Dr. Indra Sengupta, German Historical Institute London, Dr. Daud ALi, SOAS, University of London
Thursday, 13.11.2008 (at GHI London)
14:00 Welcome (Andreas Gestrich, Director GHI London) and Introduction
14:15-16:00 Panel 1: Missionaries, Knowledge and Education [Chair: Avril Powell, SOAS]
Heike Liebau (Centre of Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin), Mission, Company and Government printing presses in 18th century South India
Karen Vallgårda (University of Copenhagen), Adam’s Escape. Danish Missionary Ideology and Power in the Boarding School in Melpattambakkam 1863-1874
Helge Wendt (University of Mannheim), Knowledge Production “on the Spot”: Missionaries and their Educational Programs in Colonial India
16:00-16:30 Tea break
16:30-18:15 Panel 2: Framing words and objects [Chair: Daud Ali, SOAS]
Kate Teltscher (Roehampton University), Hobson-Jobson and the OED
Anne-Julie Etter (Université Denis Diderot/ Paris 7), Antiquarian knowledge, museums and preservation of the Indian monuments at the turn of the 19th century
Geoffrey Oddie (University of Sydney), Missions and Museums: Hindu Gods and Other Abominations
Friday, 14.11.2008 (at GHI London)
9:00-11:20 Panel 3: Producing Space, making History [Chair: Indra Sengupta, GHI London]
Michael S. Dodson (University of Indiana at Bloomington), The Muslim City in Decline: Visions of Jaunpur in the Nineteenth Century
Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University), Promoting Scientism: Institutions for Gathering and Disseminating Knowledge in British Bihar
Chitralekha Zutshi (College of William and Mary), Rajatarangini and the Making of Colonial Historical Knowledge in Kashmir
David Lelyveld (William Paterson University), The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Āsār al-Sanādīd
11:20-11:50 Tea break
11:50-13:00 Panel 4: Debates on Knowledge and Pedagogy 1 [Chair: Markus Daechsel, Royal Holloway College]
Catriona Ellis (Edinburgh University), Policeman or creator? A study of pedagogical theories in the Madras Presidency, 1930s
Iqbal Singh Sevea (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Schooling the Muslim: Debates over Muslim education in late colonial India
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:40 Panel 5: Debates on Knowledge and Pedagogy 2 [Chair: Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Nottingham Trent University]
Alan M. Guenther (Briercrest College), Syed Mahmood and his History of English Education in India
SA Zaidi (University of Cambridge), Ilm ya taleem? [Knowledge or education?] Contested practices countering zillat: Muslims in north India, c. 1860-1900
15:40-16:10 Tea break
18:00-19:00 Keynote lecture: What’s in a (proper) name? Authorship, nomenclature and individuals in the Linguistic Survey of India, 1894-1928
Javed Majeed (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Saturday, 15.11.2008 (at SOAS, Room 116)
9:00-10:10 Panel 6: Pedagogy in Practice: Schooling sensibilities [Chair: Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway]
Margrit Pernau (Max-Planck-Institute Berlin), Teaching emotions. Victorian values and sharafat in 19th century Delhi
Bhavani Raman (Princeton University), Learning recollection in the Tinnai School in Nineteenth-century South India
10:10-10:40 Tea break
10:40:11:50 Panel 7: Pedagogy in Practice: textbooks and curriculum [Chair: Talat Ahmed, Goldsmiths College London]
Amrita Shodhan (Independent Scholar, London), The understanding of caste and Hinduism in early nineteenth century Gujarat as reflected in judicial practice, reformist writings and school textbooks
Vikas Gupta (University of Delhi), The Paradox of Curricular Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century: Pundits, Molvis, Missionaries and the Raj
11:50-13:00 Panel 8: Reformers and Institutions [Chair: Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi]
Jeffrey M. Diamond (Charleston College), The Orientalist-Indian Literati Relationship in the Northwest: G.W. Leitner, Muhammad Hussain Azad and the Contestation of Knowledge in Colonial Lahore
Gail Minault (University of Texas at Austin), Aloys Sprenger: German Orientalism’s ‘Gift’ to Delhi College
13:00-13:15 closing remarks
13:15 Lunch