The Art of Hubbing: The Role of Small Islands in Indian Ocean Connectivity, October 15-17, 2015
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
International Conference
The Art of Hubbing: The Role of Small Islands in Indian Ocean Connectivity
Organiser: Burkhard Schnepel
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 15th October 2015
15.00 – 16.00 Registration at the MPI
16.00 – 16.15 Welcome Address by Chris Hann, Director of the MPI for Social Anthropology
16.15 – 17.00 Welcome and Thematic Introduction to the Conference by Burkhard Schnepel
17.00 – 18.15 Keynote Lecture
Andre Gingrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Smallness and Insular Hubs: Some working hypotheses from historical anthropology
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at ‘Prager Bierstuben’
20.00 – 21.30 Wrap-up and discussion
Friday, 16th October 2015
Chair: Mareike Pampus
9.15 – 10.00 Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Ambon, a Spicy Hub
10.00 – 10.45 Jürgen G. Nagel, Fernuniversität Hagen
Commodities and Creeds: Changing connectivity of Makassar (South Sulawesi), 16th to 20th century
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick
11.15 – 12.00 Ajay Gandhi, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
Specks that Speak Loudly: The view from Mumbai and Ilha de Moçambique
12.00 – 12.45 Beatrice Nicolini, Catholic University of Milan
Global Indian Ocean Ports: Sailing from Arabia, to Zanzibar, and to New York
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Hermann Kulke
14.15 – 15.00 Burkhard Schnepel, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Port Louis (Mauritius) and the Making of a ‘Hub-Society’
15.00 – 15.45 Tansen Sen, City University of New York
Small? Big? Island?: The perceptions of Sri Lanka in Chinese sources
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
Chair: Burkhard Schnepel
16.15 – 17.00 Edward A. Alpers, University of California Los Angeles
Islands Connect: People, things and ideas among the small islands of the Western Indian Ocean
17.00 – 17.45 Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta
Displaced Passengers: States, movements and disappearances in the Indian Ocean
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at ‘Wildschütz’
20.00 – 21.30 Wrap-up and discussion
Saturday, 17th October 2015
Chair: Himanshu Prabha Ray
9.15 – 10.00 Iain Walker, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Zanzibar: A Hub in Comorian diasporic networks in the Western Indian Ocean
10.00 – 10.45 Kjersti Larsen, University of Oslo
Multifaceted Identities, Multiple Dwellings: Connectivity and flexible household-configurations in Zanzibar Town
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
Chair: Eva-Maria Knoll
11.15 – 12.00 Gwyn Campbell, McGill University Montreal
Kilwa Island and the Western Indian Ocean World
12.00 – 12.45 Martin Ramstedt, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Bali and Indian-Indonesian Connectivity: Why a small island has mattered
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Boris Wille
14.15 – 15.00 Vijaya Teelock, University of Mauritius
The Emergence of ‘Local Cosmopolitans’ in Port Louis: Migration and settlement in early 18th up to mid-19th century Port Louis
15.00 – 15.45 Steffen F. Johannessen, Norwegian Business School, Oslo
From Coconut Trade to ‘War on Terror’: Connectivity and disconnections in the Indian Ocean
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 – 17.00 Final Discussion on Conference Themes, Future Collaborations and Publication
Moderation: Burkhard Schnepel
