FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
9:30 – 10:00 “Asianisms” as a research agenda
Marc Frey and Nicola Spakowski
10:00 – 12:00 The Longue Durée: “Asia” and “Asianisms” in historical perspective
The anachronistic savagery of democracy
Rebecca E. Karl (New York University)
The “Asias” of “Asianisms”: Geography, ideology, politics
Sven Saaler (Sophia University Tokyo)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 Identity between nation and region
Uniting Asia through sports: ‘Olympic’ values, ‘modernization’ and the problem of nationalism
Stefan Hübner (Jacobs University Bremen)
Concepts of Asia, the Self and the West in contemporary Indonesia
Judith Schlehe (University of Freiburg)
The ‘virtual’ region: Politics of identity in contemporary Central Asia
Tim Epkenhaus (University of Freiburg)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Contemporary cultural Asia
On display. Exhibitionary visions of Asia
Birgit Mersmann (Jacobs University Bremen)
Beneath the quarrelsome states – Pop Pan-East Asianism
Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore)
18:30 Dinner
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
09:00 – 11:00 Pan-Asianism and Asian regionalism
“There is a glow in the Eastern Skies” - The emergence and proliferation of Asianist initiatives in India, 1919-1939
Carolien Stolte (University of Leiden)
The Japanese Empire's Pan-Asianism project of the 1930s: Vision and networks
Matsuura Masataka (Hokkaido University)
Constructing regionalism domestically: Local actors and foreign policymaking in Indonesia
Jürgen Rüland (University of Freiburg)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Western visions of Asia
Missiology and Pan-Asia
Tani Barlow (Rice University, Houston)
Asia as future – The shifting rhetoric of an „Asian century“
Nicola Spakowski (University of Freiburg)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Graduate student forum
Mikko Huotari (University of Freiburg): Practices of financial regionalism and the competitive construction of community in East Asia
Stefanie Jürries (University of Freiburg): Chinese historiography on Asia (1895-1949)
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15 The Asia of civil society
“Now more than ever, Asia is one!” On the functions and limits of Asianisms in the twenty-first century
Torsten Weber (University of Freiburg)
Asianisms from below: Japanese civil society and visions of Asian integration from the late 20th to 21st century
Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australian National University, Canberra)
17:15 -18:00 Roundtable Discussion
Marc Frey (Jacobs University Bremen), Paul Kratoska (National University of Singapore)