Perhaps I was too influenced by the post-film Q&A- Oppenheimer overplayed his notion of how personal responsibility could make monstrous killers out of any of us.

Princeton University, 19E20 April, 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013

2:00 pm: Afternoon session: Regions and Intersections

Ben Baer (Comparative Literature, Princeton): Welcoming Remarks

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor, Columbia): “Regionalizing the Globe: History and Overview.”

Peter van der Veer (Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen): “Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif.”

Hari Vasudevan (History, Calcutta University): “Defining and
redefining the Eurasia-India connection: The Changing History of
Russian Travel Narratives.”

Moderator: Ritu Birla (History, University of Toronto)

5:00 pm Finish session

Saturday, April 20, 2013

~ 9:00 am: Coffee, breakfast ~ Gallery Area

10:00 am: Morning Session: Senegambian Regionality

Ibrahima Thioub: (History, Centre Africain de Recherches sur les Traites et les Esclavages, Dakar, Senegal): “Saint-Louis du Sénégal: From Atlantic Enclave to Colonial Capital; History of a Long Tradition of Diversity.”

Sylvain Sankalé (History of Law and Social & Economic Facts, Dakar): “Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Crossroads of Worlds.”

Mamadou Diouf (MESAAS/History/Institute of African Studies,
Columbia University): “Writing Freedom Papers: Wolof and French Concepts at the Notary.”

Moderator: Émilienne Baneth-Nouailhetas

~12:00 noon: Lunch ~ Gallery Area

1:00 pm: Afternoon Session 1: Empire and Region

John Hutnyk (Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, London): “The East as a Career’ – How Disraeli, Marx, Charnok and Clive met in India”

Nikita Dhawan (Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt): “From Imperial Regionalism to Anti-Imperialist Regionalizing: Challenges and Prospects”

Rémy Bazenguissa (Sociology, Lille): :“Between Central Africa and East and South-East Asia: The New Concessionary Companies”

Moderator: Charles Armstrong (History, Columbia)

~ 3:00 pm: Coffee/Tea break ~

3:30pm: Afternoon Session 2: Crossings: By River and Land

Lakshmi Subramaniam (Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta): “The River and its Radial Geographies: Old Perspectives, New Questions”

William Dalrymple (Writer and Historian, New Delhi): “Anglo-French Transculturation in the Eighteenth century India: The case of the White Mughals of Hyderabad, Michel Raymond and James Achilles Kirkpatrick”

Zhao Bole (College of International Relations, Yunnan University): “Yunnan (Kunming): the important land channel between China and South Asia.”

Moderator: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (French, Columbia)