Wednesday, December 14, 2016:
10:00 am – 4:30 pm, SFB 1199, Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6-10, Leipzig
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction of the research groups by Laurence MCFALLS, Speaker of the IRTG at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, Université de Montréal, and Steffi MARUNG, Senior Researcher in the Central Project of the SFB 1199, University of Leipzig
Matthias MIDDELL (SFB 1199, Leipzig)
The French Revolution as a Moment of Re-spatialization
Nari SHELEKPAYEV (IRTG Diversity, Montreal)
What is a Capital City? A Reflection on the Elaboration and Typologies of Contemporary Capital Cities, 1850-2000
Till VAN RAHDEN (IRTG Diversity, Montreal)
Democratic Spaces
(lunch)
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Megan MARUSCHKE (SFB 1199, Leipzig)
Zones of Reterritorialization: India’s Free Trade Zones, 1947-1980s
Mohamed BOUKAYEO (SFB 1199, Leipzig)
Reforming Food Subsidies, Digitizing State-Society Relations: Egypt's Smart Card System
Ahmed HAMILA (IRTG Diversity, Montreal)
Spaces and Power: Migration and Homosexuality
(coffee break)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Elisabeth TUTSCHEK (IRTG Diversity, Montreal)
Multilingual (Mental) Spaces and the (Un)Translatability of Heterogeneous Narratives
Antje DIETZE (SFB 1199, Leipzig)
Cultural Mediation and Brokerage
(coffee break)
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Centre for Area Studies, Thomaskirchhof 20, Leipzig:
“Druckfrisch” Book Launch, in collaboration with the Centre for Area Studies and the European Network in Universal and Global History
Ulf Engel, Heidrun Zinecker, Frank Mattheis, Antje Dietze, Thomas Plötze, eds., The New Politics of Regionalism. Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific (Routledge 2016)
Moderation: Jon SCHUBERT, Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig
Reception at CAS followed by conference dinner at restaurant
Thursday, December 15, 2016:
10:00 am – 1:30 pm, SFB 1199, Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6-10, Leipzig:
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Gabriele PISARZ-RAMIREZ (SFB 1199, Leipzig)
Spatial Fictions: Imagining Space in the Southern and Western Peripheries of the 19th-century United States
Eva BISCHOFF (IRTG Diversity, Trier)
Looking for an Elm Tree: Imagining Settler Space|Time in 1830s Van Diemen’s Land
Ninja STEINBACH-HÜTHER (SFB 1199, Leipzig)
Geographic Societies and Spatial Imaginations. The Example of Marseille in a Global Context
(coffee break)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Nikolas SCHALL (IRTG Diversity, Trier)
The World Social Forum in Montreal as an Illustration of a Utopian Space –Understanding Social Complexity by Using the Concept of a “Global Assemblage”
Laurence MCFALLS (IRTG Diversity, Montreal)
Spaces of Memory
Closing discussion on future collaboration
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Farewell lunch