Monday, 26th October
14.00-14.30 Antje Flüchter (Heidelberg) Introduction: State Building as Entangled History
I. The Early Modern State: Concepts and Theories, Chair: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
14.30-15.30 Peer Vries (Wien): State building in Eastern Asia and Western Europe
15.30-16.30 Stefan Brakensiek (Essen): New Perspectives on State Building and the Implementation of Rulership in Early Modern Monarchies
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Farhat Hasan (Delhi): Re-assessing the Historiography of State Formation in India
Evening Lecture
19.00-20.00 Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Münster): State and political history in a culturalist perspective
20.30 Dinner
Dienstag, 27 th October
II. Modelle, Chair: Thomas Simon (Wien)
8.00-8.30 Michael Stolleis (Frankfurt/Main): Einführung
8.30-9.15 Thomas Simon (Wien): Konzepte normativer Durchdringung des Staates im deutsch-chinesischen Vergleich
9.15-10.00 Reinhard Blänkner (Frankfurt/Oder): Provincializing the „Early Modern State“. Überlegungen über Staatenformierung im globalen Kontext der frühen Neuzeit.
10.00-10.30 Kaffeepause
10.30-11.15 Susan Richter (Heidelberg): Fremdes Vorbild und Gegenentwurf – Konstrukte staatlicher Erfolgsmodelle in der europäischen Staatstheorie
11.15-12.00 Nicolas Schillinger (Heidelberg): Statistik als staatliches Instrument – Der Transfer einer europäischen Regierungstechnologie nach China im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
12.00-12.45 Guido Mühlemann (Zürich): Die Rezeption europäischer Staatsvorstellungen in China seit dem Ersten Opiumkrieg (1839-1842)
12.45-14.30 Lunch Break
III. Concepts for Transcultural Studies, Chair: Jörg Gengnagel (Heidelberg)
14.30-15.30 Angelika Epple (Bielefeld): Who speaks? New Global History and (old) historiographical problems
15.30-16.30 Ulrike Lindner (München/Bielefeld): Entangled histories. Comparison and transnational/transcolonial approaches in the history of colonialism
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Sven Trakulhun (Zürich): Comparing Conceptions of Absolute Rule: the Figure of the ‘Monarch’ in Siam and Europe, 16-18 c.
18.00-19.00 Susanna Burghartz (Basel): Sampling identities between survival and superiority. Travel accounts into New Worlds about 1600
Mittwoch, 28th October
IV. State and state building as Entangled History – case studies
8.00-12.00
Barend Noordam (Heidelberg): Processes of Transfer in the Military Field. Europe and the Post-Nomadic States of Mughal India and Manchu China"
Peter Trummer (Heidelberg): Theories on civil-military relations and military professionalization at the turn from the 18th to the 19th century
Gauri Parasher (Heidelberg): Indo-French relations during the Early Modern Period. Cultural Asymmetries in the Fields of Politics and Government
Sebastian Meurer (Heidelberg): At the junction of local and global conceptions of government: Fort William (Calcutta) in the 18th Century
Dorothee Linnemann (Münster): Strategies of Eye-Witnessing: Visual Ceremonial Descriptions and Conflicting Concepts of Governance in European-Ottoman Court Relations in the 17th and 18th Century
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break
V. Hof und Diplomatie
13.00-14.00 Corinne Léfevre (Paris): Mughal India/Muslim Asia/Europe: Circulation of Political Ideas and Instruments in Early Modern Times
14.00-15.00 Jan-Peter Hartung (London): The Islamization of the Tiger – On Strategies of Legitimization of Tipu Sultan
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.30 Christian Wieland (Freiburg), The Consequences of Early Modern Diplomacy: Entanglement, Discrimination, and Mutual Ignorance
16.30 -17.30 Concluding discussion