Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World
18 – 19 May 2017
Organiser: Burkhard Schnepel
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 17th May 2017
19.00 Informal get together at ‘Café Brohmers’
Thursday, 18th May 2017
9.00 – 9.30 Registration
9.30 – 9.45 Welcome Address by Chris Hann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome, Introducing the Participants, Organisational Matters by the Organiser
______1 Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36 Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0 Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Chair: Michael R.N. Jansen
10.00 – 10.45 Burkhard Schnepel Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Uses and Abuses? Introduction into the conference theme
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick
11.15 – 12.00 Gwyn Campbell McGill University, Indian Ocean World Centre, Montreal
Black or White? The Indian Ocean World context for the racial politics of cultural heritage in Madagascar
12.00 – 12.45 Vijaya Teelock University of Mauritius, Reduit
The Anatomy of World Heritage Sites in Mauritius: The interplay of politics, memory and cultural competition
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Tobias Holzlehner
14.15 – 15.00 Abdul Sheriff University of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute (formerly), Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar
Contradiction in the Heritagisation of Zanzibar ‘Stone Town’
15.00 – 15.45 Pamila Gupta University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg
Door, Shutter, Balcony: Ornate heritage making in Stone Town (Zanzibar) ______2 Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36 Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0 Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
Chair: Eva Maria Knoll
16.15 – 17.00 Iain Walker ZIRS, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Somebody Else’s Heritage? How to be Mahorais without being Comorian
17.00 – 17.45 Ulrike Freitag Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin
History of the Hajj: Asset or burden to the Saudi national state?
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at restaurant ‘Wenzel Prager Bierstuben’
20.00 – 21.30 Wrap-up and discussion
Friday, 19th May 2017
Chair: Jean-Claude Galey
9.15 – 10.00 Markus Verne Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Travelling Sounds: Aesthetic reconstructions of Madagascar’s Asian heritage
10.00 – 10.45 Katja Mü ller and Boris Wille Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale)
Materiality and Mobility: Comparative notes on heritagisation in the Indian Ocean World
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
______3 Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36 Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0 Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Chair: Tansen Sen
11.15 – 12.00 Christoph Brumann Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
Global Linkages, Connectivity and the Indian Ocean in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
12.00 – 12.45 Nigel Worden University of Cape Town, Cape Town
Ambiguous Pasts: The Indian Ocean World in Cape Town’s public history
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Gwyn Campbell
14.15 – 15.00 Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz Independent Scholar, Berlin
Whose Heritage? Contested ownership about maritime war memorials and historic wrecks in Southeast Asia
15.00 – 15.45 Mareike Pampus Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
Heritage Food: The materialisation of connectivity in Nyonya cooking
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break
Chair: Hermann Kulke
16.15 – 17.00 Tamara Chin Brown University, Providence
‘One Belt, One Road’: China and the Indian Ocean World
______4 Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36 Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0 Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
17.00 – 17.45 Tansen Sen City University of New York, New York
Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, connectivity, and identity in the Maritime World
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at restaurant ‘Haus & Hof’
20.00 – 21.30 Final Discussion: Conference Theme, Future Collaboration and Publication
______5 Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36 Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0