LATE IMPERIAL CHINA AND MODERN DAY EUROPE
Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Bergen, December 2nd 2011
Auditorium 4, Faculty of Law (Dragefjellet), 09.00-15.00
Reactions to internationalisation and xenophobia are some of the most pressing issues of our time. This workshop aims to create a meeting place for those with a shared interest in furthering our understanding of reactions to internationalisation as a historical as well as a contemporary phenomenon. The invited speakers are all internationally renowned scholars, who have been purposely invited to share their in-depth knowledge and cutting edge research. Although late imperial China and contemporary Europe are far apart in space and time, the reactions to increased internationalisation also offer obvious similarities as they unfolded within contexts of accelerating globalisation, increased cultural pluralism and amplified economic integration. Each presentation will last for 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of open floor discussion:
Programme
Session 1 Karina Hestad Skeie (NLA), Chair
09.00-09.15: Camilla Brautaset (UiB): Welcome
09.15-10.00: Robert Bickers (University of Bristol): Moving stories: Memorialisation and identity in treaty port China.”
10.00-10.45: Shirley Ye (Harvard):“State-building and Internationalization: a reassessment of the Boxer Protocol.”
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
Session 2: Harm Schröter (UiB), Chair
11.00-11.45: Abe Takeshi (Osaka University):“Internationalization Perceived as Threat before 1914: the Case of Meiji Japan.”
11.45-12.30: Lars Amenda (Universität Osnabrück):“Yellow Peril. Chinese, Otherness and Xenophobia in Europe, 1880-1930.”
12.30-13.30: Lunch
Session 3: Christhard Hoffmann (UiB), Chair
13.30-14.15: Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (UiB): “Accounting for successes and failures of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe, 1980-2005.”
14.15-15.00: Chris Allen (University of Birmingham): ”Islamophobia in Europe today”.
The workshop is organised by the research group Beyond the Nation State. Processes of internationalisation in a historical and cultural perspective, at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion (AHKR). The workshop is open to everyone with an interest in the topic. For any further queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch; Camilla.Brautaset@ahkr.uib.no
Welcome!