Thursday, 28 January 2021
Session 1: Comparisons, Changes and Momentums of its Own: General Considerations I
Chair: Daniel Schley, Bonn
13:00 - 13:40
Jeroen Duindam, Leiden:
Rulers and Courts: Structures, Cyclical Change, and Development
13:40 - 14:20
Stephan Conermann, Bonn:
Why Not India? How Modern was the Mughal Empire in the 18th Century?
14:20 - 14:40 Break
14:40 - 15:20
Chris Wickham, Oxford:
The Limits of Pre-capitalist Economic Change
15:20 - 16:00
Michael J. Puett, Harvard:
The Dynamics of Change: Re-Thinking Comparative History
16:00 - 17:00
What to Take Away?
Final Discussion (with short Introduction by the Organizers)
Friday, 29 January 2021
Session 3: Lordship, Estates and Inherent Dynamism I
Chair: Achim Mittag, Tübingen
13:00 - 13:40
Kiyoshi Jinno, Tokyo:
The Dynamism of Kamakura Shogunate Litigation:
Power, Choice, and Fairness
13:40 - 14:20
Takemitsu Morikawa, Tokyo:
Communication Structure in Early Modern Japan.
Openness and Closeness of Social Systems
14:20 - 14:40 Break
Session 4: Lordship, Estates and Inherent Dynamism II
Chair: Ulla Kypta, Hamburg
14:40 - 15:20
Wolfgang Schwentker, Osaka:
Lords in Motion: The Duty of Alternate Residence in Tokugawa Japan
15:20 - 16:00
Marion Eggert, Bochum:
Consensus Orientation and Culture of Presence: An Assessment of Evidence from Korean Court Culture (16th to 18th ct.)
16:00 - 17:00
What to Take Away?
Final Discussion (with short Introduction by the Organizers)
Saturday, 30 January 2021
Session 5: Kinship and Social Distinction: Inherent Dynamism?
Chair: Eleonora Rohland, Bielefeld
13:00 - 13:40
Simon Teuscher, Zürich:
The Rise of Privileges and Discrimination based on Descent in Western Europe
13:40 - 14:20
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard:
Inventing Ancestors in Pre-modern Korea
14:20 - 14:40
Break
Session 6: Inherent Dynamism and Status Formation of Elites
Chair: Stefan Gorißen, Bielefeld
14:40 - 15:20
Duncan Hardy, Orlando/Florida:
Inherent Dynamism in a Pre-Modern Multilateral Order: Horizontal Ties between Elites and Political Change in Central Europe, c. 1250-1550
15:20 - 16:00
Verena Krebs, Bochum:
All the King’s Treasures: Religious Reforms, Material Culture and Power Consolidation in Late Medieval Ethiopia
16:00 - 17:00
What to Take Away?
Final Discussion (with short Introduction by the Organizers)