Transimperial History’s Young Scholars Workshop & The Oxford Transimperial History Editors’ meeting

Transimperial history (TIH) is an emerging field situated at the interface of global history, empire studies, and postcolonial theory. By bringing different empires into one analytic field, the approach aims at reframing, decentralizing, and dynamizing empire studies. Therefore, TIH explores colonial competition, cooperation, and connectivity not as separate phenomena but as entangled processes of imperial transformation.  Moreover, TIH looks not only across empires but also beyond them. In doing so, it reflects on the legacy of colonialism, thus speaking to some of the most crucial political, economic, and social challenges we are facing today. This two-day workshop aims at bringing together young scholars working on the topic.

 

Organized by Daniel Hedinger, Nadin Heé & Tomoki Yamada
 

Program

 

Dec. 5 (THU)

18.00-19.30      Keynote 
                        in cooperation with the “Vorlesungsreihe Nahostkonflikt”, 
                        HS 5, Hörsaalgebäude

Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
            “Israel: State and Society one year after October 7”

 

 

Dec. 6 (FRI)

9.00-12.00        TIH Young Scholars Workshop: Part I

                        (all participants)

 

9.00-9.30          Introduction. Daniel Hedinger (Leipzig University) & Nadin Heé (Leipzig University)

 

9.30-10.30        Panel I: Transimperial Resources

Eleanor Choo (University of Exeter)

“Feeding the Nervous System of the World: How the Memories of Archipelagic Malay Empires Built the Global Undersea Cable Network (1850-1900)”

 

Oscar Broughton (SOAS London/Leipzig University)
“Globalising Brazilian Beef in the Transimperial Twentieth Century”

 

10.30-11.00      Coffee Break  

 

11.00-12.00      Panel II: Transimperial Conflicts

 

Carlotta Marchi (University of Pavia)

“‘The Rising Sun‘”: Egypt's View of Japan and its Reaction to 
the Russo-Japanese Conflict of 1905”

 

Viktor Stoll (University of Cambridge/LMU Munich)

“A Hundred Days of Hubris at Peking: A Study on Imperial Addiction”       

 

13.00-15.00      Roundtable: The Future of TIH : Challenges and Conditions

(young scholars & Leipzig participants)

Chair: Tomoki Yamada (University of Birmingham)

 

13.00-18.00      The Oxford TIH Editors Meeting: Part I

19.00                Dinner

 

Dec. 7 (SAT)

9.00-13.00        The Oxford TIH Editors Meeting II                     

14.00-18.00      TIH Young Scholars Workshop: Panel II 
(all participants)

 

14.00-15.30      Panel III. Transimperial Mobility

Evgeniya Prusskaya (Philipps University Marburg)

“Muslim Communities in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus: a Transimperial History”

 

Clara Torrão Busin (EHESS)

“Navigating a Transimperial Space along the Rovuma River in East Africa.
The Case of Mussaka ibn Mweka al-Massaninga (ca. 1870-1894)”

 

15.30-16.00      Coffee Break

 

16.00-17.30      Panel IV. Transimperial Resistance

Chair: Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Leipzig University)

Tomoki Yamada (University of Birmingham)

“Ripples from South West Africa: The Bondelswarts Rebellion and Transimperial Dissenting Voices”

 

Anja Rakotonirina (CESSP Paris)

“The Role of the Transimperial Approach in Identifying the Circulation of Malagasy Anticolonial Struggles”

 

Eloy Romero-Blanco (University of Pittsburgh)

“Dissident Networks Across Imperial Borders: Cuban Uprisings in the 1850s”

 

17.30-18.00        Final Discussion