10:00-12:00am: Session
Speaker 1:
Professor Shigeru Akita (Osaka University): ‘On doing global history from Asia’
On his works for ‘the Asian Association of World Historians’, and The Asian Review of World Histories, both of which he is a founder.
www.theawh.org, www.theaawh.org/html/5¬_journal1.htm
Speaker 2:
Professor Gopalan Balachandran (Geneva Institute): ‘Situating global histories: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean region’
For those who would like to prepare, his works are:
- 'Atlantic paradigms and aberrant histories', Atlantic Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14788810.2014.872339#.VAAQBxCZhQk
- 'Claiming histories beyond nations: Situating global history', Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 49, no. 2, 2012:http://ier.sagepub.com/content/49/2/247.abstract
Discussant: Professor Anthony Hopkins (Cambridge University)
Chair: Tomoko Akami
12:00-13:00pm: Lunch and continued discussion