Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
WORKSHOP
“Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis:
Eurasian explorations”
28 – 30 June 2012
Organisers:
Johann P. Arnason and Chris Hann
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 27th June 2012
Informal get-together of workshop participants at ‘Zimmer frei’
19.00
Thursday, 28th June 2012
8.30 – 9.15
Registration
9.15 – 9.30
Welcome address by Chris Hann
9.30 – 11.00
Panel I: Classical Sources and Agendas
Chair/Discussant: Chris Hann
Johann P. Arnason
La Trobe University, Melbourne/Charles University, Prague
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Mauss Revisited: The birth of civilizational analysis from the spirit of
anthropology
Stephan Feuchtwang
London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Chinese Civilisation in Comparative Perspective: Some markers
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Krishan Kumar
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
“Arnold Toynbee and Civilizational Analysis”
Jean-Claude Galey
EHESS, Paris, France
Civilization as a Process and as an Imaginary: When collective identities and
intruding values interact. Historical and current Asian examples in
anthropological perspective
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Panel II: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chair/Discussant: Joel S. Kahn
Hans Peter Hahn
University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Norbert Elias and the Difficulties in Understanding Civilization from an
Anthropological Perspective
Yulia Prozorova
Sociological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Civilizational Analysis and Archaeology: Some preliminary remarks on
collaboration
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.15 Panel III: East/West Entanglements
Chair/Discussant: Gonçalo Santos
Yang Der-Ruey
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
The Dialogue between Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis in the Early
20th Century China
Shengmin Yang, Minzu University, Beijing, China
Xiujie Wu, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Theoretical Paradigm or Methodological Issue? Some reflections on
Kulturkreislehre in the ethnology of China
Dinner at ‘Alchimistenklause’
19.00
Friday, 29th June 2012
9.30 – 11.00
Panel IV: Ideological Constructs
Chair/Discussant: Dittmar Schorkowitz
Nikolay N. Kradin
Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Vladivostok
Nomadic Civilization Theory and Eurasian Nationalism
Milena Benovska-Sabkova
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
“The Orthodox Civilization”: An ideological discourse, political project,
scientific term?
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Panel V: History and Ritual in South Asia
Chair/Discussant: Burkhard Schnepel
David Gellner
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Civilization as a Key Guiding Idea within the South Asian Culture Area
Martin Fuchs
Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Against Civilization: Anthropological perspectives on religious movements
from below
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Panel VI: World Religions and Ethnogenesis
Chair/Discussant: Johann P. Arnason
Joel S. Kahn
Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
The Malay World: Between the local and the global
Patrice Ladwig
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
“And the Buddha Looked up to the Hills of Zomia...” On the hegemonic
relationship of Buddhist civilization and ethnic minorities in Laos
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.15 Panel VII: Technologies and Frontiers
Chair/Discussant: Jean-Claude Galey
Oliver Tappe
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Savage Mountains – Upland frontiers as anarchist backyards of civilizations?
Gonçalo Santos
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Technological Choices and Civilizational Processes. Reflections on everyday
toilet practices in rural South China
Dinner at ‘Hohenzollern’
19.00
Saturday, 30th June 2012
9.30 – 11.00
Panel VIII: Conceptual History and Current Prospects
Chair/Discussant: Johann P. Arnason
Andre Gingrich
Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna,
Austria
Civilization: A conceptual jungle in the history of anthropology
Chris Hann
MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Civilizations in the Eurasian Continuum
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.30 Round-up Discussion
12.30
Lunch break
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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