Sep­tem­ber 27–28, 2018; 
Depart­ment of South Asi­an Stu­dies, Insti­tu­te for Asi­an and Afri­can Stu­dies, Hum­boldt-Uni­ver­si­tät zu Ber­lin, Inva­li­den­stra­ße 118, Berlin.

Conference Program:

Day 1 (Thursday, 2018-09-27):

9:00 – 9:15
Wel­co­me and Intro­duc­tion.
Ravi Ahu­ja (Göt­tin­gen University)

9:15 – 11:00
Panel 1: Ent­an­gled Know­ledge: Insti­tu­ti­ons, Actors and Out­co­mes I
Chair: Ange­li­ka Mali­nar (Zurich University)

  • Mar­tin Chris­tof-Füchs­le (Göt­tin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty): Mis­sio­na­ry and Mili­ta­ry Sources on the Myso­re wars from Ger­man Archives

  • Pas­ca­le Rabau­lt-Feu­er­hahn (CNRS, Paris): Pro­fes­sio­nal Indo­lo­gy. Late 19th cen­tu­ry Ger­man deba­tes about the pos­si­bi­li­ty and legi­ti­ma­cy of Indi­an Indo­lo­gi­cal scholarship.

11:00 – 11:15
Tea Break

11:15 – 13:00
Panel 2: Entan­gled Know­ledge: Insti­tu­ti­ons, Actors and Out­co­mes II
Chair: Joa­chim Oes­ter­held (ZMO)

  • Razak Khan (Göt­tin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty): Rethin­king Trans­la­ti­on as Ent­an­gled Archi­ve of Ide­as in Glo­bal Intellec­tu­al History

  • Thia­go Pin­to Bar­bo­sa (ZMO): Fol­lo­wing sci­ence making in ent­an­gled archi­ves: con­side­ra­ti­ons from an actor-net­work approach to under­stan­ding glo­bal ent­an­gle­ments in anthro­po­lo­gi­cal know­ledge production

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:45
Panel 3: Sen­ses of Archi­ves
Chair: Micha­el Mann (Hum­boldt University)

  • Ger­dien Jon­ker (Erlan­gen Uni­ver­si­ty): Pri­va­te and Fami­ly Archi­ves and Wri­ting of Ent­an­gled Indo-Ger­man His­to­ries

  • Brit­ta Lan­ge (HU): Ber­lin Sound Archi­ves – Epis­te­mo­lo­gies, Prac­ti­ces and Imaginations

15:45 – 16:00
Tea Break

16:00 – 17:45
Panel 4: Ger­mans in India: Ent­an­gled His­to­ries and Archi­ves
Chair: Ravi Ahu­ja (Göt­tin­gen University)

  • Pani­kos Panayi (De Mont­fort Uni­ver­si­ty): The Ent­an­gled Bri­tish Ger­man and Indi­an Archi­ves: The Case of Ger­man Inter­nees in India during the First World War

  • Roland Witt­je (IIT,Madras): Indo-Ger­man Col­la­bo­ra­ti­on in Sci­ence and Tech­no­lo­gy: The Indi­an Insti­tu­te of Tech­no­lo­gy Madras

19:00
Con­fe­rence Dinner

Day 2 (Friday, 2018-09-28):

10:15 – 12:00
Panel 5: Fri­end­ship, Enmity and Making of Poli­ti­cal Archi­ves
Chair: Van­da­na Joshi (Delhi University)

  • Anan­di­ta Baj­pai (Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty): The Sound of Fri­end­ship: Warm Wave­lengths of Radio Ber­lin Inter­na­tio­nal during the Cold War years in India

  • Alex­an­der Bena­tar (Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty): Cold War Rival­ry and Making of For­eign Minis­try Archives

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:15

Panel 6: Trust and Coope­ra­ti­on
Chair: Hei­ke Liebau (ZMO)

  • Rachel Lee (Lud­wig-Maxi­mi­li­ans-Uni­ver­si­tät Mün­chen): Cos­mo­po­li­tan Cir­cu­la­ti­ons in Bom­bay: Otto Koe­nigs­ber­ger, MARG and TIFR
  • Sven­ja von Jan (Göt­tin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty): Ger­man-Indi­an ent­an­gle­ments of las­car sea­men in Hamburg

15:15 – 15:30
Tea Break

15:30 – 17:30

Round­ta­ble Dis­cus­sion on Ent­an­gled Archi­ves and His­to­ries
Mode­ra­tor: Rek­ha Kamath Rajan (Jawa­harlal Neh­ru University)

Par­ti­ci­pan­ts:
  • Indra Sen­gupta (GHI, London)Henning Trü­per (Hel­sin­ki University)Jahnavi Phal­key (Sci­ence Gal­lery, Bengaluru)Chen Tsoref Ash­ke­n­a­zi (Hei­del­berg University)Margit Franz (Graz University)

18:00
Recep­ti­on

For con­fe­rence par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on plea­se regis­ter with
razak.khan@cemis.uni-goettingen.de