Categories at Work in Global History
Thursday 17 October, 10.00 - 18.00, Westwood Teaching Centre WT0.03
co-hosted by Japanese Participants and the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick
Westwood Teaching and Lecture Theatre 0.03
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We are very thrilled to welcome several colleagues from the Global History Centre in Japan to Warwick for a one-day workshop and planning session. The event will feature 10-minute research presentation, and end with a closed meeting to discuss future plans. The preliminary programme is below:
09.45 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee and Tea
10:00-10:15 Aim of this Workshop
10:15-10:25: Tomoko Morikawa, Pilgrimages and Holidays in Global History
10:25-10:35: Rémi Dewière, We have made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another". Words and Classification of the World in Early Modern Sahel
10:35-10:45: Robert Fletcher, The 'Modes of Life': 'Nomads', 'Settlers' and 'Frontiers' in Global History
10:45-11:15 Discussion
Short break, if needed
11:25-11:35: Kazuo Kobayashi, The Core-Periphery Model Reconsidered
11:35-11:45: Hideaki Suzuki, Network and Kaiiki: Node=network and Flow=network
11:45-11:55: Jing ZHU, Racial Categorization in Republican China (1930s-1940s)
12:00-12:30 Discussion
Afternoon:
14:00-14:10 Guido van Meersbergen, Diplomacy and Diplomatic Actors: Categories and Definitions
14:10-14:20 Ryuto Shimada, Commodity Chain and Cultural Divergence
Discussion 14:20-14:40
Short break, if needed
14:45-14:55 Anne Gerritsen, Categories and Commensurability: Early Modernity in Asia and Europe
14:55-15:05 Miki Sugiura, The Place of Powerless Majority. Second-hand in the Categories of Circulation
15:05-15:15 Maxine Berg, Commodity Frontiers and Natural Resources
Discussion 15:15-15:45
15:45-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-18:00 Discussions for Planning