Wednesday, 5 October 2011

WELCOME
Axel Michaels (Acting Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”)

Harald Fuess (Speaker of Research Area C “Health & Environment”, Conference Organiser)

KEYNOTE LECTURE I
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Chicago): “Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case”

Thursday, 6 October 2011

All day - Heidelberg Research Architecture: Poster-Presentation

PODIUM DISCUSSION I – ANCIENT MEDICINE
Chair: Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg)

Friedhelm Hoffman (Munich): “Egyptian Medicine”

Ann Ellis Hanson (Yale): “Medical Stories, Medicinal Recipes, & Amulets from the Hippocratics to Galen”

Vivian Nutton (London): “The Tyranny of the Text: Greek Medicine into Arabic”

PODIUM DISCUSSION II - CIRCULATION AND CHANGING OF CONCEPTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Dominic Steavu (Heidelberg)

Marta E. Hanson (Baltimore): “Visualizing the Geography of Diseases in China, 1870s-1920s”

Dhruv Raina (Delhi): “Knowledge ‘Engrafted’, Concepts ‘Entangled’: Departures from Conceptions of Radical Break and Discontinuity in Histories of the Sciences”

Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg): “Relocating Certainty in Late Qing China: Philosophy, Science, and the Call for a New Epistemology”

PANEL SESSION I

Politics, Civil Society and the Environment
Chair: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg), Discussant: Gerrit Schenk (Darmstadt)

Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle/Heidelberg): “Hoping for a Brighter Future: Nuclear Politics at the Local Level in Postwar Japan”

Ito Kimio (Kyoto): “The Fukushima Daiichi Case from the Viewpoint of Political and Cultural Sociology”

Kerstin Cuhls (Heidelberg): “National Foresight Activities revisited: Assumptions about Earthquake Prediction”

Between Beauty and Health: Visual Itineraries of Changing Bodies in China’s Transcultural Mediascapes (1900s-2000s)
Chair: Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg), Discussants: Christiane Brosius, Thomas Maissen, Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg)

Liying Sun (Heidelberg): “Nationalism, Athleticism, Phryneism and Transculturality: Changing Notions and Visual Representations of ‘Healthy Bodies’ in Chinese Pictorials (1900s-1940s)”

Ulrike Büchsel (Heidelberg): “Markers of Modernity: Healthy and Sexualized Bodies in Chinese Advertising (1920s-1930s)”

Xuelei Huang (Heidelberg): “Ideologies of the Leg: Women’s Legs and Changing Prototypes of the Ideal Woman on China’s Silver Screen (1920s-1970s)”

Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg): “From Small Feet to Large Hands and beyond: Propagating Beautiful and Healthy Bodies in China’s long 20th century”

Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg): “Between Health and Beauty: An Indian Perspective”

Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg), Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg): “Between Health and Beauty: A European Perspective”

PANEL SESSION II

Large Dams: Contested Environmental Knowledge of Riverscapes
Chair and Discussant: Thomas Lennartz (Heidelberg)

Ravi Baghel (Heidelberg): “Water flowing Waste to the Sea: Tracing a Genealogy of the Technocratic Understanding of Rivers in India”

Alexander Erlewein (Heidelberg): “The Re-evaluation of Dams in the Context of Climate Change: Debates, Policies, Consequences”

Miriam Seeger (Heidelberg): “The Nujiang Dams: A Contested Intellectual Frontier”

Nirmalya Choudhury (TU Berlin): “Legality and Legitimacy of Public Involvement in Infrastructure Planning: Observations from Hydropower Projects in India”

Across Time and Space: The Transcultural Cosmologies of Japanese Religions
Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)

Dominic Steavu (Heidelberg): “Cosmologizing the Self: Chinese Latromancic Technologies in Japanese Buddhist Sources”

Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg): “Mapping out the Cultic Mountains of Premodern Japan: the Case of Mt Asama”

D. Max Moerman (Barnard/Columbia): “Vasubhandu versus Copernicus: Japanese Buddhist Cosmology and the History of Science”

What can(not) be said in Revolutionary Times: Shifting Universal Concepts in Transnational Contexts
Chair: Antje Flüchter (Heidelberg)

Pascal Firges (Heidelberg): “France 1796: Is the Ottoman Empire a Constitutional or a Despotic State?”

