Dr. Kerstin von Lingen
Conference “Law, Empire, and Global Intellectual History”
Program
SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2016:
18.00: Introduction-Conceptual remarks by the organizers Kerstin von LINGEN AND Milinda BANERJEE (HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY/ PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY)
18.20: Opening Speech by Andrew SARTORI (NEW YORK):
Property, Law, and the Histories of Muslim Freedom in Bengal
MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2016:
9.00-12.00:Panel I: Ordering the World through Law: From the Early Modern to the Contemporary
09.00-09.25am
Philip STERN (DUKE UNIVERSITY):
‘A Radical Vice in the System of Government’: Law, Empire, and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Corporation.
09.25-09.50am
Matthew NELSON (SOAS LONDON):
Religious Freedom and Public Order: Tracing a Familiar Constitutional Tension in Two Islamic States
09.50-10.30
COFFEE BREAK
10.30-10.55
Roni WEINSTEIN (HEBREW UNIVERSITY JERUSALEM):
The Formation of Modern Jewish Law in the Early Modern Period: A Global Perspective
10.55-11.20
Discussion
12.00-14.00
LUNCH BREAK
14.00 - 17.00:Panel II: Legal Normativities and Globalized Confrontations
14.00-14.25
Milinda BANERJEE (PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA):
Sovereignty as a Motor of Global Conceptual Travel: Sanskritic Translations of ‘Law’ in Bengali Discursive Production
14.25-14.50
Kerstin von LINGEN (HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY):
Civilizing Warfare? The Hague Conferences and the Emergence of ‘Humanity’ as a New Paradigm of Transnational Legal Thought
14.50-15.30
COFFEE BREAK
15.30-15.55
Dirk MOSES (UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY):
Genocide as a Globally Contested International Law
15.55-16.20
Discussion
TUDESAY, JUNE 21, 2016:
9.00-12.00: Panel III: Imperial Residues and the Emergence of Postcolonial Legal Worlds
09.00-09.25
Ivan SABLIN and Alexander SEMYONOV (HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, ST. PETERSBURG):
Diversity Management and the Russian Empire: Autonomy and Decentralization in the Global Imperial Crisis, 1905-1924
09.25-09.50
Barnaby CROWCROFT (HARVARD UNIVERSITY/ SOAS):
The First Struggle for Sovereignty: Decolonization in Britain’s Empire of Protectorates, 1945-1951
09.50-10.30
COFFEE BREAK
10.30-10.55
Mira SIEGELBERG (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY):
Post-Imperial Constitutions and International Legal Expertise (ca. 1947-62)
10.55-11.20
Sebastian Gehrig (Oxford University):
Dividing National Sovereignty? Cold War Re-configurations of German Sovereignty within the United Nations
11.20-12.00
Discussion
12.00-14.00
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-16.00: Panel IV: Law, Imperial Violence, and ‘Cultural’ Alterity
14.00-14.25
Ines EBEN VON RACKNITZ (NANJING UNIVERSITY):
International Law as “Civilizing Mission”? Lord Elgin’s Introduction of the Concept of “International Law” during the China Expedition of 1860
14.25-14.50
Kiri PARAMORE (LEIDEN UNIVERSITY):
The Culturalization of Liberalism in East Asian Intellectual History: Competition and Collaboration in Imperialist and Nativist Otherings of the East Asian Liberal
14.50-15.15
Discussion
15.15-16.00
COFFEE BREAK
16.00: Concluding debate
Registration possible upon written request until June 15 via lingen@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
(Seats are limited, and Registration involves a modest fee)