Modern South Asian History Research Seminar - Summer Semester 2021

Modern South Asian Histor Research Seminar

Summer Semester 2021

For registration and access links, please contact Anna Sailer:

anna.sailer-1@sowi.uni-goettingen.de

You will receive a Zoom invitation

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20.04.2021: 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Razak Khan (CeMIS, Göttingen): Meat Eaters, Hounds and Knives of Rampur

04.05.2021: 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm
Arnaud Kaba (CeMIS, Göttingen): The making of the glass craft cousciousness in Firozabad

12.05.2021: 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm
Tianying Ding: Bandung as a historical moment. India and China 1955

18.05.2021: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Frank Perlin: Anthropology of the Commodity II, and The Missing Discipline. A Neglected aspect of the
Neolithic Revolution. The Domestication of the Human Animal as Foundation of Labour and Value

01.06.2021: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Project Presentation: Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia:
Nitin Sinha: South Asian Nights. A History
Ritam Sengupta: Timing Work in the North Indian countryside, c. 1800s-1900s
Samuel Wright: Early Modern temporalities: Time and culture in theory and practise
Sagnik Kar: Time and delay. Gendered temporalities in Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries
Minerwa Tahir: Fixing the future. Money, morality and disability in colonial and postcolonial Karachi

19.06.2021: 10.00 am – 3.30 pm (Saturday!)
Camille Buat (CeMIS, Göttingen): Of Desh and Videsh: sketching a history of the 'Hindustani' labouring classes between Northern and Eastern India (20th century)
Nabhojeet Sen: Aspects of Social control and coercion in Governance: Maharashtra, 1720s- 1800
Vidhya Raveendranathan: Fabricating Labour in the port city of Madras c. 1780-1840
Robert Raman: Vocabulary of Class: Radical Rethoric of the Left in 1920s Bombay

29.06.2021: 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
PhD Workshop (texts for discussion circulated by 15 June):
Josefine Hoffmann (CeMIS, Göttingen): Exams, certificates and first-time employment in Indo-German vocational training collaborations, 1950-1989
Catharina Hänsel (CeMIS, Göttingen: The 'Ahmedabad Experiment' - Studies in Workplace Organisation and Industrial Relations
Atem Lemtur (CeMIS, Göttingen): Expedition photographs. Visualising labour inhigh altitude base-camps
Michaela Dimmers (CeMIS, Göttingen): Eduction, Skills, Training and Labour in Prisons of Colonial India

Please switch off your microphone during the presentations. There will be time for a
discussion after each presentation. Please note that the meeting will be locked 15 minutes
after it has started. Thank you for your understanding.