Opium Wars – Opium Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Opium Wars – Opium Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Veranstalter
Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Universität Bielefeld (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF))
Ausrichter
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF)
Veranstaltungsort
Bielefeld (digital)
PLZ
33615
Ort
Bielefeld
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
23.06.2021 - 24.06.2021
Website
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/AG/2021/06-23-Boehm-Schnitker.html
Von
Manuela Lenzen, Universität Bielefeld

Online Workshop convened by Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (Bielefeld)

Opium Wars – Opium Cultures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The conference 'Opium Wars – Opium Cultures' is to explore the two Opium Wars (1839-42; 1856-60) in their 19th-century contexts, particularly with regard to the fraught intersection of capitalism and imperialism, and it is to extend this view by an interdisciplinary, intercultural and transnational approach in order to take into account the very different historiographies of the events from a British, Chinese and Indian perspective. In addition, the conference is to sketch the cultural, historical and political legacies as well as current political reverberations and cultural appropriations of the Opium Wars. The innovative potential of the conference lies in its orientation towards the concept of global history and, what is more, the transnational and comparative analysis of the respective memory cultures. What was and is their impact on routes of migration, drug trafficking and international relations? How can their cultural afterlife be described? In which cultural channels, in which forms and according to which generic conventions are they represented and remembered? And finally, which concepts, approaches, methods and theories are required to tackle the complex legacies of these conflicts? To answer these questions, the conference is to bring together scholars from disciplines such as literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, health sciences, political science, Chinese and Indian studies.

Programm

WEDNESDAY – 23 JUNE

14:00 Welcome Address by Anika Haverig (Managing director of ZiF)
Introduction by PD Dr. Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
The Opium Wars: History, Logistics, Discourse

14:30 – 14:55 Kendall Johnson
W. A. P. Martin's Glorious Taiping Revolution: The Figurative Economy of Opium and the Revisionist Diplomacies of American Christendom
Respondent: Muren Zhang

14:55 – 15:30 Muren Zhang
Colonial Past, Emotive Politics and the Projection of Futurity in the Construction of the Bund of Shanghai
Respondent: Kendall Johnson

Plenary Discussion

15:30 – 15:45 – Break –

15:45 – 16:10 Yangwen Zheng
The Political Redefinition of Opium Smoking
Respondent: Susan Zieger

16:10 – 16:45 Susan Zieger
Clipper Ships and Container Ships: Logistics’ Drug Empires
Respondent: Yangwen Zheng
Plenary Discussion

16:45 – 17:00 – Break –

17:00 – 17:25 Martin Gieselmann
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Respondent: Oliver Pawlak

17:25 – 18:00 Oliver Pawlak
The Palliative Approach of the Opium-Eater: Entanglements of Bio-Medical and Economic Knowledge in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821/22)
Respondent: Martin Gieselmann

Plenary Discussion

THURSDAY – 24 JUNE
The Opium Wars: Transnational Afterlives

14:00 – 14:25 Martina Allen
Representations of Tea and Opium in Victorian Literature in the Context of the Opium Trade
Respondent: Charlotte Boyce

14:30 – 15:05 Charlotte Boyce
“The Poor Child’s Nurse”: Infant Opium Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain
Respondent: Martina Allen
Plenary discussion

15:05 – 15:20 – Break –

15:20 – 15:45 Gary McCulloch
The Opium Wars, Imperial History and the English School Curriculum
Respondent: Max Haiven

15:45 – 16:20 Max Haiven:
Beyond the Sacklers: Deeper Questions of Responsibility and Historical Resonance in the American Opioid Crisis
Respondent: Gary McCulloch
Plenary discussion

16:20 – 16:45 – Break –

16:45 – 17:10 Marie-Luise Kohlke:
The Soulless Trade: Re-Imagining Opium in Transnational Networks of Addiction
Respondent: Gigi Adair

17:10 – 17:45 Gigi Adair:
Remembering and Forgetting the Opium Wars in Timothy Mo and Amitav Ghosh
Respondent: Marie-Luise Kohlke

Plenary discussion
17:45 – 18:00 Conclusion: Round Table

– End of the Workshop –

Structure
- Talks (15-20 minutes)
- Responses (5 minutes)
- Plenary discussions (10 minutes)

Kontakt

marina.hoffmann@uni-bielefeld.de

https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/AG/2021/06-23-Boehm-Schnitker.html