DAY 1 November 28, 2011 (Mon)
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:40
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10:40-10:55
10:55-12:25
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12:25-13:30
13:30-15:00
Registration
Opening Session
Dr. Atsushi Ota (CAPAS)
-Welcome Speech (1), Prof. Cheng-Yi Lin (CAPAS)
-Welcome Speech (2), Dr.
Chiu Hsin-Hui (National Tsing Hua University)
-Opening Speech, Prof. Chen Kuo-tung (Institute of History and Philology,
Academia Sinica)
-Keynote Speech:
“Self-defeating Interventions: Dutch, French and English Master Plans for the Indonesian Archipelago during the Age of Revolution,” Prof.
Leonard Blussé
(Leiden University)
Coffee Break
Session I Changing Social Order
Prof. Kang Pei-te (National Donghwa University)
-Class conflict in the eve of the early colonial encounter: A study into the continuities and discontinuities of the class relations in the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries in Sri Lanka, Nirmal Dewasiri (Colombo University)
-Struggle for Social Order: Crime and Law Enforcement in Eighteenth-Century
Ommelanden of Batavia, Bondang Kaminoyoso (University of Indonesia)
-Emergence of Sugar-Producing Society in East Java: The Role of Local Agents,
Sri Margana (Gajah Mada University)
Dr. Kwee Hui Kian (Toronto University)
Lunch Break
Session II Trade and Its Impacts
Chair: Prof. Ann Heylen (National Taiwan Normal University)
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18:00
DAY 2
9:30-10:40
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15:00-15:15
15:15-16:45
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10:40-10:55
10:55-12:05
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-“External Factor in Internal Change”: European Trade and Socio-Economic
Transformation in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Vietnam, Huan An-Tuan
(Hanoi University)
-Smuggling and the Formation of the Modern State in the Nineteenth Century:
From the Japanese Case, Ryuto Shimada (Seinan Gakuin University)
Chinese Tea and the Dutch Social Life of the Modern Period, Liu Yong (Xiamen
University)
Prof.
Chang Pin-Tsun (Center for Maritime History, Academia Sinica)
Coffee Break
Session III Maritime Actors and States
Dr. Chih-Hui Liang (CAPAS)
-Piracy and State-Formation on the South-West Coast of India in the Eighteenth
Century, Binu John Mailaparambil (Bielefeld University)
-Maritime Radicalism: Piracy and Early Colonial State Formation in the Arabian
Sea, Ghulam Nadri (Georgia State University)
-Migration, Violence, and State: Raja Akil and Sea People in West Kalimantan, c.
1780-1850, Atsushi Ota (CAPAS)
Mr. Cheng Wei-Chung (National Taiwan University)
Dinner
November 29, 2011 (Tue)
Session IV Changing Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Its Remnant
Mr. Cha Hsin (Fu Jen Catholic University)
-The erosion of the VOC. The VOC and its search for alternatives to decline
(1740-1796), Chris Nierstrasz (University of Warwick)
-Continuing networks and changing alliances: former VOC employees and
Burghers in Sri Lanka during the contraction of the Dutch Empire in Asia, 1796 –
1815, Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University)
Dr.
Po-Ching Yu (National Tsing-Hua university)
Coffee Break
Session V Overseas Communities
Prof. Chu Hong-yuan (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
-Chinese social-cultural associations and financing capacities in Indonesia,
19th-20th century, Kwee Hui Kian (Toronto University)
- The Chinese seamen of the English East India Company, 1780s-1833, Po-Ching
Yu (National Tsing-Hua university)
Dr. Chiu Hsin-Hui (National Tsing-Hua Unviersity)
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12:05-12:50
13:00
DAY 3
9:30-10:40
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10:40-10:55
Mr. Li-Fan Lee (National Tsing-Hua university)
Lunch Break
Short Tour to Jingguashi and Jiufen
November 30, 2011 (Wed)
Session VI Knowledge and Belief
Dr. Chih-Hui Liang (CAPAS)
-Indigenous Response to Western Science: Knowledge and Learning in Northern
India (1750-1850), Anjana Singh (London School of Economics)
-Development of Mazu Worship in Tainan in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Chu Hong-yuan (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
Mr. Cha Hsin (Fu Jen Catholic University)
Coffee Break
10:55-11:50
Chair:
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Session VII General Discussion
Dr.
Atsushi Ota (CAPAS)
Leonard Blussé (Leiden University)
Chen Kuo-tung (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
Chu Hong-yuan (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
Closing Remark, Dr.
Atsushi Ota (CAPAS)
11:50-12:30 Lunch Break
12:30-14:00 Bus trip from Academia Sinica to National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu
15:00-18:00 Encompass Meeting
Details to be announced
18:00
DAY 4
Dinner
December 1, 2011 (Thu)
9:30-12:00
Chair:
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12:00-12:30
12:30-14:20
14:20-14:30
14:30-16:30
MA Student Session
Dr. Chiu Hsin-Hui (National Tsing Hua University)
-“Midwife or dukun bayi
?” Midwife training system in Dutch East Indies, c.1850-1915,
Chen Hui-Hsuan (National Tsing Hua University)
-The Emily Incident and Sino-Anglo-American Trilateral Relations: A Review and
Proposal, Lee Li-Fan (National Tsing Hua University)
-The Zheng Zhilong's private army, Zheng Ministry, Lu Cheng-Heng (National
Tsing Hua University)
Wij kennen U well!
: on Indigenous Formosans Shaping the Dutch Encounters at
Both Ends of the Island (ca. 1624-1668), Yedda Palemeq
Lunch
Honorary Lecture by Prof. Leonard Blussé
Coffee Break
Roundtable Session: Monsoon Asia since the Early Modern Era
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DAY 5
9:00-20:00
DAY 6
10:00-14:30
17:30
18:00
Details to be announced
Dinner
December 2, 2011 (Fri)
Excursion
High Speed Railway Trip from Hsinchu to Tainan
Sightseeing (Museum of Taiwan History, Fort Zeelandia, Tait & Co., Eternal
Golden Castle, and Chihken Tower)
Dinner
Night market
Hotel in Tainan
December 3, 2011 (Sat)
Excursion
Sightseeing (Museum of Taiwan Literature, Confucian Temple, South Gate Park,
Five-Concubine Temple, ancient city wall, Red building, Koxinga shrine)
High Speed Railway Trip from Tainan
Arrival at Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)
Arrival in Taipei
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