University of Heidelberg

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Venue: Neue Universität

All day: Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA) Poster-Presentation

08.30 - Registration

09.00-10.30 - Neue Aula

Podium Discussion I – Ancient Medicine

Chair: Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg)
Discussion Abstract

• Friedhelm Hoffman (Munich): “Egyptian Medicine”
• Ann Ellis Hanson (Yale): “Medical Stories, Medicinal Recipes, & Amulets from the Hippocratics to Galen”
• Vivian Nutton (London): “The Tyranny of the Text: Greek Medicine into Arabic”

10.30-11.00   Coffee Break and HRA Info Session  

11.00-12.30 - Neue Aula

Podium Discussion II - Circulation and Changing of Conceptions of Knowledge

Chair: Dominic Steavu (Heidelberg)
Discussion Abstract

• Marta Hanson (Baltimore): "Visualizing the Geography of Diseases in China, 1870s-1920s"
• Dhruv Raina (Delhi): "Knowledge 'Engrafted', Concepts 'Entangled': Departures from Conceptions of Radical Break and Discontinuity in Histories of the Sciences"
• Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg): "Relocating Certainty in Late Qing China: Philosophy, Science, and the Call for a New Epistemology"

12.30-13.30   Lunch and HRA Info Session  

Panel Session I

13.30-15.00 - Hörsaal 9
Politics, Civil Society and the Environment
Chair: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg), Discussant: Gerrit Schenk (Darmstadt)
Panel Abstract

• Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle/Heidelberg): "Hoping for a Brighter Future: Nuclear Politics at the Local Level in Postwar Japan"
• Ito Kimio (Kyoto): "The Fukushima Daiichi Case from the Viewpoint of Political and Cultural Sociology"
• Kerstin Cuhls (Heidelberg): "National Foresight Activities revisited: Assumptions about Earthquake Prediction"

13.30-15.30 - Neue Aula
Between Beauty and Health: Visual Itineraries of Changing Bodies in China’s Transcultural Mediascapes (1900s-2000s)
Chair: Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg), Discussants: Christiane Brosius, Thomas Maissen, Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg)
Panel Abstract

• Liying Sun (Heidelberg): “Nationalism, Athleticism, Phryneism and Transculturality: Changing Notions and Visual Representations of ‘Healthy Bodies’ in Chinese Pictorials (1900s-1940s)”
• Ulrike Büchsel (Heidelberg): “Markers of Modernity: Healthy and Sexualized Bodies in Chinese Advertising (1920s-1930s)”
• Xuelei Huang (Heidelberg): “Ideologies of the Leg: Women’s Legs and Changing Prototypes of the Ideal Woman on China’s Silver Screen (1920s-1970s)”
• Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg): “From Small Feet to Large Hands and beyond: Propagating Beautiful and Healthy Bodies in China’s long 20th century”

• Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg): Between Health and Beauty: An Indian Perspective
• Thomas Maissen, Katja Patzel-Mattern (Heidelberg): Between Health and Beauty: A European Perspective

15.00-16.00   Break

Panel Session II

16.00-17.30 - Neue Aula
Large Dams: Contested Environmental Knowledge of Riverscapes
Discussant: Thomas Lennartz (Heidelberg)
Panel Abstract

• Ravi Baghel (Heidelberg): "Water flowing Waste to the Sea: Tracing a Genealogy of the Technocratic Understanding of Rivers in India"
• Alexander Erlewein (Heidelberg): "The Re-evaluation of Dams in the Context of Climate Change: Debates, Policies, Consequences"
• Miriam Seeger (Heidelberg): "The Nujiang Dams: A Contested Intellectual Frontier"
• Nirmalya Choudhury (TU Berlin): "Legality and Legitimacy of Public Involvement in Infrastructure Planning: Observations from Hydropower Projects in India"

16.00-17.30 - Hörsaal 9
Across Time and Space: The Transcultural Cosmologies of Japanese Religions
Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
Panel Abstract

• Dominic Steavu (Heidelberg): "Cosmologizing the Self: Chinese Iatromancic Technologies in Japanese Buddhist sources"
• Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg): "Mapping out the Cultic Mountains of Premodern Japan: The Case of Mt Asama"
• D. Max Moerman (Barnard/Columbia): "Vasubhandu versus Copernicus: Japanese Buddhist Cosmology and the History of Science"

16.00-17.30 - Hörsaal 8
What can(not) be said in revolutionary times: Shifting universal concepts in transnational contexts
Chair: Antje Flüchter (Heidelberg)
Panel Abstract

• Pascal Firges (Heidelberg): "France 1796: Is the Ottoman Empire a Constitutional or a Despotic state?"
• Birte Herrmann (Heidelberg): "Tian’anmen Square 1989: What is ‘Democracy’?"
• Julten Abdelhalim (Heidelberg): "Egypt 2011: Can Subjects become Citizens?"

