Thursday, 29 September
08.30-09.00 Registration and coffee/tea
09.00-09.15 Welcome
09.15-10.30 ROUNDTABLE
Chair: Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University)
Tim Harper (University of Cambridge)
Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney)
Susan Legêne (VU Amsterdam)
10.30-10.45 break
10.45-13.00 CONSTITUTIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND LEGAL DESIGN I
Chair: Janne Nijman (University of Amsterdam)
Arthur Weststeijn (KNIR) – Republican empire. Liberty and domination in the making of Dutch imperialism
Philip Stern (Duke University) – The Google of their times? The Dutch and English East India Companies and the politics of comparison, then and now
René Koekkoek (University of Amsterdam) – Revolution, civilization, and the colonial Charter of 1804
Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) – The fringes of enlightenment: Dutch colonialism in Asia 1750-1850
13.00-14.00 break
14.00-16.00 CONSTITUTIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND LEGAL DESIGN II
Chair: Janne Nijman (University of Amsterdam)
Sanne Ravensberger (Leiden University) – The fainted Jaksa. Rule of law ideals and liberal lawyers in colonial Java (1819-1900)
Romain Bertrand (Sciences Po, Paris) – Javanese visions of the Dutch empire. Early twentieth century Priyayi contributions to the reform (and demise) of Dutch colonialism
Jennifer Foray (Purdue University) – Comparatively exceptional: The paradoxes of 20th century Dutch imperialism in theory and practice
16.00-16.15 break
16.15-18.00 POLITICAL ECONOMY I
Chair: Bart Luttikhuis (KITLV, Leiden)
Catia Antunes (Leiden University) – Historiographical entrenched views on the Dutch Empire: Selected visions, comfortable perceptions and the problems of comparison
Matthias van Rossum (IISH, Amsterdam) – Slave trade and slavery in the Dutch Asian empire
Pernille Roge (University of Pittsburgh) – Dutch Caribbean free ports through a Danish and French imperial lens, ca. 1750-1800
Friday 30 September
09.00-10.15 POLITICAL ECONOMY II
Chair: Crystal Ennis (Leiden University)
Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University/University of Helsinki) – Carthage must be preserved: Global trade and commercial empire from a Dutch 18th century perspective
Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University) – The political economy of the late colonial state in Indonesia
10.15-10.30 break
10.30-12.30 PRODUCTION AND CULTURES OF KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Mariana Françozo (Leiden University)
Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington) – Gulliver's scruples and visions of empire
Bart Verheijen (Radboud University Nijmegen) – Dutch resistance against the Napoleonic empire
Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV, Leiden) – Beyond a Dutch empire, beyond ‘Indonesia’. Networks of scholars, pilgrims and gurus, and moral geographies of Greater India, 1920s-1980s
12.30-13.30 break
13.30-15.00 IMPERIAL MEMORIES
Chair: Elizabeth Buettner (University of Amsterdam)
Remco Raben (Utrecht University) – tba
Paul Bijl (University of Amsterdam) – Postcolonial memory activism: Restaging anticolonial resistance
15.00-15.30 CLOSING REMARKS
Tim Harper (University of Cambridge)
Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney)
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16.00 Academy Building, Groot Auditorium
Inaugural lecture professor Michiel van Groesen (Maritime History, Leiden University) – Een zee van mensen (in Dutch)
Venue
Museum voor Volkenkunde, Paviljoen
Steenstraat 1, Leiden
More info & registration
a.weststeijn@knir.it