Concept Statement | Provisional Programme

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Monday 27^th August

Room: Bewindhebberskamer, Oost-Indisch Huis
Address: unless indicated otherwise: all sessions take place in the building of the Amsterdam School (ASSR): Oude Hoogstraat 24, 1012 CE Amsterdam

• 9.30 Coffee/Opening by organizers

From Modernization to Modernity: what are the critical targets?
Chair: Peter Geschiere (Amsterdam)

• 9.45 - 10.15 Arjun Appadurai (Chicago) Modernity without Modernization. Reflections on Global Violence
• 10.15 - 10.45 Enrique Rodriquez Larreta (Rio de Janeiro) Metaculture(s) of Modernity and Alternative Modernities
• 10.45 — 11.00 break
• 11.00 — 11.30 Jean-François Bayart (Paris) Travels with Max Weber: Modernity and Patterns of Subjectivation
• 11.30 - 12.30 Discussion
• 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
• 14.00 - 17.00 Student presentations in two parallel sessions:
  • first session (discussants: Arjun Appadurai, Enrique Larreta)
    room: A 003

    - Sharam Khosravi (Stockholm): The Iranian Passages of Modernity:Consumption and Identity among Teheran Youth
    
    

    - Thornike Gordadze (Paris): title to be announced
    
    

    - Mohamed Wakedi (Cairo): Perceptions of Modernity and Globalization in Current Writings by Arab (notably Egyptian) Intellectuals

  • second session (discussants: Jean-François Bayart, Peter Geschiere)
    room: AT 03

    - Paul Blokker (Firenze): Attempts at modernizaton in Romania: a historical analysis of social change

- Yatun Sastramidjaja (Amsterdam): Tropes of modernity and generation in post-New Order youth movements

- Laurent Gayer (Paris): The Globalization of Sikh and Muhajir Identity Politics

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Tuesday 28^th August
Room: Bewindhebberskamer

Science and Religion/Enchantment and Disenchantment
Chair: Vyjayanthi Rao (Chicago)

• 10.00 - 10.30 Gyan Prakash (Princeton) Science, Religion and the Struggle for a Different Modernity
• 10.30 - 11.00 Mona Abaza (Cairo) The Dialectics of Enlightenment, Modernity and the Battle over Intellectual Inclusion in Egypt
• 11.00 - 11.30 coffee
• 11.30 - 11.45 Discussant: Birgit Meyer (Amsterdam)
• 11.45 - 12.30 Discussion
• 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
• 14.00 - 17.00 Student presentations in two parallel sessions:
  • first session (discussants: Gyan Prakash, Birgit Meyer)
    room: A 003

    - Tong Lam (Chicago): The Rise of the Scientific Survey. Cultural Negotiations between Traditional Chinese Scholarship and Western Empirical Social Science
    
    

    - Basile Ndjio (Yaounde): Feymania in Cameroon: Hidden ways of Enrichment and Alternative Visions of Modernity

    
    - Mayanthi Fernando (Chicago): Islamic Revival and Liberal Subjectivity (research on Pakistani-British women)

  • second session (discussants: Mona Abaza, Peter Pels)
    room: AT 03

    - Anup Khumar Dhar (Calcutta): Sa(va)ge Moderns/Modernity (on the incompleteness of modern psychiatry)

- Marina de Regt (Amsterdam): Pioneers or Pawns? Yemeni Women in Health Care Development

-Tina Gehrig (Irvine): Symptoms in/of Exile. Afghan Refugees´ Reaction to Loss and the Effects of the German Health Care Services

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Wednesday 29^th August
room: A009
adress: Oude Manhuispoort 2-4

Finance and Fetishism: the Market and its Others
Chair: Peter Pels (Amsterdam)

• 10.00 - 10.30 Saskia Sassen (Chicago) The Global City: De-nationalizing Time and Space
• 10.30 - 11.00 Wiliam Pietz (Los Angeles) Disenchanted Debt
• 11.00 - 11.30 coffee
• 11.30 - 11.45 Discussant: Peter van der Veer (Amsterdam)
• 11.45 - 12.30 Discussions
• 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
• 14.00 - ? Excursion (optional)
• 19.00 Drinks and Dinner at Peter Geschiere's house [Sarphatipark 57].

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Thursday 30^th August
room: B 017

State and Society
chair: Sarah Nuttall (Johannesburg)

• 10.00 - 10.30 Mamadou Diouf (Dakar/Ann Arbor) The State in Africa: Precolonial and Postcolonial Visions of Modernity
• 10.30 - 11.00 Christophe Jaffrelot (Paris) The Modernity of the Pre-modern State in India
• 11.00 - 11.30 coffee
• 11.30 - 11.45 Discussant: Peter Pels (Amsterdam)
• 11.45 - 12.30 Discussion
• 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
• 14.00 - 17.00 Student presentations in two parallel sessions
  • first session (discussants: Mamadou Diouf, Saskia Sassen)
    room: A003

    - Eileen Moyer (Amsterdam) ): In the Shadow of the Sheraton: Inventing Localities in Global Spaces (research on poor urban youth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
    
    - Colman Titus Msoka (Minneapolis/Dar es Salaam): Urban Development and Competitiveness of Cities in the Contemporary Era of Global Economy: The Case of Dar es Salaam
    
    - Mariana Cavalcanti Raocha dos Santos (Rio de Janeiro): Chronicles of a Promised Modernity: Rio as a Divided City

• second session (discussants: Christophe Jaffrelot, Peter van der Veer)

- Fernando Rabossi (Rio de Janeiro): On the Limit: Looking at the State from the Triple Frontier of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina

- Switbert Rwechungura (Minneapolis/Dar es Salaam): The Significance of Cross-Border Relations in the New Era of Regionalization and Globalization. A Comparative Analysis of the Tanzania-Uganda Border Regions since 1896

- Richard Lloyd (Chicago): Artistic Practice in the Integration of a Chicago Neighbourhood into the Global Economy

Friday 31st August
room: Bewindhebberskamer

Cultural Boundaries and the Subject
chair: Christophe Jaffrelot (Paris)

• 10.00 - 10.30 Achille Mbembe (Johannesburg) Aesthetics of the Subject
• 10.30 - 11.00 Seteney Shami (New York) Migrations and the (In)coherence of Life Stories
• 11.00 - 11.30 coffee
• 11.30 - 11.45 Discussant: Vyjayanthi Rao (Chicago)
• 11.45 - 12.30 Discussion
• 12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
• 14.00 - 17.00 Student presentations in two parallel sessions
  • first session (discussants: Achille Mbembe, Vyjayanthi Rao)
    room: A 003

- Myrna Eindhoven (Amsterdam): Mentawaian Identity in an Era of Globalization

- Graeme Reid (Johannesburg): Black like Me? Gay Hairstyling and the Paradox of Modernity in South Africa

- Swati Ghosh (Calcutta): The Making of the Modern Prostitute Body

• second session (discussants: Seteney Shami, Christophe Jaffrelot)

- Anirban Das (Calcutta): Embodying Knowledges: (Un)Making the Na(t)ive Body

- Anouk de Koning (Amsterdam): A Modern Romance? Transforming Subjectivity, Gender and Personal Relationships in Cairo

- Sohini Sengupta (Calcutta): Female Characters in Indian Cinema — Reinventing the Heterogeneous Modernity

observers:

mw Courtney Lake
mw Marianne Marchand
mw Lenneke Overeem

Concept Statement | Provisional Programme