The 'Cluster of Excellence' - 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context - Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows' - supported by the German Research Council (DFG), is proud to host renowned scholars from around the world, and from within the cluster itself, for a two day conference on the theme of global flows. Podium discussions have been organised on two central themes that resonate across time and space. Conceptualising Religiosity and Governance will raise core questions about how concepts structure perception and social institutions, and whether one can differentiate at all between emic and etic concepts in a transcultural context. To showcase the research being conducted at the Cluster, panel sessions bring together senior scholars and young researchers on a diverse range of themes.
Please let us know if you will attend the conference by sending an email to events@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de until September 21, 2010
This year's annual conference has been conceptualised and organised by Subrata K. Mitra, Antje Flüchter and Jivanta Schoettli.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre (KJC)

15.00 – 17.30 Registration
Venue: Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (DAI)

17.40 – 18.30 Registration

18.30 – 20.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE I
Quentin Skinner (London): “European visions of liberty: a genealogy”
20.00 – 22.00 Reception / Light Snacks

Thursday, October 7, 2010
Venue: DAI
8.30 Registration

9.00 – 10.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION I - CONCEPTUALISING GOVERNANCE
Chair: Markus Pohlmann (Heidelberg)
Bo Strath (Florence): “Conceptualising governance: what is wrong with government?"
Antje Flüchter (Heidelberg): “Conceptualising Indian governance between archetype and antipode: gute policey or oriental despotism”
Discussant: Thomas Maissen (Heidelberg)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION II - CONCEPTUALISING GOVERNANCE
Chair: Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Heidelberg)
Niraja Gopal Jayal (New Delhi): “The governance of the other: how religion frames alienage and citizenship.”
Rudolf Wagner (Heidelberg): “Migrating metaphors of the state. Visual and textual evidence.”
Discussant: Subrata Mitra (Heidelberg)

Venue: KJC
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Break

13.30 – 15.00 PANEL SESSION I

13.30 – 15.30 The politics of conceptual change: notions of government, polity, and religion in East Asia´s confrontation with western modernity (Room: Library)
Chair & Discussant: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
Ulrike Büchsel (Heidelberg): “‘Nation’ in Qing conservative political thought, 1901–1911”
Hans Martin Krämer (Bochum): “Conceptual change and the boundaries of historical action: policing ‘religion(s)’ in Japan, 1600-1900”
Michael Burtscher (Tokyo / Harvard): “The subject as sovereign: notes on the terminological conception of modernity in modern Japan”
David Mervart (Heidelberg): “Talking government without saying liberty: a case for counterfactual history of political theory”

13.30 – 15.00 Exhibitions – mediating the transcultural flow of art concepts and museum practices (Room 212)
Chair: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg)
Discussant: Carla Meyer (Heidelberg)
Patrizia Kern (Heidelberg): “Global actors – national museum? The makers and the making of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art”
Catherine Bublatzky (Heidelberg): “The display of Indian contemporary art in western museums and the question of ‘Othering’.”
Franziska Koch (Heidelberg): “The virtualization of Chinese contemporary art: countering the modernist museum and educating a Chinese internet audience?”

13.30 – 15.30 `Governance´ , a transcultural perspective.
Insights from the field. (Room 112)
Chair: Jivanta Schoettli (Heidelberg)
Panelists:
Roberta Tontini (Heidelberg): “The juridical language of Islam and its translation in imperial China.”
Matthias Liehr (Heidelberg): “The relationship between environmental governance and civil society in China – A transcultural perspectiuve.”
Markus Pauli (Heidelberg): “Microfinance in India - assessing its impact with the capability approach”
Mareike Ohlberg (Heidelberg): “The impact of Le Bon and Lippmann on the perception of mass-elite relations in 21st century China.”
Lion Koenig (Heidelberg): “Breaking up the pseudo-community? ‘Cultural citizenship’ and media empowerment in India: challenges and opportunities.”

15.00 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.30 PANEL SESSION II
Heidelberg Research Architecture – developing tools for cluster research (Room 212)
Chair: Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg)
Panelists:
Matthias Arnold, Christoph Bertolo, Eric Decker, Jennifer May, Anna Mündelein, Jens Ostergaard Peterson, Dulip Withanage

17.30 – 18.30 Reception and poster presentations of selected projects from the Cluster of Excellence

18.30 – 20.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE II
Sobhanlal Datta Gupta (Kolkata): “Marxism, modernity and revolution: the Asian experience.”