17.30-18.00   Break

18.00-19.30 - Neue Aula

Keynote Lecture II

Janet Hunter (London School of Economics):
"The Markets have Collapsed into Complete Confusion: Market Operation after the Great Kantō Earthquake of September 1923"
Lecture Abstract

19.30-21.30 - Neue Aula

Reception

Friday, 7 October 2011

Venue: Neue Universität

All day: Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA) Poster-Presentation

09.00-10.30 - Neue Aula

Podium Discussion III – Seascapes and Shipping

Chair: Harald Fuess (Heidelberg), Discussant: Christopher Gerteis (London, SOAS)
Discussion Abstract

• Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle/Heidelberg): "From Newcastle to New Nation: Japan, the World, and a Ship, 1884-1912"
• Roland Wenzlhuemer (Heidelberg): "In Transit: Ship Newspapers and Life aboard Passenger Steamers, c. 1890"
• Rolf Wippich (Tokyo/Lucerne): "19th Century Piracy and Anti-Piracy Measures in Chinese Waters"

10.30-11.00   Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 - Neue Aula

Podium Discussion IV - Travelling Technologies, Tracing Transculturality: Paradigm Shifts in Science, Medicine and Society

Chair: William Sax (Heidelberg), Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Chicago)
Discussion Abstract

• Aditya Bharadwaj (Edinburgh): "Mobile Subjects, Immobile Technologies: Transnational Travel for Human Embryonic Stem Cells in India"
• Sandra Bärnreuther (Heidelberg): "Biovalue: The Case of IVF in India"

12.30-13.30   Lunch and HRA Info Session  

Panel Session III

13.30-15.00 - Neue Aula
Travelling Technologies, Tracing Transculturality: Paradigm Shifts in Science, Medicine and Society (part two) 
Chair: William Sax (Heidelberg), Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Chicago)
Panel Abstract

• Sinjini Mukherjee (Heidelberg): "New Technologies, Normative Ideals: Kidney Transplantation and Kins as Organ Donors in India"
• Tsjalling Swierstra (Maastricht): "Forging a Fit Between Technology and Morality: The Dutch Debate on Organ Transplants and New Reproductive Technologies"

13.30-15.00 - Hörsaal 9 
The Many Shapes of the World: Concurrent Regimes of Spatial Representation in Early Modern Asia
Chair: Frank Grüner (Heidelberg), Discussant: Dhruv Raina (Delhi)  
Panel Abstract

• Monica Juneja (Heidelberg):  "The 'Capricious Reversals' of Naturalist Vision - Pastiche as Art in Early Modern Eurasia"  
• Martin Hofmann and David Mervart (Heidelberg): "Chinese Sages and Dutch Measures — The Diverse Spatial Regimes of Nagakubo Sekisui (1717-1801)"

15.00-16.00   Break and HRA Info Session

Panel Session IV

16.00-17.30 - Hörsaal 9
"Stress": Anthropological, Historical and Epidemiological Approaches to a "Modern" Phenomenon
Chair: Adrian Loerbroks (Heidelberg)
Panel Abstract

• Hasan Ashraf (Heidelberg): "'Exporting Garments, Importing Stress': The Effects of the Neoliberal Textile Production Regime on the Garment Workers’ Health in Bangladesh"
• Saskia Rohmer (Heidelberg): "Stress: The History of a Western Concept"
• Maria Steinisch and Adrian Loerbroks (Heidelberg): "Stress and Mental Health in Asia: Perspectives from Public Health"
  

16.00-17.30 - Neue Aula
Asymmetrical Translations: Mind and Body in Indian and Western Medicine
Chair: William Sax (Heidelberg)
Panel Abstract

• William Sax (Heidelberg): "Healing Mind and Body in Kerala"
  
• Johannes Quack (Heidelberg): "Asymmetrical Translation of Psychiatry in India"
• Ananda Samir Chopra (Heidelberg): "Ayurvedic Nosologies and Biomedicine – Translations and Asymmetries"