Conference Program

Thursday, October 21, 2010

9.00
Welcome: Madeleine Herren (University of Heidelberg)
Keynote: Kenichiro Hirano (Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, Tokyo): Matsuoka Yosuke’s Miscalculation at Geneva: A Possible Reconsideration by Using JACAR Data

10.15
Coffee Break

10.30
Panel I: The Archival Materiality of International Organisations
Chair: Cornelia Knab (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Blandine Blucacz-Louisfert (UNOG Library and Archives, Geneva)
Jens Boel (UNESCO Archives, Paris): The UNESCO History Project and Universal Archives
Sigrun Habermann-Box (UNOG Library and Archives, Geneva): From the League of Nations to the United Nations: The Continuing Preservation and Development of the Geneva Archives
Sacha Zala (University of Berne/Swiss Diplomatic Documents): Materialising the Networks of International Organisations. Perspectives on Swiss and International Digital Resources

12.30
Lunch Break

14.00
Panel II: Foreign Science Policy
Chair: Cord Arendes (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Rudolf G. Wagner (University of Heidelberg)
Tomoko Akami (Australian National University, Canberra): Scientific International Collaboration in the Era of Empires and War: Japanese Scientists and the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, 1920–39
Atsushi Shibasaki (Komazawa University): Activities and Discourses on International Cultural Relations in Modern Japan: the Making of KBS (Kokusai Bunka Shinko Kai), 1934-53
Takashi Saikawa (University of Heidelberg): From Intellectual Cooperation to International Cultural Exchange: Japan and China in the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 1922-39
Maya Okuda (University of Heidelberg): A Transcultural History of International Organisations: the Case of Japan and the League of Nations

16.00
Coffee Break

16.15
Panel III: Global Curricula and Global Subjects
Chair: Isabella Löhr (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Johannes Paulmann (University of Mannheim)
Katja Naumann (University of Leipzig): UNESCO and the Globalization of History Curricula – The International Commission for a “Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind” (1952-1969)
Anuradha Bhattacharjee (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad): The Polish Citizens of Nawanagar in India
Guoqi Xu (University of Hong Kong): Networking through the Y: The Role of YMCA in China’s Search for New National Identity and Internationalization

19.30
Launch of Database lonsea
Venue: Palais Prinz Carl, Kornmarkt 1, 69117 Heidelberg

Friday, October 22, 2010

9.00
Panel IV: Global Knowledge Economy
Chair: Amalia Ribi (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Klaas Dykmann (Roskilde Universitet)
Katja Patzel-Mattern (University of Heidelberg): “Not only a German but also a European interest.” Dimensions of German Economic and Fiscal Policies during the Crises of the 1930s.
Sunil S. Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London): Internationalizing Public Health in South and Southeast Asia, c. 1919-1939
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva): Conflicting Views on Labor. Which Role for International Organizations in Cold War Time?

11.00
Coffee Break

11.15
Panel V: Concepts of International Organisations
Chair: Caroline Authaler (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Roland Wenzlhuemer (University of Heidelberg)
Craig N. Murphy (University of Massachusetts, Boston): Global Governance: from Organizations to Networks or not?
Prem Shankar Jha (Author/Journalist, India): International Order in Disarray. Systematic Chaos and the End of Nation-state Capitalism
Toshiki Mogami (International Christian University, Tokyo): The Motor of Centralization or An Empty Center?

13.15
Lunch Break

14.30
Panel VI (parallel panels): Practices of Networking

Panel VIa: Large Dams and Small Germs
Chair: Dominik J. Schaller (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
Cornelia Knab (University of Heidelberg): How the Cows Became Dangerous: Transnational Perspectives on the Handling of Zoonotic Diseases in the Early Twentieth Century
Naomi Nagata (Nagoya Gakuin University): International Control of Epidemic Diseases in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Marcus Nüsser (University of Heidelberg): Large Dams and Social Movements: the Practice of International Networking

Panel VIb: Intangible Cultural Heritage?
Chair: Antje Flüchter (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Corinne Pernet (University of St. Gallen)
Timothy D. Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles): The New Capitalism, Networks, and the Reenchantment of Culture
Bjarne Rogan (University of Oslo): Folklore and International Cooperation in the 1930s. The Case of CIAP and the League of Nations

16.30
Coffee Break

16.45
Panel VII: Western Associations, Eastern Networks?
Chair: Jessica R. Lenz (University of Heidelberg)
Discussant: Joachim Kurtz (University of Heidelberg)
Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo): Sino-Japanese Controversies over Textbook Problems and the League of Nations
Li Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei): The United Nations Special Fund and the Developing Country: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Experience in the 1960s
Udo Simon (University of Heidelberg): Islamic Networks in Transnational Space

19.00
Final Discussion