Modern South Asian History Research Seminar - Summer Semester 2017
Events run from May to July, and are free and open to those interested.
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Contact: IndianHistory.CeMIS@sowi.uni-goettingen.de
19 May, 16:00-18:00, External Lecture, KWZ 0.603
Aditya Sarkar (University of Warwick)
Antinomies of the Wage-Form: Arrears and Bonuses in Bombay's Textile Mills, 1897-1924
29 May, 10:00-17:00, CeMIS Work-in-Progress Presentations, Heyne-Haus, Papendieck 16
Vidhya Raveendranathan
Defining the Poramboke: Appropriating Land and Labour in Early Nineteenth Century Madras
Justin Mathew
Industrial Accumulation and the Urban Question in Princely India: The Case of Inter-War Cochin
Anna Sailer
"The case of the colonial proletariat has long become the concern of the workers of our own countries": Trade Union Internationalism and Colonial India in the late 1920s
Ritesh Jaiswal (Global History Fellow)
"Depression" Politics: Repercussion of the Global Depression on the Kangany System and Indian Emigration to Ceylon (c. 1930-40)
Ramesha Jayaneththi
British Colonial Censuses and the Development of Identity Politics in South Asia: the Experience of Sri Lanka
Martin Christof-Füchsle
Entanglements of Western Occultism and "Indian lore" in Imperial Germany
29 May, 18:00-20:00, External Lecture, Heyne-Haus, Papendieck 16
Layli Uddin (British Library)
The Year of Riots: The Adamjee and Karnaphuli Mill Riots in East Pakistan, c. 1954.
6 June, 16:00-18:00, External Lecture, Waldweg 24, 0.138
Rana Behal (Association of Indian Labour Historians)
Formal to Informal: Changing Social Profile of Labour in Amritsar City after Independence
12 June, 16:00-18:00, External Lecture, KWZ 0.606
Chitra Joshi (Re:Work; University of Delhi)
The Promise of the 1950s and the Politics of Labour in the Post-Independence Decade in India
14 June, 11:15 - 14:45, Workshop, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut, Friedländer Weg 31
Pun Ngai (University of Hongkong): Working in China
(please register your attendance by 12 June with Jennifer Villarama, kommunikation@sofi.uni-goettingen.de)
3 July, 10:00-18:00, CeMIS Work-in-Progress Presentations, Heyne-Haus, Papendieck 16
Sumeet Mhaskar
Unmaking the Worker-Self: Joblessness, Precarity and the Crisis of Recognition in Post- Industrial India
Camille Buat
'Calcutta mein bhi tha, yahan bhi tha': Continuity and Rupture in the Life Narratives of Returned Migrants in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Svenja von Jan
Indian Migration and Migrational Networks: South Asian Settlement in European and American Port Cities
Christina Kühne
Joseph Stephens - a Swedish Engineer within the Networks of Early Indian Railway Construction
Max Vidal
Between Reform and Revolution: Social Movements and the Discourse on Land Tenure in Peru, 1959-1968
Razak Khan
Sharif Jugend: Entangled Concepts, Translation and Global History of Youth Reform in Germany and India
Jana Tschurenev
From Domestic Service to Social Service: Gender, Work and Professionalism in 19th-century Western India
7 July, 14:00 - 16:00, External Lecture, KWZ 0.607
Tanika Sarkar (New Delhi): Mehtars or Waste Cleaners in Colonial Calcutta: Caste, Work, Unions and Strikes
12 July, 9:00-18:00, CeMIS Work-in-Progress Presentations, Heyne-Haus, Papendieck 16
Bhaswati Bhattacharya
'Drink it the Damn Way We Want': Some Reflections on the Marketing and Consumption of Coffee in India, 1930-1980
Michaela Dimmers
The Taxonomy of Incarceration
Arun Kumar
Workers' Politics of Not Being a Worker: Rethinking Working Classness
Robert Raman
Islamic Brotherhood, Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Radical Labour Agitations: Currents of Popular Mobilisation and Bombay's Muslim Workers after the First World War
David Mayer (Global History Fellow)
Distant Reading of Labour History Journals: Some Conceptual and Methodological Points
Devyani Gupta (Global History Fellow)
Postal Networks of India and the Global British Empire, c. 1860-1920
Enrique Martino (Global History Fellow)
Opacities of Contracts and Slavery in the Gulf of Guinea: the Enganche Labour Recruiting System in and around Colonial Fernando Pó