(s) as Political Thought

Moderator: Professor Asad Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley


Panelists

Muhammed Niyas Ashraf (Frei Universität, Berlin)

Reflections on Muslim- Christian Intellectual Encounters: Polemics and Public Disputations in South West Indian Ocean

in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Eva Schalbroeck, University of Utrecht

Cows, Kings, and Christian ‘Civilisation’: Rethinking Intercultural Encounters, Global Intellectual History, and World

Christianity

Roundtable 02

Law and Intellectual History


Professor Caroline Humfress, University of St Andrews

Professor Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University

Professor Patrick Olivelle, The University of Texas at Austin


In conversation with:


Dr. Milinda Banerjee, University of St Andrews

Shuvatri Dasgupta, University of Cambridge

Dr. Kresimir Vukovic, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München