Organizers:
Martina Siebert & Emily Brock
Venue: MPIWG Department III Colloquium 2015/2016 take place on Tuesdays, from 14:30-16:00 in room 265, MPIWG Boltzmannstr. 22, 14195 Berlin (please contact ebrock@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de a week in advance of a session if you would like to attend)
Introduction
15 Sep “Looking Back, Looking Ahead”
*Planning Scale and Scope
22 Sep Emily Brownell, MPIWG, University of Northern Colorado
Kavita Philip, MPIWG, University of California, Irvine
Anindita Nag, MPIWG
Martina Schlünder, MPIWG, University of Toronto
(opening questions by Dagmar Schäfer, MPIWG, Dept. III)
*Planning Safety
29 Sep Asaf Goldsmith, University of Tel Aviv : Reasoning with Cases: The Transmission of Clinical Medical Knowledge in Twelfth-Century Song China
(opening questions by Clare Griffin, MPIWG, Dept. II)
6. Oct Iwo Amelung, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt : Hydraulic planning and decision making in late Imperial China. The Case of the Yellow River in Shandong
(opening questions by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, MPIWG)
24. Nov Francesca Fiaschetti, MPIWG : Diplomacy on the Move between Song and Yuan Traditions: The Case of Annam
(opening questions by Sonja Brentjes, MPIWG, Dept. I)
*Planning Cultures and Identities
1 Dec Mårten Söderblom Sareela MPIWG : The European Invention of the Manchu Alphabet
(opening questions by Henning Klöter, HU Berlin, Sinologie)
8 Dec Judith Kaplan, MPIWG, Dept. II : A Seminar for an Empire: Philology versus Linguistics at Berlin’s Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen
(opening questions by Jacob Gabory, MPIWG, Dept. II)
18 Dec (1 to 2:30 pm) Sonja Brentjes, MPIWG, Dept. I : Teaching Sciences in Islamicate Societies
12 Jan Sarah Van Beurden MPIWG, Ohio State University : Planning a Colonial Cultural Economy: Arts and Crafts in the Belgian Congo
(opening questions by Robert Kett, MPIWG, Dept. III)
19 Jan Robert Kett, MPIWG : Monuments in/of Print: Inscriptions and Aspirations of Late Nineteenth-Century Mexican Archaeology
(opening questions by Kaijun Chen, MPIWG, Dept. III)
2 Feb Emily Brownell, MPIWG, University of Northern Colorado : Bricks and Mortar: The materials of nation-building in 1970s Tanzania
(opening questions by Sarah van Beurden, MPIWG, Ohio State University)
*Planning the Earth and the State
9 Feb Bertrand Guillaume, MPIWG, HETIC, TU Troyes : Early Visions of Geo-engineering
(opening questions by Philipp Lehmann, MPIWG, Dept. II)
16 Feb Wilko Graf v. Hardenberg, MPIWG : Point zero. The mean sea-level in practice, science, and diplomacy
(opening questions by Christoph Rosol, MPIWG, Dept. I)
*Planning Minds and Bodies
8 Mar John DiMoia, MPIWG, National University of Singapore : Counting for Empire: the 1925 National Census and Colonial Korea's Experience of a New Demographic Regime
(opening questions by Michael Stanley-Baker, MPIWG, Dept. III)
22 Mar David Bloor, MPIWG, University of Edinburgh : The Cambridge Cockpit and the Berlin Cockpit. Problems in the Study of Flying Fatigue
c. 1940
(opening questions by Jamie Cohen-Cole, MPIWG, Dept. II, George Washington University)
5 Apr Elaine Leong MPIWG, Dept II : Managing Health and Household in Early Modern England
(opening questions by Sebastian Felten, MPIWG, Dept. II)
19 Apr Sarah Blacker MPIWG, University of Alberta : Planning for Persistent Environmental Contamination: Public Health, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, and the Settler Colonial State
(opening questions by Victoria Lee, MPIWG, Dept. III)
10 May Tamar Novick, MPIWG : The Search for Rutie the Horse: Infertility Research and Settlement in Palestine/Israel
(opening questions by Jenny Bangham, MPIWG, Dept. II)
*Planning Minds for a Future
31 May Dong-Won Kim, Johns Hopkins University : Science Fiction in South and North Korea
(opening questions by Bertrand Guillaume, MPIWG, Dept. III)
*Animals as Resources
14 Jun Nadin Hée, MPIWG, FU Berlin : East Asian Impacts on the Globalization of Ocean Studies During Cold War
(opening questions by Helge Wendt, MPIWG, Dept. I)
* thematic cluster