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 .