Conference Program (updated Mai 12, 2012)
The conference is being held at the university’s Convention Center.
A PDF-version of the conference program is available here.
Thursday 24 May 2012
| 2:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Open for Registration |
Opening session
| 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. |
Welcoming Addresses by |
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Ravi Ahuja, Director of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen
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Roman Loimeier, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Acting Director of the
Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology |
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Elfriede Hermann, Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology |
Keynote Speech
Chair: Peter van der Veer |
| 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. |
Brij Lal: From Common Roll to Consociationalism: The Political Trajectory of the Fiji Indians. |
8:00 p.m. |
Reception |
Friday 25 May 2012
1. Panel: Global Indias
Chair: Abdul Sheriff |
| 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Chandrashekar Bhat: Indian Diaspora and Global Organizations: Communities and Contested Boundaries
Helene Basu: Intimate Histories of Mobility and the Diversification of Diasporic Ways of Belonging in/to Gujarat
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| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
2. Panel: Citizenship and Communalism in the Indian Ocean
Chair: Ravi Ahuja |
| 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. |
Burkhard Schnepel: Guests without a Host: The Indian Diaspora(s) on Mauritius
Philipp Zehmisch: Mini-India within or beyond India? Social-engineering,
Belonging and Autonomy in the Andaman Islands
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12:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch Break |
3. Panel: Citizenship and Self-Determination in Fiji
Chair: Frank Heidemann |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
Ashwin Raj: Indo-Fijians: An Absent-Present Center of Fiji’s Political Ontology
Martha Kaplan: Constitutions, Coups and Indo-Fijian Citizenship in Fiji
John Kelly: Swaraj and Ahimsa, Self-Determination and Danda: Dilemmas of Defense and Tactics against Violence in the Indian Diaspora
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3:30 – 4:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break
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4. Panel: Citizenship and Belonging
Chair: Margret Frenz |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Swati Shirwadkar: ‘Desh-Pardesh’: Accessing Citizenship Rights in a Diasporic Context
Iqbal S. Akhtar: Nasur Jesa versus Hurbayee Jesa Dhamani: Negotiating Racial Boundaries of Khōjā Caste Membership in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar
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| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Coffee Break
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Evening Lecture
Chair: Steven Vertovec |
| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. |
Viranjini Munasinghe: East Indians as Intimate Others and National Citizens in the Caribbean
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8:00 p.m. |
Dinner
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Saturday 26 May 2012
5. Panel: Religion and Belonging
Chair: Franz Kogelmann |
| 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. |
Kamala Ganesh: The Call of Home and Violence of Belonging: Diasporic Hinduism and Tamils in Exile
Brigitte Luchesi: Religious Life of “Little Indias” in Germany – Displaying Belonging in the Public Space
Martin Tamcke: Indian and Christian in Ethiopia: Abraham Verghese's Constructions and its Background
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11:00 – 11:30 a.m. |
Coffee Break
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6. Panel: Popular Media
Chair: Patrick Eisenlohr |
| 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. |
Anurekha Chari-Wagh: Citizenship and Indian Diasporic Films: Construction of ‘India’ beyond India
Lakshmi Subramanian: Vishal Bharat: Greater India or the Global Indian? Reflections on Indian Ocean Journalism
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1:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Lunch Break
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7. Panel: Religion and Politics
Chair: Kim Gutschow |
| 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. |
Ingrid Therwath: The Global Sangh Parivar: A Study of Contemporary International Hinduism
Radhika Chopra: Fortress Southall: Asylum Politics, Sanctuary Spaces, and Diaspora Communities
Harish Naraindas: Gurus, Gyrations, and Goa Parties: India beyond Indians in Germany
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4:00 – 4:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break
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Closure
| 4:30 – 4:45 p.m. |
Elfriede Hermann and Roman Loimeier
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