SCHEDULE
Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons : Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements
Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons : Writing Intellectual Histories of Global Entanglements
DAY1
26th March 2021, Friday
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
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
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
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
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
DAY2
27th March 2021, Friday
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
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
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
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
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
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
DAY3
28th March 2021, Friday
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