Sunday, 14th May 2017

13.00-13.30

Martin Krieger, Kiel
Welcome

Anna-Margaretha Horatschek, Kiel
Identities in Context
General Introduction

I. Fashioning Identities

13.30-14.20
S. Jeyaseela Stephen, Pondicherry
Identity Formation and Knowledge Transfer: France and India during the 19th and 20th Century

14.20-15.10
Poonam Trivedi, Delhi
India and Northern Europe: Identity Formation, Nation and Knowledge Transfer in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Coffee Break 15.10-15.20

15.20-16.10
Tobias Delfs, Kiel
‘a kind of spiritual mother-country’: The Kiel Philosopher Paul Deussen and Identity-building in 19th-century India and Germany

Coffee Break 16.10-16.30

II. Negotiating Hybrid Identities

16.30-17.15
Silke Stroh, Münster
Indian Dimensions in Scottish National Identity:
Bashabi Fraser’s Engagement with the Literary and Visual Archive

17.15-18.00
Gur Pyari Jandial, Agra
Transforming Cultural Identities: A Study in Punjabi Diasporic Experience in Britain with SpecialRreference to Meera Syal’s Anita and Me and Life Isn’t all Ha Ha Hee Hee, and Sandhya Suri’s I for India

Dinner/Buffet 18:00 – 18:45

19.00-20.00
Sujata Bhatt, Poet, Bremen
”Search for My Tongue”
Poetry Reading with Discussion

Monday, 15th May 2017

III. Appropriating Material Cultures

9.30-10.15
Milinda Banerjee, Kolkata
Landscape as Transnational Political Thought: Scotland, Scandinavia, and Bengali Nationalism, ca. 1870-1910

10.15-11.00
Linda Andersson Burnett, Stockholm
‘My venerated example’: A Linnaean Model for the Scottish Highlands

11.00-11.20
Coffee Break

11.20-12.10
Ulrike Kirchberger, Kassel
German Scientists, the British Empire and the Indian Ocean World:
Ecological Networks and Transfers between India, Australia and Africa, 1850-1920

12.10-13.00
Lunch Break/Snacks

13.30-18.00
Excursion: Viking Heritage

Evening at Individual Disposal

Tuesday, 16th May 2017

IV. ‘Singular’ Identities?

9.00-9.50
Narve Fulsås, Tromsø
From Vernacular to National Culture: Norway in the Nineteenth Century.

9.50-10.40
Widaratih Kamiso, Jogyakarta/Kiel
Nation-Building and Writing History in the Soeharto Era.

Coffee Break 10.40-11.00

11.00-11.50
Jan Schlürmann, Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein 1830-2017. Regional Identities from Pre-Nation to Post-Nation

11.50-12.30
Martin Krieger, Kiel
Between Iceland and India: Rasmus Rask in Search of Language and Identity