Heidelberg Session
October 27 and 28, 2006
South Asia Institute
Heidelberg University
Neuenheimerfeld 330
Thursday, October 26, 2006
19:00
Reception
Welcome address by William Sax, Director of the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
Friday, October 27, 2006
Panel I: Transcultural Intellectual Encounter beyond Derivative Discourse
Friday 10:00-12:00
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick
Discussant: Andrew Sartori
Sudipta Kaviraj, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Edward Said and Forms of Intellectual History
Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University, Cambridge MA
Mohammad Iqbal and Friedrich Nietzsche
Panel II: Anti-colonial Nationalism
Friday 13:30-15:30
Chair: Peter Park
Discussant: Shruti Kapila
Manu Goswami, New York University
Remembering the Future: Benoy Kumar Sarkar's Methodological Internationalism
Harald Fischer-Tine, International University of Bremen
Translating Cultures: Two Hindu Intellectuals in early 20th century Europe
Panel III: Intellectual Journey's of South Asian Intellectuals
Friday 16:00-18:30
Chair: Sugata Bose
Discussant: Fabrizio de Donno
Benjamin Zachariah, University of Sheffield
Rethinking (the absence of) fascism in India,
c. 1922-1945
Dilip Menon, Delhi University
A Coast with a View: Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and the
invention of Europe for a modern Kerala.
Reba Som, Schoo lof Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Rabindranath Tagore in Europe
Lecture-cum-Performance: Reba Som
Friday, 19:00-20:00
'The Story of Tagore's Gitanjali'
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Panel IV: The Interwar Political Realm
Saturday 9:30-12:00
Chair: Chris Bayly
Discussant: Kris Manjapra
Amit Das Gupta, Institute of Contemporary History, Berlin
The Third Reich and India:
No Chance Lost
Doug McGetchin, Florida Atlantic University
Gandhian non-violence and the European
Peace Movement, 1919-1939
Kate O'Malley, The National Archives, Ireland
Indo-Irish Radical Connections
Panel V: India and Eastern Europe
Saturday 13:30-15:00
Chair: Sugata Bose
Discussant: Roland Lardinois
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Brock University, St. Catherine's Ontario
The Origin of
Russian Indology
Stanislava Vavrouskova, Charles University, Prague
'India and Czechoslovakia between Two World Wars:
A Study of Cultural Contact and Exchange of Ideas'
Panel VI: Perceptions and Contact Zones
Saturday 14:00-16:00
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick
Discussant: Jaroslav Strnad
Claude Markovits, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
'Occidentalism from Below:
Indian Soldiers' Perceptions of the French and French Society during World War I
Joachim Osterheld, Humboldt University, Berlin
Indian Students and Germany
Harvard Session
Harvard Session 2005
Harvard University, Cambridge
October 28 and 29, 2005
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room SO20
Schedule
Friday, October 28
Panel I: Nineteenth-century philosophies
10:00-12:00
Chair: Emma Rothschild
Andrew Sartori , University of Chicago, Chicago. “Neo-Vedantic Idealism as a Philosophical Discourse of Modernity”
Discussant: Ben Zachariah
Peter Park , Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, “Darsana vs. Philosophy: German University Philosophers Debate India, 1790-1830”
Discussant: Sudipta Kaviraj
Lunch 12:00-3:30
Panel II: Scholars and Researchers
Friday 13:30-15:30
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick
Indra Sengupta , German Historical Institute, London, “Für die Wissenschaft verloren sein: German Indologists in Colonial India and the Question of Scholarship.”
Discussant: Harald Fischer-Tiné
Shruti Kapila , Tufts University, Boston, “Reorienting Race: Religion, Orientalism and Phrenology, India and Beyond, 1770s to 1870s.’s
Discussant: Manu Goswami
15:30-16:00 Break
Keynote Lecture:
Introduced by Sugata Bose
Chris Bayly, “Empires and Liberalism: Historicism and History in India in the Nineteenth Century”
41600-17:30, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room SO10
17:30-18:30 Reception
18:30 Taxis will take guests from CGIS to the Elephant Walk
19:00 Dinner at Elephant Walk
Saturday, October 29
Panel III: Orientalism
9:30-12:30
Chair: Sugata Bose
Suzanne Marchand , Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. “Race and Religion in Neoromantic German Indology”
Discussant: David Armitage
Roland Lardinois , Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. “Understanding India from the Periphery: Indological Scholarship in France (18th - 20th centuries)”
Discussant: Doug McGetchin
Kris Manjapra , Harvard University, "Red Orientalism: Communist Knowledge of South Asia and the Implicated Colonial Intellectual"
Discussant: Dilip Menon
Lunch 12:30-14:00
Panel IV: India in European National Consciousness
14:00-16:00
Chair: C.A. Bayly
Fabrizio de Donno , Cambridge University, "Aryanism and 'Romanità' in Post-unification Italian Indology"
Discussant: Amit Dasgupta and Stanislava Vavrouskova
Jaroslav Strnad , Charles University, Prague. “India as Reflected in the Czech Consciousness in the Era of the National Renaissance Movement in the Nineteenth Century”
Discussant: Claude Markovits