University of Heidelberg

Networks in Times of Transition

International Conference

Networks in Times of Transition. Toward a Transcultural History of International Organisations

October 21-22, 2010

University of Heidelberg
Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Room 212 (second floor)

Convener: Madeleine Herren, University of Heidelberg
herren@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Thursday, October 21, 2010

9.00  Welcome

• Madeleine Herren (University of Heidelberg)

• Keynote
  Kenichiro Hirano (Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, Tokyo): Matsuoka Yosuke’s Miscalculation at Geneva: A Possible Reconsideration by Using JACAR Data

10.15 Coffee Break

10.30 Panel I: The Archival Materiality of International Organisations

• Chair: Cornelia Knab (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Madeleine Herren (University of Heidelberg) 
• Jens Boel (UNESCO Archives, Paris): The UNESCO History Project and Universal Archives
• Sigrun Habermann-Box (UNOG Library and Archives, Geneva): From the League of Nations to the United Nations: The Continuing Preservation and Development of the Geneva Archives
• Sacha Zala (University of Berne/Swiss Diplomatic Documents): Materialising the Networks of International Organisations. Perspectives on Swiss and International Digital Resources

12.30 Lunch Break

14.00  Panel II: Foreign Science Policy

• Chair: Cord Arendes (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Rudolf G. Wagner (University of Heidelberg)
• Tomoko Akami (Australian National University, Canberra): Scientific International Collaboration in the Era of Empires and War: Japanese Scientists and the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, 1920–39
• Atsushi Shibasaki (Komazawa University): Activities and Discourses on International Cultural Relations in Modern Japan: the Making of KBS (Kokusai Bunka Shinko Kai), 1934-53
• Takashi Saikawa (University of Heidelberg): From Intellectual Cooperation to International Cultural Exchange: Japan and China in the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, 1922-39
• Maya Okuda (University of Heidelberg): A Transcultural History of International Organizations: the Case of Japan and the League of Nations

16.00 Coffee Break

16.15  Panel III: Intangible Cultural Heritage? – Attention – Change of Panel Order 

• Chair: Isabella Löhr (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Corinne Pernet (University of St. Gallen)
• Timothy D. Taylor (University of California, Los Angeles): The New Capitalism, Networks, and the Reenchantment of Culture
• Bjarne Rogan (University of Oslo): Folklore and International Cooperation in the 1930s. The Case of CIAP and the League of Nations

19.30  Launch of Database LONSEA (Venue: Prinz Carl Palais, Kornmarkt 1, 69117 Heidelberg)

Friday, October 22, 2010

9.00  Panel IV: Global Knowledge Economy

• Chair: Amalia Ribi (University of Oxford)
• Discussant: Klaas Dykmann (Roskilde Universitet)
• Katja Patzel-Mattern (University of Heidelberg): “Not only a German but also a European interest.” Dimensions of German Economic and Fiscal Policies during the Crises of the 1930s.
• Sunil S. Amrith (Birkbeck, University of London): Internationalizing Public Health in South and Southeast Asia, c. 1919-1939
• Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva): Conflicting Views on Labor. Which Role for International Organizations in Cold War Time?

11.00  Coffee Break

11.15  Panel V: Concepts of International Organisations

• Chair: Caroline Authaler (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Roland Wenzlhuemer (University of Heidelberg)
• Craig N. Murphy (University of Massachusetts, Boston): Global Governance: from Organizations to Networks or not?
• Prem Shankar Jha (Author/Journalist, India): International Order in Disarray. Systematic Chaos and the End of Nation-state Capitalism
• Toshiki Mogami (International Christian University, Tokyo): The Motor of Centralization or An Empty Center?

13.15 Lunch Break

14.30 Panel VI (parallel panels): Practices of Networking

Panel VIa: Large Dams and Small Germs

• Chair: Dominik J. Schaller (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
• Cornelia Knab (University of Heidelberg): How the Cows Became Dangerous: Transnational Perspectives on the Handling of Zoonotic Diseases in the Early Twentieth Century
• Naomi Nagata (Nagoya Gakuin University): International Control of Epidemic Diseases in Historical and Cultural Perspective
• Marcus Nüsser (University of Heidelberg): Large Dams and Social Movements: the Practice of International Networking

Panel VIb: Global Curricula and Global Subjects Attention – Change of Panel Order 

• Chair: Antje Flüchter (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Johannes Paulmann (University of Mannheim)
• Katja Naumann (University of Leipzig): UNESCO and the Globalization of History Curricula – The International Commission for a “Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind” (1952-1969)
• Anuradha Bhattacharjee (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad): The Polish Citizens of Nawanagar in India
• Guoqi Xu (University of Hong Kong): Networking through the Y: The Role of YMCA in China’s Search for New National Identity and Internationalization 

16.45  Panel VII: Western Associations, Eastern Networks?

• Chair: Jessica R. Lenz (University of Heidelberg)
• Discussant: Joachim Kurtz (University of Heidelberg)
• Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo): Sino-Japanese Controversies over Textbook Problems and the League of Nations
• Li Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei): The United Nations Special Fund and the Developing Country: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Experience in the 1960s
• Udo Simon (University of Heidelberg): Islamic Networks in Transnational Space

19.00  Final Discussion