LEIDEN-WARWICK CONFERENCE 7 - 8 MAY 2012
Leiden, 18 April 2012
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
From Sunday 6th to Tuesday 8th of May, Professor Maxine Berg will visit the Historical
Institute of Leiden University with a research group of five post-doc students who are all
working on two of her present research themes:
'Eurasian Trade and European Markets 1600-1830’: a study of Asian export ware, produced
for and traded in the consumer markets of Europe and the Atlantic world.
and
‘Wealth and Knowledge: the Transmission of Useful Knowledge 1600-1850’: a study of how
craft, tacit and formal knowledge was transmitted among manufacturers, especially in luxury
goods across Europe and between Europe and Asia.’
On the occasion of the visit of our colleagues from Warwick and the PhD defense of Andreas
Weber (on Tuesday afternoon), we organise on Monday, 7 May and Tuesday morning, 8 May
a small symposium, aimed to strengthen the mutual relations, hopefully resulting in even
closer collaboration.
Please send an email to Marijke van Wissen (m.c.e.wissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl) to let us
know whether you intend to participate. I shall be in China until April 30.
Hoping to see you soon,
Leonard Blussé
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Monday 7 May 2012:
Venue:
Seminar Room Huizinga Institute, Doelensteeg 16, Second floor
Maximum number of participants 25 people.
09.00-09.15
Coffee/Tea
09.15-09.30
Words of Welcome by Leonard Blussé (chairman)
09.30-10.00
Introduction of her team by Prof. Dr. Maxine Berg
10.00-11.00
Maxine Berg: "Europe's Asian Centuries"
The members of the Warwick research group will give
short ten-minute talks:
Felicia Gotmann: “Forbidden passions: Indian textiles in
eighteenth-century France”
Chris Nierstrasz: "The desire for Asian goods: the
ordering lists of the VOC (1700-1780)"
Hanna Hodacs: "Peripheral Emporiums - selling Chinese
Silk in Gothenburgh and Copenhagen in the mid-18th
century"
11.00-12.30
Discussion
12.30-14.00
Lunch (everybody invited)
14.00-14.30
Short introduction of the Empires project by Prof. Dr.
Jos Gommans, a project that he and Prof. Dr. Jeroen
Duindam are directing.
14.30-15.30
Leiden PhD candidates, PhD’s and Postdocs will give 10
minutes introductions to their research. (Preliminary):
Alicia Schrikker: “Disaster Management in Colonial times””
Murari Kumar Jha: “Mother Ganges”
Manjusha Kuruppath: “Caught in Confessional Crossfire:
Representations of Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the Dutch
language in the 1660’s”
Lennart Bes: “Empire and legacy in south India. Dynastic
politics in Vijayanagara and its successor states”
15.30-15.45
Tea break
15.45-17.00
Discussion
Evening
Dinner for speakers and foreign guests in Restaurant Verboden
Toegang, Kaiserstraat 7, Leiden
Tuesday 8 May 2012 (Morning)
Venue: Seminar Room Huizinga Institute, Doelensteeg 16, second floor.
Chair:
Mark Häberlein (Bamberg University)
09.30-12.30
Fenneke Sysling (VU University Amsterdam)
“Photography in the service of Dutch Indies racial anthropology:
measuring, typecasting and training judgement
Robert-Jan Wille (Radboud University Nijmegen):
“Science, nationalism and state formation. Fundraising for the
natural sciences in the Indies around 1900”
Bernhard Schär (Basel University) The Dutch East Indies - as
seen from Basel
Commentator: Lissa Roberts
12.30
End of Conference
15.00
PhD defense Andreas Weber in Senate’s Room,
Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73.