Leiden Seminar on Global Interactions - Friday March 19th
Friday March 19th Chris Goto-Jones and Peter Pels will deliver a presentation on their research project on futurities (forms of the future): "Tomorrows from Elsewhere: On Science Fiction, Developmentalism, and the Politics of Comparative Futurities". The seminar is open to MaRes students and higher. Registration is not required.
- Friday March 19th
- Prof. dr. Chris Goto-Jones (Leiden University College The Hague)
Prof. dr. Peter Pels (Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology):
"Tomorrows from Elsewhere: On Science Fiction, Developmentalism, and the Politics of Comparative Futurities"
The future has a form and a history, but research into it is scarce in both humanities and social sciences. Yet forms of the future are demonstrably pivotal in important yet widely differing social fields: social and environmental policies, insurance, and popular culture are saturated by future imagery. In this project, humanities, social sciences and area studies, focusing on Northern Europe and America, Southeast Asia and Japan, are brought together to produce a comparative study of futurities (or forms of the future) after the apparent "Great Transformation" towards an open and secular future associated with the French Revolution. The project studies the global spread of this seemingly Euroamerican futurity by means of the comparison of two main genres of the production of future imagery - science fiction and development discourse - in the way they have tackled the historical transition from the Atomic Age in the 1950s to the present-day Digital Age.
Those who wish to attend this session are advised to read Pels' and Jones' research proposals in advance.
Time: 13:30-15:00
Location: Huizinga/1174, room 023b (Doelensteeg 16, Leiden)
- Friday April 9th
- Prof. dr. Kitty Zijlmans (Institute for Cultural Disciplines):
"Pushing back Frontiers: from Art History to World Art Studies"
Whereas art history traditionally focuses on the Western world, the new field of investigation known as ‘world art studies’ first and foremost acknowledges art as a panhuman phenomenon. As such it aims to study art from all times and all regions of the world in an integrative manner and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. These ideas are elaborated in the book World Art Studies, Exploring Concepts and Approaches, eds. Kitty Zijlmans and Wilfried van Damme (Amsterdam 2008).
In this presentation Kitty Zijlmans will explain how she arrived at seeing art history in a global perspective and what the guiding themes are for a world art studies.
Time: 13:30-15:00
Location: Snouck Hurgronjehuis (Rapenburg 61, Leiden)
- Friday May 7th
- Dr. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (School of Asian Studies):
"Feeding the Troops around the Pacific (1937-1953)"
This paper examines subsistence supply of the troops involved in the Asia-Pacific War (1937-1945). By tracing subsistence channels of the Japanese, American and Korean forces, this study seeks to identify a variety of global connections that developed in the region.
Time: 13:30-15:00
Location: Snouck Hurgronjehuis (Rapenburg 61, Leiden)
- Friday June 4th
- Dr. Jan-Bart Gewald (Institute for History, Africa Study Centre Leiden):
"World War One in Central Africa and the Effective Colonisation of Northern Rhodesia"
Jan-Bart Gewald is a historian specialized in the social history of Africa. His research has ranged from the ramifications of genocide in Rwanda and Namibia, through to the social-cultural parameters of trans-desert trade in Africa.
Time: 13:30-15:00
Location: Snouck Hurgronjehuis (Rapenburg 61, Leiden)