Birte Herrmann (Heidelberg): “Tian’anmen Square 1989: What is ‘Democracy’?”

Julten Abdelhalim (Heidelberg): “Egypt 2011: Can Subjects become Citizens?”

KEYNOTE LECTURE II
Janet Hunter (London School of Economics): “The Markets have Collapsed into Complete Confusion: Market Operation after the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923”

Friday, 7 October 2011
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All day - Heidelberg Research Architecture: Poster-Presentation

PODIUM DISCUSSION III – SEASCAPES AND SHIPPING
Chair: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg), Discussant: Christopher Gerteis (London)

Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle/Heidelberg): “From Newcastle to New Nation: Japan, the World, and a Ship, 1884-1912”

Roland Wenzlhuemer (Heidelberg): “In Transit: Ship Newspapers and Life aboard Passenger Steamers, c. 1890”

Rolf Wippich (Tokyo/Lucerne): “19th Century Piracy and Anti-Piracy Measures in Chinese Waters”

PODIUM DISCUSSION IV - TRAVELLING TECHNOLOGIES, TRACING TRANSCULTURALITY: PARADIGM SHIFTS IN SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
Chair: William Sax (Heidelberg), Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Chicago)

Aditya Bharadwaj (Edinburgh): “Mobile Subjects, Immobile Technologies: Transnational Travel for Human Embryonic Stem Cells in India”

Sandra Bärnreuther (Heidelberg): “Biovalue: The Case of IVF in India”

PANEL SESSION III

Travelling Technologies, Tracing Transculturality: Paradigm Shifts in Science, Medicine and Society (part two)
Chair: William Sax (Heidelberg), Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Chicago)

Sinjini Mukherjee (Heidelberg): “New Technologies, Normative Ideals: Kidney Transplantation and Kins as Organ Donors in India”

Tsjalling Swierstra (Masstricht): “Forging a Fit Between Technology and Morality: The Dutch Debate on Organ Transplants and New Reproductive Technologies”

The Many Shapes of the World: Concurrent Regimes of Spatial Representation in Early Modern Asia
Chair: Frank Grüner (Heidelberg)

Monica Juneja (Heidelberg): “The 'Capricious Reversals' of Naturalist Vision - Pastiche as Art in Early Modern Eurasia”

Martin Hofmann and David Mervart (Heidelberg): “Chinese Sages and Dutch Measures — The Diverse Spatial Regimes of Nagakubo Sekisui (1717-1801)”

PANEL SESSION IV

“Stress”: Anthropological, Historical and Epidemiological Approaches to a "Modern" Phenomenon
Chair: Adrian Loerbroks (Heidelberg)

Hasan Ashraf (Heidelberg): “Exporting Garments, Importing Stress: The Effects of the Neoliberal Textile Production Regime on the Garment Workers’ Health in Bangladesh”

Saskia Rohmer (Heidelberg): “Stress: The History of a Western Concept”

Maria Steinisch and Adrian Loerbroks (Heidelberg): “Stress in Asia: Perspectives from Public Health”

Asymmetrical Translations: Mind and Body in Indian and Western Medicine
Chair: William Sax (Heidelberg)

William Sax (Heidelberg): “Healing Mind and Body in Kerala”

Johannes Quack (Heidelberg): “Asymmetrical Translation of Psychiatry in India”

Ananda Samir Chopra (Heidelberg): “Ayurvedic Nosologies and Biomedicine – Translations and Asymmetries”

PLENARY

Concluding Discussion and the Future of a Transcultural Studies Association