Young Scholars Workshop
New Approaches to Transimperial History
Transimperial history (TIH) is an emerging field that explores colonial competition, cooperation, and connectivity across empires. The workshop aims to discuss new approaches in the field by bringing together scholars working on this topic.
Transimperial history (TIH) is 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 workshop will bring together young scholars working on the topic. They will be joined by the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Transimperial History (Cyrus Schayegh, Daniel Hedinger, Nadin Heé, Damiano Matasci, Shellen Wu).
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)
9.00-9.30 Introduction. Daniel Hedinger & Nadin Heé (Leipzig University)
9.30-10.30 Panel I: Transimperial Resources
Chair: Katja Castryck-Naumann
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
Chair: Nadin Heé
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”
14.00-16.00 Roundtable: The Future of TIH : Challenges and Conditions
Chair: Daniel Hedinger, Tomoki Yamada
Dec. 7 (SAT)
10.30-12.00 Research Conditions and Funding Formats in Germany
Matthias Middell (Leipzig University)
14.00-15.00 Panel III. Transimperial Mobility
Chair: Antje Dietze (Leipzig University)
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)”
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.30 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”
Eloy Romero-Blanco (University of Pittsburgh)
“Dissident Networks Across Imperial Borders: Cuban Uprisings in the 1850s”
16.30-17.00 Final Discussion
Format
Pre-circulated papers. Each speaker will be allocated a five-minute presentation, followed by a twenty-five-minute discussion.