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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

Paint box

W.I. Reeves & Son Paint Box (1848)

Albany Institute of History & Art, inv. no. 1966.13.7