Friday, October 8, 2010
Venue: DAI

9.00 – 10.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION III – CONCEPTUALISING RELIGIOSITY
Chair: Rudolf Wagner (Heidelberg)
Volkhard Krech (Bochum): “How to conceptualise religion and religiosity in a comparative perspective. Some preliminary considerations.”
Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg): "Importing and exporting gods? On the flow of deities between Eygpt and its neighbouring countries.”
Discussant: Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.30 PODIUM DISCUSSION IV – ONCEPTUALISING RELIGIOSITY
Chair: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
Inken Prohl (Heidelberg): “A devastating diagnosis: religion, transreligion, no religion at all? Some further considerations”
Mark Juergensmeyer (California): “Global rebellions: religious challenges to the secular state”
Discussant: Ute Huesken (Oslo)

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Venue: KJC

13.30 – 14.00 “Asian Cultures of Learning” – An Initiative of Oslo University: Mette Halskov Hansen & Ute Huesken & Mark Teeuwen (Room 112)

14.00 – 15.30 PANEL SESSION III
14.00 – 15.30 Secret intelligence (Room: Library)
Chair: Isabelle Deflers (Freiburg)
Discussant: Adam Shelley (Cambridge)
Tobias Graf (Heidelberg): “Renegades to the Ottoman empire and intelligence, 1580-1610”
Barend Noordam (Heidelberg): “Military intelligence in early modern Eurasia: the case of the europeans in India and China, 1500-1700”
Peter I. Trummer (Heidelberg): “East meets West: Sun Tzu and Clausewitz on intelligence”
Rapporteur: Lina Weber (Heidelberg)

14.00 – 15.30 The transfer of ideas. An archaeological perspective. (Room 212)
Chair: Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg)
Discussant: Margareta Pavaloi (Heidelberg)
Sarah Cappel (Heidelberg): “Lasting impressions. The role of seals and sealings in the transfer of an administrative concept.”
Nicholas Zenzen (Heidelberg): “Hippodamos and Phoenicia. On the relationship between city planning and social order in a transcultural context.”
Svenja Nagel (Heidelberg): “The goddess’ new clothes. Conceptualising an 'Eastern' goddess for a 'Western' audience.”

14.00 – 15.30 The Pre-modern reconsidered (Room 112)
Chair: Sebastian Meurer (Heidelberg)
Discussant: Gerrit J. Schenk (Darmstadt)
Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg): “Esoteric Kami rituals in premodern Japan: ‘country bumpkins’ and the quest for sudden enlightenment.”
Dominic Steavu: (Heidelberg): “Divination and meditation in the context of East Asian curative rituals.”

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.30 PANEL SESSION IV

16.00 – 17.30 Film on the Afghan diaspora in Germany by Deepali Gaur Singh (Heidelberg), followed by discussion (Room 212)

16.00 – 17.30 Governing health in South Asia with European institutions (Room 112)
Chair: Udo Simon (Heidelberg)
Discussant: William Sax (Heidelberg)
Gabriele Alex: “Primary health centres in South India - transplanting Western ideas of health management and health education to South India.”
Sheela Saravanan (Heidelberg): “Commercial surrogacy in India: objectification of gestational mothers and babies.”
Ananda Samir Chopra (Heidelberg): “Upadeœa to syllabus – traditional Ayurveda and modern medicine in the 2009 syllabus for Ayurvedic undergraduate studies.”

16.00 – 17.30 The pen and the brush- negotiating concepts of alterity between images and text. (Room: Library)
Chair: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg)
Discussant: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
Nicoletta Fazio (Heidelberg): “A ‘transcultural’ community? The monastery, H. 2153 fol. 131b, Topkapı Sarayı Muzesi, Istanbul.”
Eva Zhang (Heidelberg): “’The temple of devils’ - image transfers of religious alterity between early modern East Asia and Europe.”
Jule Nowoitnick (Heidelberg): “’Then will there arise a new Jenghiz Khan’– Michael Prawdin’s ‘Tschingis-Chan und sein Erbe’ (1938) in the context of Nazi propaganda.”

17.30 – 18.30 PLENARY AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSTER PRIZE
Discussants: Niraja Jayal Gopal (New Delhi), David Jacobson (Tampa), Harald Fuess (Heidelberg), Madeleine Herren-Oesch (Heidelberg).
Chair: Subrata Mitra (Heidelberg)