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Towards a Global History of Development-Interweaving Culture, Politics, Science and the Economy of Aid
| Location: | Switzerland |
| Conference Date: | 2008-10-16 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
164056 |
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Towards a Global History of Development –
Intervewaving Culture, Politics, Science and the Economy of Aid
Workshop 16.10.-19.10.2008
Zurich
Dr. Daniel Speich, ETH Zurich
Dr. Hubertus Bueschel, University of Potsdam
Program Detail
Thursday, 16.10.2008
Collegium Helveticum, Semper-Sternwarte, Schmelzbergstr. 25, CH-8092 Zurich
18.00-20.00
Welcome Reception (for Speakers only)
Friday, 17.10.2008
Collegium Helveticum, Semper-Sternwarte, Schmelzbergstr. 25, CH-8092 Zurich
09.00-09.15
Bueschel, Hubertus (Univ. of Potsdam, Germany)/Speich, Daniel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Welcome Address
09.15-10.15 Keynote 1
Michael Geyer (Univ. of Chicago, USA): Develop Man! – Development? The Confrontation over Development in the 1960s and 1970s
10.15-10.30
Coffee
10.30-13.00 Session 1: Moving People I
(Focus on global experts and their networks in development.)
Arens, Esther Helena (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Germany): In the Field of Translation: West German Politicians, Diplomats and Experts Facing Indonesia in the 1960s
Fuellberg-Stolberg, Katja (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany): Prominent Nazis as Development Aid Volunteers and Political Advisors in Post-Colonial Ghana
Huesken, Thomas (Univ. Bayreuth, Germany): Hybrid Experts. Myths and Realities about Development Experts
Malinowski, Stephan (Free Univ. Berlin, Germany): Shock Troops of Modernization? Military Violence and Modernization Programs during the Algerian War 1954-1962
Tambila, Kapepwa (Univ. of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania): Commentary
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session 2: Moving People II
(Focus on global connections with respect to migration and grass-root movements.)
Hong, Young-sun (State Univ. of New York, USA): Gender and Race of Uneven Development and Global Migration: Asian Drama in West Germany
Skovsted Hansen, Annette (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark): Developing Global Networks. Personal Ties Financed by Japanese and Danish Foreign Aid, 1947-2007
Kuhn, Konrad (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland): Unity of Liberation Struggle All Over the World – Development Policy and International Solidarity Movement in Western Europe
Krüger, Gesine (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland): Commentary
16.00-16.30
Coffee
16.30-19.00 Session 3: Connected Countries I
(Focus on national experiences of the global development endeavour.)
Dierikx, Marc (Institute of Netherlands History The Hague, Netherlands): Between Aid and Trade: Dutch Development Policy, 1949-1973
Zuercher, Lukas (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland): “We Have a Special Role to Play”. Swissness and Swiss Aid in International Development Cooperation in the 1960s and 1970s
Goekçay, Goekser (Dokuz Eylul Univ. Izmir, Turkey): A Multidimensional Approach to Turkey’s Foreign Aid Experience in the Post-War Period
Cardoso, Miriam Limoeiro (Univ. Federal Rio de Janeiro, Brazil): The Ideology of Development in Brazil
Engerman, David (Brandeis Univ, Waltham, USA): Commentary
19.00-20.30
Break
20.30
Dinner
Saturday 18.10.2008
Collegium Helveticum, Semper-Sternwarte, Schmelzbergstr. 25, CH-8092 Zurich
09.00-10.00 Keynote 2
Anghie, Anthony (Univ. of Utah Salt Lake City, USA): Colonialism, Development and the League of Nations
10.00-10.30
Coffee
10.30-12.30 Session 4: Connected Countries II
(Focus on the interplay between nations and international agencies.)
Witkowski, Gregory R. (Ball State Univ. Muncie, USA/Center on Peace and Conflict Studies at Ball State): Giving, Peace, and Change: Creating Peace Cultures through Charity and Aid
Maul, Daniel (Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany): The ILO and Development
Unger, Corinna (GHI Washington, USA): American Foundations in India and the Modernization of Indian Agriculture, 1950 to 1975
Eckert, Andreas (Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Germany): Commentary
12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.30 Keynote 3
Gupta, Akhil (Univ. of California Los Angeles, USA): National Poverty, Global Poverty, and Neoliberalism
14.30-15.00
Coffee
15.00-17.00 Session 5: Topics and Flows I
(Focus on the global development discourse.)
Lepenies, Philipp H. (KfW Bank Group, Frankfurt-Main, Germany): Dichotomies and Development. An Inquiry into the Roots of the Modern Concept of Development
Petersson, Niels P. (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany): Time and Development – Great Leaps Forward and Natural Evolutions
Bueschel, Hubertus (Univ. of Potsdam, Germany): Help and Self-Help. A Global Principle of “Development” in African Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
Ziai, Aram (Univ. of Vienna, Austria): Commentary
17.00-17.30
Coffee
17.30-19.30 Session 6: Topics and Flows II
(Focus on attempts to dynamize markets and to incite innovation.)
Rempe, Martin (Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Germany): The Reform of the Senegalese Groundnut Economy in the Sixties. Colonial Aftermath and the Culture of Co-operation
Neveling, Patrick (Univ. of Bern, Switzerland): Export Processing Zones within the Project of Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Re-evaluation
Speich, Daniel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): Views from Lake Success. Technical Assistance, the United Nations, and the Economy as Artefact
Rottenburg, Richard (Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Germany): Commentary
Sunday 19.10.2008
Collegium Helveticum, Semper-Sternwarte, Schmelzbergstr. 25, CH-8092 Zurich
10.00-12.00 Session 7: Topics and Flows III
(Focus on the interconnections between population, food and agriculture.)
Frey, Marc (Jacobs Univ. Bremen, Germany): Population and Development: Notes on the Evolution of a Global Discourse in the Post-War Period
Selcer, Perrin (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA): Men Against the Desert. Arid Lands Research and the Growth of Development, 1948 to 1964
Maat, Harro (Wageningen Univ., Netherlands): Development and Food Security: The Prolongation of a Colonial Debate
Kruke, Anja: (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Bonn, Germany): Commentary
12.00-12.30
Coffee
12.30-14.00 Final Comments
Eckert, Andreas (Humboldt Univ. Berlin, Germany)
Rottenburg, Richard (Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Contact and Registration: development@live.de
The Registration Fee is: 50.- SFR
The event is kindly sponsored by
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Schweizer Nationalfonds SNF
ETH Zurich
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung FES
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