Day 1. Wednesday, 22 January
08.30-09.15: Registration and reception with coffee and tea.
Let’s start on time! Please make sure to be present in the conference room at
09.30-09.40: Word of welcome. Opening Conference.
09.45-10.45: Keynote 1.
Prof. dr. Robert Cribb (Australian National University).
10.45-11.15: Coffee Break
11.15-13.00: Panel 1. Negotiated and Indirect Rule in Borderlands and Frontier Spaces.
Chair: Bente de Leede (Leiden University)
Discussant: Carolien Stolte (Leiden University)
Sohini Sengupta (Tata Institute Of Social Sciences – Mumbai)
Twelve Brother Archers: Rituals of Rule among Forest Dwelling Communities and Colonial Re-Interpretations in East-Central India.
Scott Abel (Kean University)
Piracy in the Malay World during the 19th Century.
Eric Vanden Buscche (University Of Tokyo)
Colonial Statecraft and Legal Practices in the Sino-Burmese Borderlands, 1902-1940s.
Francesca Fuoli (University Of Bern)
Afghan Itinerant State Builders: Native Intermediaries of the British Empire and the Making of Frontier Governance.
13.00 - 14.00: Lunchbreak
14.00 - 15.30: Panel 2. Business Collaborations & Commercial Intermediaries.
Chair: Sander Tetteroo (Leiden University)
Discussant: Preeti Chopra (International Institute Asian Studies)
David Baillargeon (University of Nottingham)
Spaces of Occupation: The Corporation and the Colonial State in British Malaya, 1895-1958.
Nicholas Miller (University of Lisbon)
Chinese Merchants, Indigenous Monarchs and Euro-American Agents: Governing Migration across the Southeast Asia and the Pacific during the Nineteenth Century.
Santy Kouwagam (Leiden University)
Developing Enclaves in Indonesia: Family, Law and Urban Land Acquisitions.
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.30: Panel 3. Contested Authority and Relations between State and Local Communities.
Chair: Girija Joshi (Leiden University)
Discussant: Abdul Wahid (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
Grace Leksana (KITLV; Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)
Continuing Patronage Relation: State, Society and Rural Inequalities in East Java.
Rituparna Sengupta (Housing and Land Rights Network)
Land Contestation and Post-Colonial Trajectories of the Urban in Lumding Railway Township
Maarten Manse (Leiden University)
Conflict, Compromise and Adaptation: the Reciprocal Construction of Tax Policy in The Netherlands Indies, 1870-1927
17.30-19.30: Pub quiz/Drinks
Day 2. Thursday, 23 January
09.00-09.15: Welcome day 2, coffee and tea.
Let’s start on time! Please make sure to be present at 09.30!
09.30-10.30: Keynote 2. Prof. dr. Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas at Austin).
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.45: Panel 4. Spiritual and Religious Brokers, Interactions & Institutes.
Chair: Maarten Manse (Leiden University)
Discussant: Farish Ahmad-Noor (Nanyang Technological University)
Pocut Hanifah (Coimbra University)
Call of the Bishops: The Obstruction of Post-Colonial International Diplomacy by the Catholic Dioceses of Timor and Bishops' Conference of Indonesia.
Nicholas Chan (University of Cambridge)
The (Islamic) Management of Savagery: Islam and Counter- Subversion in Colonial and Postcolonial Malaysia.
Anushka Kahandagama (South Asian University)
Buddhist Reformist Movement in the 19th century Sri Lanka under the British Rule: Manufacturing of Buddhist Modern Subjects.
Eka Ningtyas (INALCO)
Javanism and Marriage Law in Indonesia until 1974.
12.45–13.45: Lunchbreak
13.45-15.15: Panel 5. Disasters: (Post)colonial Governance, Societal Action and Local Consequences
Chair: TBA
Discussant: TBA
Sander Tetteroo (Leiden University / Gadjah Mada University)
State, Society and Two Volcanoes: Disaster Relief, Social Activism and Legitimacy in (Post-)Colonial Indonesia, c. 1900-1965.
Eleonor Marcussen (Linnaeus University/Erfurt University)
“And there are Political Earthquakes”: Disaster Governance, Nation Building and State Formation.
Girija Joshi (Leiden University)
Making famines. Ecology and ambition in an agrarian frontier, c.1800-1900.
15.15-15.45: Coffee Break
15.45-17:15: Panel 6. Subaltern Experiences of Governance
Chair: TBA
Discussant: Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas at Austin)
Jessica Hinchy (Nanyang Technological University)
Child-State Interactions on the Social Margins: Colonial North India, c. 1860-1900.
Niyati Shenoy (Columbia University)
The Rajah, the Rapist and the Resident: Sex and Governance in Early Colonial Rajputana.
Kristina Hodelin-ter Wal (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Using Empire: Tamils as Agents of the British, 1867-1933.
17.15-22.00: Drinks and conference dinner
Day 3. Friday, 24 January
09.00-09.15: Welcome day 3, coffee and tea.
Let’s start on time! Please make sure to be present at 09.30!
09.30-11.00:Panel 7. Diplomacy, Negotiation & Strategies of Colonial Governance.
Chair: TBA
Discussant: Remco Raben (University of Amsterdam)
Tanja Bührer (University of Bern)
The Transition from Intercultural Diplomacy to an Exclusive European International Law and Indirect Rule: European and Asian Intermediaries at the Court of Hyderabad, c. 1770-1815.
Stefan Eklöff Amirell (Linnaeus University)
Coping with Colonialism: Strategies and Perceptions of American Colonial Rule in the Sulu Sultanate, 1904−1906.
Philip Post (Leiden University)
Governors, Regents and Intermediaries: an Exploration of the Practices and Rituals of Colonial Authority in Ambon at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.
11.00-11-30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.00: Panel 8. (Dis)continuities, Historical Legacies & Narratives of Statecraft.
Chair: TBA
Discussant: TBA
Douglas Kammen (National University of Singapore)
The Colonial Origins of post-1998 Demands for the Creation of New Provinces: Kalimantan and Sulawesi.
Sowparnika Balaswaminathan (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
Historical Frames and Contemporary Archives: Challenging the Narratives on Governmentality and Caste.
Tyler A. Lehrer (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Monks, Ministers, and Virtuous Kings: Histories of Early Modern Buddhist Revival in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Southern Asia.
13.00-14.00: Lunchbreak
14.00-14.45: Keynote 3 (Closing Note). Dr. Farish Ahmad-Noor (Nanyang Technological University).
14.45-15.15: Closing conference
15.15-: Optional: museum visit and drinks