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Major Theme 1
China from Global Perspectives
9 AM-12:15 PM
Shandong Hall, Shandong Hotel
Organizers: Wang Jianlang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
María Dolores Elizalde (CSIC, Madrid)
With the support of the Association of Chinese Historians and the Spanish National Committee
Discussant: Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago)
Session 1
- Wan Ming (Chinese Academy of Social Science):
China Silver monetization: Ming dynasty China and global interactions
- Guido Abbattista (University of Trieste):
Europe and China in the ‘long enlightenment’: civilization, commercial ideology and the family of nations, 1780-1850
- Paul A. Kramer (Vanderbilt University):
The Golden Gate and the Open Door: Civilization, Empire, and Exemption in the History of U. S. Chinese Exclusion, 1868-1910
- Pierre Singaravélou (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
Laboratory of Globalisation? Tianjin c. 1900
- Valdo Ferretti (University of Rome La Sapienza):
China and the international alliances at the beginning of the XXth century
- Kawashima Shin (University of Tokyo):
Internationalism and Nationalism on modern and contemporary Chinese Diplomacy : Tribute system, Revolution and War
2 PM-5:15 PM
Discussant: Manel Oll (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Session 2
- Michael Speidel and Anne Kolb (University of Zurich):
Imperial Rome and China: contacts and the collection of information
- Abdullah Al Masum (University of Chittagong):
China-Bengal Interactions in the early 15th Century: A Study on Ma-Huan’s and Fei Shin’s Travels Accounts
- Salvatore Ciriacono (Padova University):
Europe and the Chinese silk (16th -19th centuries)
- Ander Permanyer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona):
The Spanish link in the Canton trade, 1787-1830: silver, opium and the Royal Philippines Company
- Alexander Petrov (Russian Academy of Sciences):
Commercial relations of the Russian-American Company with China in the second half of the XIX century
- Wu Linchun (Dong Hwa University):
Foreign Engineers’ Activities in China and the Process of China’s internationalization: the case of « The Engineering Society of China”, 1901-1941 »
Two speakers in reserve:
- Yiwei Cheng (University of Alberta):
The Chinese Eastern Railway and China's Re-potrayal of Russia in the late 1910s and early 1920s
- Liu Wenming (Capital Normal University, Beijing):
Caretakers of Sulu king’s Tomb in China, 1417-1733
Major Theme 2
Historicizing Emotions
Movie Hall, Shandong Hotel
Organizers: Ute Frevert (Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Andrew Lynch (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800, The University of Western Australia)
With the support of the American Historical Association and the Australian Historical Association
Discussants: Charles Zika (University of Melbourne)
Jacqueline Van Gent (The University of Western Australia)
Session 1: Emotions, capitalism, and the market
- Laurence Fontaine (CNRS- ENS-EHESS, Paris):
Emotional economies in early modern Europe
- Anna Geurts (University of Sheffield):
The Pre-History of Stress
- Anne Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin):
Advertising culture and the making of the modern consumer
Session 2: Emotions and the creation of ‘others’
- Andrea Noble (University of Durham):
Feeling Rules in Mexico: Crying in Colonial Contexts
- Christianne Smit (Utrecht University):
Fear and fascination – Savages in the Slums and the Colonies
- Makoto Harris Takao (University of Western Australia):
A Comparative Study of Emotional Pedagogies within the Society of Jesus and its Presence in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Session 3: Emotions in bodies and spaces
- Fabrizio Titone (Universidad del País Vasco):
Emotions and mourning rites in late medieval Sicily
- Alan Maddox (University of Sydney):
Emotional expression and the Passion at the basilica of St Anthony of Padua in the early eighteenth century
- Benno Gammerl (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin):
Love making homosexual bodies? 20th century perspectives
Session 4: Historicizing Emotions: theories and methodologies
- Meera Lee (Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY):
Psychoanalytic theory and trauma studies
- Tuomas Tepora (University of Helsinki):
What can the history of emotions learn from the neurosciences, if any?
- Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková (Palacky University Olomouc):
Emotions and memory in ego-documents: from correspondence to oral history
Evening Session
Change of Value – Value of Change.
Transforming Societies in Global Perspective via Oral History
7:45 PM-9:30 PM
Organizers: Miroslav Vanek (Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague)
Discussant: Rob Perks (National Life Stories, British Library, London)
- Oldrich Tuma (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague,):
Introductory speech: Position of Oral History in Contemporary History research
- Miroslav Vanek (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague):
Introduction : Why Are We Here? Oral History in Past and Future Perspectives
- Pavel Mücke (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague):
Changing of memory during and after political changes in Czechoslovakia
- Christina Landman (University of South Africa, Pretoria):
Youth on the margins as agents of change in rural South Africa
- Indira Chowdhury (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Centre for Public History, Bangalore):
Between memory and history: The persistence of values at Gandhis ashram at Sewagram
- Joni Krekola (Veteran Members of Parliament Oral History Archive, Library of Finnish Parliament):
Representative democracy from inside. Characteristics of the Finnish veteran MPs’ oral history interviews
- Laura Benadiba (ORT Technical School, Buenos Aires):
Oral History in Latin America: building memories from the diversity
- Marta Kurkowska-Budzan (Jagellonian University, Krakow):
Doing history – making the historical change. Public history in Poland 1980s–2010s
Launch and Seminar of the Publication
Chinese Historiography 1978-2008(English version)
7:30 PM-9:00 PM
Liaocheng Hall, Shandong Hotel
