Day 1: 21 July 2022
Venue: Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Olbers-Saal

10.00–10.30 am (CET): Welcome and Registration (Haus der Wissenschaft, 2nd Floor)

OPENING LECTURE

10.30–11.00 am (CET): Avner Ofrath (University of Bremen): Urban Violence and Coexistence at the Twilight of Empire

11.00 am–12.30 pm (CET) PANEL 1: GOVERNING URBAN SPACES

Jennifer Hart (Wayne State University): Ideal Housing: The Politics of Building and Living in 20th Century Accra

Javed Iqbal Wani (Ambedkar University Delhi): Regulating ‘Hooligans’ and ‘Mawaalis’ in the City: Communalism, Collective Action and the Politics of Public Order in Late Colonial India

Geert Castryck (Leipzig University): From “Ethnic” to Spatial: Overcoming Inter-Community Conflict through the Reorganization of Neighbourhood Administration in Colonial Ujiji (1930s–1940s)

Chair: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Bremen)

12.30–01.30 pm (CET): Lunch Break

01.30–03.00 pm (CET) PANEL 2: PLACES OF ENCOUNTER

Yasmina El Chami (Anglia Ruskin University): ‘Collective’ Colonialism: Missionary Competition as Sectarian Project in Nineteenth-Century Beirut

Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University): Colonial Towns in the Periphery: The Social Worlds of Sandakan and Jesselton, c. 1900s–1930s

Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville (Victoria University): Bazaar Lives: Communities, Commodities and Urban Reform in Calcutta

Chair: Julia Hauser (University of Kassel)

03.00–03.30 pm (CET): Coffee Break

03.30–05.00 pm (CET) PANEL 3: CONFLICT, PROTEST, AND CONTROL

Halimat Titilola Somotan (Carnegie Mellon University): Property Disputes and Everyday Histories in Epetedo, Colonial Lagos, 1927–1946

Sugata Nandi (West Bengal State University): From Unity to Conflict: Nationalism and Communalism in Neighbourhoods of Colonial Calcutta, 1919–1926

Norman Aselmeyer (University of Bremen): Mau Mau in Nairobi: Urban Networks of Unrest

Chair: Cornelius Torp (University of Bremen)

05.00–05.30 pm (CET): Coffee Break

05.30–06.30 pm (CET) KEYNOTE LECTURE

Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin): Did Colonialism Segregate Cities?

Day 2: 22 July 2022
Venue: Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Olbers-Saal

09.30–11.00 am (CET) PANEL 4: CITIES AND CITIZENS

Madhu (University of Delhi): Empowered or Exploited: Migrant Women and Mechanisms of Control in Colonial Cities

Mikko Toivanen (University of Warsaw): Staging a Colonial Capital: Managing Ethnic Diversity through Urban Culture and Public Spectacle in Singapore and Batavia, 1860–1900

Larissa Kopytoff (University of South Florida): Of Boundaries and Banlieues: Citizens, Subjects, and Neighbours in Senegal’s Four Communes

Chair: Julia Lossau (University of Bremen)

11.00–11.30 am (CET): Coffee Break

11.30 am–01.00 pm (CET) PANEL 5: OLD NEIGHBOURHOODS, NEW NEIGHBOURHOODS

Elia Etkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Neighbours Living Together and Apart: Intercommunal Dynamics in a Jewish Neighbourhood in Mandatory Palestine

Tim Livsey (Northumbria University): Nigerians and the Ikoyi ‘European Reservation’ in the 1920s and 1930s

Monia Bousnina (Université Sétif I): Coexistence in the Colonial City of Algeria: The Case of the Harat in Sétif

Chair: Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

01.00–02.00 pm (CET): Lunch Break

02.00–03.30 pm (CET) PANEL 6: LOST IN TRANSITION?

Rila Mukherjee (University of Hyderabad): Re-Orienting the Bengal Delta (ca. 1690–1990)

Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Rage Against the Machine in the Mellah of Fes

Nora Lafi (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin): Traumatic Transitions and Forms of Popular Resilience in a Neighbourhood of Tunis from Colonisation to the Aftermaths of WWII

Chair: Avner Ofrath (University of Bremen)

03.30–04.00 pm (CET): Closing Discussion: Colonial Cities and Neighbour Relations